I admit it; before writing that last post I hadn’t even looked at Shyftr.  But now having done this I’m appalled by what I’m seeing.
Shyftr is taking blog posts in their entirety and duplicating them on their site.  In the wake of this the discussions that are emerging are completely independent of the original content and as such serve to circumvent the author entirely.
This makes me question what the purpose of having a blog is anymore.  If the originality of author content is no longer respected the unique value of …

Paul Glazowski at Mashable touches on the subject of lifestreaming today (“Shyftry: Good, Bad, and Potentially Quite Ugly“).
Advocates, he says, have “essentially come to the conclusion that attempts to own or compartmentalize information on the Web are futile, and that any effort to get the global conversation surrounding stories gathered from various places has some measure of legitimacy and is worthwhile to pursue.”
Enter the world of lifestreaming, which is effectively a socialised network of RSS aggregation with with addition of commenting.
I must say, my opinion on this area echoes the …

One of the people I follow on Twitter, (jeff)isageek, asked the question today: “With services like friendfeed, twitter, disqus, google reader, del.icio.us, etc [sic] do i even need a ‘traditional’ blog?”
From the standpoint of eLearning and educational technology, my answer is a resounding: Yes.
Sure, it’s important to evaluate new technologies in terms of how they can be used to embetter our online activities – and more importantly our offline activities – however this must be ever tempered by proper investigation and inquiry.  Immediately flocking to the next new trend without …