Some of the best ideas I’ve seen on the internet involve using math and/or challenging old conventions to re-introduce long-standing concepts. Tags/labels instead of folders (think del.icio.us), or algorithms like LAUNCH’s (now Yahoo! Music) to predict what users would like based on other preferences.
You’re probably not surprised given that short intro that I loved FiveThirtyEight.com [...]
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Math and the Intertubes
Pubsysedit 2.1 beta released
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In this release:
Icons have been refined. Instead of a large pencil, there is now a color coded box with a letter. E = edit story, T = edit tout (if your site uses these) and G = edit gallery.
Added to the strip at the top: Published Items, Templates, Page Elements, Aliases and Rebuild Index
Still working [...]
more...A super easy way to do chat
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Create an account at http://www.coveritlive.com/
The site will give you a one-line strip of code (an iframe) that you can place into a template. I used the content_top page element for insertion.
Depending on the dimensions of your main content rail, you’ll need to adjust the size of the iframe (pretty easy to do).
During our redesign, we [...]
How to Implement the PubSys Edit Extension
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With a few small changes to your components in TempSys, you can set this extension to work with your site.
Add the following tag below the <body> tag in your generic.comp:
<div id=”pubSys” editUser=”*Site Manager ID” editSection=”<& /mi/pubsys/section/id &>”></div>
*Site Manager ID is the ID for your installation. You can grab this by looking at almost any link [...]
Charlotte & Miami Beta Testing Pubsys Edit Extension
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There are two versions of the extension now:
One for Miami that is designed to meet their needs based on no template modification
Another for Charlotte that is built to be more extensible and requires template modification
I decided to handcraft one for Miami to get more people using it — and therefore more feedback. I hope by [...]
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