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Instead of “user-generated content,” call it “artisan journalism.” I hate the term “user-generated content” too.
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Christine Herron: “As individuals, we move between destination locations such as school, home, and work. Though we typically have community sustained within each of our destinations, the idea of a contextual community has been lost.”
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Chris Heathcote on digital calendars: “Anything remotely untimely is relegated to being a ‘day-long event’, and squished into a few lines at the top. This is the most important space, yet it’s treated as unfortunate clutter.”
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Tim Peter: “Now, blogging and podcasting create a dialogue, an open forum, where ideas flourish (ideally), or whither, as each audience participates in the discussion.”
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Review of Pip Coburn’s book The Change Function. “The attractively simple thesis of The Change Function is that most tech-nology ventures fail because tech-nologists manage them.” Most users hate technology because they hate change? Hmmm, not sure I agree
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High level overview of Ajax design issues.
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Describes the open source playground that University of Mary Washington in Virginia has set up to explore Web 2.0 technologies for higher ed. They use Fantastico for easy installation and configuration–gotta’ check that out.
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Free image hosting without bandwidth or size restrictions. No registration required either. Wow.
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About Anne
Anne Truitt Zelenka is a web technologist turned high school math teacher. She is the author of Connect! A Guide to a New Way of Working. She writes about family at The Everyday Cafe. Read more about Anne.
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hey! new theme!
why the change?
(i’ve been theme hunting myself actually, but not found anything quite right!)
I was playing around with my other theme, checking what happened when I increased the text size shown in the browser. The whole thing broke. I should have known just based on how it was designed but I didn’t realize it. So I switched to this one, which is more standards-compliant. I also like that it has a fluid middle column so it works no matter what your browser window size. I really like Andreas Viklund’s themes as a starting point–he’s quite aware of standards and does clean designs.