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Sometimes when I copy my essays from MS Word to the Claremont Conversation, Claremont Conversation creates a very very long line rather than creating paragraphs. When this happens, only a certain portion of my writing is visible on the Claremont Conversation.Has anyone else faced this problem?I literally had to write my last posting again. I appreciate any input.

The following paper approaches the Wiki from classroom perspective and it defines four properties of a traditional Wiki system that are not desirable for a classroom setting. These properties are:

1. All content is modifiable by any user: An instrutor may want to restrict modifiability of certain pages such as course syllabus.
2. All content is public: An instructor or student may want to keep a newly created page private until a certain point in its development.
3. Simultaneous edits are allowed but not succesful (Refers back to the question 7 for the mediawiki assignment): Many students may want to edit the contents of a given page simultaneously, so that the page locking mechanism needs to be employed in order to prevent students overwriting each other's submissions.
4. The wiki is forever evolving: The instructor may want to freeze the state of the wiki into an historical artifact when the class ends.

Referance:

Wang C. M. and Turner D. International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing. 2004, Volume 1, p.255

Although we downloaded and tested four plug-ins last week, it appears that there are hundreds of plug-ins available for Wordpress on the Internet. One site that offers free plug-ins is WordPress Plugin Database. In our classes, both Professor Olfman and Mete talked about the importance of backing up our work. In this context, I found a wordpress plug-in called Backup Wordpress. I installed and activated this plug-in easily without making any changes in page codes. Once, the plug-in was activated it appeared as BackUp WordPress option on the toolbar of my site admin.

 

Prior to backing up the Wordpress, one should first set the backup path where all backup will go. Thus, I selected the default path (/home/12860/domains/evren.mysocialtech.com/html/wordpress/wp-content/backup). Then I went to the backed up the Wordpress feature and backed up the Wordpress. With the restore button that is shown below, one can easily restore Wordpress. I believe that it is beneficial to backup prior to making a big change. Hence, I believe that this could be a useful plug-in for all of us.

ScreenShot: http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/evren/files/-1/708/backup1.JPG

Another plug-in that I tested today is WordPress Stats which offers statistics about visitors. However, I had a problem with finding my API Key. Would someone tell me how to find my API key? I checked the tutorial and I could not find my API key.

I have been doing some research about social technologies and recently found two web sites that may be interesting for this class.

1. Business Week: According to the slide provided in the link, as of March 2007, there were 15,534,430 active blogs available on the Internet.

2. BlogCount: This site also provides information about blogs on the Internet.

3. It appears that one of our former students, C. Wagner had a paper called "Supporting Knowledge Management in Organizations with Conversational Technologies: Discussion Forums, Weblogs, and Wikis". This paper compares and constrasts the features of Discussion Forums, Weblogs, and Wikis.

  

  

Yesterday reminded me of the most frustrating of my days as a programmer. I was going through some activities on my test (WordPress) blog site in preparation for class, and twice I ran into frustrations. First, it was in trying to embed a video in a blog entry. Somehow, the code for embedding was corrupted after saving the post. It happened over and over. I finally came to the conclusion (which may be right or wrong) that if I just saved the post once, and did not edit it again, all would be well. This is unsatisfying because it is always nice to be able to edit a post when one desires to do so.

The second frustration came when I installed a plugin to create an administration menu at the top of the blog page. The menu is normally hidden in an administration panel. After following the instructions, I either got no menu or a menu represented as a bullet list. Eventually I tested it with Firefox (since I normally use IE7 because Firefox is not compatible with XP Tablet) and it worked. Then I tested it on another machine and it worked. I came to the conclusion that it must be something about XP Tablet. But, this morning, when I tried again on IE7, it worked. So, I have no explanation for what was happening.

Which reminded me of two days of hell when I was programming in the early 1980s. I was working via a terminal and writing code on an IBM 370 and was writing code in FORTRAN, BASIC and IBM’s EXEC 2 scripting language. I can’t recall which language I was using, but the code I had written would not execute properly. I went through it (what seemed like a million times) line by line, word by word and letter by letter, but could not explain why there was a bug. I am not the greatest programmer, and typically make silly coding errors, but no matter how hard I tried to see the apparent error, I could not. Eventually, late in day two, I decided to look at the bytemap of the code. Lo and behold, one of the characters that displayed as a normal character was represented by a different bit sequence than the one I had expected to be there! I was “that close” to giving up. In hindsight, another strategy would have been to literally retype the entire program.

By the way, I’ve realized that when playing with changes to WordPress, I should simply close the browser and reopen it after every change.

This post is cross-listed at http://lorne.sisatspace.com/2007/09/28/the-thrill-of-debugging-%e2%80%a6-not-2/. 

 

Hope this works...

interesting ariticle about potential of social networking sites.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1463

The article in the link below suggests that del.icio.us  and StumbleUpon are the dominant players of the social bookmarking market based on a table that compares the features of 10 social bookmarking sites. Although I do not know the nature of this market well, I liked the table that the author provided. Perhaps we can use this table as guideline when evaluating social bookmarking sites.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_bookmarking_faceoff.php