As a media specialist I love to praise and lampoon wikipedia. I keep my copy of the Tibet page with me listed as the kingto prove my point. Unfortunately, as I also point out to classes, the edits were deleted within 5 minutes. I like to point to the value of community developed knowledge, the power of the group effort, but also the messiness of the group effort. People in a democratic society don't always make the best choices and sometimes people take advantage of the weaknesses of the democratic framework. My district's media curriculum has a key understanding that reads "I understand the value of an intellectual work in a democratic society." That would be uniquely hard to do in a district that tries to maintain a wall that blocks out all miseducation.
But block wikipedia...c'mon. You're going to have to turn off all of the tubes for this to work there is way too much to block. Perhaps schools should set firewalls that block all internet traffic and then allow only trusted websites in from a database. That seems a reasonable response. While we are at it, perhaps we should live in gated communities that check the character of everyone that we come in contact with.
Well, leave it to/.ers to miss the main point. They asked for advice, not "yea, don't do it." I run/have been in a web design business, but we weren't able to make it into a really profitable enterprise. The problem is that the market was saturated, and then after.-bomb there were only the big players left. If you want to make it in the web design business:
Accept that you really need to have
connections. We have recieved almost all of our business through a marketing firm that we have family connections with.
Generalize solutions and have them handy. Goty a simple way to implement e-commerce, keep it handy. Use it again.
3. Estimates should include everything, and don't be afraid to ask what a job will really entail in time.
4. Protect yourself by incorporating as soon as you can, then you can see how the other half lives.
Make clear job specifications and stick to them. Success is all about making it clear what you can and will do and when.
Maybe I'm the exception to the rule, but our local library has done a lot for fostering community. My wife has participated in the annual poetry contest and readings at the library. We have gotten to know our library staff, met people and our kids have discovered new materials through the connections that they have made at the library.
I won't argue that this program has value, but your average local library is community-run, a center for local civic involvement and community programs and projects. The American Library Association puts community involvement at the heart of it's mission. In fact the major advertising campaign for this is called connect@the.library.
Still, the project has merit, especially because the materials that your average library offers is limited by limited finances, and this might fit niches that go unfilled right now, like making high-end geek stuff available to others.
I know that I will indeed sound like a rube, but isn't a pocket pc really just a toy anyway? I use my Axim to surf the web wirelessly and check my mail, but most of the time I use it just as a toy. Who really does word processing on these things? You can't take notes. Even surfing is pretty painful.
On the toy side, however its a relatively useful device. Its multimedia capabilities are pretty good(its a good MP3 player and a good ebook reader(which allows me to read linux docs)) but I think people that have the geek positive gene wouldn't mind playing with something new simply for the toy potential.
Ultimately, their are some upsides to these things:
SSH(which I have yet to see for ppc.
Coding in other languages than the M$ langs
xterm
testing embedded stuff
Its a small, shallow pool of users but for cheap geeks who want to play with operating systems(that might be 99% of us) this is a good way to play embedded linux on a system that we use for other things.
In fact, I would argue that good content need not change. Aside from the obvious issues with the small sampling of phrases, the web is, thankfully, not just a series of catch-phrases. In fact, it was designed to carry complex information such that it could not be reduced.
What scares me here is the conclusion that web sites need to change their content 60% every 3 months. This is not freshness, this is reorganizing to re-organize. If you are considering doing this, you had better seriously re-consider your future. Its an interesting study but a good meme doesn't die simply because the catch-phrases are tired.
At faculty meetings at our school I sit with a bingo card. On it are a series of catch-phrases. We listen for the catch-phrases and shout out when we have finished our cards. B***SH*T is the game and to reduce your content to a series of reorganized catch-phrases is like having a marketing guy develop foreign policy.
Anyone willing to write the perl module that searches for the latest catch-phrases and inserts them randomly into your web content. Yeesh!
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As a media specialist I love to praise and lampoon wikipedia. I keep my copy of the Tibet page with me listed as the kingto prove my point. Unfortunately, as I also point out to classes, the edits were deleted within 5 minutes. I like to point to the value of community developed knowledge, the power of the group effort, but also the messiness of the group effort. People in a democratic society don't always make the best choices and sometimes people take advantage of the weaknesses of the democratic framework. My district's media curriculum has a key understanding that reads "I understand the value of an intellectual work in a democratic society." That would be uniquely hard to do in a district that tries to maintain a wall that blocks out all miseducation. But block wikipedia...c'mon. You're going to have to turn off all of the tubes for this to work there is way too much to block. Perhaps schools should set firewalls that block all internet traffic and then allow only trusted websites in from a database. That seems a reasonable response. While we are at it, perhaps we should live in gated communities that check the character of everyone that we come in contact with.
Maybe I'm the exception to the rule, but our local library has done a lot for fostering community. My wife has participated in the annual poetry contest and readings at the library. We have gotten to know our library staff, met people and our kids have discovered new materials through the connections that they have made at the library. I won't argue that this program has value, but your average local library is community-run, a center for local civic involvement and community programs and projects. The American Library Association puts community involvement at the heart of it's mission. In fact the major advertising campaign for this is called connect@the.library. Still, the project has merit, especially because the materials that your average library offers is limited by limited finances, and this might fit niches that go unfilled right now, like making high-end geek stuff available to others.
- SSH(which I have yet to see for ppc.
- Coding in other languages than the M$ langs
- xterm
- testing embedded stuff
Its a small, shallow pool of users but for cheap geeks who want to play with operating systems(that might be 99% of us) this is a good way to play embedded linux on a system that we use for other things.What scares me here is the conclusion that web sites need to change their content 60% every 3 months. This is not freshness, this is reorganizing to re-organize. If you are considering doing this, you had better seriously re-consider your future. Its an interesting study but a good meme doesn't die simply because the catch-phrases are tired.
At faculty meetings at our school I sit with a bingo card. On it are a series of catch-phrases. We listen for the catch-phrases and shout out when we have finished our cards. B***SH*T is the game and to reduce your content to a series of reorganized catch-phrases is like having a marketing guy develop foreign policy.
Anyone willing to write the perl module that searches for the latest catch-phrases and inserts them randomly into your web content. Yeesh!