Karine Joly, www.collegewebeditor.com She started blogging in 2005, and had about 3 readers. Now 7000 visitors per month. 1000 subscribers. So, what make a great blog? The readers! Suddenly – her slides started advancing automatically… but she held it together and eventually got it fixed (it was vista). Back to the presentation: Don’t start a […]

 Danny Harvey, Ryan Gibson, Eastern Illinois University This looks like a very nice system for creating surveys and forms. Unfortunately, the demo did not work properly. Still the idea seemed solid.

Presenter: Gabriel McGovern , Portland Community College I had a coughing fit. Then my laptop crashed.

Testing usability with parents and incoming students: Presenter: Lori Packer, University of Rochester Lori is a great presenter. Her session covered the basics of usability testing, as well as some of the unexpected results from her own experience. Last year she grabbed students and parents during the start of the orientation. With some trinkets she […]

Lunch was at the Hyatt. Afterward, I asked our waitress and then the bellhop about my options for picking up some slacks. Nada, nunca. But the concierge had overheard the conversation.  He set me up with their shuttle driver, Nick. On the next trip he drove past the airport and dropped me off at the […]

The flight from Chicago to Rochester was pretty uneventfully. I have had a sore throat for nearly a week and about an hour in I had a coughing fit, but luckily there was no one seated right next to me. However, on arrival my luggage was nowhere to be found… I almost never check baggage, […]

I love to fly. I just wish that planes didn’t take-off and land at airports. US airports have become awkward places, where a general feeling of paranoia follows you from the security check, and all the way down the concourse. From PDX to O’Hare, I was seated near the very back of the plane. To […]

“HighEdWeb is an organization of Web professionals working at institutions of higher education. We design, develop, manage and map the futures of higher education Web sites.” Each year, the organization puts on a conference where web professionals from colleges around the country gather to learn, discuss and network. I had the opportunity to attend in […]

BoingBoing noted that the Young America’s Foundation is kindly giving away copies of its Conservative VIP poster. Commenter Dave X said: I dub this design style–Unfunny Lolcat Modern. Then Draconum gave “a very quick hackjob” as a response to Dave X / #3. Well I had to give it a try! Here are some others: […]

This is for my good friend Fish (Mike) and his parents. He asked me to send his mom some photos that I had taken of his dogs. Unfortunately, there were so many good ones that I don’t trust sending them by email – the file size would be too big. So I am posting them […]