The ending

First, the list of nuggets for the convinience of our dear squad...I mean, course leader, and then some closing remarks for you all.

I was unable to sort my various flogs into 10 specific milestones. During the period of the course I committed somewhat over 50 flog posts, ranging from flapers, through status updates on my Wiki project, to various digital nuggets ranging in size size from few sentences to, well, more :) I didn't really think in term of 10 things - I posted useful stuff as I stumbled upon it, instead of holding it over and mergining it into a larger milestone.

Here is the chronological list of what I consider to be my most useful flog posts - milestones for us all, if you will:

0911: Hyperlinks: how to use them
0926: Advanced Googling it's easy and it's so useful
1019: BitTorrent introduction to p2p, or how to download (legal) stuff from the net
1115: File managers: why not to use Windows Exploder
1119: OpenID how to log in with your special username into services you don't want to register with
1120: Wikipedia Governance about wiki policeman, judges and lawyers :)
1122: Gmail or why it isn't as cool as many think
1123: Skype or why your phone will soon be a museum piece
1128: Wikis other then Wikipedia believe it or not, the world doesn't end with Wikipedia (yet)
1130: Firefox the mythical beast the obligatory milestone to cross for all of us (see also the 1204 update)
1202: Creative Commons: license your blog (or chant: I love to be greedy, I love to be useless)
1215: Media alternatives or how to replace Windows Media Can'tplaye(r) with something that works

I'll close this list with the reference to the most useful thing I have learned this course: Bloglines, brought to us by Luke's 5th milestone. This tool has greatly revolutionised my news gathering habits. I think I am speaking for us all when I say: Luke, you have been the most oustanding member of our class. Power to the podcasts!

With our course ending, I will be migrating back to my main blog, Voice of the Prokonsul (which somehow I was able to update during this term as well). To me the Flog was not much diffferent from my Voice: here and there I posted various 'digital nuggets' about technology and governance. Although my Voice is and will be somewhat more diverse, with some posts on a wider range of topics, if you found my Flog useful, feel free to to check the Voice for all that was here and more. As a rule, though, I avoid blogging information related to my personal life, because 'who cares?' :> I will, however, keep the Voice updated with news on my Wikipedia project.

I hope you guys keep your flogs, or if you change to some other blogs - please let me know so I can sub your blogs with the awesome tool that Luke blogged us about, the Bloglines.

And among the last things connected with the course, I think we should correct the anti-Stu bias on RateMyProfessor.com page. So go ahead and rate Stu there :)

Last but not least: remember our discussion about the system of education being the relic of Industrial Revolution? Well, this course is an indicator how *to do* things. It was a privilege to be in the same class as every one of you. I think it was the best class I have ever taken - and that it should be obligatory class for all students. A list of my Instant Messangers can be found at my Wiki homepage (look at the boxes to the left, scroll down). Looking forward to meeting you again, online of offline - I hope to hear from you!

Signing off, Prokonsul