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WordPress 2.8 – Better Widgets?

December 30, 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.

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: 2.5, 2.8, Analogy, Digital Literacy, Psychology, Usability, Widgets, WordPress
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The Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)

December 28, 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?

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| The Reading Life|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Andrew Golis, Andy McCourt, Book Arts, Book Publishing, Books, Digital Literacy, e-readers, Espresso Book Machine, Jorge Luis Borges, Library of Babel, Plastic Logic Reader, POD, Print Culture, Richard Archuleta
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Gutenberg’s PC: The Espresso Book Machine

December 17, 2008

The Espresso Book Machine brings the flexibility and ubiquity of digital media to the old medium of printed paper books, extending the transformation that Gutenberg’s press began, and putting the final say on publishing a book firmly in the hands of the authors and readers. So what will happen when everybody has one of these?

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| The History & Future of Books|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Clay Shirky, e-ink, e-reader, Espresso Book Machine, Gutenberg, iLiad, Jason Epstein, Kindle, POD, Readius
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Shiny new software…

December 11, 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…

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Blogging, Christmas, Coltrane, Digital Literacy, FF3.1, Firefox, Snow, WordPress, WP2.7
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Does Your Book Deserve My Vote?

September 4, 2008

Kids react to books much as they react to their favorite candidates: they like them because everyone else does, adding titles to their favorites list even when they haven’t read them. Voting for a Book, part of the Youth Radio series on NPR.

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Books, Kids, Lissa Soep, Media Literacy, NPR, Politics, Radio, Technology, Youth Radio
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August, 1945

August 8, 2008

Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations […]

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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Books, Ellen Klages, Engineering, Girls, Hiroshima, History, Holidays, Keiji Nakazawa, Los Alamos, Math, Nagasaki, Reviews, Stories, Trinity, War & Peace
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