xFruits takes RSS to the next level. The site provides the ability to do the following hosted wizardry with RSS feeds: Create a single RSS feed out of many Change a syndicated feed into a web page Create a mobile friendly page of your RSS feed Post to RSS from e-mail Convert recent RSS content…
The sponsors of Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) – House Bill HR 5319 cite a seemingly staggering statistic. Quoted directly in Findings section of the Act is the statistic from the United States Attorney General that "One in five children has been approached sexually on the Internet." It is right there in black and white…
Telephia recently released a report on mobile Internet usage. While the subscriber rate is increasing, the access and experience still lags far behind Internet browsing via the computer. According to their research, 34.6m mobile subscribers (presumably just in Europe, US and Canada?) accessed the Internet on their mobile device in June 2006 – up about…
What better way to dust off the old blog than a post about angst. As a long time online learner and now instructor / instructional designer, I see (and feel) a lot of online learning angst … most of it having something to do with MOOCs, a concept I have followed closely and watched evolve…
This is one of the only photos I have of my great-grandfather, William Livingston (1864-1934), with his grandchildren. Left to right, my aunt Jean Jones Swanson (3), my mom Norma Jones Maddrell (baby), and their cousin Grace Audrey (Watson) Biddick (4). I estimate this was taken in the spring of 1927, and probably in Livingston,…
I went down a “usability, universal access, human-computer interaction (HCI), user experience design, and user-centered design” rabbit hole today. Bookmarking for another day to read: