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11th February 2000

The Accessible Web Author’s Toolbox

“There are a number of helpful tools out there that can make life much easier for the author of an accessible web site. These include networked and local evaluation tools, correction and repair utilities, WYSIWYG and ‘raw HTML’ editors, and specialized browsers for testing purposes.”

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11th February 2000

The 7 vices of highly creative people

“If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.”

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11th February 2000

Video game history

“In the fall of 1989, before ‘virtual’ was a reality and before the appearance of interactive multimedia, CD-ROMs, and something called the World Wide Web, the American Museum of the Moving Image surveyed the history of the world’s first digital entertainment medium with the exhibition Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade.”

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11th February 2000

Tag of the Week

“Written by Chuck Musciano, author of O’Reilly & Associates’ best-selling book, HTML: The Definitive Guide. The Tag of the Week column takes a look at tags from the latest HTML specification and explains how to use them and their properties better.”

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11th February 2000

GraphicJam

“GraphicJam is part graffiti, part jazz. It is a place where visitors contribute to an evolving collaborative drawing — a ‘wall’ where a private gesture becomes part of a public design. GraphicJam connects all visitors to the site into one virtual drawing surface. Any mark made on this surface is visible to all viewers nearly instantly, so those involved in the Jam can see the actions of anyone else who is marking the wall at that moment.”

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11th February 2000

SXSW Interactive Panels 2000

Alright. I’m going. This is the list of what’s happenin’ (Roundtables, Business, Content/Design, Convergence, Beyond).

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11th February 2000

Usability 102: Cutting the cheese

“Joe Clark does not mince words. His incisive style enlightens many, enrages others. We are proud to premiere a new series in which Joe and other tough-minded critics will redefine ‘web usability.’ Presenting Usability 102. This issue: Once the hallmark of a real web site, user-contributed content may have outlived its usefulness in e-commerce. Is it time to cut the cheese?”

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