Archive for July 2004
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Free Publicity
July 14th, 2004 |
How’s this for irony? I watched The Shipping News a couple of days ago before reading this book. One of my favorite parts of the movie was the main character learning how to write strong headlines. Instead of the dull “Horizon Fills with Dark Clouds,” his co-worker suggested, “Imminent Storm Threatens Village.” The main character, an [...]
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Weight Watchers, Lose the Browser Load
July 13th, 2004 |
If you try to go to WeightWatchers.com with FireFox 0.9x or Mozilla 1.7, you get a lovely message to upgrade your browser to not only IE 6.x or higher, but also Netscape 7.x or higher (For Macs: IE 5.x+ and Safari 1.1+). Netscape is based on the gecko engine, which is what Mozilla and FireFox [...]
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Global PR Blog - Day 2
July 13th, 2004 |
You can get a nice wrap up of the Emergence of Ideas: Day 1 in one post. Day 2 - Robert Scoble discusses corporate blogging and how he uses blogging in his role at Microsoft. Also, a few corporate bloggers (Macromedia, Microsoft, and Dell represented) answer questions on corporate blogging. Are ethics good business? is worth mentioning [...]
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Global PR Blog Week 1.0
July 12th, 2004 |
Lois Carter Fay brought this week’s Global PR Blog Week to my attention. More details are also available in TheNewPRWiki. I look forward to seeing what information is gleaned each day. Today’s topic is PR in the Age of Participatory Journalism with Trevor Cook, Don Crowther, Dan Forbush, and others. I am interested in seeing how effective [...]
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Web Accessibility Toolbar v1.0
July 12th, 2004 |
Accessibility Information Solution has released v1.0 of its Web Accessibility Toolbar, which only works with IE. In case you’re wondering why it is for IE only, first… there is already a great toolbar for mozilla/firefox by Chris Pederick. Steven Faulkner of NILS was kind enough to explain the reasons for the toolbar’s compatibility with IE [...]
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More Notes on Mozilla Security Issue
July 11th, 2004 |
Porter Glendinning shed more light on the Mozilla vulnerability and gave me permission to share: The “bug” (I’ll explain why I put that in quotes in a moment) was reported back in 2002 and was only fixed recently when an actual exploit was discovered. The reason that this isn’t such a cut-and-dried case (in reference to my [...]
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Google: The Missing Manual
July 10th, 2004 |
Google doesn’t have an official manual, so Google: The Missing Manual steps in. The super search engine has a multitude of features many don’t know about. The authors do a first-rate job of describing its features and demonstrating how to use them. When I start a search, Google is often the first place I go. Over [...]
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Mozilla Is Fallible
July 9th, 2004 |
Mozilla and FireFox has a security issue. But as soon as we heard about it, the fix was available and the steps to verify it has been implemented are simple. More than we can say for Internet Explorer. Though I’ve spoke highly of the mozilla.org products, it didn’t mean I thought of them as saints, [...]
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Rewrite URLs with Content Negotiation
July 7th, 2004 |
Content negotiation can make URLs shorter and more abstract. Save size and migration headaches by rewriting URLs without file extensions to the right resources. I asked the author, Andy King, a few questions about this method. He kindly responded: Q: But wouldn’t it take up more space on the server if you have three versions [...]
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FireFox Fix-its
July 3rd, 2004 |
These are problems and annoyances I ran into when first installing FireFox on several computers. Thanks to the forums, the problems quickly went away. Master Password - whenever I signed on a site, FireFox asked if I wanted it to remember the password. When answering, “Yes,” it would asked for a Master Password. WHAT!?!? I never [...]
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