Author: Ben Werdmuller

I’ve been bad and not kept this weblog updated. (My personal weblog is over here on Apcala, another installation of the Elgg software we set up.) A week or two ago Dave posted a draft diagram of what the Elgg software will look like in the future. People have been talking about it across weblogland,…

A question I’m grappling with today involves listing items on other sites with tags used on Elgg. If you click on “metadata”, I ideally want to see not just other Elgg users who’ve been thinking about metadata, but also citations in other weblogs, on other websites, and in academic papers. This is very doable. The…

I’m really looking forward to open sourcing Elgg. So far the stumbling block is which license to choose – GPL is not an option as far as I’m concerned. If anyone’s got any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Lately I’ve had a couple of ideas for future directions, which could be quite exciting. The…

When you click on a keyword, some screens will now show automatic tag suggestions at the bottom. This is currently a full word search, so “photography” yields “digital photography”, but not “photos” (yet).