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When I learned about Entrecard, I immediately dropped Blog Rush and Blog catalog

I’ve been having so much fun with it and seeing lots of blogs as well.

So what is it? It’s like a business card. You sign up and make a graphic with print on it representing your own site or blog. You then get the code and insert into your blog as a widget. People can click on it which gives you bonus points and you can click on other sites with entrecard (preferably after reading some of the posts and perhaps leaving a comment) and you get points for that.

Then other entrecard users find you and ask to be an advertiser on your site. If you are reading this you should see another site’s ad on the right. They don’t pay for this. It depends on how many points they have.

Then when you have enough points you can ask a site to advertise your site on their blog. Most of the cards are really attractive.

People can also recommend your site.

I like it because it forces me to check other blogs. However, once you have quite a few ads lined up, which I have now, people have to wait quite a few days to be able to ask if they can advertise on your site. New sites with entrecard often have a one hour wait to be able to advertise on it. The servers seem to need more space. It is only 3 months old and has exploded.

No money involved, just traffic.

Like all of these wikis, wetpaint has the ability for you to make a web page for free and be interactive at the same time.

They would be useful educational tools.

My wetpaint wiki is here

We all know that we can’t rely on wikipedia as an authoritative site because anyone can edit it. Imagine all the political figures and political groups which are described in different ways.

Who too is a terrorist group and who are freedom fighters?

Well there is a site which lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomenon. Mouse over items for edit statistics.

http://www.wikirage.com/

These are great for educators. Mine is here but I haven’t done much with it as I’m no longer a practising teacher.

PB wikis have upgraded as they go along.

Here are some examples from the PB wiki blog.

http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/11/01/edu-case-study-pbwiki-at-bentley-college/

Here is a new feature.

http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/10/18/new-feature-create-your-own-template/

Here are a couple of ways educators have put PB wikis to use.

http://thefedpage.pbwiki.com/August+27-31+Lesson+Plans+

http://professorgordis.pbwiki.com/

I look back to the old gestetner days and wonder how I ever prepared. Teachers are so lucky today to have such features they can use from the internet. I would have loved these as a teacher.

http://www.dapper.net/dapp-howto-use.php?dappName=ozwebhub

Here is an example of a dapper I have created for my own site.

What Dapper does is allow you to extract content from any web site and save it as RSS, XML, HTML, Google gadgets and so on. You can also distribute your own content and create your own dapp.

Here’s how it works

Url is http://www.dapper.net

Here is a widget it will create.

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