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Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, and his team over at Digital Ethnography have put together a fantastic video that does a great job of capturing the essence of the modern web (too often referred to as Web 2.0).

I find this video insightful because it acknowledges the advancements made in information architecture driven by the web standards/development community. The better understanding of information and how it relates contextually to ourselves and our environment is reshaping the way we interact on the web, and even in the offline world.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Every person is given the same 24 hours each day. What defines who we are and what we achieve in life is how each of us chooses to use those 24 hours.

I just polished off Version 1.1 of the Amazon Showcase Wordpress Widget. This version adds some user-requested features and also addresses some compatibility issues.

Amazon Showcase is a Wordpress Widget for showcasing items from Amazon. Simply enter the ASIN/ISBN numbers of any products and optionally enter an Associate ID for earning commissions. The product image will be displayed with a link to the product detail page on Amazon.com.

New in Version 1.1:

• cURL is now supported and used if it is enabled in the server’s PHP configuration
• Integrated the fantastic simplexml44 library, a PHP4 backport of PHP5’s SimpleXML
• Added the ability to specify the Amazon locale (US, UK, FR, etc.) from which to pull items
• Added the ability to showcase up to ten items from Amazon’s catalog in the widget

A special thanks goes out to Gavin Gough and Christian Selvaratnam who both made fantastic feature requests and were invaluable in the testing and debugging process.

Enjoy and keep the feedback coming!

I’m proud to announce another code release: BetterThumbs Wordpress Plugin

The BetterThumbs Wordpress Plugin creates true thumbnails for full-size images that are resized in the post editor, instead of just letting the browser scale down the original full-size image. This translates into faster load times and lower bandwidth usage.

I built this plugin out of frustration with the way Wordpress handles images that have been resized in the post editor. To be honest, I believe this functionality should be built into Wordpress — it just makes more sense to create true thumbnails based on the dimensions the author wants.

So enjoy and leave your feedback!

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