Archive for the “web and tech” category

To LibraryThing widget users:

by Luke Rodgers on February 15, 2009

Librarything.com went down, leading to issues for users of my LibraryThing widget.

Improve your pagination’s usability

by Luke Rodgers on February 15, 2009

In short: pad your a elements liberally

IE6 CSS hacks with Wordpress.com

by Luke Rodgers on February 12, 2009

A trick for tweaking the CSS of your Wordpress.com blog for IE6.

No video in email for 2009

by Luke Rodgers on February 4, 2009

So sayeth Campaign Monitor

New theme

by Luke Rodgers on January 29, 2009

Still working out some kinks… probably looks pretty funky in Internet Explorer.
XHTML validates, but there’s fairly extensive use of non-standard CSS to achieve the transparency (should be cross-browser) and rounded corner effects (Mozilla and Safari 3 only).

The future of journalism

by Luke Rodgers on January 21, 2009

From one of my favourite e-newsletters, J-Source, comes a provocative article by Alan Bass, assistant prof at Thompson Rivers University School of Journalism, that takes journalists themselves to task for failing to preserve the vitality of journalism and for failing (…)

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Scam ads on Facebook

by Luke Rodgers on January 21, 2009

Perhaps I’m the only one to whom this would be unexpected, but I was surprised to notice blatant scam ads on Facebook today. Maybe they’re not a recent addition but I just noticed them today for the first time. I (…)

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As the web gets smarter, will our anonymity evaporate?

by Luke Rodgers on January 18, 2009

One of the most exciting things going on in webland today, I think, is the myriad of technologies, user experiences, and computer-to-computer interactions that typically pass under the monikers of “Web 3.0” or “the semantic web.” There isn’t a lot (…)

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