Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Web/Blog Tools
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Radio New Zealand National : Programmes A-Z : Nine to Noon : Wed, 18 July had an interesting section from their employment lawyer Andrew Scott-Howman on employers and potential employers using information available on employees (and potential employees) on social networking sites. Audio link here.
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A selection of links that intersect around the role of new media in educational environments. Henry Jenkins has an essay (in two parts) that looks at the tension between participatory media and traditional educational models, and in particular emphasises the critical application of the following skill set: Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge…
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Playing around with the news feeds for the site. Should be no hassles, but let me know if there are.
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Felt the need to move to a cleaner, less busy blog theme and so have moved to Tarski · An elegant, flexible WordPress theme. Had a few hiccoughs with author name of posts etc. needing tinkering but it seems to work now. I like how the stylesheet modification are moved to a separate stylesheet that…
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I’ve been skimming through John Waters’ book The Real Business of Web Design over the past couple of weeks. It’s been a refreshing change to read a book that talks about web design from a perspective that isn’t bogged down in the ‘how’ of what technologies will be used, but rather concentrates much more on…
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The WordPress Theme Generator is a helpful tool for quickly putting together a WordPress theme by selecting template options. Seems like it might be useful. Related link: Movable Type Style Generator
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I’m a big fan of software applications that concentrate on doing one task in an exemplary fashion. Probably a throwback to my UNIX script programming day when I’d connect lots of small single purpose applications together to work on my data. Which is why this interview caught my eye (Mozilla: Why Desktop E-Mail Crucifies the…
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Paul’s posted a copy of his Refresh article BLOGGING – A CREATIVE WAY OF EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY & SPIRITUAL FORMATION? over on Prodigal Kiwi(s). Well worth having a look at. Connects also with the following article published a couple of years back in Stimulus (NZ journal/magazine): Bednar, Tim. “Blogging: Report from a Grassroots Revival.” Stimulus 12,…
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Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, on the initiative to create a discipline (or inter-discipline) to examine the the social aspect of the Web and the Web’s impact on society. A kind of new “Web (Social) Science”. See Berners-Lee, universities launch ‘Web science’ initiative – Internet – News – ZDNet Asia. As…
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Hat tip to Jonny Baker for this link to the Guardian’s focus on Web 2.0. See Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited.