Month: July 2006

  • Elgg is here for the long haul

    As Dave has just posted, next week we’re relaunching Elgg.net as a fully-fledged community site for education. As part of this, there will be a number of sponsorship opportunities; more importantly, it represents a renewed focus on the site itself, and a commitment to maintain it as a flagship service. So what else is going […]

  • ‘Internet’

    This CBC report from 1993 on a new phenomenon known as ‘Internet’ is very interesting – particularly because we’re still working on some of the same social issues. Fun to see how it’s changed and developed so far though. (Youtube link, via Jason Kottke.)

  • Open source is inferior to commercial software

    I feel compelled to reply to Helen Barrett’s recent weblog post where she talks a little about Elgg and open source in general. Specifically, she says: Of course that is one problem with open source software… without a business model to support the development, it can take longer to implement changes unless there is a […]

  • The Internet is not a big truck

    It’s a series of tangled up tubes! Some net neutrality-related Saturday fun. (How often do those words fit together?)