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Better Widgets with Science!

June 24, 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 […]

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: 2.8, Book Clubs, CASTLE Book Club, Daniel T. Willingham, Digital Literacy, Psychology, Scott McLeod, WordPress
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Feedburning Learning

February 12, 2009

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

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Australian Red Cross, Blogging, Christmas, Community of Practice, Dana Hanley, Darwin Day, Digital Literacy, Disaster Relief, Fire, Ian Stewart, Melbourne, Rob Glazebrook, Science, Shanta Rohse, Thematic Theme Framework, WordPress
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| The Reading Life|| The History & Future of Books|| Literacy|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire
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A Heritage and Future of Reading

January 12, 2009

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

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| The Reading Life|| Literacy
Tagged With: Annie Dillard, Bob Stein, Charles Williams, Connie Willis, Digital Literacy, 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
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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: Visual Arts|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
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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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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Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

August 31, 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…

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, Barack Obama, Bible, Blogging, Bob Dylan, Bookstores, Byron Borger, Community of Practice, DiGeorge Syndrome, Digital Literacy, 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
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There’s Something Happening Here…

August 5, 2008

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

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Books, Buffalo Springfield, Clay Shirky, Digital Literacy, Google, Kevin Kelly, Media, Nicholas Carr, Psychology
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Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)

August 3, 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.

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society|| The Reading Life|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Civility, Clay Shirky, Conversation, Digital Literacy, Jimmy Wales, The New York Times, Tim O'Riley, Trolls
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Firefox 3: How to Surf the Web

June 10, 2008

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:

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Shelved with: Science & Technology
Tagged With: Digital Literacy, Open Source
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The Hundred-Mile Diet Map and More

May 22, 2008

A new map of food sources within a hundred miles of Madison, Wisconsin, shows kind of connection and sharing that will allow us as human societies to learn to be conscious of and take responsibility for the earthly places in which we live and move.

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Shelved with: Local Life|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Barbara Kingslover, Circle M Market Farm, Clay Shirkey, Data Visualization, Deborah Madison, Digital Literacy, Education, Education Infrastructure, Food, Joel Salatin, Kavi Turnbull, Lifelong Learning, Local Food, Localism, Michael Pollan, Networks, Wisconsin
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