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A blog + a feed + a reader = a more efficient you

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Pop quiz time. Do you read several blogs each day? If yes, do you navigate to each one separately? If yes, would you like to save time by subscribing to each one and reading it in a feed reader? If you are not sure what a feed reader is, this article is for you. I [...]

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Live tracking with Woopra

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Step 1: Scroll through the refreshingly charming post about the live tracking and analytics tool Woopra from Maya’s Amalgam–Discovering Woopra. Step 2: Come back here to learn more about Woopra, because after you complete step 1, you will want to know more. This is part two of a three part series on web metrics tools. [...]

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Useful links: Jane McGonigal, Aviary in ed, hints in text boxes

Thursday, March 25, 2010

New Game Designed to EVOKE a Better World tells about several projects involving game playing that Jane McGonigal is leading. These virtual reality games are designed to solve difficult real life problem and make real life changes. This excellent article by Kim Pearson also contains video of a recent TED Talk by McGonigal, which is [...]

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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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Twitter as an RSS source

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I’m the proud owner to two new Twitter accounts. Both of them are meant to be nothing but an RSS feed. . . .

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Author Rights vs. Disability Rights

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

It’s only partially helpful to consider this a battle between economic rights and civil rights. I think it’s part of the larger muddle over media-in-transition that is felling newspapers and leading to arguments over digital music rights, fair use, and the quoting of news articles. More . . .

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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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Useful Links: Screen Reader Survey, px to em, speech impaired

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

WebAIM’s screen reader survey results, a nice px to em converter, and advice for the speech impaired from one who knows. More . . .

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CSS Super Scrub

Thursday, January 1, 2009

CSS Super Scrub says it will significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names. I gave it a try with the style sheet for this site. With just the option Indent CSS selected, it saved 4.7% on the Web [...]

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Smart Board for teachers on a budget

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Are you wishing your school could afford a white board for your classroom? Want a smart board to use for presentations? Here’s an inexpensive idea from Johnny Lee: Lee has other human computer interaction ideas at Johnny Chung Lee and at Procrastineering. The free software to use a Wii remote as a smart board is [...]

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