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When should we teach microformats?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Since I read Microformats Made Simple I keep toying with this question: when should we teach microformats? Odd that I didn’t think about this when I read Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 or when I recommended a couple of articles by John Allsopp in this post. My only excuse is that I was [...]

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This is not a review of Microformats Made Simple

Thursday, November 5, 2009

I’m not going to review Microformats Made Simple here because the author is a friend, I’m mentioned in a few places in the book, and I could not write an unbiased review. Add to that the fact that I think the author is awesomeness electrified, one of the women in tech to keep an eye [...]

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Useful Links: FTC, font-embedding, microformats

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. [...]

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Google makes search more semantic

Monday, May 18, 2009

A few links to help you understand the latest thing coming from Google.

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SXSW: Microformats: A Quiet Revolution

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Jeremy Keith (blurred), Tantek Celik (standing), Glenn Jones, Karsten Januszewski. Everyone is using microformats, even if we don’t know it. Keith showed us huffduffer, a site that creates bookmarks for audio information. It is a consumer of microformats. He talked about rel=”me” for pointing out where you exist on the web. Shows relationship of linked [...]

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The hReview microformat I use

Friday, March 6, 2009

My adaptation of the hReview microformat. More . . .

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Useful Links: Twitter hashtags, Imagine Cup, microformats, a CSS presentation

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Twitter hashtags, a competition for students, microformats and a CSS presentation. More . . .

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Useful links: purchase behavior, accessibility in a recession, eduWeb conf, and hAccessibility

Friday, January 30, 2009

A Razorfish study about social behavior and buying decisions, recession accessibility tips, the eduWeb Conference and a look at hAccessibility. More . . .

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Useful Links: Game Ratings, Naming Conventions, JQuery tutorial

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Entertainment Software Ratings Board provides a database of games that can be searched by rating. These are ratings for age-appropriateness and content, rather like movie ratings. If you are buying games for kids this year, it’s a handy resource. More on developing naming conventions, Microformats and HTML5 Andy Clarke talks about naming conventions in an [...]

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Findability: Is your blog as findable as possible?

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Everyone has heard of search engine optimization, right? But have you heard of findability? I hadn’t, until recently. The term “findability” seems to originate with Peter Morville, who published a book called Ambient Findability in 2002. Blogger DonnaM wrote about it in 2004 in Usability testing for findability. Jakob Neilsen wrote about it in 2006 [...]