edushizzle: Comments

Comment on "Model For Blog Comments"

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:19:14 -0500

Jim: I am thinking that the comment form itself be syndicated. Kind of a rough idea.....

Comment on "Model For Blog Comments"

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:29:04 -0500

I'm thinking hard about this one myself. I posted about the notional of horizontal contributions last night and am really excited about the possibilities. There are big questions, but I like this idea of pulling these things apart so they can ultimately come together in a more intelligent way.

- Cole W. Camplese

Comment on "Model For Blog Comments"

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:10:14 -0500

I think it would be that easy, just syndicate both together, and I know there is a hook in wp for comments and posts, it is all the other platforms I'm not sure about, and therein is a bit of a question mark, how do you say use what ever you want, when each application may handle comments so very differently?

- Jim

Comment on "James Boyle: "Default To Open""

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:23:23 -0500

Good notes. I think it shows that profit from openness (like some other economic concepts) is counter-intuitive to many people.

I think we will become more open over time as we see how it benefits us, but a wrong step from a major vendor holding a lot of data (e.g. Google, Yahoo) could spook people again.

- ELIZABETH J PYATT

Comment on "James Boyle: "Default To Open""

Thu, 14 May 2009 14:45:18 -0500

Thanks for sharing the notes. I found it helpful.

The cost of openness is still there; it's just the benefits justify the cost. I think it's an excellent point that the choice has a lot to do with the time of the environment. The cost of non-openness nowadays also includes the, eh, stigma, of being closed. While students can easily find alternative educational resources, being closed is undoubtedly not a wise move.

- TK Lee

Comment on "James Boyle: "Default To Open""

Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:48 -0500

It makes me glad that we set up the open blogging platform before working on protected blogging.

- ALLAN SHAWN GYORKE

Comment on "I have gone twitterfeed crazy"

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:45:52 -0500

Jim, that is a nice feature of jaiku. Twitter seems to be trying to keep everything as simple as possible and not add too many features. I think that is a smart strategy for them. I think they see themselves more and more as general messaging service that other services are being built upon.

Throwing all these feeds into my twitter stream turns twitter into friendfeed in a way.

Ultimately twitter is where the community is at. I have all my followers/followees there. switching to another service seems difficult, even if other services may appear to be better. But it really doesn't matter - twitter is just offering the messaging / friending layer and other parties are adding the user interface (tweetdeck, twitterific twitterfon, etc, etc, etc) and the extra functionality (twitterfeed, twitority, etc).

- Brad Kozlek

Comment on "I have gone twitterfeed crazy"

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:17:41 -0500

Brad -- this is interesting. How would you say that your mash-up compares to Jaiku? One of the reasons that I like Jaiku (although I'm not sure what its current status is -- Google bought it), is that it intermingles your Jaikus with any other RSS feed(s) that you give it.

- Jim Leous

Comment on "I have gone twitterfeed crazy"

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:53:28 -0500

You will have 1,000,000 followers in no time at all.

Twitterfeed is very useful; I use it to republish a variety of things from NMC's drupal/wordpress feeds to our twitter account.

Also, if you have any group twitter accounts, I like using hootsuite which lets you give others in your group/org access to post to that account w/o sharing the password. Also, it lets you schedule tweets.

- Alan Levine

Comment on "I have gone twitterfeed crazy"

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:03:49 -0500

brad i just realized the title and subtitle of your blog, so it's hilarious i can't even process it.

- laura

Comment on "from whiteboard to production"

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:50:30 -0500

This is built into the standard cross-blog search. Just search for the terms you are interested in, and you will get the page with the blogs@psu terms as well as content from across the social web.

http://blogs.psu.edu/search/

The search results page is bookmarkable, sharable link. You can do the search and link to the resulting page in your blog or other site.

- Brad Kozlek

Comment on "from whiteboard to production"

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:27:59 -0500

How can I exploit this for my Honors course? I would like to alert my students to any content at Blogs@PSU related to, say, politics, or feminism, for example. Let me think about what I might want to search on, but how could I set one up?

- CHRISTOPHER PHILIP LONG

Comment on "from whiteboard to production"

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:12:36 -0500

I am a very good sketch artist! Working on this last week was so much fun ... seeing how we got excited and worked together to invent something new so quickly was really energizing. Goes to show that we are making killer progress across the board on this platform. My interest in making this happen was as much a demonstration of the flexibility of the environment as it was to see how we could encourage more community involvement. Great work!

- Cole W. Camplese

Comment on "users are adding their own features to blogs@psu"

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:58:12 -0500

An idea like this is what makes having a platform so important! Since we're pushing it as an open space to do your thing, once people figure out they can do whatever, new and interesting things will pop up left and right. The location field is so cool that it would get me to use my blog in a very different way -- I'd love to be able to use it more like Twitter/Brightkite for my own recollection of where I've been and what I was doing there.

Should it be a standard feature? Sure. What does the process for accepting interesting changes look like? Do we ned one? I love the style catcher idea as a long term goal.

- Cole W. Camplese

Comment on "Storytelling by arranging four videos"

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:23:57 -0500

Thanks for the great comment, TK.

There is also this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yysZTaaFQM

I don't think what is being talked about in this video really applies to shifting music tastes, but something else tangentially related.

- Brad Kozlek

Comment on "Storytelling by arranging four videos"

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:30:32 -0500

Powerful clips. Thanks.

Aesthetics is definitely shifting over time. Even something we consider as objective can also shift:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html

I myself believe that we can definitely learn to appreciate different things. When we say we don't enjoy something (or simply deciding something is stupid), we are actually saying we are lack of the ability to appreciate/understand it.

On the other hand, I have also observed that not all artists are sincere, i.e. they create something they don't personally believe to be artistic but present it as something avant-garde.

By the way, os a side note, some comments left after the video show the reactions of the audience of our time. I am actually quite amazed to see a video posted as sarcasm would actually attract the subjects in question to come out to defend themselves. Historians (or historical musicologists in this context) can probably find valuable information for research from those comments, too.

- TK Lee

Comment on "users are adding their own features to blogs@psu"

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:13:01 -0500

I am not 100% sure, but I think we can include the creation of the custom field in the template set.

For the aggregate blog search, I'd have to add the custom field to the rss template for the search results.

I am think including location on entries has so much potential and it is rather unobtrusive, that I might want to add this to all blogs by default.

- Brad Kozlek

Comment on "users are adding their own features to blogs@psu"

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:31:31 -0500

Yes, I think a system like the StyleCatcher style sharing would be great (admittedly I haven't used it much but get the gist). For my GeoRSS thingy, sharable templates would get you most of the way there, although you'd still have to read some directions to get the custom field patched in, and people could get the field name wrong and break it. Ideally you'd install the whole thing with the custom field and any other relevant settings included.

Anyway, the process has taught me a lot, and I see there's some really cool stuff you can do with some pretty basic template modification and/or using custom fields.

Next step: get GeoRSS feeds to aggregate via blog search so we can build a master map of of PSU bloggers.

- Chris Millet

Comment on "This is just to say"

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:43:36 -0500

Poetry.

- Cole W. Camplese

Comment on "blogs@psu growth data"

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:44:47 -0500

For me personally, I see pages as the least interesting feature, probably because it is the least social. Comments, entries, tend to be more a part of of dialog. However, pages seems to be the feature everyone is gravitating towards. In the first two months of 2009 almost twice as many pages were created than all of 2008.

People stick with what they know - a web that is made up of pages.

- Brad Kozlek