Bootstrapping A New Landing Site
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, December 28, 2013
Web redesign is in the wind again and the snappy new WordPress templates of the 2000s will look as dated as old Geocities sites after the transition to the dynamic Javascript and CSS enabled sites of the 2010s powered by applications such as JQuery and Bootstrap. More...

University of Illinois at Chicago: Virtual Reality’s CAVE Pioneer
Brad Grimes, Ed Tech, January 30, 2013

Wow, this feels like a black from the past, reading about the CAVE - the first CAVE was launched in 1992. The idea was to create a fully enclosed virtual environment (similar to what we would today call the holodeck). This article talks about CAVE2, launched last October. More...

Why I’m Now Embedding ORCID Metadata in PDFs
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, January 29, 2013

Brian Kelly suggests that PDF authors should encode metadata into the PDF file so Google will be able to retrieve it. In addition to including the title of the work, he suggests that authors include the ORCID author id (ORCID stands for 'Open Researcher and Contributor ID' - of course it goes without saying that now everyone who creates a PDF will be an 'open researcher or contributor'). More...

World's Largest Natural Sound Archive Now Online
Anita Li, Mashable, January 23, 2013

So I spent the better part of an hour listening to loons on Mason Lake and a chorus of birds in Queensland, Australia, thanks to this Mashable link to the free natural sounds archive, now available online from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. More...