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Flickr - institutional photo database

Flickr is the best online photo management and sharing application. It is simple to use and relatively inexpensive. A Flickr-Pro account is only $24.95 per year. The benefits are incredible:

Unlimited photo uploads (20MB per photo)
Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max)
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited photosets
Archiving of high-resolution original images
Tagging, searching, browsing and sharing
View count and referrer […]

Listen up, the RIAA sucks

Pandora, my ultra-favorite web radio station, may be forced to shut down due to a RIAA sponsored policy by a federal panel that has skyrocketed their operating costs.

In other web-music news, Muxtape, another favorite locale for web music, is currently down. The homepage sadly displays the following message:
“Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief […]

eduStyle Award Winners

The Winners of the first eduStyle Awards were announced at the eduWEB Conference July 21-23 in Atlantic City, NJ. I was selected as one of this year’s judges. The eduStyle Awards categories that I was responsible for voting on were:

Best Home Page

Best Redesign
Best Use of Photography
Best Prospective/Future Students or Admissions
Best Online Tour or Maps

I’m […]

Strands

Strands is a web-based social media aggregator with a twist. Strands is currently in beta (I have 2 invites, if you want one let me know) and it currently pulls in my personal feeds from Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, this blog, and a few other sites.
“Strands helps people discover new things from people they […]

Student Affairs Technology

The following videos were not created specifically for student affairs practitioners. However, due to their extreme awesomeness, I feel that they are must-watch for anyone who is interested in technology and student affairs.
What is a podcast?

What is social media?

What is Twitter?

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Brown University’s design stolen again

It would seem that Brown University’s homepage design has more than its fair share of fans. Brown’s website design has already been ripped off by UAH. The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at The Ohio State University has decided to fully implement Brown University’s code and call it their own.
Unbelievable.

Found within the […]

Pilfered design + code

This came first: Brown University

Then this showed up: The University of Alabama in Huntsville

“The copyright for this material rests with Pentagram Inc and Brown University. You may not alter this information, repost or sell it without prior permission.”
Umm. I don’t think that the University of Alabama in Huntsville got the message. Jump to […]

Screen Reader + Website Accessibility

I remember the first time I closed my eyes, put on a pair of headphones and browsed the web using a screen reader. It was extremely challenging. Images without ALT attributes, Flash objects, and poorly coded websites left me feeling extremely frustrated and gave me even more empathy for web users with visual impairments. […]

WordCamp Portland

Save the date; WordCamp Portland will be held on September 27th, 2008 at CubeSpace.
WordCamp is a gathering of WordPress folks. Whether you consider yourself an enthusiast, developer, designer, marketer, or writer, WordCamp is for you. The event organizers are currently working out the details of the conference format and schedule; stay tuned to the […]

Bloglines is offline

It is moments like this when I contemplate using an RSS client instead of a web-based service like Bloglines. “Bloglines is down temporarily. We will be back shortly.” They have been offline for quite a while now. Bloglines is not yet at the same level of unavailability as Twitter, but my RSS feeds are […]