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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 Teacher style [...]

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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 at [...]

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Useful Links: Development Tools, the Economy, Mobile Future

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools from Smashing Magazine summarizes a number of good plug-ins, inspectors, debuggers, evaluators, and other tools that work right in your browser.
Michael Heller and the Gridlock Economy is a book review at World Changing. It talks about ownership. Heller says when too many people own something, gridlock results. Here’s a [...]

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Can you be won away from Google search?

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Have you followed any of the links from this blog to BlogHer? Perhaps you’ve noticed that the search feature on BlogHer now has a Lijit logo in the search box. Under that, you see two options. Search blogher.com or search the BlogHer network. If you search the BlogHer network, you find posts on your search [...]

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Gates and Seinfeld Selling What Exactly?

Saturday, September 13, 2008

I’m still amused by Apple’s Mac vs. PC guy ads, especially the one where PC pokes his head up out of a pizza box and explains he wants to attract college students.
Microsoft apparently decided it was time to try it’s own version of funny ads. Microsoft has teamed up Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in [...]

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