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The Webby Awards Unveils Exciting New Inaccessible Website

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. It’s been around since the late 1990’s, and each year about this time it announces this year’s nominees (to be announced on April 9 this year), followed soon after by the winners (on April 30 this year). As the gear up for […]

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2012-13: One Accomplishment, One Resolution

I’m one of those people who finds the final week of a calendar year to be a good time to reflect on the waning year and make plans for the waxing one. Being just one person in a world of 7 billion, I’ll keep this post short and highlight just one accomplishment from 2012 and […]

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On Memorizing 3,523 Keyboard Shortcuts

Ever get overwhelmed by the number of things you have to memorize in order to function in today’s society? User names, passwords, account numbers, PINs, locker combinations, telephone numbers, TV channels, and on and on until our brains explode. Now consider this: You’re a computer user but you can’t use a mouse because of a […]

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LIfe

Hustle is neither Hype Nor Hope. It is both Hope and Hype.

This post is a belated reply to Dylan Wilbank’s blog post Hustle Is Hype and Joel Goodman’s reply Hustle is Hope. Both writers make gobs of excellent points, and the discussion on both blogs and on Twitter is great. I agree with Dylan that there needs to be balance in life. Living a life that […]

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The New Responsive Web Design: Designing for Sight, Sound, and Touch

I’m writing this post as I enjoy a little down time at the conclusion of the the 2012 HighEdWeb conference. Predictably, the buzz word at this year’s conference was “responsive”, and several of the sessions focused on responsive web design. The idea with responsive design is to present content in ways that best utilize the […]