Last Thursday, comScore released their 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report, which tracks the amount of digital media consumption on mobile devices, who is consuming that…
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OPLIN 4cast #522: Trustworthiness cues
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Trustworthiness is becoming an important issue on the web, with some of the biggest players taking new steps to mitigate the frequency of untrustworthy information…
We’re all generally aware that websites – and perhaps library websites especially – should be accessible to people with impaired vision. One aspect of that…
For the last couple of years, Google has been encouraging websites to use the HTTPS protocol to secure the traffic between the website and the…
If not, you have a problem. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has just released data collected in July 2015 from about 53,000 households…
OPLIN 4cast #487: Section 508
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No, it’s not the title of a sci-fi novel. Section 508 is a 1986 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, mandating that information technologies…
OPLIN 4cast #480: Stylish words
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Last Friday’s article in the New York Times (first link below) about the death of Robert Palladino prompted some thoughts about the relationship between the…
OPLIN 4cast #469: The first website
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How old is the World Wide Web? The safest answer to that is probably, “At least 25 years old.” Tim Berners-Lee wrote theoretical descriptions and…
OPLIN 4cast #392: Designing for mobile
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How many times have we told you guys that mobile computing is important? (Looks like about one out of every ten 4casts.) So, if you…
If you haven’t heard of the Heartbleed bug, we can’t imagine where you’ve been all week. The Heartbleed name and logo seemed to be everywhere…