Thursday, February 28, 2008

I found a widget

Maplight.org has a configurable widget that tracks donations to Presidential candidates and graphs them on your web site. Let's see if I can insert the proper code (exciting stuff for neo-geeks)!

Presidential Money Race Widget

OK, I must not be understanding something. I can't get the object to embed correctly. This is a work in progress.

Later that night: I went back to the website and saw that they had changed the embed code. Let's try again:



Eureka! Success!

Monday, February 25, 2008

Check out MyLiveSignature

I found a new site that allows you to quasi-replicate your own signature on blogs, websites and emails. I'm trying it out here.



Ok! Ok! So my signature is actually a great deal sloppier! MyLiveSignature.com asks you to type in the name or nickname you want to use. You then get to choose from 120 computer generated "fonts"; you also get to choose a size, the "ink" color and the slant of your "signature". Here's my first name:



Wow! After perusing the website for awhile, I learned that my options include the signature wizard (as noted above)or scanning my own signature to send to the site for a real live person to hand code (for some money). Who'd have thought there was a market for signatures?

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Fora.TV - a favorite of mine.

What exactly is Fora.TV? From the official website:
"There are brilliant ideas, expressed everyday in public discussions and events, all over the world."

"Don't miss them."

"FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online."
Fora TV now has myFora available in beta. Try it out by clicking on the program below.

View Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History on FORA.tv
View Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History on FORA.tv