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Microsoft Learning: Rapidly Create Online Courses - http://www.microsoft.com/learnin...
Interesting example of competing camps at Microsoft, in an area you don't hear about if you don't keep a foot in the e-learning world.
- Amyloo
Satellite map of farms in Amish country - http://maps.google.com/maps...
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Isn't it pretty? I visited Auntie Anne's Pretzels HQ around here in another life. Who can say what drove me to look at the land this morning, lo these 15-20 later.
- Amyloo
Car maker develops its own flower species - www.drive.com.au - http://www.drive.com.au/Editori...
I can't settle my feelings that I'm being had, nice as the idea is. I'd have expected a media release with pics? The picture there looks like neither sage or gardenia, Drive's own photoshop most likely. And there doesn't seem any mention of it at Toyota.com. Toyota is in the middle of a flowery promotion for the 2010 Prius explained at Fast Company here http://bit.ly/6NuTf. But on looking further at the campaign media release http://bit.ly/2lF4Kp it looks like Fast Company is part of the promotion.
- Hilary Talbot
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Men of few words - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Epic | E-learning debate at the Oxford Union proves a great success - http://www.epic.co.uk/news...
What an interesting marketing approach. A U.K. elearning company invited experts to argue against their whole reason for being.
- Amyloo
How common is the practice of applying a style tag to every link on every page, just to control the link color? Not very, I wouldn't think.
I called B.S. Send rude e-mail to somebody by mistake. Now I'm the bad guy for objecting. Need external validation badly.
- Amyloo
I don't know, but I would trust your judgement
- Hilary Talbot
Appreciate the support, Hil. Also getting a sore throat and it's making me cranky. Wouldn't it be nice if you could bring in an expert for 30 seconds to do the Marshall McLuhan validation thing in Annie Hall? That would be a good service to offer over the internet, wouldn't it? Get a stable of top-flight experts in a number of fields and hire them out expressly for things like this, not by the hour but by the minute so the poor worker bees like me could afford to haul them in.
- Amyloo
Yes, nice idea. Hope you feel better soon.
- Hilary Talbot
If they're putting a style tag on every link, then that should be in a stylesheet. Inline styles (i.e., using the style attribute within HTML markup) is generally considered sloppy.
- Dan MacTough
Thank you, Dan. How've you been?
- Amyloo
Seeing as how this will get cross-posted to Twitter and Facebook, I think I will respond by email. :-)
- Dan MacTough
I would agree that best practice would be for this to be in a stylesheet. However, it's far from uncommon to have inline styles on every link, especially when the html's generated by script. Sad to say poor practice ≠ uncommon.
- cori
Yeah, Cori, but why actually answer the question if the answer doesn't support your position? Answer a different question! :-)
- Dan MacTough
New Yorker cover via @annamariecox http://gizmodo.com/5391213... -- At once beautiful and troubling.
Funny dream: I asked how something was pronounced and my answerer sang the pronunciation. I learned this was typical for the alt society I was visiting. The pitch even had special diacritical marks in their linguistic notation, similar to musical notation. I didn't want to wake up and it's going to make me late for work and it was totally worth it
So cool!
- Hilary Talbot
Re: In one way, losing a father is a relief (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"> the reality isn't spoken out loud very much Ain't that the truth."
- Amyloo
MS language from another century. Who disconnects from the internet anymore?
Amyloo - http://amyloo.com/blog...
Testing list output.
- Amyloo
Re: What I've learned about Hyperlocal (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Palin notably absent from gov. races - Politico.com Print View - http://dyn.politico.com/printst...
The Animated Life: Shadow's Dream - Video Library - The New York Times - http://video.nytimes.com/video...
Some lovely animations and ideas there.
- Hilary Talbot
This American Life health care explainer show airs this weekend http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_E...
When I heard this piece on All Things Considered yesterday I wondered if it might be part of it http://www.npr.org/templat...
- Amyloo
Nope. This was good -- three stories about health care costs from the perspectives of patients, docs and insurance companies, but it was not the Giant Pool of Money-type explainer we'd been waiting for. That comes next week. Ira said at the end of the show that next week is an hour-long report on health insurance companies from the NPR Planet Money people.
- Amyloo
You know you should listen to Leo, right? - http://amyloo.com/blog...
Thank you for this, Amy. Loved the talk, and the silly virtual puppet. I suspect it was quite advanced for the time.
- Hilary Talbot
I like how Soledad interacted with him, not giving him much respect because he wasn't real after all.
- Amyloo
yes, as puppetry it was technically good, but as the vehicle Leo wanted, ridiculous.
- Hilary Talbot
Peytonplace.com | Print Article | Newsweek.com -- Bloggers across the country are obsessively chronicling small-town life. Is Maplewood, N.J., ready for its own Bob Woodward? - http://www.newsweek.com/id...
Millburn, NJ, town administor: "They drive me crazy," he says. The Newsweek story quotes him saying he prefers the old days with the weekly print paper whose reporters mostly stayed in their offices. (That's at odds with contentions from the David Simon camp, isn't it?)
- Amyloo
Can Twitter Rake in the Ads to Justify $1 Billion Valuation? - Advertising Age - Digital - http://adage.com/digital...
Of course AdAge assumes that slapping a billion dollars worth of ads on Twitter is the only way to earn money.
- Amyloo
Looks like a good Bill Maher tonight: Eliot Spitzer, Jon Waters, Paul Krugman and Michael Moore. Who's not on the panel? I can't guess.
Dear sweet geezers, you cannot get away from Twitter. On a whim I searched my Gmail inbox and the mentions for just today filled up almost the whole first screenful. How many mentions in your inbox today?
The Washington Independent » Baucus Scores a Big Win for Big Pharma - http://washingtonindependent.com/60782...
I'm just sick about the phrma deal, and revolted that we hear little about it, and as sure as I can be about the reason we don't hear much about it: drug companies are huge advertisers, especially on TV.
- Amyloo
Will Ferrell stands up for the real health care victims - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Amazon.com: Ullern's review of "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" - http://www.amazon.com/review...
Just ordered this. I love what-if scenarios. Maybe Nader has found his 21st century voice.
- Amyloo
Nader talked about the book on Democracy Now on Monday. http://www.democracynow.org/2009... He must figure out a better way to characterize it. It's fiction but he says it's not in novel form. He terms it a "practical utopia" but that doesn't say it all, does it? Maybe he needs coiner-in-chief Jay Rosen.
- Amyloo
Marketers: Think About Fitting in Before Breaking Through - Advertising Age - DigitalNext - http://adage.com/digital...
Ewww. Insinuate, they say. "If your audience is on Facebook, don't interrupt their social life by shouting at them; find a way to insinuate your brand into their existing behavior."
- Amyloo
Magazine Preview - Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Cool. The pages and drawings shown look so ordered and beautiful, if, as I understood, they were done while he was tangling with it all. An aside: did you see the gratuitous promo links in there?!
- Hilary Talbot
Advanced Facebook for Journalists 9/18/2009 - ColumbiaJournalism on Blog Talk Radio - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Columbi...
Public Policy Polling: Origin of the Anti-Christ question - http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009...
Pollster was pressed by the crowd to ask the question they wouldn't have thought to ask
- Amyloo
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