Still  working with DokuWiki as an educational platform for faculty here at WSU Vancouver. I’ve found a couple things that are worth mentioning, Thought I’d jot them down here. This post deals with spam prevention. The idea that Dokuwiki wikis don’t get spammed as much as MediaWiki installs is true, but trivially so. You’ll get Continue reading

Yesterday-ish, from Justin Reich: I was also somewhat surprised to learn that in many systems, it is actually quite difficult to get a raw dump of all of the data from a student or class. Many systems don’t have an easy “export to .csv file” option that would let teachers or administrators play around on Continue reading

Via Clay Fenlason: “Feeling like the time spent to understand WTF @holden is talking about would be well spent, but who has that kind of time?” Fair enough. I blog mostly for myself, to try and push on my own ideas in front of a relatively small group of people I know who push back. Continue reading

File-based sharing based around pushing copies of good stuff to others. That’s what the federated wiki is about. For that reason I find newer efforts like this that push files around instead of references to be fascinating. This out today from Dropbox, a new product called Carousel: Photos of events such as graduations and weddings, Continue reading

ONE IMPORTANT NOTE: I’m just toying with this idea, not asserting it at this point. But part of me is very interested in what happens when we view the rise of the app as not a betrayal of the original vision of the web, but as a potential return to it. I don’t see many Continue reading

One of the great outcomes of the storage-neutral-app firefight (besides Tom’s  lyrical comment) was Pat Lockley pointing me to the Unhosted site. As we move from an era of browser-based web apps to one that is increasingly about client-side/server-backed apps, one of the very real concerns people have is whether hackability disappears. Unhosted is very fringe, Continue reading