Searching Blogs Vs Wikis – Australians Prefer Wiki (The World Prefers Blog)
I was playing with Google Trends and their comparison function and noticed that you can now limit searches to regions (ie just Australia, for example). I was playing around looking at the comparative popularity of ‘blog’ versus ‘wiki’ and found something interesting: cumulatively, global searchers are still typing in ‘blog’ more, but in Australia, ‘wiki’ is a more popular term, and has been since the third quarter of 2006. Since there’s no scale on Google Trends, I’ve no numbers attached to these trends, but the results are interesting nevertheless.
Australia is looking for wikis…
While the world is looking for blogs…
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I’ve no idea why wikis are more popular in Australia … perhaps something to do with Wikipedia? I note in the News trends (the smaller bottom graph), blogs are still mentioned a lot more in the mainstream media. I wonder what it is about wikis and Aussies?
links for 2007-05-22
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“A report for Britain’s Fraud Advisory Panel wants the Government to extend real-world financial regulations into Second Life…. It warns that players can transfer large sums of money across national borders without restriction and with little risk of be
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Adrian Miles makes a great post summarising the differences in software architecture and pratice between Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and web2.0 tools, such as blogs.
Powerpoint: Learning through Laughing
Using PowerPoint poorly is probably one of the most common sins of academics in the early twenty-first century. Being told how to make slides properly is useful, but so is an eloquent example of bad slides. Thus, comedian Don McMillan makes all of our lives a little easier, as he demonstrates powerpointlessness in his stand-up routine. Check it out:
Life After Death by PowerPoint
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Perhaps this should be mandatory viewing for all teachers?
links for 2007-05-20
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“Sweden will open the first “diplomatic representation” in the virtual reality of web-based Second Life, a fantasy world inhabited by computer-generated residents, on May 30.”
links for 2007-05-19
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“More than 90% of UK teenagers have used a social networking website and more than half use them because their friends do, according to research. … one-third of teenagers have at least four social networking profiles…”
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“Fiji’s military government appears to have successfully blocked access to a number of critical blogs that have embarrassed the administration.”
links for 2007-05-18
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“Amazon has announced plans to launch a digital music store that will allow customers to download music without any digital copying protection.”
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Flickr apologies for making a big boo boo and retains transparency and (I’d hope) the respect of their community. (Unlike, say, JPG Magazine).
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