Category Archives: Chronology

The study of things in order of time or the study of time.

Blue Beanie Day

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Show your support for web standards and accessibility. Please join us on Monday, November 26, 2007 in celebrating Blue Beanie Day.

Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content.

It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Don a Blue Beanie and snap a photo. Then on November 26, switch your profile picture in Facebook and post your photo to the Blue Beanie Day photo pool on Flickr.

Doug Wearing a Blue Beanie

Next Steps:

  1. Make a personal commitment to fight Web Standards Apathy. Show solidarity with the Standardistas on November 26th, 2007.
  2. Buy, beg, or borrow a Blue Beanie (blue hat or cap, even a black or grey one will do in a pinch.)
  3. Take a photo of yourself wearing the Blue Beanie. Or take a cool group photo of you and your friends wearing Blue Beanies.
  4. Post your photo, or photos to Facebook, Flickr, and other social networks on November 26th, 2007. Remember to switch your Facebook profile photo that day. While you’re at it, switch all your social network profile photos. Flickr, Twitter, Last.fm, iLike, Pownce, you name it.
  5. Promote Blue Beanie Day in your blog or wiki starting today, and tell all your friends to get ready for Blue Beanie Day. Start by inviting all your Facebook friends to this event.

Check the Blue Beanie Day event notification on Facebook to see more Blue Beanie heads and to make a comment or ask questions.

BlogPulse Charts and Graphs

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Have you tried BlogPulse charts and graphs to track and analyze what’s behind the buzzwords?

Here is an example showing the keywords python, ruby, and wordpress (time-line is the past 6 months). Looks like the WordPress spike is beginning to fade, and I wonder what that means?
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Here is another BlogPulse trend chart showing what everyone was talking about last week. Keywords/Phrases : Virginia Tech, Cho, gun control.

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Now that we are on this topic, let me say that my deepest sympathy goes out to all the families affected by this horrific tragedy (mass murder, suicide); my prayers for peace and love continue unto God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, and I recommend that everyone read and meditate on Psalm 4 and Psalm 23 this week.

30 Boxes – The Best Web Calendar?

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Several months ago I was raving about 30 boxes – the calendar web-tool, todo list manager, and social networking thing. Then I quit using 30 boxes because I started using google calendar.

Just thought you might like to know that 30 boxes is still very cool, and they added a bunch of cool features since the last time I checked.

30 boxes is a very cool web-calendar system. The only thing I don’t like about 30 boxes is having to log in — and it’s not their fault. Sometimes I am too lazy to login to a website for a few weeks. Some people are more pragmatic than me, and will keep trying things until they find something that fits their lifestyle. Google makes it easier (to login to the calendar), since all the google apps are moving toward a common login or common ID for all the google apps.

Then along comes the Open-ID project to make it easier to sign in to all web applications from one common ID management system. We’ll see if Open-ID catches on.