I blogged a while back about edublogosphere.com and what to do with it. There was a comment buried in the moderation screen and I didn’t get an email about it, so it was stuck for a while. When I read it, I contacted the commenter and we were off!
So, consider this the official announcement of an edublogosphere IRC chat room!
You can connect in one of many ways, through an IRC client like Colloquy or others, use the following details:
irc.cyberarmy.net
irc.edublogosphere.com
#edublogosphere
Or you can log in straight through the web at www.edublogosphere.com using CGI:IRC interface.
There is a limit of 50 people logged in through the web interface, but it is virtually limitless through IRC clients.
I think this will make for a fantastic backchannel for NECC or other conferences and is very flexibile. This is not designed to be a twitter replacement or Skype-replacement or centralized anything, just another resource.
The nice thing about this is anyone can participate without having to be a part of a pre-established network. Folks can jump in with a low barrier to initial participation.
Alec hopped in the chat with me and then a lot of people followed his tweet…
Cool, huh? Jump in and see what you think!
Update: I set up a CNAME so that folks can use irc.edublogosphere.com instead of irc.cyberarmy.net. I figure it’s easier to remember and easier to tell folks.
Why’d you choose the cyberarmy server? Just about all open source projects, including #schooltool are on freenode, so that’s a good place to be. I don’t seem to be able to get to your room from freenode.
Tom,
I posted a while back looking for an IRC channel to use. It’s been a lot of years since I’ve worked with IRC and I needed a server that would provide me a channel and give me ops permissions. Cyberarmy came along and commented on that post and offered. They walked me through the ops commands and helped me out a bunch. That’s the only reason.
I can’t install anything IRC on bluehost, not even bots. Most of that is a little beyond me. This was a good solution with not too awful much effort except the initial setup. It’s worked great so far and the folks at cyberarmy have been fantastic and I haven’t paid them a dime.
Chris