Feb 14 Blog Frenzy
Feb 14th, 2006 by Jinja
Feb 14 Blog Frenzy
I’d put out word that I was hoping to connect with some Malaysian bloggers while local, so I ended up having lunch with a few. (Easier said than done, almost got lost!)
Some good discussions, we could have talked for hours. Details and tidbits to follow. So much to digest about Malaysia’s changing politics and culture.
A bit of stress setting up the live network connection for the ‘Blogs in Higher Education’ workshop, but we sorted it. Powerpoint just can’t cut it when you need to show many sites.
I focused on tools you can use, that are free and easily accessible. Generally we had two kinds of people, those in low bandwidth countries and high bandwidth countries. I’m coming at this more from the latter perspective. Heck, I keep a flashlight handy due to frequent power outages!
Here’s an abbreviated list of some of the things we quickly covered.
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General Links · Higher Education Blogs & Wikis · Yahoo · Gmail · Ekit · Hotmail (yes, Hotmail! Good to have simple, memorable email names.) · Firefox · Blogger · Typepad · MySpace · Flickr |
Rich Source Syndication / Feedreaders Maps: · Frappr · CJB.net · FireAnt · Enom.com
Wikis www.mediawiki.com
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We didn’t really get into Chat or Texting that much, both of which have a lot of potential.
I was hoping to talk a bit more about my sexy new Khmer unicode keyboard (had it all set up!) and localized Open Source but it didn’t garner as much interest as I’d hoped. Ah well. It was a very short time.
Everyone had questions, and what was particularly interesting was seeing how people adapted existing tools for their own needs. So busy discussing things I forgot to take any pictures.
Actually, it’s petalingstreet.org not .com.