Incorporated Subversion November 4, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : meta-blog , add a commentJames Farmer’s blog has been of great interest since I first started subscribing to education blogs over a year ago. It’s one of the most useful sources about edu blogging, since he draws from far more more than just a tentative experimental experience. A short while ago James moved his blog to his own domain name (incsub.org) and began offering free consultation, hosting and open source tools to support teachers who want to incorporate blogging into their courses. Then a couple of days ago he posted a disclaimer, followed by an explanation that his employer had astonishingly sent him a memo “instructing me to cease supporting and promoting weblogging, wikis or any other technology not officially supported by the University.”
It’s not possible to comment on why and wherefore this has happened, and I reckon it will be resolved pretty quickly but it is well worth noting the way the great and the good of the International Education Blogging Community have rallied round to James’ suport. You didn’t know there was an Intnl Edu blog community? - well there is now.
Here is the RSS feed for comments on James Farmer’s blog entry “difficult” in which you will find at time of posting 64 comments including rallying calls from such as Stephen Downes and Alan Levine (CogDog). You may want to leave a message of support of your own.
blogroll November 2, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : meta-blog , add a commentHere is my ever-changing blogroll - as it comes, straight from bloglines.
Vote for Debs November 2, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Uncategorized , add a commentI wonder how many USAians will queue up to vote today, then cross out both the names on the ballot paper and write “Eugene V Debs”. Probably not many, since he last stood in 1920 when he won 913,664 votes as Socialist Party candidate.
1912 - Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-The Election That Changed the Country
Teenage dreams, So hard to beat. November 1, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Music , 4commentsI arrive back from a week abroad to read all the tributes to the late John Peel, and it seems to be impossible for any one writer to capture the entirety of his lifetime contribution to music.
A large part of my record collection is made up of artists I only got to know about through John Peel’s radio shows, particularly Top Gear, In Concert, and Sounds of the Seventies.
He had the remarkable ability in his music appreciation and promotion to keep on jumping down a generation in order to stay at the cutting edge of each wave of new music.
Simply irreplaceable.
Thanks for
Jimi Hendrix
English folk music
Loudon Wainwright III
American blues
Vivian Stanshall
Roy Harper
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Michael Chapman
Tyrannosaurus Rex
the Soft Machine
David Bedford
Zimbabwian dance music
Kevin Ayres
The Undertones
Robert Wyatt
Morrisey
Bow wow wow
Siouxie
The Jam
Kevin Koyne
Lol Coxhill
Hungarian Polka
Stella Chiwese
Martha Wainwright
Bridget St John
the Beat
Ali Farke Toure
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