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Month: July 2010

  • Creating a fresh canvas

    If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you may notice something different about its appearance today. Still familiar-looking, perhaps, but sort of different. If you only see the content as an RSS or email subscriber, well, head on over…

  • FIR Interview: Michael Edson and the Smithsonian Commons

    Michael Edson returns to FIR to introduce the prototype of the Smithsonian Commons, an interactive tool for digitally sharing the Smithsonian’s assets and enabling social interaction about them. You can also see a video that explores the use of the…

  • Facebook is not the only game in town

    With the news confirmed that Facebook membership now exceeds 500 million people worldwide – that’s nearly 10 percent of the world’s total population – it’s a worthy reminder to note that, never mind its size or seeming monolithic ubiquity, there…

  • Compelling reasons to mobilize your website

    A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage …

  • Is The Times paywall a viable business model?

    Comment and opinion have intensified in the past few days that The Times paywall isn’t working. And according to The Guardian, the paper has seen a 90 percent fall in its online readership since the paywall went up three weeks…