As a postmortem on the last post I wrote regarding the search for a means of auto-posting daily Twitter digests to Blogger, I wanted to report back on the outcomes of the investigation.
In the end I gave up. After many days of looking and searching – first for an easy solution and then progressively more and more complex ones as the week drew on – I ultimately realised I was developing an increasingly convoluted design merely to stay with a free public blogging service.
As it turned out this issue …

I spent over 4 hours this morning troubleshooting a mysterious and equally frustrating pr0blem with the menu of one of the many WordPress sites I’ve worked on and want to document my findings for posterity.
I should pre-empt all this by saying that I am not a programmer.  I’m good at troubleshooting technical problems based on observation, trial and error – but I’m not a programmer.  So there may have been a far easier way to resolve this problem – as well as a more technically appropriate solution – however this …

Early this morning I attended a webinar presented by Kaltura called “Introduction to Open Video” and I thought I’d spend some time unpacking what was discussed, what I learned, and some outstanding questions I have that I’d like to investigate.
What is Kaltura?
For starters, Kaltura is a comprehensive framework designed and developed to support the production, editing, hosting and delivery of online video. It is also open source, with the company structure based upon an open model.

Following on my last post about the significance of preserving access to Tweets I’ve spent the evening experimenting with the framework I briefly touched on in the post and wanted to take some time to discuss not only what I’ve done so far, but also some issues and questions that have arose along the way.
Components
As indicated, the syndication framework I’ve set-up incorporates WordPress as the blogging platform, FeedWordPress for aggregation and syndication, and a WP Theme called P2, which is designed as “a group blog theme for short update messages.”  …

Via Twitter just moments ago Joss Win posted a link to a version of Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society” that has been made available via digress.it.  Deschooling Society is available elsewhere on the web, however this is the first time I’ve seen it accompanied by the option to engage in discussion as well.  Importantly the discussion framework that is being used here is particularly powerful.
Digress.it is a plugin for WordPress that supports discussion at a far finer level than is traditionally available on most blogs.  Rather than limiting conversations to a …