Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Web/Blog Tools
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After some initially using the PHPWebsite content management system way, way back as a proto-blog I shifted to using Blogger, and then over to Movable Type 2 because it afforded me more control over the blog (and added things like categories). And then Movable Type 3 arrived and the licencing became confusing and more restrictive…
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I was wondering yesterday, with the Wifi and Safari built into the iPod Touch, whether you could blog from it. It appears you can, and there’s a WordPress plugin to format posts for the iPod Touch/iPhone screen size. See WordPress for Ipod Touch (iWPhone)
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If you’re publishing stuff on your blog or web site and you’re concerned about other people misusing your content then ProBlogger has a useful little article on how a terms of service page can help with that. See: Nip Problems in the Bud with a TOS Page.
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A couple of useful web development and design articles I came across the other day. A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman (Nov 20, 2007) Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time…
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Interesting article over at TidBITS Networking: An Electronic Book Giveaway: 2003, a Disaster; 2007, a Pittance which notes the decline in internet traffic costs over the past few year, and some things to be aware of if you’re going to make something available for download that might be (very) popular – in their case, a…
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Short but helpful article by Darren at ProBlogger on How I Produce Video Blog Posts.
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As part of some part-time work I’m doing at the moment I’m doing some distance/flexible learning implementation using Moodle (a free, open source course management system for online learning). So here’s a few links I’ve found useful over the past couple of weeks. Moodle: Teacher’s manual 1.6 (Introduction) from Lappia – The Municipal Education and…
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In my wanderings around the net a while back I came across this issue of Theological Education which looks at the role/impact of digital technology upon theological education. Looks like a helpful selection of articles. See Theological Education 41/1 (2005) Related links: Greenflame · Technology and Theological Education Greenflame · New media literacies and collaborative…
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I’ve thought about putting Skype on the iBook and wondered about Mac-compatible hardware to support it – yelling at the laptop didn’t seem ideal. But really had no idea where to start. I’ve found in the past that quite a few USB devices (speakers, keyboards etc,) do work in Mac OS X but the boxes…
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Blog statistics. Some people admit to looking at them, others won’t (even though we know they do :-)) For some they can become the all-consuming passion – especially if you’re trying to monetarize your blog. Lorelle on WordPress has a very useful page that collects together the various different plugins and schemes for WordPress that…