Introduction to Podcasting, Part 1: What is a Podcast?
This is the first in a short series of posts examining podcasts: what
they are, where to find them, how they might benefit your website, and how to make your own.
And, just so you know that I know what I'm talking about, my own podcast is currently in its fourth year...
How fast are we advancing?
Excellent video I came across. It really makes you wonder how we ever got to where we are so quickly. If this video interests you, please also read Chris's blog about Digital Conservation which also has some eye-popping statistics.
Converting special characters and symbols to html
Ever wondered how to add a Registered Trade Mark symbol → ® or a copyright symbol → © to your web page? Here is a list of common signs and symbols and how to convert them to html.
A Look in to My Google Reader
Every now and then, I like to look at my Google Reader account and take a big-picture view of what I'm reading. Sometimes I notice surprising trends in my own behavior that I don't notice on a day to day basis. Google Reader's "Trends" view shows me a pretty detailed report of everything I'm subscribed to and what I do with that content...
A Sense of Place
What makes you want to stick around? If you decide to take a walk in
the woods on a Sunday afternoon, aren't you more likely to take your
time and meander around if you are on clearly marked trails, each with
a beginning and end that you're familiar with? This would be in
contrast to getting off trail, or lost somehow. When we get lost, our
objective becomes urgently clear: get found, and get out. If you all of
a sudden find yourself lost in the woods, chances are your walk is
going to end up being a lot shorter than it would have if you felt safe
and comfortable the entire time.
The same is true for websites...
Andrew James Kerr
Born at home on Sunday, March 15th at 5:50 a.m. 10 lbs., 2 oz.
James is the latest reminder that I work to live, not live to work.
Information Architecture Workshop
Last Tuesday, our Project Management team gathered at Carrboro Creative Coworking to
spend a few hours honing our information architecture skills. We had
prepared for this session by re-reading Don't Make Me Think as a group,
so our first activity was a ten question quiz on the book...
Fast Cheap Intuitive
After I read Emmet Connolly's blog post about creating a book on Lulu.com from all the articles he'd been meaning to read, I thought, "What a great idea. I need to do that." Like Emmet, I had tagged numerous articles with my del.icio.us account with the intention of reading them, but knew that I was probably not likely to actually read them on my laptop anytime soon- or ever. But I was much more likely to read them if they were in a book that I could bring on the bus with me on my commute to work. Of course, I had to name it after my latest catchphrase...
Newsletter Tracking Stats
Today I took a look at the tracking data for the newsletters we've sent out over the past year. I was initially interested in seeing how the tracking data might correspond to general categories or newsletter topics (i.e. tools, process, strategy, marketing, etc.), but I realized in trying to assign categories to the past 13 categories that they didn't always line up quite right. There is a lot of overlap in topics. For example, in February and March of 2008, the newsletters were about Search Engine Optimization, which could fit in any number of different categories. The same is true for most of the others. So, I scrapped that approach and decided to just think about some of the top and bottom newsletters and what factors might have caused them to be that way...
Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
From the TED description: "20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together."