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How To Automatically Create A WordPress Post from Your Tweets

Monday, July 18, 2011

We’re in a time where Twitter and Facebook have taken over the world. It’s pretty safe to say that almost every active Internet user has an account on one or the other or even both. Not a day goes by where I don’t see Twitter mentioned on a TV show (especially reality shows) or a [...]

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A Tale of Jazz, Food, and the Freedom to Blog

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Back when I lived in Austin, the live music capital of the world, I was doing some freelance web design. I made a number of sites for musicians. Among them was Mady Kaye, a jazz vocalist. The Jazz Mady has a solo career with 3 CDs under her own name. She’s part of a group [...]

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Google+ makes a lot of ripples

Friday, July 8, 2011

Google+ has been more popular as a topic of discussion this week than cute cat tricks. And that’s saying a lot. Most people are writing enthusiastic blog posts about how much they like Google+. See Bloggers React to Google Plus. A few folks are trying to point out the good and the bad. And, of [...]

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Useful Links: Google Fonts, Scientific wow, Teach with Twitter, Rap

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google Web Fonts, V2. Now out. I tried out one the of fantasy fonts called Swanky on vdebolt.com. Scientific American has 60 new blogs under its umbrella. 28 Creative Ways Teachers are Using Twitter. Some of them are indeed creative. Hat tip to Spydergrrl for finding this climate change rap.

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Technology in Education at ISTE 2011

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Education and Technology folks are gathered in Phildelphia this week for the 2011 conference of the ISTE. The conference is still in progress. Early blog posts about it have been very enthusiastic. ISTE is about advancing education through innovative use of technology. Image Credit: kjarrett. Can you say “excited?” EduTechGeek is excited. All I can [...]

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Useful links: Bones, App Press, web fonts

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

This looks interesting. A WordPress theme developer that is meant to be customized. It’s called Bones and uses HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS3 and the 960 Grid system. App Press is a tool that helps you build apps for iOS. Web font hosting services – an overview is a huge grid showing just about everything you might [...]

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I’m talking about categories and focus, people

Thursday, May 26, 2011

I was cleaning up categories today, deleting a few that didn’t have many posts associated with them. I figure if I’ve only used a category a few times, I don’t really need it and would be better off with an appropriate tag every now and then. I noticed that web-education is the category I’ve used [...]

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Tumblr tag search

Monday, May 9, 2011

Tumblr search aint’ exactly intuitive. I originally signed up for a Tumblr account because the PR was that you could tag your own posts and they were searchable by tag. But the Help files don’t even have an entry for tags, and nothing about how to search for tags. Your on your own figuring out [...]

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Useful links: Content First, Web Power Tales

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Read this: Content First. Why? Because you’ll learn about current changes and trends in web design that are important to you. danah boyd had a problem: Tumblr disappeared me. She wrote about it on her blog and within hours, Tumblr heard about it and responded. Tumblr called me, apologized & restored my account. More details [...]

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Looking for advice on the WordPress Automatic Updater Plugin

Thursday, April 21, 2011

I use the WordPress Automatic updater on this blog and it works great. I’m trying to install it on another blog and it just completely hoses the site every time I try it. I know the developer has some sort of setup where you can ask questions, but everything about the developer’s devotion to this [...]

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