Comments on: NYSCATE Presentation: Open Source Web 2.0 Applications

By: Don Watkins

Don Watkins — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:57:45 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:43:12 +0000

It is Senate Bill 1492 on Broadband. It is in Section 215 near the bottom of the document:

‘(iii) as part of its Internet safety policy is educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms and cyberbullying awareness and response.’.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1492

By: Don Watkins

Don Watkins — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:08:06 +0000

Thanks for your presentation. I got a lot out of it this year too. You made a comment in the presentation that there is legislation that requires schools teach students about social networks. What is the legislation? Is it more than I-Safe?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:47:52 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to listen and commenting. I’m never sure if things like this reach anyone.

BuddyPress is intriguing. I am concerned about it being and extension of an extension in that WordPressMU was cobbled out of WordPress. In turn BuddyPress is cobbled from WordPressMU.

An advantage is that BuddyPress will bring the the consistent support of a larger community and of the Automattic folks.

While Elgg is built from the ground up as a social networking tool, it lacks the broad support resources.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:15:04 +0000

Thanks for for recording your session and sharing it here on your blog. Great stuff! I hadn’t heard of several of the tools you mentioned and I look forward to exploring them in greater detail. I’m especially interested in the use of BuddyPress for a blog-centric social networking experience for my students.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:10:17 +0000

Thank you. Sorry I had the sound file that didn’t cut the pre-session crowd noise uploaded. The correct one is on there now.

I think some of these more obscure efforts deserve a bit more attention!

By: Matt Leifer

Matt Leifer — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:42:54 +0000

Nice talk. I hadn’t heard of Posh or RNews before and I think I’m going to take a look at them.