Rob Cottingham

30 Oct 2009

Fun with Zazzle

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I’ve been enjoying working with Zazzle, an online store where you can design and sell merchandise such as T-shirts, coffee mugs and greeting cards. (CafePress is its more famous competitor; each launched in 1999.)

So far, my store is selling Noise to Signal shwag: mugs and greeting cards, mostly. (And by all means, please equip your kitchen cupboard and put my kids through

Altimeter unveils ENGAGEMENTdb

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This is actually useful for a whole range of purposes: a database of online brand engagement initiatives, a crowd-sourced ranking of corporate brands, and some very interesting visualization and interface work.

Many, many kudos to the folks at Altimeter on a smashing site.

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Tattler: Drupal-based media monitoring

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Tattler (app) is an open source topic monitoring tool for today’s Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on the topics you want. Using semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to find mentions of the issues most relevant to a journalist, researcher, advocate or communications professional.

Built and distributed on open source

26 Oct 2009

E-victed

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E-victed

(person watching another type on a computer) Whoa! That post is going to get you kicked out of social media!

25 Oct 2009

Yet Another Drupal Site

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If you’re a developer who’s made a contribution to the open-source Drupal web content management system, then add this guy’s web site to your portfolio.

The White House has switched to Drupal from its old proprietary CMS, after asking that system’s developer to find a more flexible alternative.

With every commercial alternative in the

22 Oct 2009

Shel Holtz on web accessibility

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For a lot of the disabled, getting through a typical website is beyond challenging. It’s impossible. Amy, for example, prefers to shop for her kids online. It’s easier than getting someone to take her to the store and help her identify the products she needs. On the WalMart site, she is able to find products, but she can’t order; that requires a mouse click. A mouse is

20 Oct 2009

A WWII vet shares his views on equality for gay and lesbian people

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“What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach? …We must have equal rights for everyone. It’s what this country was started for.”

It’s an arresting video, posted by EqualityMaine.

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