Category: News-Politics

Check out Google News

Google New unveiled a bunch of new features today including the option to add a section to your news results for local news. Since my local newspapers requires a paid subscription to read their articles online, I love this new option.

Less wonderful is a new feature to see what comments people in the news are making about the news. And as a reminder that privacy is dead, Google has a new feature that will recommend news to you based on your search history.

There are also new options to view the news in the standard way, as images (using an accordion panel to display the links to the articles) or as text only.

Useful links for today

Zappos shares secrets of 75% Repeat Business at Christine.net explains why this company is famous for having the world’s best customer service. Christine says, “I’m starting to think that customer service may be sexy after all.”

10 Principles of Effective Web Design at Smashing Magazine is a good article. It would make a good handout in any class discussion of this issue.

Opera Releases Opera Mobile 9.5 with all sorts of new enhancements and faster speed.

Useful Links

15 Amazing Women in Blogging is Extra for Every Publisher’s selection of his favs. I even agree with a couple of his choices. Can you guess which ones?

Web Worker Daily provides a concise summary of links involving the Microsoft attempt of a hostile takeover of Yahoo!

The Edublogs Magazine is new. Looks interesting. Its tag line: Education and the Edublogger.

CSS Reference at Sitepoint is the first of three comprehensive reference collections. The others will be about HTML and JavaScript. This one must be bookmarked.

Useful links for today

Empty Links and Screen Readers at the Yahoo! User Interface Blog says, “The conclusion is that the most accessible link is one that contains link text. Different techniques of hiding links, from no link text, through to hiding by CSS can cause an accessibility barrier to screen reader users. Each screen reader presented its user with a different set of problems and barriers.” They go on to give individual screen reader test results.

Introducing WAVE 4.0 from WebAIM is an update the to popular WAVE accessibility testing tool. Version 4.0 is still in beta.

Our Tech President Endorsements from TechCrunch is based on TechCrunch reader polls and interviews by TechCrunch. See why they picked Obama and McCain. They have technological reservations about McCain. This was all decided before the Republicans announced that they were technologically the coolest because of upstream.tv covering the Republican National Convention. Does this help McCain in TechCrunch’s eyes?

$10K bounty for Blogger’s Identity suggests a new job niche. Internet ID bounty hunter!

Exposed

Are you aware that Americans are regularly exposed to toxic chemicals in electronic waste, cosmetics, plastics, toys, foods, and other places? These toxic chemicals show up in our blood and the blood of even our youngest children. Did you know that these toxic chemicals can be removed from most of the products mentioned above, and have been removed with no economic consequences for all the consumers in the European Union (EU), about 500,000,000 people?

Read the entire article at BlogHer.

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Summary of eHow articles for January

State Fair Sights Cowpokes

Two young cowpokes at the State Fair last summer caught my eye. At eHow, I’m still working through the various free web design tools and writing how-tos for them. And Tribbit is really cool if you’ve never heard of it. Here’s what I wrote in January.

Useful links

Breakthrough could mean 40-hour laptop batteries at Yahoo! Tech got people all excited. My question is, will this breakthrough apply to electric car batteries?

Pocket Sized Portable Power (from Popgadget) can add about 90 minutes of boost to your battery life in case you’re currently dealing with a normal battery.

The indexed book is ready to go! means Jessica Hagy has turned her talent for expressing ideas in graphs into a book. Congratulations to Jessica.

WOMEN’S WORLD 2008 CONFERENCE “Perspectives on Technology and the Construction of Gender” in Madrid (Spain) 3-9 July 2008. The 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women “Women’s Worlds 2008” includes one day session on Women and Technology (July the 7th). CALL FOR PAPERS details included.