A bit ago I blogged about the tangled graph of SIOC info, collected up from the blogs of some of my colleagues.

Gardner and Andy have started a movement for New Year's Resolutions about blogging more. I'm not sure I can realistically promise to blog more, but I'll try.

Jim Groom and others have been getting excited lately tools and techniques for integrating blogs and wikis. A while ago we had worked on a one-off script to bring the content of a wiki directly into WordPress blog. The idea is similar to XML separation of content and display--wikis are fantastic as a collaborative writing space, but don't have the robustness for presentation that WordPress has. So, we worked on a quick-and-dirty, one-off way to bring content from the writing space of one wiki page and stuff it into WordPress, treating WordPress as the presentation space.

Interesting thing emerging from the talks at Faculty Academy: the emergence of connections. Connections is nothing new, but I'm struck by a reversal of direction. Instead of lots of discussion along the lines of "I used technology to produce X kind of connection in students," the discussion has been much more toward "I tried X with a vague idea in mind, and we all discovered these kinds of connections." That is, I see a very happy and healthy starting point in gray area, and delight in what comes out. That's at least implicit in the discussion of sharing-oriented sites (here, here, and here), more explicitly in the Interactivism panel, and extraordinarily powerfully in Barbara Ganley's plenary session

In an effort to push myself out of my blogging-block, here's a great manifesto on blogging and academics