As you probably know, Delicious changed hands last week, and the default lifestream feed for the site is no longer working.

I’ve solved this for my lifestream in the following way (full instructions for customising the new delicious feeds are at http://www.delicious.com/help/feeds ):

Go to your blog dashboard and to the lifestream section. Click “Generic” to add a new basic RSS feed.

Enter the feed like this:

http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/username/tag (replace “username” with your Delicious username, and “tag” with whatever tag you want to restrict your bookmarks to. The tag restriction is optional).

Change the title of the feed to something like “New Delicious” or whatever you like.

If you want to keep the Delicious icon, you can use the one at http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/plugins/lifestream/extensions/delicious/icon.png

This will only get you the last 10 bookmarks by default, so you may want to keep your old delicious feed as well.

Comment here if you have any problems or questions!

Jen

1. Logging in: you may have noticed at the start of the course that the ‘login’ links on your own blogs weren’t working properly – they should be now. So if you are not already logged in via EASE when you arrive at the site, you now have the choice of logging in via the main course page (ie: this page) or from your own blog’s “login” link. Let me know if you have any issues with logging in.

2. Spam: if you were getting lots of spam comments on your blog up til yesterday, this should now reduce significantly – apologies for any inconvenience.

3. Time zones: Austin noticed that the time stamps on comments were an hour out from Edinburgh time – I’ve adjusted this on the main blog, but if you want to change the time zone on your own blog (to whatever you like!), you can do this in the “Settings” on your dashboard.

4. Duplicate lifestreams: If your blog has two lifestream pages, you can delete one of these. KEEP the one that is called “My Lifestream” (which organises content by date) and DELETE the one that is just called “Lifestream”.

5. Tags: you might notice on the home page of the site that there is a section in the righthand column called “Tags” – these are keywords pulled from all posts across the site. So, if you write a new blog post, consider adding a few keywords in the “Post Tags” box beside the main blog window, and these will be added to the tag cloud for the site.

Happy tweeting, blogging and lifestreaming!

Jen
photo credit: indigo_girl

The course looks at online learning within the context of the emergence of a specifically digital culture, drawing on theory from media studies, cultural studies and the study of cyberculture, as well as the educational research influenced by these areas of thought. We consider the possiblity of cyborg pedagogy, twitter a film festival on the theme of cyberculture, conduct micro-virtual ethnographies and explore the visual representation of academic discourse, all in the interests of a deeper understanding of how internet cultures and learning cultures are intersecting and changing each other.

The course starts on Monday 19 September 2011, and runs for 12 weeks.

Your tutors are Sian Bayne, Jeremy Knox, and Jen Ross. You know how to contact us – but also watch this space here for course announcements and other things you should know about. Best of luck with your studies this semester!