Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Peter Lang, New York, NY, USA 2006 216 pp. Paperback, $31.95 USD ISBN 0-8204-7823-7 Buy at Amazon Cutting Code addresses the subject of software that has previously been marginalized due to its invisibility. Software is a very mutable object that is entangled in a web of relations. Mackenzie thus sees software as a social object… Read more Review: Cutting Code. Software And Sociality – Adrian Mackenzie
I am working on a schematic overview of the various layers of WordPress. My main focus is the hierarchy of the various layers, how they communicate and how they fit into the whole picture of the internet. Here are the first draft I made in February and my current drafts from April. I am constantly… Read more Schematic technical overview of WordPress
I am using my blog as a research tool for my thesis and I am always very happy with comments and feedback on whatever I write. What I find interesting is that the few conversations I have had on this blog almost all shifted to e-mail. When people comment on my site I receive an… Read more Blog comments, discussions, conversations versus e-mail conversations & coComment
When writing a post in WordPress you can choose between writing in either Visual or Code mode. This implies a distinction between those who know code and those who don’t. Another good example of this tradition in software can be seen in HTML editors such as Macromedia Dreamweaver with a Code and Design mode. Dreamweaver… Read more Visual editor mode – TinyMCE WYSIWYG?
I noticed another glitch in the software when I was saving an unpublished post. When you press Save and Continue Editing the editor switches from Visual to Code and back to Visual. So while saving you are temporarily faced with the code while you are actually working in the Visual mode. I think this is… Read more WordPress Glitches: Visual/Code editor & Advanced Visual editor
I recently experienced a WordPress bug which made my Visual editor mode disappear, leaving me only with the Code mode. A visit to the WordPress support forum led me to a topic appropriately titled “sudden disappear of visual editor.” I was fortunate enough that the easiest solution quickly resolved the problem: Go to the Users>Your… Read more WordPress problems: Visual editor gone (fixed), or: A glitch in the software