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Egalitarianism and Progressive Enhancement

Progressive enhancement follows the Golden Rule because it is concerned with the “other”. That’s why accessibility is such a key part of building websites following the progressive enhancement philosophy. It’s about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes—someone whose abilities and situation probably differ from yours. We are a diverse lot after all. One hell of a read from Aaron […]

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Text lasts

Text lasts. It’s not platform-dependant, you don’t just get it from one source, read it in one place, understand it in one way. It is not dependent on technology: it is what we make technology out of. Code is text, it is the fundamental nature of technology. We’ve been trying for decades, since the advent […]

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It’s going to happen

From Ben Hammersley’s speech to the Information Assurance Advisory Council: [Moore’s Law means] that anything that is dismissed on the grounds of the technology-not-being-good-enough-yet is going to happen. It’s a fantastic speech on pre and post Cold War generations, networks vs hierarchies, and the failure of governments to come to terms to what is happening in […]

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The future of the library and librarians

The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. […] We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are […]

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The Isolated… really?

You can’t just dip into these channels and understand the interactions that are going on. You need to get involved or you risk sounding like every other lazy pundit that doesn’t ‘get it’ as they state.. “I don’t want to know what you are having for breakfast!” Those regurgitating this particular meme are probably not […]

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