• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Reading Circle Books

Lifelong learning together

Home >> Archives for WordPress

WordPress

  • Community & Time
  • Hearts & Minds
  • Reading the Land
  • Reading the Table
  • Reading the Word
  • The Book of Nature
  • The Reading Life
  • Visions & Ventures
  • All

ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRS TUVWXYZ

February 27, 2010

Acrostics — lists and songs arranged alphabetically — are of course a venerable tradition, uniting the ancient author of Psalm 119 with the youngest child learning to sing the ABC Song. One could say that the alphabet is the first & primary meme, the source behind every other, a natural fit for the blogosphere.

Learn More

Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: World Wide Web, WordPress, Memes, Bookstores, Alphabet, Acrostic
By circlereader 2 Comments

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 […]

Learn More

Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Psychology, WordPress, Scott McLeod, Digital Literacy, Daniel T. Willingham, CASTLE Book Club, Book Clubs, 2.8
By circlereader 3 Comments

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.

Learn More

Shelved with: Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Christmas, Rob Glazebrook, Melbourne, Ian Stewart, Fire, Disaster Relief, Digital Literacy, Darwin Day, Dana Hanley, Community of Practice, Science, Blogging, Australian Red Cross, WordPress, Thematic Theme Framework, Shanta Rohse
By circlereader 1 Comment

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.

Learn More

Shelved with: Science & Technology|| Margin Notes
Tagged With: WordPress, Widgets, Usability, Psychology, Digital Literacy, Analogy, 2.8, 2.5
By circlereader Leave a Comment

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…

Learn More

Shelved with: The Book of Nature|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Coltrane, WP2.7, WordPress, Snow, Firefox, FF3.1, Digital Literacy, Christmas, Blogging
By circlereader 2 Comments

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…

Learn More

Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Digital Literacy, Open-Books, Milton Gaither, Memes, media ethics, Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Justin Tadlock, Jon Boyd, Ian Stewart, Richard Harwood, DiGeorge Syndrome, Community of Practice, Byron Borger, Bookstores, Bob Dylan, Blogging, Bible, Barack Obama, 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, WordPress, social media, Shanta Rohse, Rick Warren
By circlereader Leave a Comment

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

Themes

Aldo Leopold Barack Obama Bible Blogging Book Clubs Books Bookstores Christmas Cities Civility Civil Rights Classics Community Community of Practice Democracy Digital Literacy Economics Education Environment Food Gender Having Faith Heroes History Holidays Home School Homeschool John McCain Lifelong Learning Michael Pollan Music NPR Parenting Politics Psychology Race Religion Richard Harwood Sandra Steingraber Social Justice Stories Thanksgiving War & Peace Wisconsin WordPress

About RCB