These blog posts didn’t seem to fit well in any of the other categories on our blog. But don’t hold that against them. There’s still a lot of good stuff here.
Website hosting is one of those things you probably know you need but don’t exactly know why. Kind of like a modern day Tickle Me Elmo, albeit with less red fur and incessant cackling. Without hosting, your website simply wouldn’t be visible to the world.
But before diving into the basics of website hosting, it’s important to first understand how websites are displayed. READ MORE >>
I’ll be honest with you, we don’t get a ton of comments on our blog. On a typical post we get a decent amount of traffic, some Facebook shares and an occasional Tweet. Some people even tell us in person or via email that they like a specific post which we love hearing. But we don’t usually get many comments on our actual blog posts.
This phenomenon is not unique to our blog. It’s fairly typical that blogs get fewer comments than they’d like. So here are some of my thoughts on what prevents folks (myself included) from commenting on blogs, and why we should all do it anyway. READ MORE >>
People do some interesting things. Sometimes it seems that having the ability to post and share on the Internet has only made this phenomenon more prevalent. While many of these “interesting things” are harmless, some can get pretty annoying. And some are downright illegal.
Here are a few such things and what you can do to avoid being the annoyer. READ MORE >>
Every so often Google delights us by changing their homepage logo in a variety of creative ways. Since 1998, these “doodles” have commemorated holidays, notable birthdays, and other events. For example: New Years, Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday, and even the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.
Since then, Google has started a new tradition by getting kids involved in designing these creative logo changes: Doodle4Google. READ MORE >>
We recently uploaded a new set of photos of the September 11th Memorial in St. Louis to our Facebook page. You can view a sample of the photos in this post and can view the album in its entirety by heading to our Facebook page.
We’ve written before about listening to music online, but what if you want to listen to your own music online? Enter music in the cloud.
I’m a big reader – huge. Anyone who’s known me for at least two weeks knows enough not to ask me what I’m reading nowadays (unless you have an hour or two to spare).
For a while (a long while), my reading life was sharply separated from all things technology. This is how I felt. However, once I dove in I started to discover all the delightful tools the Internet could offer a good old traditional bibliophile. READ MORE >>
We’ve written about some of the big players in online music listening, now it’s time to give some attention to a new player on the scene: Turntable.fm. Although Turntable.fm is still in beta (as of right now), chances are you can get in. All you do is sign in via your Facebook account and if one of your friends is using Turntable.fm, then you can use it too!
David recently wrote a satirical piece for ProBlogger entitled Why You Should Never Comment on Blogs. Ever. The sarcastic post outlines many common feelings that prevent people from commenting on blogs.
We’re very excited to announce our latest post on Mashable, Why Every College Should Start Crowdsourcing. The article goes from what crowdsourcing is to how it can benefit college communities as a problem solving method. The post, written by JG Visual’s own Michelle Lindblom, is informed and inspired by her experiences as a student at Washington University in St. Louis and what she has learned about the power of technology to bring people together. You can read an excerpt from Michelle’s article below or read the article in its entirety by clicking the link at the end of this post.