How Do You MU?

Since the May update post, another half-dozen or so sites have sprung up, several of them particularly interesting. As always, you can see all the most recently-added sites at at the top of my delicious bookmarks tagged WPMU and host. They join the other sites in the sidebar of this blog.

I’ve added a couple of new sites to the sidebar list, and cleaned out some comment spam.

Note, mainly to self. It would make sense to use sidebar widgets for this blog. Since I bookmark WPMU blogs in del.icio.us, I could set up a widget showing the RSS feed for the wpmu tag. I could also get rid of the Archives section of the sidebar, which I don’t think is very useful.

Three new things to report. I’ll selfishly lead with the fact that my main blog, Changing Way, has moved to ChangingWay.org, a domain I’ve owned for a while and which now maps into WordPress.com. So my main blog is now a WPMU blog. The previous blog, ChangingWay.net, still exists at Weblogs.us.

I’ve just added a few new WPMU sites to the sidebar of this blog. This blog is well hosted by edublogs. org, and…

James Farmer has just announced Edublogs premium: “the ability for anyone to set-up, almost instantly, their own fully featured educational blog hosting service.” All the best to James with the premium version of an already excellent service!

I’ve just added a few new WPMU blogs to the sidebar list.

I hope that the 2007 has started well for all out there in WPMU-land.

ASU Blogs is one of the largest and oldest residents of the sidebar list of WPMU sites. A recent Economist article shows that blogging is not the only way in which Arizona State University is embracing Web 2.0.

ASU is using Gmail and other Google web services. There are considerable $ savings, but “a bigger reason than money for switching from traditional software to web-based alternatives has to do with the pace and trajectory of technological change.”

The point of the article is that “consumer technologies are invading corporate computing.” It makes interesting reading, although there are a lot of nits to pick. For example, the article has the misleading title “Work-life balance.” (It’s just as well it has the other quote in this paragraph as its subtitle.)

There is room for doubt about this quote from the CEO of Facetime. “Consumer technologies such as IM usually make employees more productive.” It probably makes them more efficient, in terms of the amount that they can get done in a day. But does it make them more effective, in terms of doing the right things for the organization?

Which raises the question of whether I should be sitting here at work, blogging…