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Jeremiah Owyang makes a number of great observations in this post that he interprets as the end of the golden era of tech blogging. I strongly recommend reading it as it’s indeed hard not to see a pattern after the sale of TechCrunch, of ReadWriteWeb or the departure of Ben Parr or Marshall Kirckpatrick.

Is this related to Tech only or is it a larger trend? Is blogging itself – and not just tech blogging – coming to an end?I think it’s fair to say that a number of these observations are valid for the whole blogosphere: lack of attention span of readers, news and content remixing, fatigue of some personal brands, emergence of new business models, etc…

Blogging will not disappear but new forms of expression are definitely stealing the show from blogging platforms. Curation among them.

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If you are interested in attending one of our workshops on New Media, Moodle or Wikis & Blogs, and you want to visit  either Athens or Ghent at the same time, then quickly fill in our preregistration form. With the support of your National Agency, you can have it all, for free! Free, as in: you would not have to pay for your plane ticket, accommodation, meals, course fee… The deadline for these workshops is January 16 -make sure you make it on time!

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Here at Let’s Learn IT we always encourage initiatives that give practical answers to problems teachers all over the world face daily. This time we put the spotlights on Flubaroo, which is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. According to their site, Flubaroo also:

• Computes average assignment score.
• Computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions.
• Shows you a grade distribution graph.
• Gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key.

If you ask us, it’s definitely worth while checking out. Have a look at the video tutorial below and convince yourself!
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Choosing strong passwords is very important – nothing new there. But how difficult should a password be, really? xkcd has the answer for us:

The Viewbix site reads, “It’s no secret that tons of people are watching videos online. But how do you get users to do *more* than just watch your videos? And, how do you do it for FREE?” If it’s free, then we’re always interested of course. Making your YouTube video interactive so that it also contains a Twitter feed, or an RSS feed, for instance, is quite simple, really:

1. First select any YouTube video.
2. Add photos, pricing, descriptions, landing pages.
3. Share your new interactive video on Facebook, Twitter or your own website.

Here’s an example of one of our videos:


If you like this, then why not try it yourself?

Up to this very moment I have always used Overstream to create YouTube subtitles, but today I have discovered a new service, Captiontube, which seems even better than overstream in quite a few ways…
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We all know that searchbox in Firefox that you can customize with different search engines -forget about that. This here is the real thing: in chrome you can set up as many search engines as you like, so if you want a search engine for your own personal blog, then that’s no problem! On top of that, Chrome also allows you to assign simple keyboard shortcuts to each one of your search engines: look at the video to see how easy it is! Don’t forget to turn the captions on (press CC button in the youtube…
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And here are the pictures from our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar that we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Below you can find the memolane for our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar which we organised in Ghent in July 2011: