John Quiggin reports on a new book containing scholarly articles on blogging.
One use I've found in teaching is to ditch my old clunky content management system and just use Wordpress to manage all the web content for my courses. Here's an example.
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Hey, remember how I mentioned that there had been some issues with the commenting here? And how I suggested the utterly clunky fix of using a different browser to leave your comments?
If you like bad b-movies featuring clunky cgi dinosaurs it has been a good summer so far. First there was gratuitous silliness of Aztec Rex;
I write about science, and in a recent overhaul of my web site, I decided it was a good time to add a blog.
The Linux command 'units' may or may not be installed on your system. If not, if you use synaptic or apt, type (at the prompt)
sudo apt-get install units
or equiviliant for other distributions. Then type in the word "units" and play around. Here are a few sample outputs:
a book is sooo 20th century
Tim: It looks like computer graphics has progressed from my day when we were working on hidden-line deletion algorithms. My first animation program consisted of a "wire-frame jeep" consisting of about 200 line segments that we would draw in color then go back over and re-draw in black to erase the line.
Humm, now that I think about it, it was about the same time as "Total Eclipse of the Heart". I won't speculate on any deeper meaning in that.
Ooh, that's neat -- now I want to create a blog for my courses. Are there good instructions somewhere on setting this up?
Tim, It looks very impressive. Can I ask:
Do you save on uni website?
How do you get graphics and maths into your tutorial assignment? Maybe this is easy with Wordpress but not for other blogging software.
WordPress has pretty good instructions for setting it up. The only thing that is tricky os that you need MySql support.
It's running off a CSE server.
The graphics just get put in like any other graphics on a blog -- I just have to upload the image to the server.
The maths uses a handy WordPress plugin called latexrender that lets you put snippets of LaTeX in your posts.