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Blogging

Protected: 9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity

September 24, 2009

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WordPress Goes Real-time With RSS Cloud Support

September 21, 2009

Ever wish your RSS reader worked more like a Twitter client? Or even FriendFeed, where updates just appear in real-time? Well, that idea has been gaining ground for some time, and it just got a whole lot more appealing now that WordPress has announced support for RSS Cloud. RSS Cloud takes advantage of the cloud [...]

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Google Launches a New Way to Read the News

September 14, 2009

Is reading online news broken? Google seems to think so as they just launched Google Fast Flip, a Google Labs experiment that’s designed to help you flip through news online as fast as you would if you were holding a print magazine or paper. Fast Flip is essentially just a funky way to flip through [...]

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Facebook, Twitter Make You Easy Prey

August 27, 2009

Sigh. Here we thought Facebook, Twitter and all those silly little websites were making our lives easier. Not so! British insurance company Legal & General recently published a scary-sounding report called ‘The Digital Criminal’ which asserts users of Facebook et al. are opening themselves up to disaster, like burglars. You know, because burglars can see [...]

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Is Dave Winer the biggest innovator of the web?

August 16, 2009

I don’t want to bore you guys or suck up to him, but I am amazed that no one points this out. 1. He invented RSS. 2. He, along with Adam Curry, pioneered podcasting. 3. He knew people would love Twitter in 2001. 4. He was one of the first bloggers around. 5. He is [...]

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10 Things Every Web Designer Just Starting Out Should Know

July 2, 2009

There are many aspects of creating a website design. Web designers often have to play multiple roles and be very knowledgeable about building effective and usable site layouts. Most of the lessons you’ll learn in web design comes from work experience; learning is an iterative process and there is no better way to gain knowledge [...]

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Make a Quick and Dirty Sun Visor Tripod

June 11, 2009

We’ve shown you how to mount a camera on your bike and construct a DIY camera mount for your car, but Flickr’s Heather Champ details her own dead-simple-but-effective method for mounting a camera in her car. Her trick couldn’t be easier to pull off (or less expensive): Just flip down your sun visor, grab a [...]

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WordPress 2.8 Now Available for Download

June 10, 2009

WordPress has just released the newest version of their installable blog software: WordPress 2.8 – Baker. The most notable addition would seem to be the ability to browse themes from within the WordPress Dashboard. With the Theme Browser, you can specify the color you want, how many columns there should be, and fixed or flexible [...]

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