eBlog by Tore Hoel

I never thought I would use the iPod to blog. However, I start to see that micro blogging, micro screens, micro reading devices are changing my online behaviour quite a bit. Reading newsfeeds is much more fun via this small device. And now I’ve discovered ebooks and all the other good, free stuff. What’s fascinating [...]

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The TIK centre at University of Oslo sported the young and promising fresh master candidate Jan Fredrik Stoveland at its closing seminar of the project Charisma & Code: The Political Economy of Free/Open Software yesterday. Stoveland has written on Managing Firm-Sponsored Open Source Communities: A case study of Novell and the openSUSE project - an [...]

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MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching has just published a special issue on Learning Management Systems, life-long learning, identity, Web 2.0 and the other “framework” questions relevant for digital learning support. Read the abstracts page - and pick you PDFs for download or read online!
Deepening the Chasm: Web 2.0, Gaming, and Course Management Systems, [...]

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I’ve been giving a presentation at the Project Seminar of the Norwegian Opening Universities (Norgesuniversitetet). Is is a good idea to mandate the use of project blogs to receive project funding? Not really, if you don’t want to have a dead blog, is my answer. The presentation is in Norwegian, see mindmap (PDF) below.
The [...]

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Kristine Lowe reports on the salto mortale of Tim O’Reilly (the guy that coined the confusing concept of Web 2.0). He called for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, only to change his mind 180 degrees when he sensed the stupidity of his proposal that was caused by the moral panic that followed a “threats post” [...]

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It has be great fun to write a research paper on workblogging to be submitted to the TenCompentence conference to be held in Manchester in January. I have written the paper together with Paul Hollins of JISC CETIS, and we have used all sorts of communication technologies in odd places to coordinate the work, Skype [...]

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Recent blogging experiences have made me reflect upon the differences between personal blogs and workblogs. (I am trying to write a paper on this, and would like to be pointed towards any resources that might help.) While researching this theme I stumbled across (via Scott Wilson) Lilia Efimova’s blog research where she has developed [...]

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If a student at University of Oslo cites Wikipedia in a paper, he or she will fail. This was said by an advisor at The Faculty of Theology with a professional interest in Theological Dogmatism in a recent workshop om Social software, arranged by Teria at Oslo Unversity College (not to be mixed up with [...]

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