Category Archives: Harmie’s House

WordPressMU and Taxonomy

April 5, 2009 – 9:11 am

In my previous post Advanced Aggregation: WordPressMU and Structured Blogging, I discussed how structured blogging attempted to solve some of aggregation issues faced by schools and enterprises. How do we use meta data to identify exactly what the post is about, how do we identify posts about the same event.
The release of WordPressMU 1.3 and […]

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Offline digital portfolios using WordPressMU

November 8, 2007 – 9:23 pm

At the end of the year we send our digital portfolios home with our students on a CDRom. As we’ve previously constructed our digital portfolios using PowerPoint or FrontPage this hasn’t been straight forward, this year we’re blogging with WordPress so how do we do it?
Actually its pretty easy using wget and a bit of […]

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Advanced Aggregation: WordPressMU and Structured Blogging

November 5, 2007 – 4:27 pm

I discussed in my previous post Aggregation Groups and WordPressMU, I share how we are using groups and categories to aggregate content in present it rich ways, celebrating community and diversity.
Structured blogging suggest even more useful and powerful ways in which additional meta data can be attached to a blog post.
Consider an excursion to CERES […]

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Aggregation, Groups and WordPressMU

November 5, 2007 – 10:29 am

After deciding to dismiss Learning Management Systems for decentralized but complimentary webservices and tools, the problem of aggregation arises. Out of the box WordPressMU doesn’t aggregate posts from multiple blogs so alternatives need to be found.
One solution is to use a feed reader such as the open source web based Gregarius, which we used to […]

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