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Quora’s growing pains are like Twitter all over again

Monday, January 24, 2011

Here’s what you see in an email when someone follows you on Quora. Remember when Twitter used to send useless emails like this – you had to click through to find out more about the person following you? A name and nothing from the profile or anything to indicate interests? Well, Twitter made progress. A [...]

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Useful links: Classes?, Virtual Classrooms, Twitter, CSS Reset

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Why Use Classes or IDs on the HTML Element is an excellent post by Chris Coyler. The Case for the Virtual Classroom is must reading for educators. Twitter Birds are Liars is an interesting discussion about Twitter by Antonio Lupetti. Eric Meyer spent the holidays rethinking his CSS Reset. If you use it regularly, go [...]

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For Twitter Newbies

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

I’ve written many articles at eHow about Twitter. Since there are still many Twitter newbies out there who don’t understand the basics of how it works, here are some of those eHow articles: How to Use Twitter Groups How to Get the Most From Twitter for Personal or Business Use How to Raise Money on [...]

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I’m loving paper.li

Friday, November 12, 2010

A while back I put together a Twitter list of the women in web education. Right now there are 45 women on the list. Here’s my original post explaining the list: Where are the Women in Web Education? When I started the list, I wasn’t thinking about paper.li, I was thinking about finding a group [...]

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Klout – what’s it to ya?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Klout.com, a service that has measured a person’s influence and reach on Twitter, just added Facebook to its Klout calculations. The alliance with Facebook was announced in Do You Have Facebook Klout? Here’s a bit of their explanation about how it will work. On Facebook, like Twitter, we assess how conversations and content generate interest [...]

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Where are the women in web education?

Monday, September 20, 2010

I’m starting a list of women in web education. This means women who are actively teaching web design and development classes in high schools, colleges or other educational institutions. Women who might be a resource for someone looking for a web educator for a conference, a case study, or whatever else may come up. A [...]

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New Twitter

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

On BlogHer today, The New Twitter: Is It Better? It’s a quick look at reactions to the new Twitter home page from the blogosphere. Here’s an excerpt: In my scan of reactions to the new Twitter, I didn’t see much immediate attention and response to the money-making possibilities of the new look for Twitter. Business [...]

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A funny geek tweet

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

First Jeffrey couldn’t get into his room at the conference hotel. I didn’t think much about it. Normal travel woes. They apologized & swore my room would be ready in 2 hours. I came back 2.5 hrs later. Now they promise it will be ready in an hour.Tue Sep 14 18:38:24 via TwitterrificJeffrey Zeldman zeldman [...]

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Useful links: PR, elections, #FF

Friday, September 10, 2010

Because some things are worth more than a box of cereal is a rant from The Bloggess. It points out a lot of what bloggers have to put up with these days. The other day I wrote a review of a web app called xtranormal. It seemed obvious enough that I was writing the review [...]

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Tweet Button: a new toy

Thursday, August 12, 2010

I wrote Twitter Lays Claim to the Tweet Button today for BlogHer. A new Tweet Button is just a new toy. It must be tried out. I’m trying it here on Web Teacher. On this blog, it seems best to continue to use the Topsy Retweet Button plug in for WordPress on the home page. [...]

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