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Useful links: top 25 books, edu conferences, blue beanie day, semantics, Think Up

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]

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SXSW Image Gallery

Monday, November 14, 2011

As I mentioned, I want to give the new WordPress Image Gallery a try. I gathered up some photos from the 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference to use as an experiment. The results? Easy to set up, easy to edit, easy to add titles and alt text. I don’t like that the thumbnails open in a [...]

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Useful links: Interactions, Mary Sue, Steampunk, Biz Stone

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Visualizing First-Time Interactions at SXSW from Pleasure and Pain is another of those charts of hubs, connections, and connectors that is so fascinating. This time it uses contacts made via Hashable. The Mary Sue is a new blog devoted to female geek culture. I’ve been watching them a couple of weeks and have seen several [...]

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Blogger gets a makeover

Friday, March 18, 2011

[Ed.: This article was cross-posted at BlogHer.] At SXSW Interactive this week, Google announced a refresh of the interface for its popular Blogger blogging platform. The software hasn’t been updated in years, although it remains one of the most popular blogging tools on the Web. Blogger Product Manager Chang Kim calls the refresh “our next-generation [...]

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My Experiences at SXSW Interactive 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Every person’s experience at SXSW is unique. Here’s what I saw, did, and thought. I’ll go through event by event until I reach the end, where I’ll draw some conclusions. Technology in Education Meetup This was an interesting way to start off the conference for me, talking with other people interested in education and how [...]

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