Woz on the FCC and Net Neutrality

The Woz , via Daring Fireball, on FCC and Net Neutrality.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/21/woz-net-neutrality

 

Generations Online in 2010

An interesting snapshot of online activities across generations by the Pew Internet & American Life Project:
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Generations-2010/Overview/Findings.aspx

 

SharePoint: DualLayout? Cool!

Wow. Serge van den Oever writes some of the best SharePoint articles out there. In his latest post he discusses a technique he developed that allows you to publish HTML that is unconstrained by SharePoint styles/HTML.
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2010/10/19/duallayout-complete-html-freedom-in-sharepoint-publishing-sites.aspx

“When you want to make your design work together with the SharePoint stylesheet you need a lot of knowledge of SharePoint. Especially with MOSS 2007 people like Heather Salomon became famous for dissecting and documenting the SharePoint CSS files to prevent designers from a  branding nightmare.”

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“… We created an approach where we can introduced an additional mode to SharePoint Publishing pages. Besides the SharePoint Publishing WCM mode with its edit and display modes, we introduced a view mode. The view mode is a mode that gives you a view-only version of the page where you don’t have to bother about the page going into edit mode, and also don’t need the plumbing to enable your page to go into edit mode.”

Infopath: Get The Current User Without Writing Code

A handy article from Itay Shakury's blog:

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2007/04/05/InfoPath-_2D00_-Get-the-current-user-without-writing-code.aspx?from=ClayCobb

 

EFF: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Awesome.

“Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection.”

Storytelling 2.0

What a cool article from newscientist.com: “Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brains.”

“State-of-the-art neuro-imaging and cognitive neuropsychology both uphold the idea that we create our ‘selves’ through narrative.”
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“If we create our selves through narratives, whether external or internal, they are traditional ones, with protagonists and antagonists and a prescribed relationship between narrators, characters and listeners. They have linear plots with a fixed past, a present built coherently on it, and a horizon of possibilities projected coherently into the future. Digital technologies, on the other hand, are producing narratives that stray from this classic structure. New communicative interfaces allow for novel narrative interactions and constructions. Multi-user domains (MUDs), massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), hypertext and cybertext all loosen traditional narrative structure. Digital narratives, in their extremes, are co-creations of the authors, users and media. Multiple entry points into continuously developing narratives are available, often for multiple co-constructors.”

Clear InfoPath Form Cache

What a handy bit of information:

Infopath /cache clearall

Taken from a great article at “All About SharePoint.”

HTML5 Video Minus Ogg and IE < 9

A great description and solution for an issue that I agree is tedious for web developers.

“Firefox and Opera are essentially forcing websites to offer two versions of each video: an Ogg version and an MP4 version. In my opinion — and the opinion of many others — this simply will not do. Providing two different video files is not realistic, Ogg’s quality is inferior to H.264, and many computers and mobile devices have direct hardware support for H.264 but not Ogg. In reality, without MP4 support, HTML5 video is rendered useless for most site developers in Firefox and Opera.

http://pipwerks.com/2010/03/19/html5-video-minus-ogg/