Tag Archives: Digital Literacy

Better Widgets with Science!

By CircleReader | June 24th, 2009

WordPress version 2.8 was released earlier this month, and whether the developers actually read them or not, I’m glad that they seem to have implemented my suggestions for a cognitive science-based redesign for WordPress Widgets. In WordPress 2.5 Widgets: Taking the Load Off Your Mind, I argued that what a user sees on the back [...]

Posted in Reading Around | Also tagged 2.8, Book Clubs, CASTLE Book Club, Daniel T. Willingham, Psychology, Scott McLeod, WordPress | 3 Comments

Feedburning Learning

By CircleReader | February 12th, 2009

Feeds & email updates are all about drawing readers into a community from the margins--which is to say, they are all about learning.

Posted in Reading Around | Also tagged Australian Red Cross, Blogging, Christmas, Community of Practice, Dana Hanley, Darwin Day, Disaster Relief, Fire, Ian Stewart, Melbourne, Rob Glazebrook, Science, Shanta Rohse, Thematic Theme Framework, WordPress | 1 Comment

RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

By CircleReader | January 18th, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

Posted in Arts & Literature, Margin Notes, Mind & Society, Reading Around, Science & Technology | Also tagged Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire | Leave a comment

A Heritage and Future of Reading

By CircleReader | January 12th, 2009

When the books we have are no longer the books we knew, who will teach us to read?

Posted in Arts & Literature, Mind & Society, Reading Around | Also tagged Annie Dillard, Bob Stein, Charles Williams, Connie Willis, Family, Future, Institute for the Future of the Book, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jakob Nielsen, John Crowley, Liberal Arts, Mark Bauerline, Online Literacy, Piers Anthony, Reading, Robert Gu, Susan Cooper, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

WordPress 2.8 – Better Widgets?

By CircleReader | December 30th, 2008

Widget management is item #1 on the list of priorities for WordPress 2.8 development. I explored the cognitive psychology behind the widget management screen design in an earlier post, WordPress 2.5 Widgets?Taking the Load Off Your Mind. Here are the takeaway design suggestions.

Posted in Margin Notes, Science & Technology | Also tagged 2.5, 2.8, Analogy, Psychology, Usability, Widgets, WordPress | Leave a comment

The Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)

By CircleReader | December 28th, 2008

A book is essentially whole, unitary -- a little world of human thought, word, & spirit, chosen, shaped, and bound within its covers. Books are bundles; a book is what is bound together. For what makes a book more than it's binding?

Posted in Arts & Literature, Reading Around, Science & Technology | Also tagged Andrew Golis, Andy McCourt, Book Arts, Book Publishing, Books, e-readers, Espresso Book Machine, Jorge Luis Borges, Library of Babel, Plastic Logic Reader, POD, Print Culture, Richard Archuleta | 3 Comments

Shiny new software…

By CircleReader | December 11th, 2008

Snow outside, snow on Matt's blog, WordPress 2.7 (with a snazzy redesign and full support for child themes!), and Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Posted in Margin Notes, Science & Technology | Also tagged Blogging, Christmas, Coltrane, FF3.1, Firefox, Snow, WordPress, WP2.7 | 2 Comments

Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

By CircleReader | August 31st, 2008

Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small number of people and sources of information with which we interact of a regular basis, and that social and informational context is part of what shapes who we are in the world. Blog Day is a chance to expand those social and informational horizons by forging new links into new networks, bridging the divides between people and communities and enlarging our own experience. The basic rules for Blog Day ask bloggers to post about five blogs that they would like to share with the world. I've decided to do a little more...

Posted in Reading Around | Also tagged 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, Barack Obama, Bible, Blogging, Bob Dylan, Bookstores, Byron Borger, Community of Practice, DiGeorge Syndrome, Ian Stewart, Jon Boyd, Justin Tadlock, Lifelong Learning, Literacy, media ethics, Memes, Milton Gaither, Open-Books, Richard Harwood, Rick Warren, Shanta Rohse, social media, WordPress | Leave a comment

There’s Something Happening Here…

By CircleReader | August 5th, 2008

Nicholas Carr says, This is your brain online. You've been warned. Now go forth and read.

Posted in Mind & Society, Reading Around, Science & Technology | Also tagged Books, Buffalo Springfield, Clay Shirky, Google, Kevin Kelly, Media, Nicholas Carr, Psychology | Leave a comment

Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)

By CircleReader | August 3rd, 2008

The New York Times explores calls for a Code of Conduct (like this from Jimmy Wales, or this from Tim O’Riley) on the web, as well as the motivations and secret lives of the Trolls Among Us; and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, explains why A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.

Posted in Margin Notes, Mind & Society, Reading Around, Science & Technology | Also tagged Civility, Clay Shirky, Conversation, Jimmy Wales, The New York Times, Tim O'Riley, Trolls | Leave a comment