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FBLA Presentations

October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I had the privilege of presenting at our school’s Future Business Leaders of America’s District Meeting in Greenwich, NY today. I had a great time presenting and meeting students and faculty. I hope to participate again.

As promised, I am uploading and displaying the contents of my presentations here.

There there is a lot of content on this page, so allow a few seconds for the presentations to load. Click to proceed through the presentations.

Better Presentations

Lawrence Lessig’s presentation used in my slideshow:

Build Your Own Web Presence

Creative Commons Advocate Lessig hit with DMCA take down

May 2, 2009 in Uncategorized | No comments

Lawrence Lessig, legal scholar and Creative Commons founder was hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice on a recent presentation on copyright law in the digital age. Lessig writes on his blog:

Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube’s content-ID algorithm had found music in the video that they claimed ownership to. The organization is apparently responding by disputing the claim. I’ll report back when I hear more.

Lessig, a Stanford law professor, indicated in a Tweet that he fully intends to take on Warner. It appears that YouTube is taking Lessig’s side on the issue as the disputed portion of the video (Part 2) has been restored to the site.

The video presentation, Getting a Network the World Needs, discussion culter’s shift back to a read/write culture lost in the twentieth century through technology and remix. He worries about the criminalization of our youth by major media companies and offers compromise solutions. His brilliantly crafted presentation appears below.

Elgg community content open

December 17, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Much of the content from the Elgg community site is now open to the public. Access to groups and pages may be read. Further posts are not enabled.

If you log in to your account, you will have access to any groups that you had joined earlier, as well as pages to which you had access. Beyond that, groups may be accessed:

http://community.elgg.org/pg/groups/world/

Pages are available:

http://community.elgg.org/mod/pages/world.php

I understand that the Curverider team is fine with any migration to other venues. I have set up a wiki as a repository for any valuable content. If you would like to help by transferring and formatting the information, let me know.

While the wiki is set up, it will need tweaking to function best. It will be in service very soon.

I look forward to more positive information soon!

Elgg devs close groups and comments

December 5, 2008 in Elgg, Social Networking, Uncategorized | 84 comments

After a blistering attack resulting from user problems with the newly uploaded Wire plugin, it appears that the Elgg developers have shut down several functions on the Elgg community site. Groups and the ability to comment on uploaded content are not currently available.

Dave Tosh uploaded a new version of The Wire to the site yesterday. Shortly after he faced angry comments by a few users stating the plugin didn’t work. They believed the release was a different version from the one that functions on the community site. There were also conciliatory comments. Marcus Povey defended Dave Tosh saying the attacks were uncalled for.

Shortly thereafter, comments on uploads no longer displayed and Groups were no longer available. I don’t know if these two events are related. Perhaps they have concerns about these plugins.

I cannot condone what happened today. I certainly hope comments and groups are restored. We need communication to move Elgg forward.

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Pete Harris releases flurry of themes

October 25, 2008 in Elgg, open source, Social Networking, Technology, Uncategorized | 2 comments

Elgg designer Pete Harris, has released several new themes. Now there are several options other than the core theme. Note that all the new themes require Elgg version 1.09+ which is only available in Elgg’s Subversion repository.

Pete’s first offering was his SimpleBlackBlueTech Theme.

This theme introduced techniques for applying the theme to plugins as well as the core Elgg files.

His next theme Simple BlueWhite offers variation overrides the footer, header, and spotlight files. It also incorporates rounded edges in some elements.

Simple Blue White does not provide overrides for plugins.

BlackTech theme includes new navigation options with a menu bar in the header. The theme also covers core plugins. The css files allows you to choose 3 different headers through commenting.

Beyond providing themes, Pete has led the way by providing examples of how to take themes a few steps further. It is now apparent how to apply themes to Elgg plugins, and he has demonstrated how to create new navigation options. In addition, he has demonstrated the use of simple commenting in the main css files as means of providing options within a theme.

To make these theme more your own, explore the code and experiment. Check out my posts on how to hack Elgg themes and image elements in Elgg themes for more guidance.

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