How to Make an old Schloss New

(if this image is just a pretty palace, click refresh to reload the anim­ated gif and enjoy a quick look at the rebuild­ing of the schloss) I am always both fas­cin­ated and charmed to see an older build­ing lov­ingly restored and doubly so when its role is thought­fully recon­sidered and cre­at­ively re-purposed. The mag­ni­fi­cent ducal …

Guelph Memory

A great online his­tor­ical tour of the Uni­ver­sity of Guelph cam­pus is now avail­able. It doesn’t fea­ture whizz­bang flash effects or imple­ment AJAX func­tion­al­ity. Instead, it deliv­ers a smooth and effect­ive tour in a simple and com­pel­ling fash­ion with simple html. It’s pleas­ingly lo-tech, well executed and a great example of match­ing tech­no­logy to needs.

The Last Slide of Links from del.icio.us

Over the past couple of months I exper­i­mented with the daily dir­ect feed of links that I added to del.icio.us that day. Around 10pm every even­ing there was a routine post­ing to my blog with the del.icio.us pages that I had tagged that day. The feed worked fine and (pure lazi­ness) ensured that I made …

RSS Explained Making the Rounds

The folks at Com­mon­Craft have put together an awe­some little video. It explains, as simply as is pos­sible, how RSS works, why its some­thing of value to to you and how you can go about hook­ing your­self up. The short video is mak­ing the rounds and I stumbled on it over at Blog­ging Pro News. …

A Little Experiment

Answer­ing the ques­tion, what’s up with the weird look to Ran­do­mos­ity today…I am try­ing a strange Word­Press theme today using simple ASCII charters. Its actu­ally a rather com­plex theme and its sur­pris­ingly dif­fi­cult to actu­ally make Word­Press look so low-tech. The theme is called ASCII and is designed by <a href=“http://www.ensellitis.com/wordpress/asciiwp-theme/” target=“_blank””>n.design stu­dio Chris Ensell …

links for 2007-05-02

Bytes and Bites — e-learning cafe — (tags: learn­ing mcmas­ter) His­tory News Net­work (tags: his­tory news polit­ics aca­demic blog ref­er­ence blogs edu­ca­tion) The Omni Group — Applic­a­tions — Omni­Fo­cus (tags: gtd soft­ware pro­ductiv­ity omni­fo­cus osx mac tools apple) Build­ing a National Strategy for Digital Pre­ser­va­tion: Issues in Digital Media Archiv­ing (tags: archive archiv­ing research digital)