I've been trying to keep up two blogs, one for practical applications and one for more theoretical explorations, but the time investment has been too great, so I've decided to combine them into one at the location of my other blog, Explorations in Learning.

The BBC now has a site called The Feed Factory that has their RSS feeds arranged by category, and it introduces readers to RSS technology (via Tim Lauer).

This site — the Feed Factory — is an introduction to the RSS feeds that are available from bbc.co.uk. You can use the Feed Finder on the left of this page to find some of our recommended feeds from across the bbc.co.uk site. When you are browsing around bbc.co.uk, if there's a feed available, you will see the RSS logo (below) somewhere on the page.

The Blog Herald has a preview of a forthcoming PBS blog called MediaShift, and it sounds enticing.

PBS has announced the launch on Jan 18 of a a new blog called MediaShift, which will explore how new forms of digital media are dramatically changing American society and culture.

In a particularly good signing, and the main reason we are even mentioning this blog at all, the new blog will be written by Mark Glaser, probably best know more recently in the blogosphere for his excellent writing for the USC Annenberg School for Communication’s Online Journalism Review.

MediaShift will offer a continuing look at how digital media such as blogs, RSS, podcasts, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators and video repositories are altering the way we live, play and work. The site is said to provide a window into this world for the average user while offering enough details to satisfy the more technically savvy, and will offer ongoing opportunities for active public participation and feedback.

I've switched templates for my blog to Flint, a new Tinderbox weblog assistant. I'll move last year's posts to "ESL Writing & Technology 2005." Because it's still beta, it needs some fine tuning.

All the entries before this one belong to Mark Bernstein, the creator of Flint and Tinderbox. Both are these are great tools, so I've included his ad for Flint:

This is Flint, the new Tinderbox Weblog Assistant. Flint sets up weblogs to your specifications, and gives you lots of options for color, layout, and style.

More than simply a template set or theme, Flint is a tool kit of Tinderbox techniques for integrating styles and Web services into your site.

We're constantly extending and revising Flint. When you purchase Flint, you'll get a year of free updates!

Let me add that Flint is an assistant, meaning you also need the Tinderbox software, a great tool for notetaking, brainstorming, simply managing information and knowledge.

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