Google’s Professional Certificate programs on the Coursera learning platform are wildly popular. The one I completed in the fall of 2024 –Google UX Design– has over a million learners enrolled. Unfortunately, I am not the student they had in mind when they built that course. So, much of the content was irrelevant to me. A
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I love the sun. I especially love being warmed by the sun outdoors. Alas, it’s hard to see my laptop display when I sit in the sun. So for this graduate school assignment, I’m sitting at my desk indoors, writing a post about the sunny photo above. It shows two bicycles and two people—possibly campers
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Building Climate-Friendly Websites It takes an alarming amount of energy to power the world’s websites. Here are some ways site owners can cut back on internet pollution. The internet—including data centers, user devices, and telecommunications networks—uses an immense amount of electricity. In fact, the internet consumes about the same amount of energy as the entire
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Does WordPress Help or Hinder Self-Expression Online? While many view WordPress as an adaptable and creative tool, one researcher views WordPress as a technology that constrains self-expression, thus fostering internet homogenization. In WordPress: A Content Management System to Democratize Publishing, Jordi Cabot tells us that there’s a lot to like about WordPress—the most popular content
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