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Blogs as Personal Learning Spaces - Stephen Downes opinion

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 Blogs As PLEs 
   Emma Duke-Williams, Blogging IT and EDucation 
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   http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=40293 
   I was asked in a recent comment what I thought the best PLE 
   software was (this following my comments about Ecto). I was 
   going going to say it hasn’t been built yet, and to a 
   certain degree this is true. But if I had to point someone 
   to something that actually does exist, I’d probably say 
   WordPress http://wordpress.org/, with any number of the 
   plug-ins http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins. Why? Well as 
   this post notes, in most VLEs information is “caged in”. 
   But a system like WordPress really allows you to get 
   content in and out fairly efficiently. That’s most of what 
   we want from a PLE. But see also Tony Hirst on PLE as 
   platform 
   http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ouseful/~3/119550081/010334.html 
   touting the Benefits of Facebook and Zoho Notes (which I 
   also discussed recently). If I could have my own private 
   versions of those (on that, see Steve O’Hear on Facebook as 
   platform http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=182) - and not be 
   forced to rely on their benevolent hosting - they would 
   also be strong candidates. 
   Comment: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=40293 
   Direct Link: 
   http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2007/05/25/blogs-as-ples/