Month: April 2006

I just caught this today via my del.icio.us inbox and O’Reilly Radar in turn: a New York Times editorial from yesterday about the similarities between the English “Free Press” circa 1918, as described by Hilaire Belloc in his book of the same name, and the current state of the blogosphere. The editorial says: There are […]

Eagle-eyed readers from the development mailing list will notice a flaw in my title. The latest Elgg (the one you can now download from Subversion, which will be available to download as Elgg 0.6 at the end of the month) uses a standard database library and can switch to Postgres out of the box; other […]

Elgg has been added to TechSoup, a site about technology for non-profit organisations, which also hosts the excellent NetSquared. If those of you who have downloaded and installed Elgg could visit this page and give the software an honest (and anonymous) rating, I’d be much obliged.

PICT3746, originally uploaded by Stuart Yeates. OSS Watch / JISC is hosting a conference round the corner from me on open source and sustainability. I’m intrigued to hear about which open standards and products they’re backing and how they’re going to promote them within the UK higher education scene. (Photo credit to Stuart Yeates; I […]