It’s some very small things in web sites that clearly point out to me that they were (a) designed by programmers; or (b) never run through usability testing by humans. Here is today’s morsel… An email notification arrived telling of a new message posted to some discussion forum I cannot recall visiting for a project […]
A few posts back I asked for some help to Convince Curmudgeons with Comments — this is in reference to a few vocal critics of our online report tool for a faculty summer project professional growth program who did not want copies of their projects to be cross listed in our Maricopa Learning eXchange. As […]
Harriet’s blog is pink, peppy, and personal. Is it “real” (and what is “real”?)
According to CollaborativeRank, the new tool that analyzes social bookmark activity on del.icio.us, my own tagging activity is ranked “nonaggressive” (at least I am in 143nd place): What is CollaborativeRank? It’sl like GoogleRank for del.icio.us tagging: Del.icio.us users who bookmark helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) will be rewarded with higher […]
flickr foto New Bottom Partsavailable on my flickr My 2002 vintage iBook finally got home from a month’s vacation to Apple’s repair resort in Tennesse. In addition to a logic board replacement, they replaced the bottom case (the white new battery replaced a few months ago is still shinier) and a new optical drive (if […]
Let’s say you’ve gotten revved up in all the buzz of social software, Web 2.0 (3.7? 10.0?), folksonomy etc… How many of us really have the prowess to sit down and code something like flickr or del.icio.us or facebook?? Well, I just too k a glance, but I would guess Ning is the thing– Ning […]
Whew. Due to some malicious activity that wormed its way onto this server, we had to yank it off the network yesterday. Today was spent re-installing the OS, tripping over apache settings, trying to get those *#&$^ obscure perl modules working for some &#*#* old MovableType blogs running here. My regrets to web sites hosed […]
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten riled up by blog comment spam roaches, especially true since SpamKarma is doing a real bang up job of stopping them before they get far into my WordPress site. But wow.’. check out Tom Coates’ PlasticBag post On Cillit Bang and a new low for marketers…, a detailed […]
Sign of the times- Just noticed that a new setting available for Blogger hosted blogs you can add a “word verification” or captcha entry field for comments… one of those randomly generated graphics of scrambled letters that a human must enter to add a comment to a blog. This is intended to cut down automated […]
I gotta stop blogging and do some work… but then Stephen Downes has to share this nifty tool from PubSub– LinkRank: LinkRanks are our way of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in sites that syndicate their content. When PubSub reads an entry from a syndication feed, it takes note of any […]
