Category: General

A full 5% of Elgg.net traffic is from Bloglines. I find that amazing for several reasons. First of all, it’s great that people are using the RSS to that extent. Elgg.net got 1.2 million hits in August, so 5% isn’t peanuts – and at the same time no other RSS reader shows up in the…

Google Reader: an RSS aggregator done Gmail-style. Buggy as hell, but possibly worth keeping an eye on.

Light-hearted but timely: What does Elgg stand for? It stands for using existing, well-used Internet technologies in an educational setting instead of reinventing the wheel! Oh, wait, you’re wanting to know if it’s an acronym? It’s not. Although if you can make it into one – E-Learning Groups Gateway? – I’d be interested to hear.…

In reponse to this article in The Register, I sent the following to Andrew this morning: Sir, In response to your question, “how good and bad do you think it will get?”, I think the answer is: “pretty good” – even if I unconditionally agree with your assertion that Web 2.0 is just another dotcom…