Archive for November 26th, 2008
Creating a Self-Generating Blog from a Few Keywords
My students will love the service provided by WordPressDirect that generates blogs complete with many posts in a matter of minutes. Simple provide a blog title and subtitle, contact details and a few keywords that you would like your blog to cover. Indicate how often you would like new blog entries to be generated, and then choose a website address to host your blog. WordPressDirect then generates the blog on WordPress.com. By manipulating a few settings the blog entries are generated for you by searching popular sites such as YouTube and Yahoo Answers.
In five minutes I created a blog about Web 2.0 educational technology and asked for new entries to be added every 12 hours. See what you think, the address is http://edtechweb.ruqqa.com/
Check out the YouTube videos to see if they are believable.
I can hear the gnashing of teeth from the serious bloggers of my acquaintance.
[via Mashable]
Why I Still Want Sandy
I have to admit I have been neglecting Sandy lately but back at the turn of the year for a few months she proved invaluable. She became even more valuable when she integrated herself into both Windows Live Messenger and Twitter.
Now comes some good and bad news delivered via Twitter of course. The bad: Sandy and (Stikkit) are to close on 8 December, the IP being bought by Twitter. The good: the lead Sandy developer, Rael Dornfest, is joining the Twitter team and I expect to see some Sandy-like features in Twitter soon.
Happy holidays, Sandy, you deserve it.
