Posts from ‘October, 2005’

There are big URLs, little URLs, long convoluted database generated URLs. I’ve always leaned a bit towards the side of the fence where web site addresses that indicate what their content points to is a bit more useful than long meaningless ones. But it may not even matter.
I was struck by this today visiting one [...]

Is anyone else dizzy at the rate of new web-based tools/services with tinges of RSS, social software, open-ness? It’s a Good Thing, but it seems like there are 3 or 4 or 12 a week.
The latest is the coyly named Remember the Milk:

Achieve Domestic Bliss.
Never forget the milk (or anything else) again.
Remember The Milk [...]

Pity the 96% of the computing world stuck in virus infected, human interface rejected, bug detected operating systems. They act like they like it, but often the Freudian slips are visible. But you don;t have to wait for an Intel powered Mac to get the Aqua groove– there is FlyakiteOSX:

The web site for this [...]

I use the term “people” rather loosely:

What is scarier is that somewhere out there is someone who would actually reply.
Ahhh, the smell of spam frying in the junk mail folder. Sizzzzzzle…..

Guess who’s coming to town? Do you think they need a map? Can we expect future logos with cacti, gila monsters, and javelina? Will they take the company tubing down the Salt River? Can they handle the hot stuff from Los Dos Molinos? Will they check out Zoo Lights? After dowing some Killer Chili they [...]

Last week was our most recent meeting of our Ocotillo Online Learning Group (OLG) meeting– OLG is an open meeting once a month at different college sites at Maricopa. The October meeting was at South Mountain Community College, featuring a topic of Copyright, Not Copywrong.
As our trend this year, we captured two of the segments [...]

Shazam! Sit back and watch/listen to Brian Lamb’s first screen cast, “Beyond the Blog”, a whirlwind tour of weblogs, wikis, RSS, aggregators, flickr, social software, and more. Best quip, “Think of delicious as blogging without writing a weblog”.
Awesome work, Brian, and your fans shall clamor for more.

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Shockwave Book Put To Workavailable on my flickr

I was musing recently about long ago doing multimedia development for the web using Macromedia Director and Shockwave as the playback engine in the browser… and I recalled that I [...]

Well what do you know, look which two Course Management Systems have hooked up… maybe more spicy than MacroDobie or Adobamedia will be BbCT?
Interesting times as the curse goes, eh?

A year ago there were none but now there are a good handful of sites that allow you to mix in a collection of disparate RSS feed URLs, and it mixes them into a new one, with its own RSS feed. I refer these frequently to folks that write me about Feed2JS asking if it [...]