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Our open online class on entrepreneurship in education, EdStartup 101, is starting this coming Monday! The most useful thing we did when we put the word out about the course was to invite interested people to fill out a simple form. We hoped this would give us an idea of what type of people were coming. A few weeks later, 850 people have indicated their intention to participate in the course. Fortunately for us, Google Forms has a handy feature that auto visualizes form responses. So, in case you’re interested, here are a few characteristics of the EdStartup 101 participants. ...

Up at the top of the site you’ll now see a tab titled “CTD News.” This page provides continuously updated links to recent coverage of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. The page is powered by RSS feeds in delicious with the tags capetowndeclaration+news and capetowndeclaration+blog. When you find material online about the declaration, please tag it this way so that those resources will show up here. If I start seeing a lot of garbage in the feed I’ll change my approach.

Well, my move to Wordpress 2.0 and K2 is now pretty much complete. I have to send a shout out to D’Arcy whose beautiful blog has heavily influenced (if not determined) the current look of mine. More to come.

Welcome everyone! You’ve found the new home of “iterating toward openness.” The transition has gone surprisingly well. Much more coming very soon.

Jumping in with both feet here. (I suppose moving the DNS pointer is like burning your ships when you make landfall.) I have abandoned Plone (which is a great tool for things like eduCommons but just too heavy for my personal website needs) for a combination of wordpress, mediawiki, and other tools. Everything should be reappearing shortly – some of it even where you expect it. We apologize for the interruption.

After about a week’s downtime, reusability.org blogs are now functioning again (yes, everyone, you can now login again!). Many things happening at once here; just back from a super AERA; I’m hoping to make an OLS related announcement next week. Also finished some writing this last week which I hope to post soon…

Below is an online education parable I have been telling in talks for a few years now. I have finally written it down in order to publish it in my BackBurner column of AECT’s Tech Trends, but thought that autounfocus readers might enjoy it as well. ...

There’s been some downtime with the blogs over the weekend. I’m sorry to everyone for the delay in service. We suffered a severe hard drive failure which has caused me to migrate everything to a new server. However, reusability.org blogs should all be working again now. If you have any problems, please let me know. (PS, if you’ve emailed me anything important in the last 5 days, you should do it again!)

I’m about to create around 50 new blogs in an MT install. Does anyone have a script that handles the web-based portion of the creation process? I have a script for creating and setting permissions on directories… Help appreciated.

I’ve updated my “Beginner’s Guide to Blogs in Inst Tech”:http://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html for a presentation Trey and I are doing in about 5 minutes here at PIDT. For what it’s worth.