Category: General

According to this BBC News Online article: The Pew American and Internet Life Project research suggested that 12 to 17-year-olds look to web tools to share what they think and do online. It also said they were much more likely than adults to read and have a weblog. Important fact to note: 52% of teenagers…

My mother recently started a distance learning course using WebCT, and immediately asked if this was “one of Elgg’s competitors”. “No,” came my answer, “but I’m interested in how you’re finding it.” She was neither impressed nor unimpressed, but did remark that nobody was using the bits they weren’t required to for their course; for…

Team Elgg: David Tosh, Misja Hoebe, Ben Werdmuller (l-r). I’d say this was a productive conference, all things considered. It was great to meet Misja and have a face-to-face discussion between the three of us; it was also nice to meet all these other people who for the most part have been disembodied names and…

(This entry was live-blogged during Dave’s talk at ePortfolio 2005 in Cambridge.) Most people running eportfolio systems seemed to think they were social software – an interesting development! I’m not sure this would have been true this time last year, but as more people actually implement these systems and learn the problems and discover what…