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Would you like to improve your skills and marketability as a web designer or developer?

Thursday, December 22, 2011

If you are a web developer in Central or Northern New Mexico, we’re looking for a small team of web designers/developers interested in improving their capabilities in building accessible websites to participate in an upcoming challenge, the AIR Interactive competition, part of the SXSWi Festival in Austin, Texas this spring. Deadline for team registration is January [...]

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What do you think about Klout? Is it useful or is it an illusion?

Thursday, November 17, 2011

There’s a backlash against Klout. Scalzi recently wrote about DeKloutifying, in which he explained why he quit Klout. He immediately received a multitude of comments praising his decision and detailing complaints about Klout. Image Credit: Benzado On Google+, Lynette Young did a similar thing. She explained why she quit Klout, saying, I no longer feel [...]

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7 Awesome iPad Apps For Students

Monday, August 22, 2011

First we had the iPod and it caused a cultural revolution – those white ear buds sold it more than anything else. Apple was quick off the mark to follow with the iPhone which again caused waves in the cell phone market because of its capabilities and mass appeal. Finally Apple has made the vision [...]

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Sights on the road to SXSW

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Lousy photo, but if you really look you can see some of the hundreds of wind generators near Sweetwater, TX.

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New Tech Toys for your Blog or Browser and iPhone

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Some new products were announced recently that bloggers and gadget-geeks will want to check out. The first is from Apture and the second is from Instagram. For Your Blog or Browser Apture has been around for a while. It is an in-page search technology that lets you highlight a word on a web page and [...]

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PostRank tracks reader engagement metrics

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

PostRank is the third and final look at web analytics tools in this series. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve also had a look at Google Analytics and Woopra. PostRank offers more services than just analytics, but this post will only examine the web metrics aspect of what they do. The service isn’t free, [...]

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United by music

Friday, February 26, 2010

This is off topic. I just needed it today. Maybe you do, too. From Playing for Change.

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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 [...]

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Video from Standards and Accessibility with Dreamweaver

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The video of Emily Lewis and I co-presenting about accessibility and standards in Dreamweaver is now on Viddler. You can see that we meet in the back room of an Albuquerque bar for the Webuquerque meets, so it’s noisy and a bit dark. Related posts: Standards and Accessibility with Dreamweaver, where you will find a [...]