I’ve been messing around with Pinboard lately for social bookmarking and I’ve been really impressed with its archiving features and all the excellent iOS clients for it. I’ve also messed around with getting my bookmarks showing up on my domain! I’ve had some people ask exactly how I’ve integrated Pinboard with this site, so here’s what I’ve done. The finished product. At pinboard.in/resources you can find the Linkroll and Tag cloud widget, under Javascript Widgets....

This semester I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to teach a tutorial class with 10 honors students on Digital Citizenship. Here is my course site: digciz.jadin.me The course is best described as a small sampling of a few digital citizenship topics and a project where students design and build a website on Knight Domains for their own personal use. We meet once a week for 5 weeks, then we have a mid-semester check-in, then a end of semester website showcase!...

I’m really proud of the work our Tech Bar students have been doing promoting their next event on campus called “Claim Your Own Slice of the Web.” Yes, the pun is intended. They’ve been working hard promoting the event on our website, social media, and in person by camping outside the cafe and talking to their peers! They’ve also made a ton of really cool promotional materials: div.gallery { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; } div....

I’ve been using Nativefier to keep web apps I use all day (that I don’t want to get lost in my Chrome tabs) in my macOS dock / Windows taskbar. I’ve been struggling to find a good cross-platform solution for this, as I use both macOS and Windows pretty regularly, but Nativefier works great. Here’s a screenshot of one I made for Google Keep: And then it also shows up in my dock!...

I’ve been playing around with a wonderful bit of nostalgia this weekend: This is a fully self-contained and ready to use Windows 95 virtual machine running in an Electron app, which means its cross-platform, and written primarily in Javascript! The developer couldn’t have made this easier to set up. Just go to the releases page on the github, download the version for your OS and run the setup program. It comes with a few applications pre-installed[1] and it is more or less the full Windows 95 experience....

crossposted to snc.digpins.org After experiencing Nicky Case’s The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds I started thinking about the what a particular method of communication could be important in spreading complicated ideas or concepts. The stuff Case talks about in The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds is not specific to any particular online or offline or type of media, so I’m going to apply this type of thinking to Twitter, blogging, and podcasting and see if I can come up with any interest comparisons or contrasts....

crossposted to snc.digpins.org Typically when we talk about digital identity we focus on our digital footprint or what we leave behind on the web. Lately, I have been thinking about how what I consume on the web affects me, or how my “online” self affects my “offline” self. I have always enjoyed reading news articles and blog posts on the internet. I’ve made a habit of frequently reading blogs and news sites on various topics that interest me (mostly tech, education and music) since high school....

crossposted to snc.digpins.org I am participating in #DigPINS and our first week is about digital identity. We were asked to create a Visitors and Residents Map which is a nice visual way of describing the way we interact and engage with different tools on the web. Here is mine: I chose to include Youtube and Podcasts on this map, because even though I consume that stuff more than I create it, I have dabbled with producing podcasts and Youtube videos (for work)....

This post is cross-listed from blog.knight.domains UPDATE We are no longer going to be holding this event on a regular basis. Instead I recommend you stop by Tech Bar to scratch your diy-website-building itch! We have a budding Domain of One’s Own project at St. Norbert College, and it has been exciting to see our pilot groups and Tech Bar students jump head-first into building their own slices of the web and taking control of their digital identities!...

This morning I was listening to a podcast on my phone as I was getting ready for work, and I splashed a large amount of water on my phone. I freaked out for a second before I realized that my phone is waterproof. Once I realized this, I resumed the playback of my podcast, but I could barely hear it, and the sound was extremely distorted. I quickly realized that this was because my phone speakers were drenched....