The Relaunch: Updating the Blog for 2015
Not a single update to the JP Allen Blog in a whole year. Slightly embarrassing, but also a good excuse for a much needed update and redesign. I needed to refresh the site I’m running…
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Academic blogging and Moodle: Two educational technology talks
I gave two Instructional Technology talks recently, one formal and one spontaneous. The formal one was a presentation to our USF Wikis and Blogs group on “Pro Blogging for Dorks Academics”. I talked about the…
The world’s smallest online businesses: Blogshops
The US has about 20 million businesses with only one person–the owner. Except for rare cases like plentyoffish.com (the #6 online dating service in the US, and #1 in Canada, serving hundreds of thousands of…
The one-click install, do-it-yourself web revolution
While WordCamp 2008 attendees were likely impressed with the huge number of page views (6.5 billion per year – roughly one for every person on the planet) and monthly unique visitors (up to 160 million…
How to get published in Romania: The global reach of blogs
Our paper on Web 2.0 and Social Informatics has now been published in issue #8 of the Journal of Social Informatics (JSI). JSI happens to be an online magazine published by the West University of…
How web 2.0 solves the knowledge sharing problem
What really impresses me about the big Web 2.0 sites is how they use familiar metaphors in new ways. By starting from what we already know (such as profiles, groups, ratings, and ‘friends’), people naturally…
My online strategy
After attending the Web 2.0 Expo and SaaScon this week, I realize that I need to get serious about having an online presence. Of course, I’ve had my web site jpedia.org up for almost a…