Life is now in post project mode, meaning I get to re-acquaint myself with some long forgotten activities such as doing housework/yardwork, sleeping for more than 5 hours a night and the ever popular wasting my time online. My first distraction from WISBD (“what I should be doing” which in this case is marking some [...]
Friday, February 23, 2007
It’s a great feeling when something you’ve done is so interesting to spammers, that they contact you personally. I received a comment to moderate in my e-mail this morning from Roger (I’m not giving a last name, and I’m definitely not going to put an URL up here) asking about my scuttle spam-proofing hack. Here’s [...]
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Today I heard the funniest (and best) definition I’ve heard for Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is any web page that can be spammed. As Homer Simpson would say, its funny cuz its true. Thanks to Donna (who needs to blog more) for telling me this one.
Saturday, September 2, 2006
I just read about this via Dean: K12 Online 2006 Conference… Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006? convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. [...]
YouTube – Day of the Longtail :: I just saw this after Stephen mentioned it in OLDaily today. The message reminds me vaguely of the tagline for V for Vendetta – “People shouldn’t feel threatened by the media, the media should feel threatened by people.” Two thoughts struck me as I was watching this. First, [...]
I’ve got too many interesting stories in front of me on Digg to read them all right now. I could just digg them, but I thought I’d share them with you. Commodore 64 emulated in flash – ah, this brings back some happy memories. Some of my earliest computer hacking involved playing around with sprite [...]
Thursday, February 23, 2006
More cool stuff from our Google-y overlords. Make your own (slightly tacky looking) web page!! Users are restricted to 100MB of pages and uploaded files. Of course, I had to try it out – see the results for yourself: Rob Wall’s Google Page It seems like Google is taking this read-write web thing pretty seriously. [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2006
On Monday morning, Donna and I are putting on a presentation entitled How to Drink Water from a Fire Hose, a read/write web presentation-demonstration-recreation hoedown (in the tradition of the presentation mashups created by the three amigos), for the teachers and other invited guests at the school. I think the title is a pretty good [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
A List Apart: Articles: Home Page Goals Derek Powazek shares some ideas about the craft of designing home pages for web sites. I like his emphasis on the other pages, the atomic elements, of a web site. These are the important pages and looking at the traffic on a web site will confirm this. The [...]