Online Publishing

Twitter Wants to Know What You Are Doing

November 20, 2007

“What are you doing?” Twitter is a micro-blogging social networking site that asks that one question, and gives you 140 characters to broadcast an answer to all your friends, family and co-workers. Intrigued by the possibilities? Here are a few guides to get you started: MasterNewMedia’s Twitter – A Beginner’s Guide , Caroline Middlebrook’s Big [...]

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Wikis for the Classroom

October 2, 2007

A wiki is a website that allows users to add and edit content collectively, as opposed to having central editorial control. In a classroom, this would mean both students and teachers could add content to the wiki website. PBwiki.com and Wikispaces are two wiki platforms specifically designed for the classroom. Learn more at MisterTeacher’s blog.

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BuzzDash Polling

September 25, 2007

Polling is a fun way to take the pulse of a community. And if you have a webpage, blog or profile on a popular social networking site, BuzzDash makes it easy to create and distribute a your own custom poll. Polls can have from two to five answer options, can be skinned in a variety [...]

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Lorum Ispum

July 17, 2007

Have you ever landed at a website filled with Latin-looking gibberish that started “Lorem ipsum?” “Lorum ipsum” is dummy text that has been used in the printing and typesetting industries since the sixteenth century when an unknown printer scrambled some type to make a type sample book. It is often used at web design sites [...]

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Data Lookup with Google Spreadsheets

July 2, 2007

One of the advantages Google Spreadsheets has over a client-side spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel, is access to live data look ups. Using the GoogleLookup function, data lookup for many kinds of standard facts is simple. Standard facts include, for example, population figures for cities and countries, capitals for states and nations, and places of [...]

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What is a Permalink?

July 18, 2006

If you’ve spent any time wandering around the blogosphere (the world of web logs and social networking) you’ll have come across the term “permalink”, a concatenation of “permanent” and “link.” Because blogs post only the most recent stories on their front pages, the permalink gives you a URL where a story will always be accessible, [...]

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Google Page Creator

May 2, 2006

Google Page Creator is a simple and free way to create and host web pages. It has a WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) interface, and doesn’t require any knowledge of HTML or web hosting. Google Page Creator is still in its early stages of development (it’s a Google Labs project) but is [...]

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Add Google Map to Your Website

January 17, 2006

It’s easy to add a free, interactive Google Map to your website. First, sign up for a Google Maps API Key . You’ll also find a lot of documentation there about how to use the Google Maps API, but I preferred the short and simple explanation written by Joshua Siler at ExplorationAge.

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BitTorrent

June 7, 2005

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) software tool that distributes download bandwidth among those who are downloading. The problem with offering large files from your website is that a surge in traffic can crash your web server. BitTorrent rewards those that share their bandwidth by using cooperative distribution, also known as swarming downloads. With the rise [...]

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Locking a Domain Record

March 8, 2005

Today’s tip is for anyone who owns a domain name. Because of an ICANN (Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers) policy change implemented late last year, it is possible to lose control of a domain if you fail to respond to an email transfer request. Since email has become bogged down with spam and [...]

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