Month: September 2005

Hmmm … What’s particularly interesting about this is the choice of plog as the blogging engine, as I have it on fairly good authority that it falls over with a high volume of hits. It’ll be an interesting one to watch.

I’ve just successfully downloaded the 0.2 release from Eduforge, but a worryingly large number of people are reporting download problems. If you have had problems, could you please reply with: Your rough geographical location (eg, I’m in southern England) Your browser and operating system The time you attempted to download I’ll attempt to get to […]

We’ve been playing with a rich-text editor for posting to weblogs etc lately, and although it more or less works, I’m not completely happy about its integration. It feels plunked-in rather than a contiguous part of the user interface, and that’s something I’d like to avoid where possible; a student using Elgg needs to feel […]

Embedded in an old interview in the Guardian with Skype’s founder is a link to AltNet, which is “a secure file-sharing network where content owners promote their content with ad-words. Files can be encrypted and protected, then the rights owner decides if the files can be sold or used for demo purposes.” Or, to put […]