Posted by Mark
on April 22, 2009
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This looks simply amazing. It’s a website which offers digitally scanned images and information of books, manuscripts, maps and artifacts from ancient places. Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, the Americas – it’s all there. Looks pretty cool and there might even be some finds for my Church History essay…. Let’s hope so!
“Unesco says the World Digital Library will help to promote curiosity and understanding across cultures.
Among the artefacts are a 1,000-year-old Japanese novel and the earliest known map to mention America by name.
About a tenth of the 1,200 exhibits are from Africa – the oldest an 8,000-year-old painting of bleeding antelopes.
But this is an ongoing project in its early stages, and the collection is expected to grow substantially.”
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Posted by Mark
on April 22, 2009
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At the prompting of Dave Miers, I’m toying with the idea of revamping this old blog…
It’s been a few years since I’ve worked in the online IT world, but I think now’s the time to resurrect some of those skills. My area of expertise was in the realm of online adverting at Sensis (Yellow Pages, White Pages, Whereis, Bigpond, Telstra etc) and am keen to see what sort of interesting things I might be able to conjure up…. And thus, I’m going to try and step this site up a notch and see what happens. But I really want you to tell me what you think makes a good blog site or website generally:
- Layout – do you like a 2 or 3 columned look?
- Audio/Video/Text – What do you mostly scour the net for?
- Blog posts – Do you like short or long posts?
- Other sites – What other sites do you really enjoy visiting? Why?
Basically, any thoughts on what you like in blogging websites, I’d love to hear!
Much love in Christ,
Mark
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Posted by Mark
on April 20, 2009
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I stumbled across the Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 report tonight, and it’s fascinating. I’m not sure whether I’m surprised or not in the general volume of blog traffic, but there are some interesting statistics to be taken note of.
Firstly, some stats from other sources:
comScore MediaMetrix (August 2008)
Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US
Facebook: 41.0 million | M
ySpace 75.1 million
Total internet audience 188.9 million
eMarketer (May 2008)
94.1 million US blog readers in 2007 (50% of Internet users)
22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%)
Universal McCann (March 2008)
184 million WW have started a blog | 26.4 US
346 million WW read blogs | 60.3 US
77% of active Internet users read blogs
From reading over some of these stats, I really do feel like this is a great thing to do in
service to our Lord. Perhaps some of these stats might shape the direction of our blogs and link into what’s going on in the blogging world around us!
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Posted by Mark
on April 19, 2009
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2 good articles from every techie’s favourite: Slashot.org
“A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that
Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away. Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia’s Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m. A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.”
“The Wall Street Journal profiles Vincent Connare, designer of
the web’s most-hated font, Comic Sans. Not surprisingly, the font’s origins go back to
Microsoft Bob, where he saw a talking dog speaking in Times New Roman. Connare pulled out Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns for reference, and created the comic book-style font over the next week. ‘Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer. … The jolly typeface has
spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web.”
Gotta love the old Slashdot!
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