Two delicious tools: improved search, and an online portfolio October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Online, Personalised learning environments (PLE), Social networking , add a commentFirst, del.izzy, which addresses one limitation of the standard delicious search, enabling you to search all of the content of the pages you bookmarked. But they claim they need your password for this.
Second, a clever way of setting up an online portfolio on delicious. Michele Martin outlines how it works, using the optional tag description field to head the page with an introduction, and then tagging anything you wish to show up there.
A neat idea: not the most beautiful, but it works, and is easy to update. It has two other benefits, says Michele Martin:
- The del.icio.us feature that shows how many other people saved the item acts as a kind of “recommendation” system. […]
- If people sign up for the RSS feed to this tag, they can automatically be notified when I add new items to my portfolio.
And then of course there’s the RSS feed to do other things with, if you want to take it one step further and embed that somewhere, have it post automatically to a blog… etc
New image search tutorial from Intute and TASI October 15, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentWorth a look. I find the interface clunky but it's a useful resource to which to point people who might not know their way around this area (from the Intute blog):
"Internet for Image Searching is a new, free online tutorial to help staff and students in universities and colleges to find digital images for their learning and teaching:
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/
[…]
The emphasis of the tutorial is on finding copyright cleared images which are available free; facilitating quick, hassle-free access to a vast range of online photographs and other visual resources."
Echo-bloggers and blog search: does every linked or cited article count? October 7, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Online, blogging , add a commentOne article or many? Scope for some social network analysis on Google’s new blog search, suggests edublogger Stephen Downes, using an example from online journalism to make his point:
[But] here’s where the network analysis comes in - if the WSJ releases an opinion piece, and it is dutifully cited by the same 79 blogs that cite all such pieces of that political bent, should that really count as ‘79 results’? Or is it just one opinion - the WSJ’s - repeated by echo-bloggers 79 times?
And then what does that mean for ranking, linking, position in other search engines’ results etc…?
In response to a comment, Downes explains what he envisages:
Google groups blogs by topic; take the groups so grouped and see how they link to each other. Compare linkages between the same blogs over different topics.
Any takers?
Seven blog news trackers compared | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET October 5, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentCNET's overview of blog-tracking services for news:
In many ways, Wednesday's release of an updated front page to Google Blog Search has put blog news tracking into the limelight. Google didn't get there first though. Sites like Techmeme, Blogrunner, and Technorati have been tracking the hottest blog posts for quite some time. Now's a good point to take a look at what makes these sites (and others) individual and different from Google's new tool.