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Robert Denton - web strategist and designer

Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.

Archive for October, 2005

Monday, October 31st, 2005

List of Academic Lecture Podcasts

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Select Academic Library Blogs
Nota Bene: This blog is NOT a comprehensive collection of academic library blogs and bloggers. It will be used for a presentation at Internet Librarian 2005. If you stumble across this blog and would like to suggest a link, please e-mail Susan Herzog.

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Podcasts from PBS | PBS

moo.fx – the next small thing

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

moo.fx – the next small thing
~3kb simple js effects that i’m too lazy to write because i haven’t really needed them anywhere.

Google show us some love

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Bowdoin College
Google, why can’t you include Bowdoin College in your index sooner?
We had an incident whereby you deleted our entire site from your index… there was no way to cancel the operation. The remove URL function is not super friendly.
We bought a Google Mini to rectify the lack of internal search engine (we were using [...]

Good article on usability and CMS

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Applying Usability Principles to Your CMS
A well written article about many issues, all surrounding adoption or continued use and improvement of the CMS experience. There are nuances that speak volumes about our lack of process in choosing a CMS.

GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

GRAVITY Research: HIPerWall
50, 30-inch LCDs linked together to display for massive visualization.

The car that makes its own fuel

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The car that makes its own fuel

The Software Used To Access The BBC Homepage

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The Software Used To Access The BBC Homepage
Basically a snapshot in web analytics of BBC traffic. Quite lengthy but worth a look. Thanks to the author for sharing the data.

CBM-170 High Performance Bookshelf Loudspeaker

Monday, October 24th, 2005

CBM-170 High Performance Bookshelf Loudspeaker

Flock – Web 2.0 browser

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

I think Flock is the most amazing thing to happen out of the Mozilla effort. A social software web browser, or, a Web 2.0 Tool.

radicalcartography

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

radicalcartography
Now I’m basically aping all of Kottke’s remaindered links… thanks — this site is a great collection of data maps.

VGMap by Eyebeam R&D: Vectored Flash Overlays for Google Maps

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

VGMap by Eyebeam R&D: Vectored Flash Overlays for Google Maps
This is a great idea and conceivably could integrate with GIS projects.
Eyebeam is a great looking outfit and I believe Jason Kottke has a stint there. Lot’s of very interesting projects.

Better Desktop

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Better Desktop
Novell works on a better Linux desktop and shows results. How nice.

iWay : Use your iPod Photo or Nano as a Yahoo! Maps directions viewer!

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

iWay : Use your iPod Photo or Nano as a Yahoo! Maps directions viewer!
iPod-iWay is a powerful step-by-step directions saving tool that will export online driving directions from results by Yahoo Maps and import them into your iPod Photo.