Category Archives: Humanizing Technology

Rediscovering The Simple Web

I recently pulled out an e-book that I first read back in 2008, when I started blogging regularly. It’s titled The Simple Web: A web philosophy for getting what you want, by Skellie. I find that it’s every bit as relevant now as when I first discovered it and I’m happy to be able to [...]
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7 Tips for Effective Email

I’m going to do my best not to make this post into a rant but I have to admit that it was inspired by some especially bad email communications that I’ve received. Email is a peculiar form of communication. We get so much of it that it’s easy to treat it all as junk to [...]
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New blog at webdancers

After recently redesigning the website for my company, webdancers, I’ve now added a blog and newsletter. The focus of this blog will be on information of interest to my clients and potential clients: Management of online presence, social media and online tools. There will be some overlap with posts published here but I will try [...]
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Readability will change the way you read online

Technology consultancy Arc90 has released a simple tool that will work in any modern web browser and makes reading online a whole new experience. The tool is called Readability and it performs a simple task, removing the clutter from almost any web page, leaving only the featured content. The resulting page is cleanly formatted and [...]
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The Disappearing Protocol

My web browser of choice these days is Google Chrome, from the “Developer channel”. There are two other channels for Chrome: Beta and Stable. The browser versions delivered through the latter channels are more “ready for prime time” and less prone to changing their behavior on a regular basis.  On April 8th, the Google Chrome Releases blog [...]
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