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Reposted in full from the WordPress MU Development Blog:

“One of the exciting things about working on WPMU is the ideas other people have for it. James Farmer is building communities based on physical location, but even within those there’ll be mini communities. Those that live in certain suburbs might group together, or people from different scenes in a locality would naturally come together.

I think we can help that.

In the last few days I added the first bits of code to make community blogging a reality – on Matt’s suggestion, WPMU now has global categories! This will make

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Thinking about the different blogging tools that you use and have used, how do you think they could be improved?

What are the most significant areas in which blogging tools might improve in the next couple of years?

Here are my thoughts:

Content Management & Creation

As users are starting to get to grips with the idea of blogging they are starting to shift more than just their CV online. Blogging is becoming the medium by which we’re constructing our digital presence and this includes documents, presentations, essays, project plans and more. Both Drupal and WordPress have great CMS properties…

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