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It’s interesting to check out the responses to both the idea of WordPress.com, the use and the way it’s been launched.

Of course if you’ve tried out incsub blogs (now closed for new blogs) or edublogs then you’d already know all about what’s offered here in terms of functionality, moreorless. No invite required – although I’ll be patching that into edublogs asap so you can get your colleagues along.

What’s really interesting is the concept of Tbs of space, of quality tools (blogger anyone?) of stability and of non-commercial motivations.

And of course of WPMU and how we can translate…

So following on from my ideas about relocation and the internet big bang, I’m trying out a little bit of a project.

WordPress MultiUser has, IMO, about the greatest organisational / social potential of any application since email. Yes, there are lots of different multi-user blog options and yes, many of these are pretty powerful… but the thing about WPMU is that it leverages the developing digital identity / CMS aspects of WordPress (with no real interference) and in doing so sets us up for the development of blogging beyond simply a publication format.

That is, blogs as digital identity…

A while back I had a bit of a vision of what the internet is going to (perhaps) become.

Now, I’m certainly no futurist so feel free to take this as large pinch of salt as is required, but I think that I’m onto something when I was talking about neighbourspheres.

The internet (bar it’s very early existence) is a phenomenon that started in a distributed and, to a degree, global manner. Online locations have usually been defined by ideas and concepts rather than physical matter which, while revolutionising communication, information & culture has lead to what Mejias calls a…

Ahhhh, back from moving abode and realised that I didn’t conclude my week of podcasting stuff. So without further ado, here is the blogsavvy guide to using podcasts in education.

There are two very very good reasons for getting into podcasting in education: 1. You’re going to save yourself a fortune & 2. You’re going to improve the quality of your materials no end.

1. Saving lots and lots of money through using podcasts in education

In a brief break from our week of podcasting there are a couple of really interesting things that caught my eye this morning in the organisational blogging stakes.

Firstly this internetnews article puts forward an argument that I’ve been backing for quite some time. Namely that blogging for marketing purposes is ‘OK’ but blogging for organisational communication is ‘EXCELLENT!’.

Add this to the news that Lilia is going to Redmond to research Microsoft blogs (yes, I’m jealous ) and there seems to be a gradual shift away from the concept of ‘blogs as cheap advertising tools’ towards something far more…