A new blog is created every second and the phenomenon has grown 60 times larger than it was three years ago, says Technorati in its periodic State of the Blogosphere report … There are about 1.2 million new posts daily, or 50,000 an hour …
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[source: information week]
Pedagogies of Wikis
EDUCAUSE has a 2-sheet pdf on the above, check it out if you want to find out more about wiki. 8 ways of using wiki(s) are highlighted:
1. Student journaling
2. Personal portfolios
3. Collaborative knowledge base
4. Research coordination and collaboration
5. Curricular and cross-disciplinary coordination
6. Conference and colloquia website/coordination
7. Syndicating/Aggregating web resources
8. Inter-term project management
Q&A: The Future Of Speech
Free Podcast XML Maker
I presume this tool will be useful if you are publishing podcasts on your personal webspace, without the help of a (audio)blogging platform as an backend support. Free Podcast Maker helps to generate the XML that is needed to podcast the podcasts.
[source: podcasting news]
Sony PCM-D1 portable recorder
podcasting news has posted on the Sony PCM-D1 portable recorder. It’s surely a cool gadget to have, if you can swallow the US$1999.95 price tag that is.