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Data Driven Art: Twitterscapes

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

What do you do if you are a web developer with the soul of artist? Do you go home in the evenings, take care of feeding the family and do your household chores, then paint with any remaining time? Caroline C. Blaker does that. But she does something else, too. She takes all that info [...]

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How to make a specialized widget of Twitter streams

Thursday, March 4, 2010

You can make widgets for your own profile, for a search string, for your favorite tweets, or for one of your Twitter lists. Start at the bottom of your Twitter web page by clicking the “Goodies” link. Select “Widget” and then choose the type of widget based on where you want to display it.
Next you [...]

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What response do you want to your blog posts?

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

What do you do when you read a great blog post? Do you comment, do you tweet a link, do you stumble it or bookmark it somewhere like delicious?
I find it depends. Sometimes I really enjoy a post but don’t comment. Instead I do something to support the blogger like tweet or stumble. Sometimes I [...]

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Useful links: Text alternatives, IE6 funeral, accessible Twitter

Friday, February 26, 2010

HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives is a new draft from the W3C written by Steve Faulkner. It gives tips and many excellent examples of best practices in the use of alternative text.
How to have fun in Denver on March 4: attend the funeral for IE6. Yep, sounds like a fun party. Information at [...]

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Useful Links: CSS3 dropdown, Facebook metrics, Manage Twitter

Thursday, February 25, 2010

CSS3 Dropdown Menu from Web Designer Wall is a beautiful menu and a well written and illustrated tutorial. Great piece of work.
How are you using metrics, benchmarks, and experiments to improve your Facebook presence? is posted on Facebook by Beth Kanter. ) She’s focused on nonprofits, but mentions some tools that would work on the [...]

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Pew Research Looks at Social Media and Young Adults

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Pew Research took a look at teens and young adults and the trends in social media and mobile use among the youthful crowd. The catch word to identify this generation is “millennials,” or the first generation to come of age in the new millennium.
Pew first announced their findings on Twitter at @pewresearch earlier this month. [...]

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Useful Links: Peer to Peer, Bill Gates, EVs

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Needed: Peer to Peer Twitter (or did Google get it backwards?) at Rare Pattern raises some interesting questions.
Bill Gates: The Most Important Climate Speech of the Year is a TED Talks reported on at WorldChanging. Here’s a teaser. I don’t see the video on TED.com yet.
. . . he acknowledged the only sensible goal, when [...]

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Twitter lists of Women in Tech

Sunday, February 14, 2010

I saw this post on Twiangulate at TechCrunch. Looking at Erick
Schonfeld list of who in tech he triangulates with, it occurred to me that he’s only listening to men in tech.
If the men in tech are only listening to the men in tech, it’s no wonder they can’t find any women in tech when they [...]

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Useful Links: Accessibility, Valentine’s advice, Google Buzz

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tools for Conducting and Accessibility Review is an excellent summary by Angela Colter of the tools you should gather and use when doing an accessibility check. Read the comments, too, as some additional tools are mentioned by Jared Smith from WebAIM.
The couple who hold the record for the longest marriage are answering questions about romance [...]

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Useful Links: Microformats, HTML5 Mess, gender issues, accessibility conference, CSS spirites, Twitter in class

Friday, January 22, 2010

Microformats Workshop is the slides by Emily Lewis from the Workshop Summits event. Outstanding presentation, excellent slides.
SitePoint Podcast #44: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess is a discussion about HTML5 and related issues among Sitepoint’s Kevin Yank, Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson, author Ian Lloyd, and Kyle Weems of the CSSquirrel web comic.
whose voice do you hear? [...]