<![CDATA[The Hot Topic : Weblog]]> Elgg http://elgg.net/hottopic/weblog/ <![CDATA["Whose Space?"]]> http://elgg.net/hottopic/weblog/15642.html http://elgg.net/hottopic/weblog/15642.html Fri, 19 May 2006 10:32:01 GMT Ben Werdmuller posted an interesting article about the reasons behind some social software sites. Whose Space?

"When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought MySpace for $580 million, it wasn't the blogs or the photos or even the advertising eyeballs he was buying: the market research made it worth every cent.

[Update: Ben continues this discussion - Social Networking's Gold Rush] 

]]> <![CDATA["My online class ate my ePortfolio"]]> http://elgg.net/hottopic/weblog/7932.html http://elgg.net/hottopic/weblog/7932.html Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:50:26 GMT Last week witnessed some interesting discussion around ePortfolios, PLE's, institutional control and where to next? Jeremy Hiebert, Dave Tosh and Bill Fitzgerald all talk about this.

Bill Fitzgerald :: My online class ate my ePortfolio.

Dave Tosh :: PLE's - are they what the ePortfolio promised to be? 

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