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Networks & Sharing, Search Side-by-Side links for 2008-01-21

Geek to Live: How to access a home server behind a router/firewall Today we’ll cover how to open up specific ports on your router to allow access to a home server behind a firewall. (tags: firewall server network howto vnc lifehacker) Featured Windows Download: Share Files Over the Internet from Your Computer with HFS Windows […]

Cool URIs, Green Guide, LOC Photos, Rip Netflix, Router Tips, and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-20

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don’t change.What makes a cool URI?A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don’t change: people change them.(tags: berners web w3c url uri standards usability) The Green Guide “Originated as a print newsletter in 1994, then expanded into a web site, thegreenguide.com, in 2002, […]

Eun-Ha Paek, Lawrence Lessig, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-16

Eun-Ha Paek. Now and Then. Eun-Ha’s animations have screened at festivals and venues such as Comedy Central, Sundance Online Film Festival, the New York Expo of Short Film and Video, the Black Maria Film Festival, the UCLA Film and TV Archive and Sundance Channel  (tags: Eun-ha) CD Times – Jon Kane’s Top Ten Albums of […]

Online Collaboration and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-09

Online Collaboration Technologies – New Tools And Web Services – Sharewood Picnic Jan06 08 – Robin Good’s Latest News “The more mainstream, standard office applications and productivity tools start adding collaboration facilities to their apps the more collaboration will become part of what is expected by any digital work tool.” (tags: collaboration online) Jim Dubh […]

Some interesting sites; A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2007-12-28

definr – about Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton’s open WordNet 2.0.The website framework is Ruby on Rails. Looking up words in a dictionary is easy, so we do that with MySQL and cache the top 10,000 definitions in memory. (tags: dictionary) The Virtual Memorial Garden This is a place where anyone […]

Online Collaboration Technologies – Robin Good’s Latest – Dec 26 2007

Robin Good’s blog provides lots of tips and information about online collaboration. It is the place to go to keep up with what’s happening in this increasingly important area for business and academia. Online Collaboration Technologies – New Tools And Web Services – Robin Good’s Latest News“Online collaboration tools are sprouting like mushrooms and it […]

Courses About the Internet or Web; links for 2007-12-12

Web Application Development “This course will introduce concepts in programming web application servers. We will study of the fundamental architectural elements of programming web sites that produce content dynamically. ” (tags: web course) CS 200 – Web Technology I primarily client-side development (tags: web course) CS 201 Web Technology II: server-side sripting, databases, Java & […]

links for 2007-11-24

Translated version of http://lokineverdie.livejournal.com/250605.html (tags: aptbs) Oh, Sweet Nothing: Skywave – Synthstatic “Skywave was a trio from Virginia with an impressive list of influences including the likes of The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and Slowdive. Turns out that when they broke up (around 2003 maybe?) one of the guys went on to […]

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Communication and social network sites

The venerable Journal of Computer Mediated Communication publishes an issue with the special theme “Social Networking Sites.” JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 Special Theme: Social Network Sites (tags: communication social networks) – – U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3873 Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1 Total 3874 DoD Confirmation List Source: Iraqi Coalition […]

Usenet – Still around after all these years?

I’ve used Usenet on and off (mostly off lately) since 1994. I’ve included a chapter or a portion of chapter about using Usenet in all the Internet & Web books that I’ve written since 1995. I’ve been teaching courses about using the Internet since about that same time. My students over the past five years […]