A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript MVC Once a bit player, JavaScript increasingly takes center stage. Its footprint—the space it takes up on our servers and in our development schedules—continues to grow. So how can we make our JavaScript more reusable and easier to maintain? Perhaps MVC will offer some clues. (tags: mvc bestpractices controller alistapart […]
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Tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, ecard, milky elephant, party animal cardUsing social media for fund raising by non-profits. Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media To Achieve Mission nonprofits using social media (tags: nonprofits using social media) The Red Cross Created A Social Culture With Listening: Now, A Policy and Operational Handbook To Scale – Beth’s […]
Tagged fund raising, non-profits, social mediaTwo links to some outstanding searching and researching resources. The first is an image search engine that finds images similar to one you submit. It seems to work fairly well. the second is an easy-to-use tool for searching the publications of the Royal Soceity! Read works by Newton, Franklin, and others. Find Similar Images with […]
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Tagged computational complexity, theoretical computingA Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky ” I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia (in its ‘breaking news’ mode.) I called this tendency algorithmic authority. “ (tags: authority clayshirky algorithmic crowdsourcing authenticity journalism trust) How To Use An Apostrophe […]
Tagged algorithmic authority, curriculum, poster, shirky apostrophe, web science10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress | Smashing Magazine “Let’s take a look at 10 useful, yet rather unknown RSS-tricks for WordPress. Each section of the article presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides you with an explanation of the solution, so that you can not just solve some of your RSS-related problems […]
Tagged cloud, rss, web 2.0, wordpressWe are discussing prototypes in the Advanced Web Techniques, CPSC 448, class. To help students understand prototypes a little better I showed them the section on prototyping at the excellent site Usability.gov. The second item below is a pretty good article on Gopher and how it never died and still may be useful today as […]
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