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In this edition of the ITS Coffee Break hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss long-awaited improvements to WordPress’ internal linking and discuss upcoming usability testing for the Lafayette College Web site. In Tech News they lament the end of Yahoo’s Delicious social bookmarking web site and then take a look at digital magazines on the iPad. In Help News they review the upcoming slate of iTech workshops, and offer a tip on how to make your WordPress web site respect Daylight Saving Time.
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ITS News
- WordPress Upgraded
- We’ve upgraded WordPress on WWW, Depts and Sites. It was a maintenance release, so no big new features. But 3.1 is coming, and that will have a new feature … internal linking!
- WWW Usability Testing Resumes
- We’re going to be doing more usability tests of the Lafayette College Web site. Interested? contact us at itsblog@lafayette.edu.
Tech News
- Delicious is no more
- Yahoo is ending support for the social bookmarking site Delicious.
- http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/rip-altavista/
- Should we switch to Diigo?
- Or Evernote?
- Popular Science Magazine offers “Best of What’s New”, adds enhancements to iPad edition
- Spaceship railgun, extensive photo galleries
- http://macmegasite.com/node/14508
- Flipboard
- Build your own personalized magazine based on your Facebook and Twitter feeds.
- Wired.com: How Flipboard Turned Web Noise Into iPad Gold
- http://www.flipboard.com
- Why do electronic magazines on Amazon cost as much as the print version?
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact ($2.99 an issue is the same as Amazon print cost)
- http://www.amazon.com/Analog-Science-Fiction-Fact/dp/B000N8V3EQ/
- Geeky Education Gifts?
- Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share
- Build a LEGO lamp, fly LED-illumainted kites at night, construct ethernet cuff links
- By the folks at Wired’s Geek Dad blog.
- http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Dad-Awesomely-Projects-Activities/dp/1592405525
Help News
- Tech Tip: WordPress Timezones
- Want to make sure your WordPress times are keeping up with daylight saving time? You can by going logging in and then clicking on the “Settings” link. This brings up an options page; change the timezone from manual offset to “New York”.
- This is a new option introduced in WordPress 3.0; new sites at Lafayette are created with the New York timezone, but older ones still use the GMT-5 manual offset.
Another very good podcast. Admirable dedication, Ken, coming in on your birthday to record it!
I’m going to stick with Delicious until Yahoo actually tells users that the service is coming to an end. When Yahoo discontinued its online photo service (before acquiring Flickr), it gave users time to migrate their images elsewhere. Saving your Delicious bookmarks elsewhere is a good idea just to be safe, though.