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I’m working on a new theme right now (in part to celebrate 10 years on nirak.net) and things might be a little messy while I get things cleaned up. Let me know what you think!
Ada Lovelace Day – honoring my mom
I know this is late. I started it yesterday but did not quite finish. March 24th is Ada Lovelace day, “an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.” (http://findingada.com/about/) There are a lot … Continue reading
Accessibility and Usability – Part 3: Tools
This is part of a series on accessibility and usability. See the contents page for more. Now that we have talked about Code and Navigation and Design, I’ll talk briefly about a few tools you can use to help you … Continue reading
Accessibility and Usability – Part 2: Navigation and Design
This is part of a series on accessibility and usability. See the contents page for more. Design and navigation are important aspects of your site’s accessibility. Clear, concise navigation helps users that must use their keyboard to get around, and … Continue reading
Accessibility and Usability – Part 1: Code
This is part of a series on accessibility and usability. See the contents page for more. The first step to creating accessible and usable websites is to create clean, semantically marked and validated up XHTML. Well formedness, doctype, and validation … Continue reading
Accessibility and Usability
This series of posts is in preparation for a talk I am giving Thursday at the Nebraska Library Association on Accessibility and Usability. Accessibility and usability are hot keywords right now, and usability testing is a hot new money making … Continue reading
Computing in the clouds
This post in in response to Cory Doctorow’s recent column for the Guardian, “Not every cloud has a silver lining.” I think many of his points are well spoken, but I’m playing devils advocate here on a few things. Here’s … Continue reading
Software development in Digital Humanities
One of the topics that greatly interested me from THATCamp 2009 (which really wasn’t addressed at Digital Humanities 2009) was software development/process of digital humanities projects. I’m interested in questions of workflow and task distribution—what does the team look like, … Continue reading
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Digital Humanities and THATCamp 2009
So I have an overdue post due from DH09 and THATCamp09. Maybe I should first explain what those are. Digital Humanities 2009 Conference Digital Humanities is the web conference for those involved in (wait for it…) digital humanities. This was … Continue reading
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Poetry meaning and folksonomy flaws
In my Electronic Texts class this semester, we have decided on a class project: a poem illustrator. The idea is simple enough: input a poem and the program will pick a flickr picture as an illustration. But how to pick … Continue reading