Archive for July, 2008
Easily Backup Your Entire Website to S3
Fienen sent me a great link to a Ruby script that will backup your website and push that backup file to Amazon S3 for safe, cheap keeping. Christina Warren’s tutorial is geared towards users hosting their sites at MediaTemple, but since the important piece is the Ruby script that sends the data to S3, you [...]
Time to make your institution's Knol page?
I missed the launch due to being at EduWeb2008, but this past week, Google launched it’s Knol product. I can’t tell if Google is trying to compete with Wikipedia here, with community contributions, a set of user-managed pages like Squidoo, or the human-powered search engine Mahalo. Here’s an example of a Knol page. Knol pages [...]
EduWeb Wrap Up: Conference 2.0
I’ve finally arrived home after 2 bad travel days and I had some time to think about the conference and what I learned there. For me personally, I think I got more out of the networking and just getting the chance to talk with colleagues from around the world that was awesome. The sessions themselves [...]
