Movable Type 4.2 and TypePad AntiSpam

We publish several blogs on the Movable Type platform: Urban Semiotic concerns matters wrenching the city core; RelationShaping examines how technology pierces the body in situ; and WordPunk wrangles words in the wilds.

Yesterday, Six Apart announced the impending release of Movable Type 4.2 and that news was exciting because there will be many enhancements that will make publishing our work faster and easier to read. Everybody wins!

The rise of the TypePad AntiSpam service -- to be embedded in Movable Type 4.2 -- is a fascinating product aimed directly at the heart of killing Akismet and Automattic.

Everyone loathes Spam, and the first AntiSpam product to market that is wholly end-user customizable, and can tackle blog Spam without bunches of false-positives -- or mysterious, automatic, deletions -- will win the niche and earn the world.

Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

We are pleased to announce our fourth book -- Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac -- is now published by Cengage Learning!

Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac offers you a quick and simple way to learn a complex and complicated software suite.

On each page we provide easy steps for learning Office for Mac using full-color images and lots of tips, hints and secrets!

After reading our book, you will be a Mac Office 2008 expert as you master Word 2008, PowerPoint 2008 and Excel 2008 along with Messenger for Mac and Entourage!

Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is now available for purchase everywhere excellent books are sold.

Here are our other recent Thomson/Cengage books:

We are certain you will learn a lot from each book!

Online International ASL Tutoring

Boles University and HardcoreASL.com are pleased to announce two new programs.

The first is our ability to now offer online and in person international American Sign Language fluency evaluations for job seekers, businesses and private individuals. Now you can get a job based on your ASL skills, or you can "opt out" of a foreign language requirement for your schooling.

Next, we now offer online private ASL tutoring via iChat and Skype. Now you can learn ASL from the comfort of your home or office wherever in the world you live.

Head on over to HardcoreASL.com and click around to see all the programs we're offering on that portal.

Writing Four New Boles Books

It is a great honor and pleasure to announce we are writing the following four books for Thomson/Cengage Learning:

Picture Yourself Learning Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1 (includes Bonus DVD!)

Google Apps Administrator Guide

The writing schedule is hectic but we will get it done.

Three of the four books will be published before the end of 2007.

We will keep you updated on the status of our onward progress in bringing these semiotic books to life. We love and honor the power of the image on the page and these full-color books will prove that devotion in spades.

David W. Boles' WordPunk ™

David W. Boles' WordPunk ™ is a new blog about "writing about words in the wilds."

We hope you enjoy that site and that you also add it to your RSS read list every single day!

Research with Google Custom Search Business Edition

Searching for information on a blog can be confusing and confounding.

To provide better meaning in our world -- we have purchased a Business Edition Google Custom Search Engine for Boles University so you can quickly do a search for topics that interest you.

You can start using the search engine here or by using the new Search Box in our sidebar:

http://bolesuniversity.com

You can also search Boles Books Writing and Publishing and Urban Semiotic via that same search box.

If you're looking to search Boles Dot Com and Hardcore ASL and Go Inside Magazine instead -- Google Custom Search Business Editions cost $100.00 USD each but they only work by indexing three domains at a time! -- then try out this additional Google Custom Search Engine Business Edition we purchased just for that purpose!

http://boles.com

Let us know if you have any joys or troubles searching your wants with us!

Boles Books Writing and Publishing

It is a great delight for us to tell you about a new book from Boles Books Writing and Publishing -- one of our premier content partners.

Google Apps for Your Domain is a new book in process written by David W. Boles and published by Thomson under their Course PTR imprint.

You may read this blog entry for more information and also visit the official website for the book.

Boles Prep Joins Boles University

We are thrilled to announce Boles Prep is now a part of Boles University!

All preparatory programs will continue unabated here at Boles University and we are joyous to have you all with us here.

Boles Tech Joins Boles Univeristy

We are pleased to announce Boles Tech is now a part of Boles University!

All programs will continue here and if you have any questions, please ask!

Boles University Teaching and Learning

We are pleased to announce Boles University is open for business! Help us break ground and build an institution of greater learning!

We are seeking faculty members and students who wish to teach and take classes with us via our online learning portal. Please go look around the revamped Boles University website to see what's new and let us know what interests you as a teacher or a taker of courses.

Make sure you read all the links that deal with Faculty, Courses, Registration, University and Study to get a handle on what we're trying to do.

All of our courses and teaching styles are unconventional, innovative, unique and nothing like you've ever experienced before!

FACULTY
If you are interested in becoming a member of our Faculty -- you don't need a degree to teach with us, you simply need passion and incredible knowledge of your course topic(s) -- please use this email address to get in touch:

Tell us who you are and what sort of course(s) you would like to teach. Include a resume or C.V. if you like so we can get to know you better.

If we think your philosophy of teaching matches our intention, we will send you an invitation to create a Boles University Account.

Then, using that Boles University Account -- all Faculty and Students are required to have a Boles University Account in order to guarantee a proper communication pipeline -- you will login to our private Faculty Teaching Portal where you can ask questions and get details on how to set up your course(s) and to learn how you will be paid for teaching.

We think this is an exciting time to build an online university while blazing bright paths to victories of the mind. We will help you learn how to best teach online and how to create the best experience for your students.

STUDENTS
We are here to serve you! Please read the links we mentioned above to see if our place fits your style of learning. Our list of online course offerings grows every day, so check back often for updates while we build the courses. If there's a topic or a subject matter that interests you, please drop us a line to let us know your wants and desires for learning. We want to hear from you!

We are everything with you and nothing without you; so please join us in making something out of the ether of nothing.

If You Had Your Own Online University

If you were going to offer online courses as your own self-accredited university -- what would you offer and would you charge for the classes or not?

How would you meet online to interact with your students using only Google-sponsored stuff?

Welcome to blog.BolesUniversity.com

Welcome to the blog at BolesUniversity.com!

We will have some hopeful news here soon.

Please post a comment below to help us test this new blogging system.

Thank you!