I have to admit, I like odd holiday days. I've said hi to both Pi Day (3/14) and RSS Day (5/1). But today isn't as odd. It mother's day (in case you didn't know). So happy mother's day to all the mother's out there. I've been lucky to have a great mom, and marry a great wife who has been a great mom to our two sons. … [Read more...]
posted on May 5, 2008 by
Web 2.0 – Understanding Wikis
Image via WikipediaBlogs work great in some circumstances. For example, they work well with a singular person pushing out information and getting feedback. However, the person leaving feed back cannot change the original posting. And there are times when parts of a page need to be edited, and/or new content pages added. Wiki's are a good Web 2.0 method of solving this problem. Wiki - Hawaiian for Quick, although I know not how that relates allows anyone (within reason) to modify, add, … [Read more...]
posted on May 1, 2008 by
May 1st – RSS Day
I've waited to post the next article as this news falls so in line with keeping up with Keeping up with other’s blogs. I mentioned using RSS feeds to watch other people's blogs easier. Well someone liked RSS so much, they wanted to promote its use more. Thus RSS Day was born. I have always provided and RSS feed for people to subscribe to if they want. Additionally, you can also get the same information via e-mail if you don't have an RSS feed reader. Just use the bright orange icons … [Read more...]
posted on April 21, 2008 by
Keeping up with other’s blogs
As blogs make it easier to publish more information, the process of finding information becomes more difficult. This makes keeping up with the Blogs harder than keeping up with the Jones! Consider one of two options to keeping up with the feeds: Check and read every blog/web site of interest to you all the time (daily), wasting all of your time and energy doing so. Ignore the blogs and use a search engine when ever you need information - but now you don't keep up with things … [Read more...]