Image Maps – Ability vs. Appropriate Use
I recently made a comment on an EDU Checkup episode about how the use of image maps was a negative aspect in the code of a website. I promptly got the following comment: I don’t get it. What’s wrong with image maps? Aren’t they still part of the HTML 5 working draft? http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-map-element.html#the-map-element …doesn’t seem like they’re [...]
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TEDxDetroit Wrap Up
This last week I attended TEDxDetroit. An independently organized TED event held at Lawrence Tech University in Southfield, Michigan. The idea of TEDxDetroit is to spread positive ideas for the world from Detroit. Seating was limited and I was one of the lucky 150 hand picked attendees. Although the videos from all the speakers will [...]
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First 24 hours with the Palm Pre
Let me just preface that I have owned Palm Treo devices in the past. I also love Apple and their products, I don’t have an iPhone because of the AT&T lock in and ridiculous pricing structure. When Palm announced what seems like years ago they were developing a completely new phone web based OS I [...]
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Zombies? Yellow pages in print is the living dead
If you’re reading this I am going to assume you have not picked up a printed Yellow Pages to actually look up a phone number in the last five years. But last week, like clockwork a car was driving down the street delivering Yellow Pages on each doorstep. It made me kind of mad, I [...]
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Becoming a .eduGuru Blogger
The past two weeks have been interesting. If you have not heard already the site .eduGuru, a higher education web marketing blog was looking for a few new staff bloggers. They held a contest for prospects to submit a guest blog post and the community would vote. I submitted the article Tracking Flash Interaction with [...]
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