Laurie’s take on the 2007 Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA
Posted in accessibility, community, content, search, services, standards on Dec 17th, 2007
This video touches on some ideas I’ve been mulling about lately. Specifically, it talks about consumers trusting their peers and seeking out consolidated, trustworthy content.
If people trust their peers and want consolidated content then the new delivery mechanisms need to supply that content. If I trust the shared items from my friends’ Google Reader feeds […]
Posted in accessibility, news, services, standards on Oct 24th, 2007
Our friends at Google just made it a little easier to use gmail on a mobile device. Thank you Google! IMAP should be rolled out to everyone within a few days.
Posted in accessibility, photography, search, semantic, standards on Oct 23rd, 2007
Michael Wesch is at it again with another video. This one addresses the way the Internet allows us to organize information. This is relevant to anyone who puts information online.
This is changing the way we think about content. It will change the way I work, build web sites, provide information and find it.
Posted in accessibility, community, news, photography, services, social network on Aug 8th, 2007
I love flickr. It is a tool that has allowed anyone with the ability to make a digital image to upload it, share it and leave it there for others who might have similar interests to find it, form groups and learn from each others’ work. It is brilliant.
Until recently photography has been an art […]
Posted in accessibility, design, semantic, services, web 2.0 expo on Apr 18th, 2007
Brian Fling of blueflavor.com just schooled me on the mobile web. I don’t browse with my mobile device. I text every once and a while. I know how to text myself a photo and that is the extent of how much I use the mobile web. Fling just told me that one third of the […]
Posted in accessibility, batteries, services, web 2.0 expo on Apr 18th, 2007
Potenco.com created a pull device that allows people in places without access to an electricity grid to charge their devices. They can charge cell phones and the $100 laptop. You can pull on it for one minute and have one hour of LED light in a home in Nigeria.
Posted in accessibility, design, semantic, web 2.0 expo on Apr 18th, 2007
I asked Michael Wesch how he has helped convince his fellow faculty members that technology is relevant and important in the classroom. His advice for me was that faculty can be afraid of technology. Avoid talking at them about what you want them to learn and gradually invite them to participate habitually with a technology. […]
Posted in accessibility, advertising, passwords, web 2.0 expo on Apr 17th, 2007
Vidoop.com has the best business model I’ve seen in a long time. They created a system that requires human level cognition to access password protected sites. It is a little scary to store your logins somewhere, but this really will make access easier and safer.
You make an account and pick categories. I’ll pick cars […]
Posted in accessibility, web 2.0 expo on Apr 17th, 2007
“Automated tools are only as good as their users” and “The best indicator of accessibility is valid, semantic HTML.”
The session on accessibility is rewarding and validates the work I’ve been proselytizing about for years.
Matt May speaks about CMSs and apps and mentions that if your CMS doesn’t automatically create valid code, it is a good […]