At e-Literate we’re planning to do more data journalism posts. Think of this along the lines of Harper Reed’s keynote last year as described in the Chronicle. Harper Reed, who served as chief technology officer in President Obama’s 2012 campaign, offered those people what he jokingly called “an intervention.” “Big Data is bullshit,” Mr. Reed […]
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Back In Business
photo credit: iluvcocacola e-Literate is back in business and ready to go. Which is good, because I have a backlog of posts I want to get to. Before I do, though, I want to acknowledge two great additions to my blogging arsenal. First of all, the WordPress theme I’m using is called “Thematic,” and […]
Turning Your Blog Into a Social Network Node
I haven’t forgotten that I still owe you the last installment on the D2L competencies series, but that’s going to take more mental bandwidth than I have at the moment. My goal is to get to it this weekend. In the meantime, I note this article on GigaOm about the DiSo Project, which aims to […]
Comprehensive Information About Extending WordPress
If you use WordPress, or if you are just interested in learning more about what is possible to accomplish with good blog software, then you should spend some time reading Lorelle on WordPress. She is in the middle of a month-long commitment to write one post every day about WordPress plugins. These aren’t just short […]
Welcome to e-Literate 2.0
At long last, I have managed to move my blog over to WordPress. Many thanks to Sarah Lewis at Blogging Expertise for helping me get my content out of ExpressionEngine, style the site the way I wanted, and make sure that old URLs didn’t break. She was able to head some problems off at the […]
Not Dead Yet (and Other News)
I know I’ve been rather quiet lately. I’m working on a couple of new projects that I can’t talk about yet but that I should be able to talk about soon (one within a couple of weeks and another within a couple of months). Between these extra-curriculars, some articles I’m writing, and an impending move […]
WordPress Related Entries plugin
A while back I hinted to the hackers in the crowd that I would love to have a tool for aggregating the posts related to a particular meme on my site. Well, it looks like somebody did it. Unfortunately, it was for the wrong blog tool. D’Arcy Norman called my attention to this WordPress plug-in […]