Re: [xmca] Improving XMCA as intellectual resource

From: Mike Cole <lchcmike who-is-at gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jul 04 2008 - 21:44:56 PDT

BTW, what if you are a mediator and not a Maintainer, Andy?
:-)
Thanks for the tip, will look into it.
mike

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> BTW, If you register yourself with Google as the Maintainer of a website,
> then you can get information back from Google which go a little further than
> the usual webstats. Most interesting would be a feed on the keywords most
> often leading people to your site and the keywords your site ranks highest
> for. When you know the keywords people are using, then you can adjust the
> placing of these keywords in your database accordingly.
>
> Andy
>
> Mike Cole wrote:
>
>> Dear All--
>>
>> Today some progress was made in taking next steps in increasing the
>> intellectual value of xmca along
>> lines discussed previously. We have obtained a small grant for some
>> programming help and the first
>> step in using it requires that we come up with a list of "key words" that
>> might turn up as themes that we
>> would want to link in the xmca archive that Etienne built a couple of
>> months
>> back (we have not gone public
>> with that for fear of causing confusion but in essence it puts all xmca
>> notes in a single data base that includes
>> all the month-by-month files saved at xmca website; it will serve as the
>> meta base for the conceptual linking
>> facility now proposed).
>>
>> So, please send to XMCA, not to me, your favorite terms and try to to
>> repeat, although repetition will be unavoidable
>> I suspect. Also, there will items that will need further development. For
>> example, the word "object" will need to be
>> tagged in some way to differentiate between "I OBJECT to engaging in this
>> activity" from "The Object of this activity
>> is to improve community intellectual resources" But later for that.
>>
>> Here is a quick starter set by way of examples:
>>
>> object
>> activity
>> action
>> operation
>> mediation
>> zpd=zoped=zone of proximal development
>> development
>> learning
>> identity
>> contradiction
>> power
>> gender
>> race
>> ethnicity
>> community
>> play
>> work
>> classroom
>>
>> ........................................................................................................................
>>
>> Apres vous, le deluge
>> mike
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