You’ve no doubt heard of the One Laptop Per Child education project, whose goal is ‘to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves’. Today the education.au office has been graced by the presence of one of the recent versions of the OLPC, thanks to one of our […]
Opera Mini has opened the door to a better browsing experience, especially for Java-enabled mobile phones that can currently only access WAP content. Get Opera Mini 4 beta.
If you’ve not used Opera Mini before, it allows you to browse the web on almost any Java enabled phone, even very basic feature phones. Like Opera […]
The WaSP Education Task Force and W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group propose the creation of a curriculum framework to help educators teach best practices in Web design and development more effectively. Upon completing modules in such a curriculum, a student should have sound knowledge of best practices and a solid foundation upon which to build.
Akismet is the spam filtering service built into Wordpress via a plugin. Their statistics on blocked comment spam is quite scary! Sometimes you have to wonder what the world would be like if the spammers actually directed their efforts at a worthwhile cause…
An interesting article about the proliferation of text clouds, one of many predecessors to the ubiquitous tag cloud. Here at education.au we’re developing tag cloud functionality as another discovery mechanism for large resource repositories, so it’s exciting to see them gradually appearing in a variety of applications around the web. For the […]
Continuing with Jerry’s trend, here are the Firefox add-ons I’m currently using, ordered from ‘Can’t live without’ to ‘*shrug* it’s kinda useful’.
Watch a brief history of Web 2.0 (2nd draft) by Micheal Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
Thanks to Nelly for passing this on.
Searching through the non-fiction shelves of my local library is now just a tad more annoying than it used to be since perusing the results of a December 2006 survey outlining the demographics of ‘taggers’ and accompanying interview with David Weinberger.
In a forthcoming book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, David […]
In the world of web standards it’s old news, but the W3C has recently announced their decision to continue work on the HTML specification. HTML is probably the oldest and most widely known specification to come out of the W3C working group, but this time its going to be a bit different:
The plan is […]
First of all, if you’re thinking this post is going to discuss the merits of being able to reach your cleaning products, then you should probably stop reading now or go and read about Ajax as defined by a propeller-head. If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of this asynchronous web development technique […]
