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 […]
Feedburning Learning
Feeds & email updates are all about drawing readers into a community from the margins–which is to say, they are all about learning.
February 12, 2009 By
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web.
January 18, 2009 By
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A Heritage and Future of Reading
When the books we have are no longer the books we knew, who will teach us to read?
January 12, 2009 By
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The Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)
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?
December 28, 2008 By
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Shiny new software…
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…
December 11, 2008 By
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There’s Something Happening Here…
Nicholas Carr says, This is your brain online. You’ve been warned. Now go forth and read.
August 5, 2008 By
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Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)
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.
August 3, 2008 By
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Firefox 3: How to Surf the Web
I’ve been using the open-source Firefox web browser since 2003, when a techie friend (thanks, Rocky!) emailed our church list to suggest it as a less virus-vulnerable alternative to the standard Microsoft mess.
That makes me an internet expert 
–and since I know everything there is to know, I thought I’d write you this handy guide:
June 10, 2008 By
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