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Created by Vidya Ananthanarayanan (Trinity University) on February 24, 2005
I am gearing up to co-teach a first year seminar class in Fall 2005, on social software. While I am familiar and comfortable with blogging, my primary interest has been in finding a blog engine that runs on the Windows/ASP platform. I found .Text a few weeks ago, and then along comes the Educause blog. So I'm hoping this will turn into both an opportunity to work with this platform, at least as a user, and also, blog on a more regular basis.

I do have one major rant: Having to add each Educause topic, individually, wasted precious minutes on it. I  wish they could have a  check box next to each topic and the Add button at the bottom, so one can just add all the desired topics in one fell sweep.


Submitted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on February 24, 2005 - 1:57pm.
I hear 'ya on our current inability to offer checkboxes for every EDUCAUSE topic. A good suggestion. Currently, I'm contemplating the role of folksonomies + taxonomies + Google Suggest like type as you go recommendations for tags. If you have any ideas, I'd be really interested. We'll be upgrading our blog software this summer and hope to incorporate lots of ideas for improvement then. Thanks for the feedback!

BTW, there are a couple of folks using .Text that I know of in academia. There is also a new product CS::Blogs (from Telligent Systems) that is the new version of .Text. I'm leaning heavily towards upgrading our .Text implementation to the new CS::Blogs product, but we'll see ... we still have a few months to go and on internet time, who knows might arise. DasBlog is another interest ASP.NET product.

Matt

 
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