Now for some first impressions I will add real images as soon as I can grab (another) camera. The button wiggle is odd – like something from Yoshi’s island. You can even move the icons on the “dock”. The bookmark to home screen is awesome – it even makes a custom icon from each page. […]

I almost wrote “Apple hates .EDU!”, or “Apple hates Education”. I really don’t believe that either is true, but both reflect a question that has been on my mind since I got my iPhone: “Why is there a .COM button, but no .EDU, .NET, .ORG or .GOV?” Let me explain The iPhone is a marvel […]

A few bad apples shouldn’t be able to ruin it for everyone. However, on the internet, that is usually what happens… You set up a blog or mail form and everything goes great for a while. Then come the spammers. They want your attention and will do what ever it takes to get through. Some […]

To begin preparing for an upcoming homepage update, we have started adding syndication feeds to the main PCC website. To quote myself: Never miss another college news item or important event at PCC. RSS feeds allow you to get the newest website content delivered straight to your computer. By subscribing, you will be notified whenever […]

Right now I am updating the style sheets that affect all 50,000 pages of PCC’s main website. With absolute certainty, I can say that all I want for x-mas is a standards complaint version of Internet Explorer…

After presenting in 2007, I was asked to be on the conference committee for the 2008 HighEdWeb. This next conference will be in Springfield Missouri, and I have been selected as multimedia representative (though I am not entirely sure what that means yet). We have already had several meetings (via the telephone) and many items […]

Derek Tonn, mapformation, LLC I skipped this one before, but several people have been raving about it. The session is supposed to go beyond “save for web”. Clip art kills! The extra bandwidth wastes electricity for unnecessary graphics. 8-bit png is better for logos the gif… It compresses better and smaller. Interesting. JPG remove exif […]

Beck Tench, Duke University OK, I needed to see what beat me for the best of ;) Actually, I am very happy not to be presenting this morning. Last night was a very late night. “Really, really dense information and really, really diverse audiences.” She suggest that you can solve that by creating role based […]

Changing Web 2.0 from Passing fad to Development Methodology Kyle Bowen, Manager of Information, Purdue University Looking at buzzwords of yesterday: Webmaster, Information Communication Highway “The buzzwords of today are the litmus test for tomorrow.” But, are there any lessons that we can learn. Create many small releases: under promise and over deliver. Web applications […]

Michael Dame from Virginia Tech It turns out that today is the 6-month anniversary of the tragedy where 32 were lost and dozens of others were injured. The presentation was one of the most inspiring talks that I have ever been to. Michael is a great speakers and did simply amazing work during the aftermath […]