Category Archives: Humanizing Technology

What’s next for the web: A kid’s eye view

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Latitude and ReadWriteWeb recently partnered in a study, in which kids 6-12 years old were asked to share their ideas on future web development concepts. Latitude also produced this video, summing up the key findings and illustrating the kid’s tremendous capacity for innovation. The written results were published in two parts, plus a study summary: [...]

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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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