Like quite a few folk I’ve been kicking the tyres of Glew a wee bit over the last week or so. One very interesting feature is a plugin that Charlie has preinstalled into the wordPress blogs, FeedWordPress: FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress […]
The idea #FeedReaderFriday: A Suggestion for Changing our Social Media Patterns | Chris Aldrich Feed Readers Just after I discover RSS in the “flowering” of theScotEduBlogs community I got interested in aggregating RSS and creating specialised readers. Back in around 2006 I was blogging some ideas which lead to Robert Jones & Pete Liddle creating […]
This is a really beautiful looking setup. The best thing, I’d guess, is the integration with Colin’s blog using indieweb actions. The UI looks great. The video of mobile looks perfect. The upside of a DIY system would be it works just they way you want it. I wonder if something similar could be done […]
I am sure I’ve read/heard @manton stating the same thing, he is in favour of other micro.blog like communities. I’ve been a member of a few educational communities and projects built round aggregations of blogs. I’ve even set up one or two wee ones. There folk need to go out from the central hub to […]
AudioBoom is closing its free tier: If you take no action, then after 2nd October 2017, you will no longer be able to upload new content and your account will become private. We will continue to enable distribution of your existing content for a period of a month so all your RSS feeds and web […]
A little blue sky thinking, or borrowing some ideas from @davewiner & @mrkrndvs I wonder if a WordPress plugin could ape pngWriter and create images for twitter cards with the text from the excerpt on the image used by twitter. Like this, but with less fireworks. I’ve been thinking about twitter again. I think I’d […]
In regards to sharing openly, Doug Belshaw recommend s creating a canonical URL. The intent is to provide a starting point for people to engage with and build upon your work and ideas. This could be one space in which to share everything or you could h…
I’ve got a few IFTTT recipes on the go. IFTT is a useful service from linking up and pushing information around online services. In the last week or so I’ve seen a couple of posts about the service, received an email and had an interesting incident so though it worth a post. First I read […]
This is a pretty random time to look back, but I was browsing through some old posts here looking for a link and came across this from 22nd December 2013, before I was started my secondment to the Glow Team. I’ve changed the unordered list to an ordered one so that I can score myself. […]
A couple of weeks ago I kicked of a blogging bootcamp as part of my day job. The idea is to help folk through getting started with class blogging. Each week for 10 weeks there are, technical tasks, discussions and blogging challenges which participating classes (or teachers) can choose to do. My thinking is based […]
