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July 08th, 2015

7/8/2015

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For me, the Hugo is an award that says a book is fabulous, shows me something new and different, blows my mind with magic, technology, setting, culture and/or concept and above all make it accessible, immediate and visceral. I need to be able to fall into the world, into the character without feeling hitches and jerks and I need to feel deeply connected to the characters and their plight.

Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword is my pick for first.

Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor puts me in a quandary as to which book should be second place.

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Hugo nominee reading: The Goblin Emperor

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Maker with Mozilla

1/6/2014

 
Over the past two weeks, when I have a few spare moments, I've been playing with Mozilla's Webmaker at work trying to figure out how to load photos into its Meme Maker and its Make your own Comic templates.

Mozilla's Webmaker takes the idea of Maker Space and puts it on the web. Each online project offers a split screen with the html code of the left and the preview on the right. Sort of like using Dream Weaver. The html also has tips written in. Very cool concept.

I love the way the Webmaker sets these up because you need for these projects is high-speed internet access, very basic sense of html code, and for these two templates membership in an online photo sharing service, such as Instagram or Flickr, and have patience.

It seems like a great way to offer make what would seem complex code to the un-techy easy to do. I thought what a fun way to introduce html coding to teens and tweens.

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