This said about a week ago: "It was announced at the beginning of this year that TakingITGlobal would take over and continue to host the eduspaces.net community. Because of their location in Canada, some legal issues had to be sorted out first. This was why EduSpaces members had to explicitly state to have their account transferred to what would have been a new provider. Unfortunately, the legal issues didn't end there, so, to avoid any more inconvenience for EduSpaces users, TakingITGlobal and the EduSpaces team have decided not to continue with the planned migration."This is good for now. Although I know i would want to quite soon, I don't have to rush into taking any further steps yet to get my  "own domain". 

A co-blog with friends from Second Life, mostly in Danish language (SL as an informal learning environment)
secondlifedk.blogspot.com
The eduspaces education community blog that used to be an Elgg community and was recently taken over by a Canadian community - which I still wish to use because I've got many good virtual colleagues
eduspaces.net/netopnyrop/weblog/

My social bookmarks are at del.icio.us/netopnyrop

Amazing 5 minutes powerful screencast that visualizes how HTML has become expanded by  XML, and allowed us to link, feed and create web 2.0 and folksonomy, turning just anyone into potential social taggers,  bloggers, authors, commentors and readers of criss cross linked online texts and multimedia content. (mh - this could be said in more elegant terms, but you know what I mean!)

This youTube video has been cirtulating in the web2sphere for a while, but this seem to be a final version.

Created by dr. Michael Wesch, for the Kansas University Digital ethnography project
  

"I have a rule that if I pick a cart with an old shopping list in it that I have to buy everything on the list. (This is somehow related to my collection of pictures that I found on the ground.) I don’t go shopping that often, so I’ve only had to follow the rule a few times. The main thing I have noticed about shopping lists with no context is that they are very vague. It will just say something like “pickles,” which could mean anything on 5 shelves in a space about two feet wide. In that case I try to get the version of the item that would most likely be the illustration of that word in a children’s book. We philosophers refer to this as the “Platonic ideal.” For pickles, this would be a big jar of deli pickles. For bread, I would buy a baguette (and if it were possible, a bike with a basket and a full-scale model of the Eiffel Tower to ride in front of)." From www.blogenough.com 

 He might just be rambling, but on the other hand, why not? This was just one step ahead of my own passion for serendipitous life signs. Shopping lists are usually very simple from my hand with no details about brand or amount; my most memorable one from a day where I had no real taste for serving wholesome leals, it was more like a poem recipe:

eggs - milk - ink

The minimalist poet was me, age 22, still breast feeding my first child, wondering whether I was pregnant once again, in a sad mood because my mom was in the terminal stage of cancer, and with a desire to use my ink pen for my daily hand writing of letters, diary and shopping lists. I kept this list in my purse for many years, mainly because it reminded me of myself at the borderline between life and death, joy and mourning.

 How's that compared with todays' greed for getting a pipe into other people's tagged tweetstreams! This is what I can come up with for now, inspired by some reblogging efforts of clearing old clutter. Oh, and I will consider unsusbscription from a whole lot of old blog feeds...

I'm just wondering if this is what I want and need by now. Will try to move and update older blog posts, and see where this will take me. Works more within the twitter & facebook framework the past few months anyway, but this might not be my preferred in the long run - more of a viral effect as so many people that I alrwady know are also experimeting with these and similar  social tools.

 Happy new year anyway, and hopefully connecting in 2008 

Teresa is teaching young beginner students grade 5-6 in Parede, Portugal. We have met several times in RL,  and in 2002, I was a guest at her school. Congratulations with your hard work and the fruit - a neat money award for your school as well as a Smartboard with relevant software. Now we can look forward to learn how your innovative teacher mind will adapt the Smartboard!

 http://tinyurl.com/27h2ls