To give a little background on how I understand the state of the School of Informatics, IU Bloomington, and the State of Indiana, there is a significant brain drain. The State of Indiana can’t keep the talent it produces from their state universities that found first-of-their-kind schools. Hello from California by way of Illinois.

Funding Ideas

A competition that funds business plans is ultimately funding ideas. The timeline of the competition is purely academic and verges on the pace of corporate. Submit in November, select by February, and present in April.

It’s open to seniors and graduate students meaning if you didn’t already secure a job offer by mid-November, which you should in such a hot tech market, feel free to throw an idea out there that appeals to Indiana based investors (hint: faster assembly line). If you still don’t have a real job offer or couldn’t build a prototype to get funding, you could still make a presentation by February. After six weeks of deliberating over PowerPoint slides, you, you and your partner, or you and your team will win at least $100,000.

“As an Indiana University graduate and local software entrepreneur, I am thrilled to have been involved in the formation of BEST. I am optimistic that pairing talented student entrepreneurs with seed capital and business mentorship will lead to entrepreneurial success”

- ExactTarget CEO and BEST investor, Scott Dorsey

You’ve proven you’re a talented student entrepreneur after a few rounds of presentations spread over six months. Now, CEOs from all over Indiana will drop what they are doing to mentor you to bring your idea to life. Your seed capital should give you at least a year (maybe two if you’re lean) to build it.

Build It

Now imagine it’s the beginning of your second semester of your junior year, and you’re scheduling classes for next Fall. (That’s how it felt for me.) An upperclassman didn’t tip you off that your internship from the summer before junior year could be used as your capstone (thanks Tyler) so you’re blocking out half of your schedule for one course where YOU BUILD SOMETHING.

For the next 6–8 months between homework, Little 500, and a summer internship, you can formulate and iterate over half a dozen serious ideas before showing up for your first capstone session where you form a team to build something. You and your team then have two semesters of student loans (plus endless credit card offers) to build a business. Student loans (and credit card interest) are way cheaper than venture capital funding, especially if you’re a “talented student entrepreneur.”

Better Yet

In all seriousness if you think you’ve got a good to great chance at this BEST competition, drop out and come to Silicon Valley. There’s a valuation bubble. Port your PowerPoint slides to HTML/CSS/JS and talk loudly at University Ave. coffee shops, and odds are you’ll have $100k before everyone else has finished submitting their business plans on Nov. 15.

Shamelessly, the company I build products for needs more help. If you just need someone to talk with about building ideas, I’m open to that, too.

Weaknesses

What concerns me most about this business plan competition is the lack of involvement by two key players in the Indiana technology scene as I see it. Gazelle TechVentures and Scott Jones used to play a substantial role in driving technology innovation and hi-tech job growth in Indiana with the support of Mitch Daniels. Jones and President McRobbie have a long history. I was present for their first press release over four years ago. If this was a sound plan for job growth and technology innovation, Scott Jones would be involved.

SproutBox has been investing in solid, vetted business plans for years in Bloomington. Why aren’t they involved? They even host a technology conference that boasts the benefits of starting a technology company in Indiana!

It frustrates and saddens me that this is what is announced the day before the SOIC Career Fair. I’m still proud to tell people I have a degree in Informatics from Indiana University even though it matters less every day. Throwing money at problems like this rarely works, especially in technology.

Students, don’t plan it– build it.

So why do people and organizations use the same avatar as someone else?

My main gripe is with Twitter accounts associated with Indiana University. Eight different accounts use the same generic block logo for IU (more with the red background). I had started noticing the overwhelming use in my twitter feed, but it became apparent how uncreative these facets of the university were being when I started browsing the new IU Twitter page (http://twitter.iu.edu/news).

The Pros

I can see the benefit of conforming and trying to keep a branding ubiquitous. It’s simple, people know it, and it’s a no-brainer when setting up the account. As soon as someone sees it, they thing Indiana University.

The Cons

The entire reason you have a separate account from @IUBloomington is that your content is specialized and different from what they tweet. If your mission, purpose, and content is different, why wouldn’t your avatar? Here’s a list of offending accounts I quickly found:

• @IUWebmaster
• @iucompliance
• @IU_Basketball
• @IndianaHoosiers
• @indianabuzztap
• @iuinformatics
• @IUgradschool

By using the same avatar, these accounts also look the same to their followers who might be like me and are scanning hundreds thousands of tweets a day. Here’s what my “Indiana” column looks like in Tweetdeck sometimes:

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From a glance, I can quickly differenciate between @iubtechcareers, @iuocs, and @itiu but can’t tell who those other guys are (@IUBloomington and @IU_Basketball in this case).

The Solution

Obviously– be unique. If you have a designer in house or are looking to hire one for a reasonable price, you could come up with something cool like the IU Creative Services.

@iuocs

The simplest solution is to just tweak the existing IU logo like Thom Atkinson (aka @IUWebmonkey) did:

@IUWebmonkey

I also like what the Indiana Daily Student has done with their separate Twitter account avatars:

@IDSNews

@IDS_Sports

They keep their original circular design but replace it with a basketball to signify “sports”. If they start an account for their Arts section, they could just as easily replace that basketball with a painting palette like so:

@ids_art

See how easy it is to distinguish your niche account with a more meaningful avatar? Now I’m off to change my avatar!

In WordPress, when a page or file can’t be found a user is redirected to the 404.php page. Mine looks like this:

404 Landing Page for MaxBeatty.com

I came across a great tutorial from Nettuts+ for creating a PHP auto-mailer for 404 and 403 errors, but since WordPress already had it’s own 404.php page, I decided to simplify their method a bit.

At the top of my WordPress theme’s 404.php page, I added some simple PHP to get environmental variables, construct an email, then mail it to myself before loading the rest of the page.

Replace:

<?php include_once 'header.php';?>

With:

<?php
# Gather visitor information
 $ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");                // IP Address
 $server_name = getenv("SERVER_NAME");       // Server Name
 $request_uri = getenv("REQUEST_URI");       // Requested URI
 $http_ref = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");         // HTTP Referer
 $http_agent = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");    // User Agent
 $error_date = date("D M j Y g:i:s a T");     // Error Date
 $msgbody =
 "There was a 404 error on the ".$server_name." domain".
 "nnDetailsn----------------------------------------------------------------------".
 "nWhen: ".$error_date.
 "n(Who) IP Address: ".$ip.
 "n(What) Tried to Access: http://".$server_name.$request_uri.
 "n(From where) HTTP Referer: ".$http_ref.
 "nnUser Agent: ".$http_agent;
mail("you@yourdomain.com", "maxbeatty.com 404 report", $msgbody, "From: 404@yourdomain.comn");

include_once 'header.php';
?>

Now every time there is a 404 error in WordPress, you’ll get an email about it. But wait, do you really want your inbox cluttered with error emails you may not be able to address until the weekend? No– enter Gmail filters.

In Gmail, go to Settings then click on Filters. You want to label any emails from ‘404@yourdomain.com’ as ‘404 Errors’, tell them to skip the inbox, and never be marked spam because odds are the URLs and technical details will look spammy.

Filter messages from ‘404@yourdomain.com’

Skip the inbox, apply the label, and never mark as spam

Then when you have time to look over errors that your site has produced for the day/week/month, they’ll all be waiting for your review under the ‘404 Errors’ label in Gmail. From there you can try to recreate and diagnose the problems.

If you’re lazy or scared of editing code, there are WordPress plugins our there to do all of this for you and even enhance your boring 404 landing page.

• 404 Notifier is a plugin that will send you emails anytime a 404 error is produced. You might still want to set up a Gmail filter for their emails.
• 404 SEO Plugin will “automatically display links to relevant pages on your site, based on the words in the URL that was not found.”
• Smart 404 will “perform a search of your posts, pages, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that content instead of showing the error. If there’s more than one match, the 404 template can use some template tags to provide a list of suggestions to the visitor.” I think this could be annoying if a user KNOWS what they are looking for, but could be helpful if a user has a typo in the URL.

Hope this quick copy/paste will improve your site and help your users find what they’re looking for!

Both of my current projects at Sproutbox and the Eppley Institute involve setting up or testing user systems. To do this, I make a lot of dummie test accounts but these accounts need to have valid email addresses to test things like password recovery. Instead of racking my brain for every email address I have ever created, I started registering test accounts with emails such as username+tester1@gmail.com.

This was working great until today in Joomla my email addresses weren’t validating with their JavaScript validation script. Luckily, it was easy to see how they were validating email addresses.

Inside the validate.js script was a small function that used a regular expression to make sure entered email addresses were in the traditional form of Username09@Domain1.com.

this.setHandler('email',
function (value) {
regex=/^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+.)+[a-zA-Z0-9.-]{2,4}$/;
return regex.test(value);
});

If you’ve never seen or used regular expressions before, they are very powerful and awesome but can be overwhelming at first. All that expression is saying — “Look at the beginning of the line and make sure there are only upper and lowercase letters, numbers zero though nine, periods, underscores, and dashes before at least one at sign.” The rest of it goes the same way.

So to allow plus signs in the first part of the email address you just add a ‘+’ after the ‘-’ and before the ’]’.

regex=/^[a-zA-Z0-9._-+]+@([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+.)+[a-zA-Z0-9.-]{2,4}$/;

Now it will allow email addresses that look like Username90+whatever@Domain1.com.

If you’re a developer and want to be nice to your users, make sure to remember to add this ‘+’ in your form validation scripts so that soon-to-be Gmail ninjas like me can filter your spam newsletters accordingly.

I’ve moved four times in the last year, and each time it has become easier because I keep getting rid of old stuff. Just yesterday I donated three full trash bags of clothes to Goodwill. My next big challenge is to get rid of all the extra computers and peripherals I’ve accumulated. When I told my dad, he had a pile of electronics to get rid of as well.

Everything still works and is in good condition so my first inclination was to put it all on eBay, but the shipping costs for a 30lb computer is almost more than the computer would be worth to someone. The price of new equipment also makes it hard to resell old equipment.

Fry’s Ad has new Laptops and PCs for next to nothing

Currently, I personally have my Macbook, an old self built PC from high school, and a small Shuttle XPC with great specs. My dad is looking to get rid of his ancient Dell laptop and two similar Dell towers. On top of this there are speakers, keyboards, mice, and 3 LCD monitors (15″, 17″, and 19″). We’re pretty much ready to open a Circuit City in our garage.

I would like to sell my computers to get a new Macbook Pro and maybe a 24″+ monitor. My dad is just looking to not throw everything away. The best solution so far that I’ve found besides eBay or Craigslist is Best Buy’s Trade In program. You tell them your specs, they shoot you a bid, if you accept it they give you a pre-paid shipping label, and in 7–14 days you get your agreed amount in the form of a Best Buy gift card.

It’s not a bad deal for older equipment that might not fetch much on eBay. I have no idea what Best Buy could be doing with all these old parts. Maybe they are building a stockpile for Geek Squad house calls. If you have another suggestion on what to do with old computers, please leave a comment.

So many people out there think social networks are distractions, that email in your pocket is unnecessary, or that text messaging is going to destroy the English language. The reality is they don’t know how to use the technology or they’re misusing it which is why they find it useless or unimportant. These things are important to me and my generation, so it’s time to catch up or be left looking stupid because you’re too old to figure out Facebook let alone email.

I was awoken this morning by a call from a New Hampshire number I didn’t know. Groggy and a little angry, I didn’t answer since I didn’t know who they were or what they wanted. Sure enough they didn’t leave a voicemail, and I spent my morning walk to class wondering about my morning mystery caller.

I wasn’t curious enough to call back because their initial call obviously wasn’t important enough to leave a message. If you think people will call you back without leaving a message, guess again. I’m not the only one with too much going on and too many other modes of communication to worry about a missed phone call. This was the most minor of misuses today, but it irked me enough to continue looking for examples.

I get to my first class and get on Facebook because I’m in college (read: helluva multitasker). As I’m scrolling through my news feed (I love the new Facebook design by the way), I noticed a number of people pasting links in their status instead of sharing them properly as videos or news articles. Facebook has taken notice of people pasting URLs in their statuses so they’ve begun hyperlinking them, but this makes for more work by me, your friend.

Every day more than one of my friends has their status set to a URL to a YouTube video. YouTube makes it VERY easy to share their videos on Facebook. Facebook actually embeds those videos so you can play them directly in your feed! Why would you take the time to copy the URL from YouTube, login to Facebook, update your status, and then expect your friends to click on the URL, leave Facebook, watch the video, then come back to Facebook to ‘like it’ or comment?

Sharing on Facebook has been streamlined with the new design. More people see the video, discussions begin, and the social network experience becomes more valuable to everyone. This doesn’t just go for videos but sharing news stories and other information on Facebook (remember me griping about forming groups when you can use Facebook’s phonebook?)

Finally in my last class, I was put over the edge and inspired to write this blog post when I received an email from my landlord. (This isn’t the first time they proved their incompetence with technology) Here’s a screenshot so you know I’m not lying:

Yes, the email message concludes by saying, “Please DO NOT respond to this email via email.” Should I write them a letter, call the office, send a fax, make an appointment to come in, or  send them a message on Twitter? WHY WOULDN’T THEY WANT ME TO PRESS REPLY!? They contacted me via this medium so why wouldn’t I use the same medium to respond?

This wasn’t an automated message from an unmonitored account. It was from one of the owners of the company. If an automated billing service were notifying us, it’s totally understandable to have an unmonitored account sending out emails, but almost every automated or unmonitored account message includes an email address you CAN respond to. What are you saying about yourself and your company when you write personal late notices to your tenants and then strongly instruct them not to reply? Don’t you care if I have questions about why you think we owe you this money?

To me this screams, “We have no idea what we are doing or how to use simple technologies such as email.” It also continues to reenforce what I’ve thought for months about Pavilion Properties- they don’t care about their tenants, they are incompetent when it comes to bookkeeping, and they are going to need a major overhaul in how they do business in the very near future.

How nice would it be as a tenant to only get an email when I owed money and not when one of my roommates does? How nice would it be if @mahoffma12 knew how to use his Twitter account so I didn’t have to not email him with questions like “Who owes that money?” What if PavProp’s Facebook page could help me find subleasers for the summer? These aren’t hard things to do even for a novice computer user.

Want to get more out of technology?

• If you want your call returned, leave a voicemail
• Sharing information is great! Do it correctly and you’ll share more than a silly YouTube video
• If you contact me through a medium like email, expect me to respond with the same medium. That’s what the reply button does.

Start using these simple tools correctly and you’ll see what all the fuss is about. Twitter isn’t on the news every night because it’s solely mundane details of people’s day to day lives. Facebook doesn’t have 175 million users because college kids love it. Email didn’t become a word in the dictionary because it’s inefficient. Voicemail didn’t earn Scott Jones a billion dollars as a novelty item.

These are new ways to communicate that make it easier for people to connect and share. I’d even go so far as to say it’s improving the quality of (my) life so get on board and stop embarrassing yourself!

Here’s more from the email:

Rob Tolley, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at IU East, was faced with the challenge of describing that and other topics.  Rather than utilizing just a written description, Rob is making innovative use of the Flip digital video camera to make live field recordings of many of the processes and techniques that are part of his course curriculum.

“[Within the course Rob teaches], there are a lot of opportunities for me to do active demonstrations,” Rob says. “This camera has made it possible for me to show students things in an online course that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to show them.”

The videos Rob has produced have proven very popular with his students.  “I can get a video up and running very quickly.  On several occasions this term, I’ve had students e-mail me questions.  I’ve been able, within half an hour, to record a short lecture or demonstration that’s allowed the student to get their answer not in text, but in video.  Those videos are then posted on Oncourse for all students to see.”

You can hear more about Rob’s work, as well as see examples of some of his recorded lectures, by clicking on the following link:
https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/group/1097251561621–1228/CL_Faculty_Showcase/tolley+center+pickwebstr2.mov

I have a Flip MinoHD and absolutely love it! It’s great this faculty member had the insight to use it to show students examples instead of trying to describe them in a long email or handout. I wish more teachers would take this sort of initiative to improve the learning experience for their students instead of sticking to old, worn out methods.

What I would like to see next are screen captures of lab exercises, for example, posted to some place like Oncourse so the students can come back later and watch their instructor step by step instead of having to revert to Powerpoint slides or their own notes. Some might say this would tempt students to skip class, and I say so what?

What’s wrong with time shifting lectures or labs? The students who want to get the most out of the class can show up for the real hands on experience, and the slackers or students who don’t need the hands on experience to learn could view the material at their own leisure. I know this is starting to sound like forming an online college, but these video supplements could really improve the traditional college setting.

Kudos to Rob Tolley for improving his course with a tool I personally love!

Old Signature

New Signature

First, I installed the WiseStamp plugin and configured my settings to form the signature I liked.

WiseStamp Settings

Then, I went to Gmail in Firefox to compose an email so I could see the final result.

Signature in Gmail

I then used Firebug to steal the HTML that WiseStamp produced. I didn’t like how the AIM and gTalk looked and I wanted them linked so someone could click on them to launch either chat client. I also adjusted some CSS and came up with this:

<div dir="ltr">
<div>
Max Beatty
<br />
<font size="2" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
Email: max@maxbeatty.com<br />
Phone: (317) 319-1140<br />
Site: http://maxbeatty.com
</font>
</div>
<div style="padding: 5px 0pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px;" dir="ltr">
<a style="text-decoration:none; border:none;" target="_service" href="gtalk:chat?jid=max@maxbeatty.com">
<img width="16" height="16" alt="Google Talk: " src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/gtalk.png"/>
</a>
<a style="text-decoration:none; border:none;" target="_service" href="aim:goIM?screenname=maxbeattydotcom">
<img width="16" height="16" alt="AIM: " src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/aim.png"/>
</a>
<a style="text-decoration:none; border:none;" target="_service" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxbeatty">
<img width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Linkedin" src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/linkedin.png"/>
</a>
<a style="text-decoration:none; border:none;" target="_service" href="http://www.facebook.com/maxbeatty">
<img width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Facebook" src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/facebook.png"/>
</a>
<a style="text-decoration:none; border:none;" target="_service" href="http://twitter.com/maxbeatty">
<img width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Twitter" src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/twitter.png"/>
</a>
</div>
</div>

I saved it as an HTML file and previewed it in my browser to make sure everything looked ok. Now, I wanted to use it in Apple’s Mail app. My first attempt to just paste it into their signature editor failed. It printed straight HTML. Luckily, I was able to find a workaround from Mac OS X Hints for creating HTML signatures in Mail.

I found it’s easier to already have a signature made that you just want to upgrade like I did. Like it says, quit Mail. I already had my HTML open in Safari so saving it as a Web Archive was easy. Then, I had to track down my already created signatures in ~/Library/Mail/Signatures and there were a few other web archives along with a ‘SignaturesByAccount.plist’. I opened up the .plist file and which is nothing more than an XML file. I scrolled down and found this:

<key>SignatureName</key>
<string>max@maxb</string>
<key>SignatureUniqueId</key>
<string>9735F373-4681-4D58-8039-55937D333511</string>

One of the web archives in the Signature directory was named ‘9735F…’ so I knew that was my old signature. I replaced that archive with my newly created archive, keeping the same name to match the .plist.

Finding the Signature files

When I booted Mail back up, my  new signature was in place and worked like a charm! If you want to see it in action, shoot me an email and I’ll make sure to respond.

Here’s the email contents:

Dear Max Beatty,

Hello from Amazon.com.

As a precaution, we’ve reset your Amazon.com password because you may
have been subject to a “phishing” scam.

Here’s how phishing works:

A scam artist sends an e-mail, which is designed to look like it came
from a reputable company such as a bank, financial institution, or
retailer like Amazon.com, but is in fact a forgery.  These e-mails
direct you to a website that looks remarkably similar to the
reputable company’s website, where you are asked to provide account
information such as your e-mail address and password.  Since that web
site is actually controlled by the phisher, they get the information
you entered.

Go to amazon.com/phish to read more about ways to protect yourself
from phishing.

To regain access to your Amazon customer account:

1.   Go to Amazon.com and click the “Your Account” link at the top of
our website.

2.   Click the link that says “Forgot your password?”

3.   Follow the instructions to set a new password for your account.
Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used
with us previously.

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com

Sincerely,

Amazon.com

Please note: this e-mail was sent from an address that cannot accept
incoming e-mail. To contact us about an unrelated issue, please visit
the Help section of our website.

Well written, no attachments, didn’t ask for any personal information, actually provided my first and last name, and didn’t include any links that weren’t hosted on the “amazon.com” domain. These are all signs of an authentic email so the last thing to check is the sender: konto-aktualisierung@amazon.de. This is where my mental phishing phlags went up. That’s not from ‘amazon.com’ like their Identifying Phishing or Spoofed E-mails page said all of their emails would be sent from!

5. Check the return address

Is the e-mail from Amazon.com? While phishers often send forged e-mail to make it look like it came from Amazon.com, you can sometimes determine whether or not it’s authentic by checking the return address. If the “from” line of the e-mail looks like “amazon-security@hotmail.com” or “amazon-fraud@msn.com,” or contains the name of another Internet service provider, you can be sure it is a fraudulent e-mail.

If you know your internet, you know .de is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Federal Republic of Germany. If you know the footer of Amazon.com, you know they have international sites for other countries like Germany. Amazon.de is the official domain for Amazon.com in Germany so the email sender can be trusted. Wouldn’t you know that ‘konto-aktualisierung’ translates from German to be ‘account update’ in English? When I received my password reset email from ‘account-update@amazon.com’, I finally accepted the email as being legit.

I could now assume that someone in Germany was attacking my account which prompted Amazon to send me an email from their German domain. If this was so, why wasn’t the email in German? Maybe I have an Amazon preference set to receiving emails in English…

Moral of the story, don’t trust any email you receive and don’t take company phishing guides as literally as I do.

This “call to action” comes after reading Elevate Web Design at the University Level by LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN and my continued frustration from the last year of teaching outdated material, interning with a global top 50 company who didn’t know what “web standards” were, and now facing another semester of outdated and boring material anyone could learn by searching for free online tutorials.

I’ve only been in one class at IU that stressed web standards and it wasn’t in informatics or computer science! Since then I’ve been instructed to teach students non-standard methods in the computer science department and have even worked in groups where members argued against the importance of using web standards (he was a informatics/computer science major). I still haven’t found a class that goes beyond teaching the W3School’s XHTML and CSS tutorials. How are students supposed to compete in the job markets with no real web development instruction? Why hasn’t the School of Informatics addressed this when most of the capstone projects end up being web-based?

From the educational initiatives I read about in Brighter Horizons for Web Education by AARRON WALTER,I think the WaSP Educational Task Force and their WaSP Curriculum Framework sounds most appealing. The courses would already be designed so instructors wouldn’t need to invest a lot of their own time into making their own versions. Everything is being released with a Creative Commons license and as PDFs so these courses would be cheap for both the department and students. The Opera Web Standards Curriculum (Opera WSC) also sounded interesting, but by adopting the WaSP Curriculum Framework, you’re also adopting the Opera WSC.

“Incidentally, many of the WaSP Curriculum Framework courses will include Opera’s articles as recommended readings and will tie directly into the learning competencies, assignments, and exam questions in foundational courses.”

I know academia is slow, but if the WCF is released in March of this year how unrealistic is it to have a course or two setup by Fall 2009 or Spring 2010? The courses are laid out for the SOI so all they’d need to do is find someone to stand in front of the class to instruct. I agree with LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN who said:

We also need to let go of the idea that professors in these disciplines must hold a master’s degree. The reality is that many web professionals are self-taught. A person with solid experience and a proven track record should be considered an appropriate candidate to teach web design and development in higher education.

My entrepreneur class this semester is being taught by adjunct professor Mark Hill who is a respected entrepreneur in Indianapolis. Why couldn’t someone from the SproutBox team in Bloomington come in to lead these web standards courses or even a talented graduate or undergraduate student?

I have just over 100 days left at IU so it might be too late for me to start some sort of student-led evangelical movement. I think I will pass along these ideas to lecturer Matt Hottell, who heads the capstone projects, Richelle Brown, the Director of Student Academic Support, Jeremy Podany, the director of career services, and Cameron Schnick, who has been involved with the Informatics Student Association and also on Twitter. It’s time IU (and SOI) takes web standards seriously because people like Jeffery Dawald and companies like Media Works are the results of poor education on the subject.