Updated 03-Aug-2025 When I was in a PhD program, and before that an MS, the academic researchers and the administration all talked about how important advances in science and scholarship will come from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Disciplinary boundaries had been mined through the decades and ages, and it is cross-disciplinary research where the findings ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 I received an email about Paymo v.3 which was recently released. Paymo is a time-tracking, project management and invoicing cloud-based app (with native applications for desktop and mobile). Paymo has been around a while (hence being on their mailing list), and they have an impressive feature set and really thought through usability. I ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 I've been engaged in thinking about education and professional development since encountering the fantastic difficulties (most vividly displayed as a university lecturer and student advocate in an advanced graduate program in the mid-2000s). Since then, I have developed a fairly good idea of the exact, largely intractable nature of the difficulties specifically in ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 In rough, this is the publishing workflow that gets books from conception/marketing to publishing and distribution. Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Publishing a book or journal is first and foremost a marketing decision. That is, it has to in some way reach and appeal to a readership, and that includes who are the distributors (electronic ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This is my attempt to give a good set of guidelines based on two sites: Migrationology and Bellroy. What these sites do well and what they do poorly will be discussed, delivering a list of what is important. This post builds on the discussion in Multiplatform Web Design. Summary of Mobile Web Best ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This brief report could just as easily be called The Status of Education 2.0 but I think we are over this versioning. What is really at work is a de-institutionalization of education as an institution. What we are witnessing is the reorganization of learning outside of the organizing principles of the Medieval University. ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 These misleading terms Adaptive and Responsive don't matter much, but rather the result which is an experience of the user (and higher conversion rates) across various platforms (including operating systems, browsers and screen resolutions). For authors and publishers (both book and web formats), design is a rather important topic. Hardcover, paperback, ebook, web ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Back in the days of the typewriter, there was a time when the humble apostrophe would serve as apostrophe, single quote and double quote (two strokes). There were also a few other technical uses or meanings (actually, glyphs), but these three were sufficient overloading of the character. ASCII, HTML, Unicode In the ASCII ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 First published in 2014, updated in 2021 Back in 1998 I applied for a MS in Information Science at UC Berkeley. There was a programming requirement, so I took a C class. Then in 2000 for my graduate thesis we needed some kind of user interface so I designed that in ColdFusion, an ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 For all website designers and administrators, especially those with multiple sites, a common URL structure is the key to sanity. Of course this also works for those who only have one website. After all, best practices for busy site designers are best practices for those with a single site, as well. Basic Rules ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 While many of these projects are obviously a few years old, it seems that everywhere one sees the emergence and increasing importance Node.js and Coffeescript-based tools for publishing. That is, front-end development tools and languages are starting to displace traditional "native" (C and its ilk, misbegotten java) and older scripting languages (python, ruby). ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 > Note: These days it comes down to Atom on the desktop, StackEdit.io on the web, and Writebox on iOS (this app is no longer in the appstore, but still works great). Editing code, text bits, and larger documents is a bit of a pain these days with multiplatform and cloud synchronization becoming ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Permanent Traveling is a well-documented Personality Disorder, and there are additional unsavory related compulsions. These people need help. Ah, the digital nomad. Those who have left the rat race behind, or perhaps they have taken it with them? Digitized its essential nature? Is in fact a symptom of the problem and not a ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 In this case, editors means software editing tools, and 2014 means April 14, 2014. We also mean to include the three main platforms: Desktop, Browser and Android (updated: iOS). Note: I've updated this for 24 October 2014. What a difference six months makes... Other Articles on Editors Visual Studio Code Editor Multiplatform Text ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 There are many different considerations around software development as well as the development of the software developer. My last application development experience was back in the early 2000s. Now that it is mid-2010s (apx. 12 years later), there seems to be an order of magnitude of complexity (all of course designed to simplify ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Looking back, the Social Media for 2013 post was a bit lukewarm. So, this time let's cut to the bone. Yes, there are trends, and yes there will be surprises. Let's focus on a few things that will help us get things done in 2014. Rise of Chat Not only Line and Whatsapp, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 For someone who clearly and unambiguously states I do not understand Thai politics the lack of understanding does not stop him from claiming that he can actually see the truth, precisely because of this lack of understanding. Lest one believe that this is some kind of sophisticated participant observation he is promulgating, please ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This is a brief note on Systems Thinking. Once a totality of functional interaction is understood, that is the key moving parts to a system and how they may interact, then it is important to device the most effective sequence of events to bring that system to fruition. Totality of Functional Interaction By ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 After the fiasco with Evernote (which I loved for a time) and now Wunderlist (again, a temporary sweetheart), I tried a few options, including ToDo.txt. Now, I have finally determined an excellent set of note-taking tools. There is the need to future-proof this, which as far as I can tell means keeping notes ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 In a word, Internet Marketing (not the spamming stuff, but the real thing) is BAWLS. Brand, Advertising, Website, Links and Content, and Social Media. BAWLS Brand Brand name, collateral (visuals, text), offering, value to customers and competitive strategy. Includes pricing, keywords, as well as customer demand. Advertising Paid and earned. Will drive traffic ... Read more