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I completely sympathise with this. - Mike Bogle

Handy tool and a great message too. - Mike Bogle

More Downes-vs-Wiley sparing on open education :) - Mike Bogle

"Agreed. Twitter is not a news reader. It's a way of sharing links and resources, discussing ideas or opinions, but it is not a news reader. The whole RSS is Dead, and Twitter is the new RSS thing is a misplaced argument in my view." - Mike Bogle

"If Google is already releasing the code as open source I'd say it's only a matter of time before an official ISO image is released. That said, I'm with you - I'd love a quick way to spin up a test bed as well." - Mike Bogle

"Thanks for posting this. Based on your experiences so far, would you say that Chrome OS is lightweight enough to run on low-spec machines? Given the relatively heavy weight requirements of Windows 7 there will undoubtedly be a demand for alternative platforms to run on existing boxes. Not everyone will be capable of upgrading from XP for example. Granted linux has a number of offerings in that respect - such as Xubuntu for example - but it's always good to have other options as well." - Mike Bogle

Me in a nutshell... - Mike Bogle

Good news for me and the one or two other people who might have a Windows mobile... - Mike Bogle

Dude, major flash back here... - Mike Bogle

Man what a title :) - Mike Bogle

"AWESOME! Thanks for posting this, I had no idea it was coming out shortly :) Can't wait!" - Mike Bogle

Agreed. Sorry Scoble, some people still enjoy slow and contemplated information consumption. I love Twitter as much as the next person, but to say that it's better than an RSS reader is ridiculous. It's just different. - Mike Bogle

lack of bookmark syncing was the single greatest reason I hadn't switched to Chrome as my primary browser. Glad this is no longer the case. - Mike Bogle

This Doctor Who is freaking scary! Great episode! - Mike Bogle

Fantastic story! - Mike Bogle

"Likewise in Australia, for a supposed digital video success story I just don't see it. Literally and figuratively." - Mike Bogle

Sounds very interesting - I've signed up to the group. - Mike Bogle

I received one of these first thing in the morning and I almost clicked on it. Then I looked at the URL, which clearly wasn't Twitter, and yet was being prompted to provide my login credentials on a page that looked like Twitter. Then immediately saw a tweet from the person who supposedly sent the DM saying "DON'T OPEN THIS!" From experience this isn't a snipe hunt - the DM is actually going around. - Mike Bogle

"Sure you could. In fact for a while I was subscribing to the feed for the search results for the term UNSW in Google Reader. Even though I've since unsubscribed from the feed I'm still able to locate tweets using the Google Reader Search. Good idea, I'd completely forgotten about that." - Mike Bogle

"I’ve investigated the issue of clickable vs unclickable links further and it turns out the differences are visible in the feeds themselves. When the RSS feed is rendered in a browser, the @ replies and links are clickable in the feed coming through the search results for the hashtag, but not in the feed that exists for each user. So barring another RSS source for individual Twitter users or a change from the Twitter developers, there may not be a way to fix this." - Mike Bogle

"Hi Ed, I'm not so sure about releasing this widely as a service necessarily, however I am quite happy to add you to the list - in fact I've just begun to aggregate and syndicate your updates. I think my preference would be to err on the side of caution in the short term, while I assess how well things are working. So limiting the number of feeds coming through (at least initially) seems like the safest plan. That said I'm happy to assist/advise others on how they can set up similar systems if they desire and will continue to document the process I'm working through - including issues or pleasant surprises. It's not very difficult and yet lets you retain control over your data (whether you choose to release it under open licenses or not). One of the main considerations at this stage is load and capacity. I have no idea what sort of strain syndication will exert on the system - or what thresholds may exist after which things start to have trouble. I seem to recall that one of my..." - Mike Bogle

"Some really valuable thoughts here, Lisa. Thanks very much for this! Quite literally in several places I thought "ooooooh that's deep." For example, the thought had never occurred to me that this "...is the only place you *can* affect change." I was so caught up in melancholy navel-gazing about the fact "nobody agrees with me" (which isn't necessarily true anyway) that I overlooked the fact that if everyone did agree with me there would be no need for change - it would have already taken place. Great point :) Secondly, and more importantly, your point about the positive impacts of our efforts not being immediately revealed. Quite true again. It's all too easy to take see the voices of criticism (or indeed those who agree with you) as being representative of an entire group - and yet that's not necessarily the case. More than likely there is a range of opinion on the matter, with only a select few feeling compelled or confident enough to make their opinions known. Blogging is a lot..." - Mike Bogle

"Thanks Lauren :) Your first sentence was one of the main reasons for sharing my train of thought. I find personally that witnessing or observing how people approach failure or adversity are as valuable an experience or example as how they handle successes - sometimes even more so. And of course too, by discussing the areas where we're having trouble or confusion, we put ourselves in a position where others can begin to share their experiences or thoughts on the matter and add an additional layer of perspective that would have been absence otherwise. The half-dozen @replies I saw on Twitter when I logged in this morning are testimony to that. The social power of social media is an amazing thing." - Mike Bogle

"Chris! How've you been? I notice a major shortage of posts on your blog as of late. Are you going to start writing again? Yeah Seesmic is a nice app. Though admittedly I use TweetDeck more because it lets you sync your colums, groups and other configurations across machines by tying them together with an online account. If I were only on one machine it would be a non-issue, but I use at least 5 different ones (between home, work, laptop and dual-booting machines), so the sync option comes in really handy. I have to say that using the group option the last few days makes me wonder how I ever went without it. Follow people who rarely post, so it's good to be able to keep track of what they have to say. Hope all is well! Talk to you later." - Mike Bogle

"Exactly. From down here in Australia it SOUNDS interesting, but all the innovation is of little use to us unless they release the service more widely. So for all the talk I've seen about Google and Skype being on a head-on course with one another, I fail to see how that will eventuate unless Google Voice is allowed to occupy the same international stage." - Mike Bogle

"Me too. Occasionally it's for spelling, but mainly I use them to ensure I'm using a word in the proper context." - Mike Bogle

Ain't this the truth... - Mike Bogle

I have a goodie jar in my office labeled 'emergency chocolate' :) - MLx

"I started responding to this as a comment but it quickly grew into something else so I've devoted a new post to it: "Use Case for the Distributed Model." Comments, skepticism and debate welcome :D" - Mike Bogle

"No, not necessarily a single language - it's far more folksonomic than that. Think of Diigo and Delicious, and the way a single link can be tagged, and re-tagged according to different criteria. With a distributed model it would have to be folksonomic and flexible; not only because you'd be relying on the inputs/feeds of a web of people who each control what terminology is used, but also because it would rely on the context in which it was originally created. This is part of where it has to be embedded in practice I think. Feed-based architectures are extremely flexible. They can be used as broadly as tag = education, for specific courses (tag = cck09) or even smaller, and everywhere in between. Part of the process then becomes the negotiation around practice, what tags are used, and in what context. (You know this already of course, I'm just saying this for the benefit of others who may stumble across this conversation). Additionally, if you look at some of the stuff that people like..." - Mike Bogle

"Agreed, that's one of the reasons why I have such an aversion to the phrases Human Resources or Human Capital. People are far more than more than inputs for production." - Mike Bogle