Archive for the 'Blogging' Category



H807: Luck and Laurence (8.12.05)

Published on February 7, 2006

I’ve been reading Luck and Laurence on videoconferencing. I now have to consider what they have to say about the innovative nature of elearning and the technologies used for elearning. Before I get on to content, there’s also the issue of access to the material being innovative – it’s accessed and then discussed online. I […]


Border lines (17.11.05)

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Anesa’s thinking about where the borders of linear programming lie. I’m thinking about where the borders are on virtual communities. A lot of people I read (I’m reading Gary Burnett on information exchange in virtual communites, at the moment) characterise a virtual community as what you see happening online. It’s the people posting and it’s […]


Posting length (17.11.05)

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I’m thinking about the role of posting length in building a virtual community. I think that long postings put people off, because they look carefully constructed and full of information – they are more difficult to read and they are intimidating because they appear to show that the poster has thought about and knows about […]


Getting new members (9.11.05)

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It proves really complicated to get Anesa and Gill into my blog. This blog’s too private, and if I go via blogger.com that becomes too public. I could pay for web hosting and host it myself, but that seems like a lot of money to do something that should be fairly simple. Wonder if we […]