I just added a Creative Commons license to e-Literate. While I have always been supportive of open content, I didn’t really get how immediately important it is for higher education until I started helping my significant other start searching for ESL teaching resources on the Maricopa Learning Exchange (MLX). For those who don’t know, MLX […]
Bits & Bytes
"Bits and Bytes" includes recommended reading on other sites, editorial and web site updates, and other ephemera.
Categories, Themes, and Memes
After giving it a little more thought, I have decided to use the term “site themes” instead of categories. The latter implies (to me, at least) that each post will be put in one and only one category, which is not at all how I have organized the site. “Themes” seems a little more flexible […]
Categories Are Up; Arranging Ideas
OK, the categories are in place; you can now see only the entries for a particular category by clicking on the appopriate title in the sidebar. Luckily, the RSS didn’t change the edit dates on the feed so nobody got a feed reader full of old posts just because I mucked around with the categories. […]
KM as Tracks in the Mud
When I was a tourguide at Rutgers (part of my undergrad experience), I learned an interesting (though possibly apocryphal) story about how the sidewalks were planned on the Livingston College campus. Apparently, the university deliberately refrained from putting down any sidewalks for the first several years. (For those who don’t know Livingston College, there are […]
RSS fixed
Your RSS and Atom feeds should now include HTML-formatted text that shows you the first 75 words of each entry. (If anybody has an Atom feed reader out there and could confirm for me that the Atom feed is working properly, I’d be grateful.) Thanks to all my readers (both of you) for your patience […]
Continuing RSS Trouble
Again, apologies to those who are trying to read my unformatted RSS feed. There’s a problem with the way EE handles the templates and my PHP skills aren’t up to fixing it. Also try as I might, I cannot find any clean way of fudging a decent division through writing style that will serve equally […]
HTML-in-RSS Challenges
My apologies to those of you who have been getting my content by RSS feed; I’m aware that you have been receiving unformatted paragraphs smushed together in one long graph. This is a problem with Expression Engine’s RSS generation template. Basically, in order to use HTML in an RSS feed you have to specifically escape […]