Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.
“On our April snow day, with classes canceled, 98% of the school decided to start drinking. The chem free freshman hall had other plans, as they barricaded East Hall residents into their dorm with two huge snowballs.” (from CollegeHumor)
A great shot of one Spring 2.0 activity on the Bowdoin campus. The poster of that image [...]
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill spoke at Bowdoin College, a liberal arts college in Maine. He is the class of ‘74 at Bowdoin—and gave a talk entitled “A Report from teh Denuclearization Talks in Beijing”.
Should be an interesting talk to listen to…
Bowdoin College has incredible students and resources for them. In late spring the student it-cio advisory council committed to building a real portal like page for students to use—you know, one that’d be comparable to what you can get at Yahoo, Google, and many more places!
The basic requirements/goals were: customizable and personalized content, easier [...]
Birds – Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Excellent site!
If you click through to a story there is a link for an Interactive Analyzer.
Photo Matt » About.com switching to WordPress (WP)
This is huge. When I learned that About.com used MovableType (MT) for their CMS it was ammo for using MT more around our site to allow for easy content updating. The differences between the two are enormous and I’ll still use MT where I want the logic of [...]
Rutgers Alumni Relations Newsletter
A very clean, simple alumni newsletter. We could go here, but I’d probably make it look nicer.
Bowdoin is back in Google—officially through back channels it happened! Thank you friendly person at Google who flicked the wrist of power and made our index live. It really is a huge bonus towards
We made a mistake. That much was known. The mistake is partially due to a very unfriendly URL removal tool Google [...]
Ning is a free online service (yeah but if it’s a service how’ll it remain free?) allowing one to easily build and use social applications.
What is social software?
It tends to be a web application enabling one to post content, e.g., photos, bookmarks, reviews, and easily match, transact, or communicate with other people. The matching/transacting/communicating [...]UNSW Art Collection – Home
Bloug: Updated Enterprise IA Roadmap
This is fantastic. Much like we are doing at Bowdoin on the web site… at least that’s the goal set in last summer’s redesign. The top tier is particularly useful and our home page is the “politicized page”; perhaps after we launch the new “academics” section that will be the so [...]
Workflow
Interesting MT plug-in that could be great for departmental activity engine.
Build Web Pages for Search Engines (Bowdoin)
I quickly outline what a good web page built for search engines is about. Visit most pages on the web site to find out, especially in the News section.
Building a high result web page is not difficult. You can not however obtain search results for content that does not [...]
Collect Plugin for Movable Type – Staggernation.com
Could be used for Bowdoin News—collect all links embedded in the story and put the in a box to make it easy for readers to scan for these links.
Also—append links based on meta-data strings.
Based on the php discussion concerning the installation of an image gallery tool I have a lot of thoughts.
SimpleViewer is nice and the admin is interesting.
But it might be wise to not proliferate gallery tools all over the place.
We thought we would use Gallery for the Outing Club.
Mostly because of the Shutterfly print service integration. [...]