Month: December 2006
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Student artists
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/19/student-artists/ Stuart is a social networking site for student artists, sponsored by the Saatchi Gallery. This has the potential to be very interesting – I wonder what other social networking sites there are for young people to put out their art? DeviantArt immediately comes to mind, but are there any others? Via Metafilter.
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MySpace, Facebook, proxy sites and a little determination
It’s perhaps telling that the two most commented-on posts on my weblog since we launched Elgg.net in November 2004 are one on MySpace proxies (sites that allow them to use MySpace on their school networks even when it’s been banned), and one about Facebook penetration. The comments in both cases are all from students complaining […]
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Anti-spam on Elgg.net
Elgg.net is now running Akismet for anti-spam protection. Hopefully this will be an effective solution for an annoying problem – however, note that this is experimental. If you experience any problems with comments, please let us know. (Note that this is a GPL plugin – see the development mailing list if you’d like to include […]
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The serendipity of knowledge and how we can capture it
One of the things I really like about America is C-SPAN. If you’ve never sat around and watched TV here, you might not be aware of it: the cable TV operators in the United States got together and created public service channels that operate a bit like BBC Parliament in the UK: they show speeches […]