James N. Farmer

James N. Farmer
At an event in September 2007
Born
James Nicholas Farmer

1976 (age 47–48)
Birmingham, UK
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, writer

James Nicholas Farmer (born 1976, Birmingham, UK) is founder and CEO of Incsub, which includes the WordPress related companies of WPMU DEV, WPMU.org, and Edublogs.org,[1] the largest global weblog community for educators. Farmer is currently based in Australia, where he has been the Online Community Editor of The Age, and Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University. Farmer's blog, Incorporated Subversion,[2] has been a resource for educators involved with social media and online publishing since 2003.

Edublogs.org hosts over 4.38 million separate weblogs, used by educators and students around the world.[3]

Farmer is founder of The Edublog Awards,[4] a series of educational weblog awards which have been run every year since 2004. The awards are now co-facilitated by James Farmer and Josie Fraser.

Farmer was one of the 3 organisers of BlogTalk Downunder, the first blogging conference in Australia.[5] He also organized and ran the first WordCamp in Australia, WordCamp Melbourne.[6]

In March 2009, he was quoted in The Herald Sun newspaper and on news.com.au regarding allegations of inappropriate advertising on Edublogs.org.[7]

In March 2011, he was accused of copyright infringement.[8]

Presentations

  • Speaker at BlogTalk DownUnder, "Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation"[9]
  • Keynote speaker at ICTEV 2007[10]
  • Keynote speaker at efest 2008[11]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Lane, Bernard (26 April 2006). "Hobby blog now a learning aid". The Australian. Archived from the original on 1 May 2006. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
  2. ^ incorporated subversion
  3. ^ "Edublogs – free blogs for education - Blogs and websites for teachers, students, and schools". edublogs.org. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  4. ^ O'Hear, Steve (9 January 2007). "The best of the blogs". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  5. ^ Blogtalk Downunder » About
  6. ^ Problogger - WordCamp Melbourne Speakers and Sponsors Locked In
  7. ^ John Masanauskas, "Parents shocked by sexy maths links on education website"[dead link‍], 31 March 2009
  8. ^ An Open Letter to the WordPress Community, 17 November 2011
  9. ^ Blogtalk Downunder » James Farmer: Centred Communication: Weblogs and aggregation in the organisation
  10. ^ ICTEV notes Archived 18 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ efest conference schedule Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ ASCILITE 2004: Farmer - discussion boards, weblogs and communities of inquiry in online learning environments Archived 2007-12-11 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)