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quiet new year – blogging slowly

Got all mellow today, reading the feeds, and I’ve spent a bit of time at Carl Honore’s blog. Well, after all, it is still Australia Day weekend, and everyone else is asleep.
Not only does this fellow NOT have permalinks on his blog (huh!) but he has linked to this terrific post by Michele Bowman, [...]

sputnik on slow burn – please visit R+W for more

This article (link from Miriam Burstein, the Little Professor) points to a range of difficulties emerging with the Google Books project, including poor cataloguing.
HAHAHA!!
That didn’t take very long. Or hurt much. Did it.
Last night I zipped over to Le Figaro’s forums after reading a heartrending account there of actress Sandrine Bonnaire’s struggle to have [...]

upgrade mayhem November 3-5

Upgrades at this site (from admin at edublogs.org) this weekend. One page was missing – I have now reloaded it successfully. However now all the links have disappeared!!
I hope things settle down quickly….getting lots of error messages from the database. So we will see.
*Links restored by hand – they were still in there, but had [...]

hiatus for the sputnik

There’s a lot going on around here – as some readers would know, I have a family and am trying to study as well as drive a young handicapped man around.
At present the exigencies of writing for dollars and studying, as well as consuming too much petrol meeting the travel needs of younger potential taxpayers, [...]

bloogle emerges, bloggers need journalists

There’s an evaluation over at TechCrunch of Google’s beta version of Blogger, which is considered a bit unstable at this point in time. But go have a look anyhow.
Link via Jeneane Sessums, with whom I had a lovely chat online during BlogHer ‘06 (see right, under ‘all the good stuff’.)
Over at BlogHer, which is positively [...]