I thought it an interesting coincidence that yesterday, Bob Rae mentioned Wikipedia during his keynote speech. Earlier that morning I had mentioned Wikipedia and politicians during my own presentation, so I decided to ask Bob about updating his own entry.
In an even more interesting coincidence, today’s keynote covered virtually the same topics I had been talking about yesterday – although admittedly with a bit more detail and eloquence.
(more…)I was speaking at the Ontario Universities Computing Conference (OUCC) today about Knowledge & Learning in the Internet Age. I think it’s an interesting topic and there was some good discussion, but an hour didn’t leave us all that much time to cover the material in much detail.
During my presentation I talked about Wikipedia and how the accuracy of some topics can be in question—particularly for politically sensitive topics, or the entries for politicians.
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After seeing the Hoverbox Image Gallery developed by Nathan Smith, I thought that a similar approach would work very nicely for a menu. This would allow you to create a much larger rollover image for each menu item, overlapping the neighbouring menu items and other elements on the page.
The original Hoverbox code uses two img elements, one for the thumbnail and one for the larger image. For a menu it’s more important to avoid duplicating the links themselves, and I also wanted to control the image with CSS rather than img elements. This meant making some changes to the original Hoverbox code.
Jim Emerson recently published a list of what he considers the 101 102 basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat “movie-literate.” I’ve noticed a few people post their personal movie literacy scorecards on their sites, and thought I’d do the same.
I haven’t been watching as many movies since my son was born, but I did go to film school, so I guessed I’d do okay. I’d at least be somewhat movie-literate—wouldn’t I?
(more…)This week you may already have noticed the newly launched version of Design Meme. It’s more of an evolution from the previous design, rather than a completely new direction. The overall darker design is something I had intended to do since switching from Movable Type to Wordpress and moving to the new hosting company. I also wanted to move away from the standard 2-column blog format a bit, and get a bit more creative with colours and typography.
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