I've replaced the old "drigg.NCNM.edu" site with this new one.
The code for some of the components I was using in the old site are no longer being maintained by the open-source community, so I've migrated to a project (Pligg) with ongoing support.If you are currently using the "Submit to NCNM Drigg" bookmarklet to submit items, please delete this, and replace it with the one below.
This project
Is intended to permit our (NCNM) educational community to post news items of interest to the community, and to interact around these items with online discussion and social rating.
How this works
Anyone can read the news stories and discussion on this site.To submit, rate and comment on stories, you'll need a user account. Visit the registration page to set up an account. I'd recommend, for convenience, that you use the same username and password that you use for our Moodle platform (I am investigating solutions to tie the registration of these platforms together; put that's for the future). Note that registration is restricted to users with valid NCNM-issued email addresses.
You may submit a story directly from your visit to a webpage:
- Drag the bookmarklet below into your browser's bookmarks bar
Submit to NCNM Pligg - Now, when visiting a webpage you'd like to submit as a story, just click on the saved bookmark. Pligg will open in a new window to the submit page, with the story title and URL already populated. If there is text on the page you'd like to include in your summary of the article, prior to submitting it, highlight and copy the text, and paste this in to the summary field on the Pligg submit page.
Submitted stories
will show up first in the "Upcoming News" section of the site. Stories which have received sufficient user interest - reflected in "votes" on the story - will elevate to the "Published News" section.
About RSS feeds
RSS feeds are an elegant way to keep up with frequently-changing websites. The BBC News Service has a good description of these, here. I keep up with health news by subscribing to several health news feeds (BBC, NPR, Reuters, &c.); many of the articles I submit here come to me through these services.You may also use RSS feeds to follow the news submitted to this site. Feeds here are granular; the RSS feed from the "Published News" page will include additions to the Published News; the feed from the "Upcoming News" page will include newly-submitted articles not yet promoted to Published status; the feed from the page for any category or tag will include only articles labeled by that category or tag; &c. If you wish to receive a feed of only the articles on this site dealing with "influenza," click the "influenza" tag in the tag cloud, and subscribe to the feed from the resulting page.
My favorite RSS clients (readers)
- Mac - NetNewsWire
- PC - FeedDemon
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