Yes To School Blogs. David Carter-Tod found a very interesting blog called School Blog or Not. Its author, Bill, is trying to answer the question “should Bryant Elementary implement its new web presence using Web log tools?” by examining school web sites, reviewing them, and exploring the issues that surround such a decision. Reading through Bill’s thoughts, it’s obvious how…
An Interview With Douglas Bowman…
An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News. One of the Web’s oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog |…
John Patrick [1] from Agenda…
John Patrick from Agenda 2003: “Robert [Morris of IBM Research] made the point that blogging is not going to replace publishing as we know it any more than the web replaced newspapers. A blog is yet another component of the portfolio that we will all have at our disposal.” Of course blogs won’t replace newspapers. The fact that people are…
Radio [1] users who are…
Radio users who are moving from one host to another (for whatever reason): here are some notes, building a howto for changing host. [Steven Vore’s weblog]
Site for the Truly Geeky…
Site for the Truly Geeky Makes a Few Bucks. Could Slashdot, the online publication with millions of techie followers, be the 21st-century model for Internet publishing? By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology]
Putting ads into RSS news…
Putting ads into RSS news feeds. Putting ads your RSS news feeds with might be OK for some, but it flies in the face of what’s really useful about RSS. Why not try developing RSS feeds with classified advertising? [Hypergene MediaBlog]
Site Review: Google News Beta…
Site Review: Google News Beta. A 1,500-word analysis of Google News Beta. Includes recommendations to media outlets about what they can learn from this search tool, as well as recommendations to Google for the next iteration. [Hypergene MediaBlog]
New category: Design & usability…
New category: Design & usability guidelines. I’ve been stumbling across a number of excellent design & usability guidelines, both in the form of documents, and whole sites. I’ve now decided to group these together in their own category. This is by no means an exhaustive collection,… [Column Two]
Google Search [1]: Emacs reference
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Google Search [1]: Import text…
Google Search: Import text delimited file into mysql with phpMyAdmin