Wednesday, February 24, 2010
In the ten years since 2000, things changed rapidly in the technology field. We get used to them day by day, adopt changes and never look back. When you do take a moment to look back, you realize how much really has changed in the last 10 years. I wrote this as part of BlogHer’s [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
One of the scarier facts about online life is that privacy requires constant vigilance. There are ways to look at your purchases, your remarks, your friends list, and your other public data and learn a truly astonishing array of things about you.
Privacy on Facebook has been in the news recently. Perhaps I should say privacy [...]
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, December 29, 2009
The search for information was explored from two ends of the age spectrum in “Helping Children Find What they Need on the Internet” at The New York Times and “Where’s my Googlebox?!” – adventures in search for silver surfers at iheni :: making the web worldwide.
The Google research reported on in the NYT focused on [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Say Hello to the Open Source Decade by Laura Scott.
Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won’t know what “open source” is. This isn’t because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you’re already in the know, there’s no [...]
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 [...]
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