Yes, this is another “why tags/categories aren’t as useful as they seem” post. I get on this topic a lot, because they are so virtuous within the context of a single blog that it’s sometimes hard to see why they fail so much as a way to discover possibly related blogs or posts. Here’s an [...]
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One! One Week Timeline! AH! AH! AH! AHHH!
Why excitement about counting all the way up to one? Well, because it’s actually counting down. I used to have a TWO! TWO Week timeline. But the quantity of data got to be just a little too much, so I had to trade amount of data displayed for performance. There are two reasons for that. [...]
Like Openness in Higher Ed? Read current Panlibus
A while ago, I had a little play-time with data released from the University of Huddersfield Library by Dave Pattern, which led to a Talking With Talis podcast with Dave (see this post about it on this blog, and/or this one on my more technical blog.). They also asked both Dave and me to write [...]
What might a linking-game look like?
An interesting conversation in the comments to Cole Camplese‘s post about the importance of having access to data in a university system. Brett Bixler brought up the idea of bringing some game aspects to using the data, and Cole pushed toward the ‘how many clicks’ game: students are given a random starting topic and a [...]
Posts By Day Of Week
After I posted this morning about the number of posts by hour on UMWBlogs, Jim reposted it, and from there D’Arcy Norman at UCalgary did similar digging in his WPMU tables. Since he’s working directly from the database, he could even dig out stats for comments, something that I’m unable to do. One thing that [...]
“Tis now the very blogging time of night…”: When We’re Posting to UMWBlogs
Tis now the very blogging time of night When posts do churn and the bava breathes out Edupunk to this world . . . (Apologies to Shakespeare) Over the weekend there was an odd glitch with the scrapers. They’re still down until we figure out exactly what’s going on, so unfortunately I might miss some [...]
Whose Link Is It, Anyway?
Continuing my fascination with links, I’ve got a new Exhibit in the spirit of the Link Friends Exhibit. That one is an overall list of common links between posts. So it gives you a list of URLs and the posts that link to them, ordered by the number of posts that link to it. This [...]
SemanticUMW Celebrates 15000 Posts With Style!
Today, the scrapers scraped in their 15000th post from UMWBlogs. Way to go to everyone at UMW using it! To celebrate, I’m also ready to finally add some better design and style to the exhibits. Thanks to the hard work and many tears that I caused her, our student aide Serena Epstein has added a [...]
Keep Up With New Video in UMWBlogs
The last few posts were heavy on reflection, so I wanted to come back to building something. Our New Media Specialist, Andy Rush, asked Jim this morning something about new videos in UMWBlogs. That got me thinking that it’d be neat to have a feed of new posts that include videos. So here ya go. [...]
Student Publishing and the Web Context
Last night I was bopping from site to site, and decided to check in on the Two Week Timeline to see what’s up. I saw four interesting-looking titles, and went to give them a peek. On one level, I was delighted, of course, at the expression and reflection at work in them. But then I [...]
