Comments for Blogs @ William and Mary

Comment on It’s documentary, dear Watson by afdoug

afdoug — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:03:34 +0000

I can’t find your contact info, John, so I’m just writing here… I’m looking to create a research blog but have found that I can’t upload my final papers or projects because they exceed the size limit. One paper is about 4 megabytes and a powerpoint presentation (really a photo essay) is about 22 megabytes. Right now I’ve just uploaded them to my personal web space and posted links. Is it possible for you to change the size limit so I can upload directly? Thanks!

Comment on The Fight Against Spam–local version by Jim

Jim — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:04:28 +0000

Defensio seems like a good option. I haven;t tried it yet, but I know others have raved about it. I’d love to know how it works out for wmblogs.

Comment on It’s documentary, dear Watson by John (Admin)

John (Admin) — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:08:48 +0000

Thanks, Jim, that’s very kind!

Comment on It’s documentary, dear Watson by Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:14:14 +0000

Feel free to take anything you need from http://umwblogs.org/wiki

It is ll licensed under Creative Commons, and you can copy and paste from the wiki as you see fit.

Comment on Getting there one piece at a time by » Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales WPMu Ed

» Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales WPMu Ed — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:09:16 +0000

[…] just commented over at William & Mary Blogs (wmblogs.net), and I can’t begin to tell you how excited I […]

Comment on The Fight Against Spam–local version by Gene Roche

Gene Roche — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:08:59 +0000

Thanks for publishing this guide. I’d been looking–in all the wrong places–for where to install the API key.

Comment on Getting there one piece at a time by Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales at bavatuesdays

Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales at bavatuesdays — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:43:48 +0000

[…] shortly with some more conceptual overhead, but for now I am just going to leave my comment to this post about aggregation, which lays out a quick and easy way to scale a creative way aggregate within a campus […]

Comment on Getting there one piece at a time by Jim

Jim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:27:02 +0000

Thanks for the tag. I think feedWordPress is the way to go in terms of aggregation. And one of the things I have been playing with is a self-service RSS feed drop.

For example, say you have a number of blogs on your WPMu install, which you will, some of which deal with one particular focus as opposed to another. You can run an aggregated blog with FeedWordPress that is actually taking all of its post from an OPML feed created by the BDP RSS aggregation plugin. You can get the aggregated feed for the appropriately numbered output by doing http://wmblogs.org/bdprssfeed=1 (with the domain being that of the aggreagtor blog).

Why do this? Well, because Andre Malan’s sidebar widget for BDP RSS allows registered WPMu users (and even anyone depending on how you set it up) to drop just about any feed into a text field on the sidebar, and it will automatically be run through FeedWordPress, and into the aggregation blog.

Here is an example: http://swan.wpmued.org

It is a quick, self-service solution that might just work if you want to use aggregation on a number of scales, i.e. school-wide, discipline specific, course specific, or for particualr groups.

Comment on Getting there one piece at a time by research

research — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:08:41 +0000

Oops. Posted the wrong URL for Jim’s blog.

http://bavatuesdays.com/

Comment on Getting there one piece at a time by research

research — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:06:27 +0000

Jim Groom has a relevant post on software to eliminate comment spam. Also, he’s back at Mary Washington after a short (3 week) tour at the University of Richmond.

http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs