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I’m experimenting with writing a non-work blog, which I’m calling e-Mediate. In addition to the reasons that I list there for starting it, I consider it to be another experiment in trying to get the Web 2.0 thing from the inside of it. (I don’t buy the whole Digital Native thing; even geezers like me should be able to learn this stuff.)??

I’m not sure whether I’m going to find it valuable enough to keep up, so for now, I’m leaving the commenting off. If you have something urgent to say to me about it, feel free to email me, write me on Facebook or <sigh> tweet me. It’s not like I’m hard to reach.

I am aware that my RSS feed is wacked. I’m investigating. Please be patient.

Sorry.

Update:??It appears that the latest version of my related posts plug-in went rogue on me. I have turned it off for the time being, and that seems to have solved the problem. If you have any more trouble in the near future, please let me know by posting a comment on this post.

I’ll be leaving for EDUCAUSE tomorrow morning and will be there until Friday morning. I’m not giving any presentations this year other than a 15-minute presentation on Oracle SAIP at the Desire2Learn booth, but I have lots of meetings and typical goings on. If you’re going to be in Orlando this week and want to track me down, just ping me.

I’ll be at OpenWorld—a first for me. I’m not presenting anything this time, but I will be at the booth periodically. If you’re going and want to catch up with me, feel free to ping me: michael+at+mfeldstein+dot+com. Also, I’m going to try out my new Flip camera which, I must say, is the coolest toy I’ve owned that was not manufactured by Apple in a long time. In the future, I’ll be doing videos of the conferences I go to, as a substitute for live-blogging (which I hate doing and suck at). My thought right now is that I’ll do one introductory video for context of each conference and then the rest will be interviews with attendees, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’m in the process of switching over servers and I know that some of you are getting spammed over and over again with my last post as a result. My best guess is that this is a result of the change in DNS servers propagating unevenly across the internet. So particularly some web-based readers (like Google’s) that are big enough to be hitting multiple servers frequently for updates are seeing the post from the old server and the new one as different and are republishing every time they hit a different server. If I’m right about this, the situation should calm down in the next day or two.

Sorry.

photo credit: iluvcocacola

e-Literate is back in business and ready to go. Which is good, because I have a backlog of posts I want to get to.

e-Literate has been upgraded and is about 90% configured. I still have to figure out how to do a few things (e.g., add a navigation tab for the blog page without breaking other things), and I will continue to tweak it for the next few days, but it’s close enough to be basically usable. Please feel free to poke around and provide me feedback, whether good or bad, on how it looks and works for you.

I’m going to be upgrading my blogging software this weekend. This will mean losing some of the customizations to the site that I really like (but that probably nobody else noticed), but it also means that I’ll be able to stay current with WordPress releases in the future. In the process, I’ll be changing the look and feel substantially. Again, I have mixed feelings about this, but on balance I think it is for the best.

At any rate, don’t be surprised if the blog looks mangled or even is down altogether for a while over the weekend. I’ll post again to let you know when it’s done.