Author: Roland Dietlicher

Podcast: Weblogs in Education

In the April edition of the E-Learning Podcast of the ETH Zürich, the ETH Weblog Service will be presented along with various other subjects.  It will be worth your time to listen (Sorry, only a German version is available at the moment).

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Posting with external blog editors: the solution

We have found a good solution to an interface (XML-RPC) for ETH Weblog Service for external blog editors.  We have tested various products such as Ecto, Mars Edit, and ScribeFire and found them to work flawlessly.

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Posting with ScribeFire

There are several possible ways to release a posting to your blog:

1. Open your blog’s administrator page with your browser by
entering the blog’s URL + “/wp-login.php” and then log in with
your Nethz username & password.

2. Use the “Blog this” interface of various Internet services,
such as the “flickr” photo service.

3. Use a desktop blog editor. (A list of blog editors can be found here.)

We have successfully tested ScribeFire (formerly known as Performance) and will show you how to configure it:


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Who is behind the ETH Weblog Service?

The ETH Weblog Service is a joint project of the ID-Basisdienste and the NET office. The main project members are:

  • Yves Serrano, ETH Theme, User Support, ID-Basisdienste.
  • Peter Bircher, System Engineering & Design, ID-Basisdienste.
  • Swen Vermeul, nethz Integration,  ID-Basisdienste.
  • Dr. Matteo Corti, LDAP Integration, ID-Basisdienste.
  • Pit Meurer, a wizard from the Blogosphere, NET freelancer.
  • Julia Kehl, Help pages, NET.
  • Dr. Thomas Piendl, co-project leader, NET.
  • Roland Dietlicher, co-project leader, ID-Basisdienste.

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The ETH Weblog Service is now in operation!

Starting now, all members of the ETH Zurich can open a Weblog.

With these “public diaries”, researchers can give others a peek into their laboratory work. Field teams can release reports and photos for the people at home. Instructors can accompany their students on-line throughout the semester. E-learning becomes an attractive and simple tool.

The first steps to using a Weblog are simple. It takes only minutes to register and set up a Weblog. Try it out!

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