Lately there’s been some discussion about whether or not to use the term “Web 2.0″ in the future. Was it all just a fad? Are we cheating people and marketing fake concepts? Russel Shaw over at ZDNet boldly says it doesn’t exist. Richard McManus says it’s the nail in the coffin and calls quits on [...]
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Privacy is important to us all. You don’t want your neighbor taking pictures of you in your own shower, nor do you want the guy down the street listening in on your phone conversations. However in the current age of terrorism hysteria the government and non-governmental organizations are invading our private lives [...]
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You owe it to yourself to check out this Top 65 Music Videos of 2005 over at m3 online- typically i don’t bother linking straight out to other people’s blogs from my own (stealing is so much easier), but this guy took a lot of time to make this list- and not only does [...]
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One more enhancement: Last year we started listing upcoming dvd’s monthly on the message board- a big hit with reader- so the listings became weekly. We then moved the weekly listings to the main pages and added featured amazon links and cover galleries. This year we streamline it one step further and return to the [...]
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I have upgrade the open soure for the mikull.com (aside from the message board) to wordpress 2.0
The WordPress community is very proud to present the next generation of WordPress to the world, our 2.0 “Duke” release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. We’ve been working long and hard to bring you [...]
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Finally, the beginning of my blogs on the HighEdWebDev2005 track sessions that I attended. The first, and perhaps most jolting I attended was Born to be Wired; presented by Mark Greenfield, Director of Web Services from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The following is the sessions abstract.
The ongoing communications revolution combined with [...]
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The oldies continue to be goodies — or rather, baddies — in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005. This is not to say these are the worst things developers are doing on the web- but that there’s value in reminding ourselves of past findings and raising their priority on [...]
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Hemingway said it better than anyone: “There are only three true sports,” he wrote, “bull fighting, rock climbing and motor racing. The rest are merely games.”
With the bowl games at hand, the N.B.A. and N.H.L. seasons in full flow, the N.F.L. playoffs just ahead, and pitchers-and-catchers a bare six weeks away, sports fans may be [...]
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