Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The announcement on the Blogger Buzz blog had the mild mannered title “An Important Note to FTP Users.”
To the bloggers who use Blogger FTP for their blogs, the news was more of a bombshell.
I switched from Blogger by FTP to Wordpress several years ago. I wanted tags and categories and stand alone pages, none of [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Oh, I know The Bloggess isn’t for everyone. She’s profane and outrageous. She’s offensive in so many ways. She’s also funnier than Robin Williams and extremely successful at blogging.
One of the hints you get when you read tips for being a better blogger is to summarize your posts in a weekly roundup. Another tip is [...]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
What’s an hCard, you ask? It’s a digital version of a business card. You put it on your blog or website and it provides your name, your contact information and other information you want people to know. Because it’s digital, it can be exported from your web page to an address book and synched to [...]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The L Word ended on Showtime in March. For people like me who don’t have Showtime, the final season is just now coming out on DVD. We are finally getting to see season 6 and watch how the series ended.
I say “watch how the series ended” carefully, rather than “watch how everything turned out.” The [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Usability Issues that Impact Online Learning from Faculty Focus doesn’t mention specific tools that meet some of the standards suggested for good usability in online learning, but it does tell you some things to strive for:
Good usability for online learning materials means the site, content, and media are easy to find, use, and navigate. And [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Nick Bilton on Multitasking and Media is a live-blogged report from (Re)Mixed Messages by Rachel Barenblat from PopTech. Bilton delivered many fascinating gems, which Barenblat captured with quotes like:
What does this mean for newspapers? “We talk about business models,” Bilton says, “but that’s getting ahead of what we really should be talking about — that [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The FTC and their new guidelines at Worker Bees Blog is a round up of all the correctly vetted and fact checked information about the new FTC guidelines for bloggers. If you want the straight story, go there.
Becoming a font-embedding master from Jonathan Snook takes a look at all the aspects of this technique.
A truly [...]
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