Archive for February 2007
How To: Creating A Link In Word Press
Posted by: kegill2 on: 21 February 2007
(1) Log in to your WordPress blog
(2) Review these instructions from WordPress
(3) Watch this Quicktime Movie – From UW or watch the YouTube clip (smaller screen size)
That’s all there is to it!
Broadband: US Continues To Lag The World
Posted by: kegill on: 21 February 2007
Information Week has an update on the state of broadband connectivity in the US, relative to the rest of the world. Some highlights:
Broadband growth rates are much higher in other countries
OECD: the US is 12th in broadband adoption rates
ITU: the US is 21st in broadband penetration rates
We pay more for less
Thankfully, the reporter included criticism [...]
Free Conference Calls
Posted by: kegill on: 15 February 2007
The latest twist on internet disruption of telephony is a free online conference calling service called Foonz.com. Create an account and then you can organize a conference (group) call by having Foonz alert the participants (invitees) by e-mail, IM, or text message to a cellphone.
Once you create an account, you’ll get a phone number to [...]
Frankly My Dear, I Need a DAM
Posted by: kegill on: 10 February 2007
An Introduction to Digital Asset Management
Learn how to determine your DAM needs, requirements, and budget, analyze a range of software solutions and explore the world of “meta-data,” which is how we make non-textual files searchable.The first in a series of three digital media workshops offered by the UW Dept of Communication.
Creative Commons
Posted by: kegill2 on: 8 February 2007
Students are also required to create a “course page” that has information about their class project and the article that they bring to class when it’s their turn to lead discussion.
Here’s what your Creative Commons license — published on your course page – might look like:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike [...]
Truth In Advertising: Not
Posted by: kegill on: 7 February 2007
I’ve threatened to do this before … but I’ve finally hit my breaking point. Letter to the FCC to follow … I’m tired of cable stations not honoring their published schedules!
TVLand is the latest culprit. We discovered that they have oldies like M*A*S*H, All In The Family (which I appreciate more as an adult than [...]
How To: Uploading An Image In WP
Posted by: kegill2 on: 6 February 2007
Note: WP changed the interface in Mar 2008. These screenshots are no longer accurate for WordPress.com but are for an earlier installed version of WP. When I’ve updated this, I’ll link to it here.
This post is “how to” insert an image into a WordPress blog post.
First, if the image is not yet hosted on [...]
Oh. Good. Grief.
Posted by: kegill on: 5 February 2007
Chalk this up to my ignoring the SuperBowl (except for the Frito Lay commercials) … but I just found out that the Dolphin’s website — the SuperBowl host site — was hacked last week. (tip, tip) "The attackers are exploiting flaws patched in Microsoft’s MS06-014 and MS07-004 bulletins." Hello??
Who found it? External security guys, of [...]
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