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Post by AJ Cann on the different blogging tools in Blackboard. There are 4 being made available at Leicester, but as the post highlights they do not offer the capabilities of tagging adding widgets in sidebars like Wordpress does.

Easy podcasting from your iPhone

Post and short video by Lindsay Jordan on blogging with students.

The world is full of visionaries and people who want to make a difference in the world, and many of those people share their knowledge online through their blogs. Whether you want to change the world through environment, humanitarianism, business, or any other way, there's a blog out there that can offer you guidance and inspiration. Read on, and you'll find 100 blogs that can help you change the world.

Writer makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service-Windows Live, Wordpress, Blogger, Live Journal, TypePad, and many more.

This is a very nice blogging application. Would be nice if it were multiplatform. Microsoft gets a lot of heat for crappy things but this one of the things coming out that is actually fairly good.

In this article we'll take a look at a combination of tutorials, plugins and themes that can help you to use WordPress in non-traditional ways. Hopefully you'll find something that you can use, or at least something that will be a valuable learning resource for extending your knowledge and skills of working with WordPress.

Create your own blog without setting it up. All you need is an email account somewhere and to be able to send emails. Create student blogs without the hassle of signing them up. No protected invironment.

Quick: what was the most widely-used form of media in 2008? If you guessed Internet news sites, blogs, or social networks, you'd be way off. Network TV news (NBC, CBS, ABC) is still used by the highest percentage of adult Internet users, with local newspapers and local TV news occupying the 2nd and 3rd positions, respectively, in a recently released survey from Ketchum.

While old media is still on top, the trends in the survey, which has been conducted each of the last three years, point to a familiar story: media consumption habits are quickly changing. That said, some forms of new media are performing much better than others. For example:

- Blogs are now used by 24% of Internet users, up from 13% in 2006

- Social networks are now used by 26% of Internet users, up from 17% in 2006

- Videocasts are now used by 11% of Internet users, up from 6% in 2006

Slower growers include:

- RSS feeds: growing from 5 to 7 percent

- Podcasts: growing from 5 to 7 percent

- Business news sites: flat at 8 percent

Invitation to go back through your blog posts over the year and looking for any "aha moments" or highlight the posts that you think were the best/most interesting.

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A live blog similar to a one person chat with comments. It offers the possibilty to record it and replay it. Could be used at conferences live blogging a presentation and allowing comments at the same time.

A free podcast creation and hosting service. There's a lot of advertising and some spammy podmails from other members, but it is easy to use and may be one of the best choices for teachers and students wanting to create a podcast.