del.icio.us bookmarks for Thursday November 02 2006
02-November-2006
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Optimizing Page Load Time (and a little about the Debug menu) | Surfin’ Safari - recommends die.net resource and gives tips for using safari debug menu options to analyse loadtime
..'here’s a great article on Optimizing Page Load Time. I recommend reading and applying much of the advice.. Another tip you might find handy as a web developer is the “Show Page Load Test Window” option in the Safari Debug menu
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Optimizing Page Load Time - die.net : good analysis of effect on page load time of many small external objects, with effective-bandwidth guestimator and some decent tips - recommended by surfin safari
[nb hyatt says when safari experiemts tried pipelining they goit garbage from some important servers so gave up].. IE, Firefox, and Safari ship with HTTP pipelining disabled by default; no pipelining means each request has to be answered and its connectio
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Full-featured wikiCalc beta release 0.96 | danbricklin.com/log [18 sept 06] 'hopefully the last beta version before 1.0. It has all of the localization work (moving strings into a few easily customizable files, etc.), all of the functions, final UI, etc.
in this post: Full-featured wikiCalc beta release 0.96, Essay with thoughts on patent litigation, wikiCalc moving along, What I've been up to -- wikiCalc and a patent lawsuit
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Friday November 03 2006
03-November-2006
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BBC - collective: BBC open online community for arts & music... Collective is about discerning people like yourself exchanging views on new music, film and culture - without wading through the usual hype. Editors seed with full trax, vid clips & articles
Those reviews and interviews are then open to debate. Ignore us and write your own review if you like. Your member space, cunningly called “my space”, is where all your reviews and conversations live. It's your home on Collective and people can visit
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Gmail:Help Center- How do I view Gmail messages with my aggregator? .. 'You can view Gmail messages in your aggregator by subscribing to a channel. Enter https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom in the URL field, then your Gmail address and password.
Gmail messages won't appear in your aggregator unless there are unread messages in your inbox. ou should ensure that your Gmail feed is set to private when subscribing through any aggregator. Many services set new feeds as public by default, making your e
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Saturday November 04 2006
04-November-2006
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Guardian Weekend Magazine Web 2.0 special: A bigger bang: John Lanchester gets to grips with the virtual universe and Guardian writers interview the smartest and luckiest entrepreneurs who demolished the old internet and built a brand new one.
big cover feature in today's colour supplement. some audio online. Interviews: Wikipedia, Blogger/Odeo, WordPress, Bebo, Writely, Digg, Craigslist, Last.fm, Del.icio.us, Feed Burner, Netvibes, Technorati, Flickr
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Unbolting the Chairs: Making Learning Management Systems More Flexible | eLearn (Vol 2006 #1 ,Jan 2006): In Depth Tutorials.. 'We need a Web 2.0 LMS. A tinkerable LMS. An LMS for a mash-up world. The technological capabilities exist to create one.
..'The ideal online learning platform.. will only happen when the platform is designed such that teachers and learners can shape it to their own needs. And that, in turn, will only come to pass if organizations demand it
/analysis proposal elearning2.0/issues elearning2.0 elearning2.0/intro journal-article tutorial basic-intro-materials
del.icio.us bookmarks for Monday November 06 2006
06-November-2006
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GrazrScript Tutorial: Overview: [new scripting within grazr - user action constrains feed to display in Grazr widget] GrazrScript reduces Web application development to a few easy steps, all of which you will learn in this short tutorial.
..'hundreds of thousands of feeds available that are based on user queries. GrazrScript allows you to harness the power of all of these feeds, and publish them on any Web page with a simple to use form and a rich user interface for reading the result
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Draft Specification for GrazrScript 1.0: GrazrScript is an extension of the OPML 2.0 specification - its extensions are implemented in the form of a new namespace, prefix "grazr:". No changes have been made to the underlying OPML 2.0 format.
This specification describes the GrazrScript language, a product of Grazr Corp. (http://grazr.com). GrazrScript is used for the display and manipulation of data in various formats, including: RSS, RDF, Atom, and OPML. Programs written in GrazrScript run i
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Primer - Getting into the semantic web and RDF using N3 - a simplified teaching language -- Notation 3 or N3 -- which is basically equivalent to RDF in its XML syntax, but easier to scribble when getting started
[also useful as easily parsable lf]..'In RDF, information is simply a collection of statements, each with a subject, verb and object - and nothing else. In N3, you can write an RDF triple just like that, with a period:
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Notation3 (N3) A readable RDF syntax [Tim Berners-Lee, 1998, last mod 2006/03/09] This is a language which is a compact and readable alternative to RDF's XML syntax, but also is extended to allow greater expressiveness
AIMS:optimize expression of data and logic in the same language, allow RDF to be expressed, allow rules to be integrated smoothly with RDF, allow quoting so statements about statements can be made, and be as readable, natural, and symmetrical as possible.
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Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language: defines a text syntax for RDF as an extension of the N-Triples ([N-TRIPLES]) format, carefully taking the most useful and appropriate from Notation 3 ([NOTATION3]) while keeping the syntax describing only RDF graphs.
Turtle is a work in progress that may change at any time. It has several implementations and is usable in systems that support N3. RDF written in Turtle should be usable inside the query language part of the SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language (SPARQL)
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Talk Digger now serializes its SIOC and FOAF RDF documents using N3 - Frédérick Giasson's Weblog - A vision of the socially-wired world ['The parsing of N3 documents is much easier than its counter part (XML)]
Talk Digger now exports most of the relations it knows in RDF using 10 ontologies: SIOC, FOAF, GEO, BIO, DC, CONTENT, DCTERMS, DC, ADMIN, RSS and serialized with two languages: XML and N3. [see icons at the bottom of each conversation page, or user page]
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Create a Grazr - Put Talk Digger conversations on your web site.. Grazr can show Talk Digger conversations to your web site readers.. what is the relationship between your web site and others. Who's talking about you? Who are you talking about?
To create your own TalkDigger Grazr enter your site URL here... It gives the possibility to your readers to find new and interesting resources in relation with your website
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Tuesday November 07 2006
07-November-2006
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Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube | Techcrunch Review [Oct 4 06] SlideShare is a new service that lets users upload PowerPoint or Open Office presentationi files and share them online through a You Tube-like interface.
SlideShare is clean, fast and functional and supports various copyright claims, including creative commons.. a number of limitations:Files cannot be larger than 20 MB, there are no sharing or privacy options, and the original presentations cannot be downl
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Monday November 13 2006
13-November-2006
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Attack of the Sprouts - sweet little MMFlash game: use the left and right arrow keys to defend your christmas dinner from the attacking brussels sprouts
lovely effects when you bash one; frighteningly funny if you let them throiugh :o)
/humour whimsy client-tech/Flash
del.icio.us bookmarks for Tuesday November 21 2006
21-November-2006
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A brief introduction to Learning Design | UNFOLD [Last modified 2005-01-21] - terse intro to LD, with links
'IMS recognised that there was a need to go beyond providing content, and to provide a specification for the description of learning activities. Rather than develop a new specification it adopted the Open University of the Netherlands' EML (Educational Mo
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What is IMS Learning Design? CETIS Briefing Paper [PDF 4pp, 240KB, by Ann Jeffery and Sarah Currier, 05-12-2003] - very well written basic intro.. 'IMS Learning Design is a specification used to describe learning scenarios.
'It allows these scenarios to be presented to learners online, and enables them to be shared between systems. It can describe a wide variety of pedagogical models, or approaches to learning, including group work and collaborative learning. It does not def
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Learning Designs - Products of the AUTC project on ITC-based learning designs - web site for teachers and instructors in HE to access a rich set of resources that support the development of flexibly delivered high quality learning experiences for students
resources: proven learning designs, with exemplar aspects and full instructions on how to implement the designs | examining a set of generic learning designs | a set of tools for supporting learners | principles for design
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del.icio.us bookmarks for Thursday November 23 2006
23-November-2006
del.icio.us bookmarks for Saturday November 25 2006
25-November-2006
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Developing Career Trajectories In England: The Role of Effective Guidance (Bimrose, J., Barnes, S.A. & Hughes, D, 2006 [PDF:69pp 208KB]).. qualitative, longitudinal study of effective guidance in England funded by DfES: third major report from the study.
'The purpose of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of guidance by tracking the career trajectories of research participants and establish the role that guidance has played in this process
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