http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bronwyn Jones at A List Apart has an interesting article that applies design principles to online writing and states: It’s one thing to write copy that fits on a website. It’s quite another to write copy that fits in with a website. You wouldn’t try to force an incongruous visual element ... http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/08/01/better-writing-through-design/ NASA is collaborating with others in Second Life. Snelson and other space activists have set up virtual shop on (and above) Space CoLab Island, adjacent to the International Spaceflight Museum. The island, which serves as Second Life's nexus for NASA and allied space groups, boasts a high-tech headquarters building, a mountaintop ... http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/25/nasas-second-life/ Jill Walker writes about someone stealing her URL. Her URL is jill/text.net and an extremist middle-eastern blog called Samson Blinded has started using jill/txt.org. Why would someone use the first part of her domain name? She responds, This is clearly a site that, finding conventional means [for advertising] blocked, has chosen ... http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/25/infringing-on-ones-identity/ Robert Hof speculates on "What the Internet will be like in the future." For all the visual appeal of avatars and slick 3D graphics, they could prove to be mere trappings of a bigger change in how people use the Internet -- one only hinted at by the current crush of ... http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/20/the-future-of-the-internet/ Jason Beaird at Sitepoint reviews the first chapter of the book "The Principles of Beautiful Web Design." http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/07/beautiful-web-design/ Kim Cameron, Architect of Identity and Access in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, has a blog called Identity Weblog. It's technical but offers an inside look from the architecture of identity on the Internet. http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/04/kim-camerons-blog-on-web-identity/ Alex Iskold at The Read/Write Web has a good summary of the history and the future of RSS. http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/04/history-and-future-of-rss/ Lorelle VanFossen is guest blogging on Problogger, stating, Blogging is about writing. Many claim that content is king. If content is king, then the army that protects and defends the king is the written word. She has a list of 30 nuts-and-bolts points on writing better posts. http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/04/02/nuts-and-bolts-of-writing-a-post/ Alan Sipress (Washington Post) writes that the Patent Office will employ the Internet Wikipedia-like to review patents: The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not only post patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system designed to push the ... http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/03/04/us-patent-office-going-online/ Frank Gruber, senior product manager at AOL, has a "Web 2.0 online identity video" (via Digital-Ethos) in which he posits, We're all having an identity crisis. Am I really how I present myself on Myspace? Are you? And he offers other interesting thoughts and questions. http://charlesnelson.edublogs.org/2007/03/04/online-identity-video/