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Northern Voice Poster FINAL DESIGN, originally uploaded by basco5.

Once again, Northern Voice has met our attendance targets. You can add your name to our waitlist wiki. We also have a small number of openings for the Friday Moose Camp, which this year will be augmented by a series of Internet Bootcamp Sessions for those attendees who would like introductions to various aspects of social media.

Did I mention that our keynote speaker will be WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg? I fear this development may trigger a relapse for the friends of Jim G. over at WordPress Anonymous.

RSS From CommentPress in SL, originally uploaded by NMC Second Life.

I'm still waiting to see the example that fully demonstrates its potential, but I think CommentPress (a very slick WordPress theme/hack from The Future of the Book) is going to end up being absolutely killer in higher education. Jim Groom blogged on its affordances some time ago, describing it as a "revolutionary nested comment functionality that re-imagines the space wherein you can have threaded conversations alongside the text to brilliantly capture the actual unfolding of a stream of textual ideas in-line."

Now, Alan Levine of the NMC, who used CommentPress to great effect on the Evolution of Communication whitepaper brings joyous tidings that WordPress Multi-User is now able to support the theme. We have been making rapid process on our own WordPress hosting service lately, and I can now confidently announce we are moving up the date of launch to late June, 2012.

And since I consume Grand Text Auto in my RSS newsreader, I had no idea they were already there... I shouldn't be surprised.