HTML, XML, & CSS

Yeeeeeeah so I don’t know much about any of them really, even after reading. I’ve always just had a style sheet someone else made and messed with it and added my own stuff. SO, until I can properly tell you what it’s all about, here’s some links! :

Here’s a CSS Crib Sheet [it has some do's and don'ts] that you might find helpful. Also, CSS Problem Solving

I got to thinking about how IE and CSS don’t get along much, so here’s a link : Internet Explorer & CSS Issues

Here’s an HTML Validator and a CSS Validator

If you need to transform your HTML code to make it visible to get some help in a forum, go here

Podcast?

“There is one rule of thumb when it comes to podcasting, however: Make sure yours is about something you really enjoy. Chances are you’ll never make any money with your podcast, so you might as well have fun with it.”

-From How to Create Your Own Podcast

Yeah… I thought a Podcast was another iPod accessory. I never looked twice at a link that said “Podcast” because I assumed it was some sort of channel or something on your iPod that costs money. I bet I’m not the only one. But I might be.

Apple does make a thingy called iLife that comes with GarageBand and iWeb and other programs that apparently can help out with your podcasting needs.

“Submitting a podcast to iTunes is fairly simple. The podcast page in the iTunes store has a large button that asks for the RSS link and some additional information about the podcast. A podcast can also be submitted via the Web through the link in the iTunes FAQ.

research shmesearch

I think the first search tool I used was an AOL search for Hanson chat rooms. That’s right. Of course I used google after that. For a while I preferred a search engine called “AllTheWeb” because they showed more in the picture search than google at the time. I use dictionary.com to make sure I’m using a word right and spelling it right. I don’t want to look like a TOTAL jackass, you know.

Two of my ex girlfriends found me by searching myspace. They are both now two of my best friends and I forget about how we met until something like this brings it up. It’s weird because when I searched myspace for lesbians I found a bunch of reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetards.

I found a group called nonuglylesbians on LiveJournal by searching the communities. The love of my life Rudi found me through that community.

Thank you, Mr./Mrs. Internet, for completing my life.

…and for porn.

Communities of Practice

Etienne Wenger says:

“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”

On livejournal, I’m in a community called “birls” where girls who look like boys or “androgynous” come together and post photos of themselves or of evens in their area. I think a goal we all strive for is equality. I know it’s not quite what the websites on CoP say, but it’s the closest thing I can relate it to in my mind right now, besides the class blog we have going on here.

I made a blog on our school website called Alternative Buzz. Hopefully I can get some good feedback from a lot of different kinds of people once I get it looking like someone who knows coding did it. Because right now I don’t, I just guess. Oh, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to not make my Adsense look all biffed up. Oh well. I have to be patient. EDIT// It only looks right using the Firefox browser.

Two blogs I learn from.

I have been reading the Your Daily Lesbian Moment blog for quite some time.. it was the first blog I started checking on often. I heard about it from my friend Darnell who said a very compromising YouTube video of her and I had surfaced as one of the daily moments. Since then I pretty much keep checking for the good music and the funny. “*50,000 unique visitors per month…and growing*” She’s funny and keeps it real and that’s why many a lesbian enjoy her stuff. She also has another blog called Stuff Straight People Like which is absolutely hilarious.

My friend Karmen has a blog and well… when you write about sexual encounters with Kate Moss and Angelina Jolie… you’re bound to get some attention.

What I learned: Make it look pretty. Also, make it either very funny or very sexy.

Collective Intelligence

The dog is us. The water is the intelligence.

I tend to live on the side of USELESS Collective Intelligence, like what is maintained in many LiveJournal communities. After researching a bit I have found out that I should probably obtain a life of some sort.

Here’s a graph from this site that i found useful and informative:

Personal Learning Environment.

I’m looking at Wayne B’s link in his blog.

http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2008/04/top-100-tools-f.html

I use del.icio.us, google and wikipedia. I’m not good at writing about this obviously because my personal learning environment SUCKS.

RSS

RSS is a text-based format. It’s a type of XML. RSS’s are often labeled as XML. It also ma be labeled as RDF. RSS files simply contain a list of items. Usually, each item contains a title, summary, and a link to a URL. The most common use for RSS files is for news and other reverse-chronologically ordered websites like blogs.

When a website has an RSS feed, it is said to be “syndicated.”

Atom is a format quite similar to RSS. It was created by people who felt that RSS could be improved upon, and some that disagreed with some of the politics regarding RSS.

About RSS

I copied and pasted from the link. I really like how this guy writes… he makes it all as simple as it could be and it is easy to read.

IMD Fundamentals

Assignment for IMD Fundamentals:

Topic: Web 2.0

Link 1:

http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2006/06/03/web_2_privacy/1

Response: I think that social networking is a good thing, if it is not used in a way that hurts people. It’s great for me because it’s mostly free and awesome. It allowed the love of my life to find me. I’m not too worried about it going bad for all society.

Link 2:

http://www.answers.com/topic/web-2-0?cat=technology

Response: If I have a question about anything, I can just go to wikipedia.org. If I’m not sure how to spell a word, I go to dictionary.com. I haven’t opened my Webster book in years. If I want to hear the newest song by my favorite band, I go to their myspace page rather than the record store. If I hear something awesome about a TV show that I missed, I can find the clip on YouTube rather than TiVo it. Thanks Web 2.0, for helping me save gas and imprinting my ass onto my couch.