JOE JURCZYK

Last Friday I gave an online presentation titled “Blogging and More: The Ins and Outs of WordPress” on WizIQ.com as part of a seminar on “Web 2.0 for Blended Learning and Instruction”. The presentation gave an overview of how to customize WordPress using themes, plugins, widgets and custom coding.
View the entire 2+ hour seminar […]

The SETI project from Berkeley has been around for years. With unused PC cycles, the SETI software performed the math necessary to determine if telescope reading at Berkeley might contain data from extra terrestial signals. While that software (with the familiar black screen saver with the 3D bar chart) is no more, about […]

From Usability.gov:
Widget: def. Screen-based controls that are used to interact with a website and other systems. Widgets include pushbuttons, selection lists, radio buttons, sliders, etc.
Read more on the pros and cons of widgets at BusinessWeek.com.

Lots of neat apps here. Read the blog here.

Microstock Diaries chronicles the happenings of the various low-cost stock photo sites that operated on the web whether you’re a buyer or seller.

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve […]

Well, I guess maybe I used an old version of Word (2.0 anyone ?)
Version 15.5 of LISTSERV has arrived. (I think they already were on version 14 back about in the early 90’s when I first started using LISTSERV on a mainframe for the ULTRA list.) Though it’s been updated for the times […]

Yesterday I made this presentation at the Q Conference held at the National Libraries of Medicine at the NIH in Bethesda. The paper is a preview of my dissertation that will focus on the development of a web-based tool to administer Q Methodology studies.

Am working on promoting a new site, 247Learn, where you can get six months of access to various course packages (Microsoft Office Computing, Web Development, IT Professional, etc.) for only $60 each.

This article from Robin Good is a couple years old, but like his other stuff, the message is timeless.