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Category Archives: Software

TBL: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Tim Berners-Lee on TED Talks in February 2010. The video is only 5 minutes long. Seems particularly appropriate the day after the article about Twitterscapes.

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Useful Links: Transcripts, HTML5, IE/Google, Harley, Mighty Meeting

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos at uiAccess provides valuable resources for creating transcripts of audio and video.
My (current) opinions on HTML5 from Dori Smith is a reflection on the writhing mass of eels known as HTML5 and what has happened in that arena in the last few days. Dori [...]

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Why Can’t Twitter Be More Like Facebook or Linked In?

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

It can. Are you looking for a way for Twitter to locate mutual friends or people who know people you know? I love this feature on Facebook and often find BlogHers or long-lost classmates based on the application’s suggestions as to people I may know because they know people I know. People who know people. [...]

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My Wordle and TweetStats

Monday, March 23, 2009

Thanks to Laura Scott from rare pattern for telling me about Wordle. Here’s what I’ve been talking about lately on this blog.

Laura also mentioned TweetStats, which I tried out, too. Here’s a vision of what I’m Tweeting about (or to).

Two interesting examples of helpful online tools that are free and highly useful. WEB APPS!

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Summary of eHow articles for February

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Links for the numerous articles I posted in February on eHow. More . . .

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Dear Adobe, Here’s an idea for you

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Dreamweaver and RDFa. Can they be friends? More. . .

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Summary of eHow Articles for January

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A list of the thrilling and educational how to articles I wrote at eHow this month. And tulips! More . . .

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Organizing topics for blog posts

Friday, December 19, 2008

I post here, I create a daily writing prompt at First 50 Words, I post twice a week at BlogHer I write a number of how-to articles each month for eHow, I come up with a weekly writing prompt for a group at Elderwoman Space and I just agreed to do a twice monthly stint [...]

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New Accessiblity Features in IE8

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Internet Explorer blog released a story by JP Gonzalez-Castella, IE8’s accessibility program manager. Here’s a summary of their points and the changes  in IE8 that will improve accessibility.

All users will benefit from the new features. Making software more accessible helps everyone.
Improvements in keyboard use include Caret Browsing feature, Accelerators, Web Slices and revamped Find [...]

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Updates on Aviary

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Aviary, the online image editing tool that I reviewed way back in April in An Early Look at Aviary announced updates today. One important point is that the URL is now aviary.com, with no extra dot. The software is out of beta and has added features including a vector editor and other new apps. There’s [...]

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