http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci Presented by Norcross Media Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:42:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently took A List Apart's survey for people who make Web sites. If you make Web site, please take the survey as well. From A List Apart: Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/08/07/a-list-apart-2008-survey/ I have been playing with the idea of expanding my categories by adding two more of my passions, photography and film. I am breaking into the photography category with a Flickr set from one of my favorite photographers, Thomas Hawk, who is also a founder of Zooomr. $2 Portraits ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/07/22/2-portraits/ Inspired by Tom Merritt's word cloud of his novel Boiling Point (view it here), I created a Wordle of LiTechSci. I think it gives a good overview of the content within without having to skim through pages of content. Wordle could actually be useful in the SEO world ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/06/17/wordle/ I know, just what you need is another invite to some social application. You're thinking: "I'm on MySpace/Facebook, why do I need anything else?" First off, those social networks are so 2006, secondly, they're tied down to your computer and logging in to the network. Forget social networks, it's time for ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/05/09/friendfeed/ I received this email today and thought I would pass it along to anyone who thinks having technology entrepreneurs in Maine is important: Hi Cade, Maine needs additional financing vehicles to attract new companies and ideas and to fund and retain our current entrepreneurs. We are entering the last days of Maine's ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/04/11/techmaine-fund/ Two years ago I began working as a freelance Web designer. My intentions were not to make big bucks, but to help people and organizations out who could not afford to hire their own designer while gaining experience. Having little experience with Web hosts, I referred to the ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/04/08/how-onehut-burned-me/ Here are the winners of the local (Portland, ME) 700 MHz auction. For those not familiar with it, 700 MHz is the spectrum that is currently being used by analog television, but will be handed over to the auction winners in 2009 when public television goes completely digital. Also, ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/04/01/king-street-is-local-winner/ On the Sword and Laser forum for the current cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, a question was brought up about the reason for using product brand names in the novel. Many found this to detract from the story, and here was my response: There is the possibility that Gibson ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/03/15/neuro-branding/ Google Calendar has a new-to-me feature of being able to sync with Microsoft Outlook. You can choose to sync both ways, Outlook appointments to Google Calendar, or Google events to Outlook Calendar. You can also choose how many minutes should pass between syncs. I tried it out (syncing Google Calendar ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/03/13/google-calendar/ The AP announced today that the Tolkien Trust and HarperCollins are suing New Line over the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies that were released in 2001, 2002, 2003. The Tolkien Trust was only paid $62,500 instead of the contracted 7.5% of gross revenue. If my trusty calculator ... http://norcrossmedia.com/litechsci/2008/02/12/there-and-back-againor-not/