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Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt |...

Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt | collegewebeditor.com. —  Wow. Just…wow! That they were able to find the time and resources to do this, bring together all the...

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Distributed maintenance is killing your higher ed web site

The guy with the ink defines you I’ve been at this higher ed web thing for a few years now (has it really been more than 15?), and have watched the landscape slowly change, from an awe-inducing grey...

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Trimming, streamlining…

Have you heard about what’s going on at University of Nevada at Reno? Closures: The School of Social Work and related degrees, academic programs and degrees in theater and dance, the degree major in...

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Job announcement

Want to do web work at MIT, on OpenCourseWare? Awesome job, awesome boss. More…

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Captioned radio?

From my friend Carole at CPB: Audio/visual: Adding captions to NPR to reach a text-based audience I find this wildly exciting!

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Why your home page shouldn’t be redesigned by committee

What’s the first reaction most higher edders have when they hear, “Time for a web redesign”? Of course it’s often, “OK, who should be on the committee?” Consider this as an answer. “No one.” Homepage...

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NFC or QR on your campus?

Most of us know now what QR (quick response) codes are — those mysterious square “barcodes” that geeks scan with their smartphones to do interesting stuff, like go to a web page. You can do lots of fun...

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The best…

I think it was this article about the best mechanical pencil that sent me over the edge. The best pencil. The best. Pencil. WHAT? It’s a PENCIL. IT IS A PENCIL. I suppose this is the part where I say,...

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Libraries and Tor

Disclaimer: I’m not an expert on the Tor network, although I do know enough to be a somewhat-informed user. I believe that the technical assertions I make here are fully accurate, but I encourage...

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On appropriating gender identity

Or, why it actually does matter that Victor Johnson pretended to be a woman. For years, even decades, there’s been no shortage of dialog about diversity. Biodiversity is important to human health and...

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