Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Web/Blog Tools
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Interesting little article on whether the sustained use of internet connections due to downloading of video and like will screw up internet service providers’ models for provisioning of services. See Wired News: Could High-Def Choke Internet?
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SEOmoz Blog | Interviewing Web Developers – 20 Good Questions to Ask has a good list of questions to ask someone selling web development expertise – especially if you’re interested in hiring one.
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A brief article on some new web site monitoring software that allows salespeople to monitor pretty much everything you do on a web site to tailor return sales calls to you. See The case of the spying salesman – Alpha Blog – alpha.cnet.com. I agree with the author that it breaks some sort of social…
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Problogger notes that the new version of Drupal (4.7.0) is out now. It has some nice videos on installation and features. A while back Drupal made my short list when I was looking around for a CMS. Now the new version is out I’ll have a look and compare it with Mambo (another on the…
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The title says it all. Go have a look at TechToolBlog » 195 Free Online Programming Books.
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Karl, Kim’s cousin and web developer, makes it onto one of Wired.com’s tech blogs at Monkey Bites : Charles the Debugger with his incredibly useful web proxy debugger and testing tool : Charles : Web Debugging Proxy | HTTP Monitor | HTTP Proxy | HTTPS/SSL Proxy | Reverse Proxy. One of its features is to…
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Back last September I posted about the Nature comparative survey of Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica (see Greenflame: Who’re you going to call (or rather, look up)?). Now it looks as if things are getting a bit nastier with Britannica taking out newspaper ads against Nature and its survey. See, The Times : Britannica hits…
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An article by Guy Kawasaki on generating community – Let the Good Times Roll–by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Creating a Community. Aimed primarily at generating communities to support business it has some points that would translate into building communities – particularly online ones – for other purposes. The article is being updated and revised…
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Interesting article over at Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : Caring About the Content about children, blogs and community.
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Looks good – when I have time I’ll download these lectures on web technologies and education. See Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes: Grande Yellowhead Seminar. (Hat tip to Tensegrities: Stephen Downes seminar)