{"id":2048,"date":"2008-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2048"},"modified":"2008-12-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"another-year-blogging-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/another-year-blogging-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Another year blogging over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the last couple of years I’ve had end of year blogs reviews (2006<\/a> and 2007 Roundup<\/a>) and I guess it it that time again.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a bit more change in my life than usual this year reflected in the change of blog url and title.<\/p>\n

I don’t really think I’ve got my head round the direction of the blog yet but I hope it will develop over the next year.<\/p>\n

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I’ve blogged steadily, although at a reduced rate this year about a post a week. The main reason in this reduction is probably twitter<\/a> which is providing sense of community, which is one of the reasons I blog, without the effort. I blogged about twitterish things a few times: News Reading, New Tweeting<\/a>, ObliqueTweet, my first twitterbot<\/a>, Edu Twits – a no code mashup (part 1)<\/a> and Twitter, fun and facts<\/a> and generally had fun with twitter.<\/p>\n

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I also blogged about<\/a> and blogged with<\/a> posterous. I’ve manages 64 posts there since June a much better posting rate than here. Posterous is an amazing blog service where you can blog via email, very simple to use with lots of interesting possibilities. At this time last year<\/a> I was pointing to Tumblr<\/a> but I think posterous<\/a> is better for my purposes and posterous can forward posts to tumblr (and blogs and twitter and flickr and…). I’ve not used posterous in an educational setting, although I know Dai Barnes is using it with pupils<\/a> successfully.<\/p>\n

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I’ve always enjoyed blogging about actual use of technology in my classroom as opposed to possible ideas but I did as usual post about technology that I’d played with<\/s> tested<\/em> rather than used with children including:<\/p>\n