del.icio.us bookmarks for Thursday February 01 2007
01-February-2007
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Tagging 'takes off for web users' | BBC NEWS: Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the trend in tagging is growing among US web users.
over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog.. for users of social networking sites it is just an obvious tool to navigate around the sites they visit.
/web2.0/uptake web2.0/publicity BBC news webcontent/trends tagging kidsthesedays categorising/practice for:opendock for:alharris for:ngrf -
CatchingTumbleweeds | Virtual Canuck: ..only 1% post or create new content on Web 2.0 stes, 10% comment and the other 89% are consumers. This is especially hard for formal online education teachers who are used to wielding the “% for participation” ma
'Teresa Burgess studied a longlasting listserv community of nurses and found 8 critical components; shared purpose, trust, guidelines, humor, flexibility, accessibility, expert facilitation, and storytelling. All of these seem important but there is littl
/theory/online-collaboration portal-admin portals2.0 elearning/practice proposal recommended for:alharris for:ngrf for:grahamattwell for:opendock -
Modelling Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice | Virtual Canuck: The key to supporting, instigating and maintaining a critical mass of participation in online communities has been illusive [so] pleased to run onto Michael Zarbs Masters thesis
'This 99 page document overviews a Delphi study in which Zarb engaged 12 virtual communities ‘experts’ to get a collaborative sense of their sense of the factors that promote and constrain participation in virtual communities of practice (VCOP).
/resources/case-studies theory/online-collaboration elearning/practice analysis theory/CoP report for:alharris for:ngrf for:grahamattwell
del.icio.us bookmarks for Friday February 02 2007
02-February-2007
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John Seely Brown MIT World Video: Relearning Learning-Applying the Long Tail to Learning | 1:42:04 real video of much-quoted talk given Dec 1, 2006.. we must transcend models of learning that prescribe "pouring knowledge into somebody’s head"
'We learn through our interactions with others and the world, he says, and there’s no more perfect medium for enabling this than an increasingly open and organized World Wide Web.
/video MIT theory/education theory/web-semantics theory/online-collaboration pedagogy/open recommended resources/video web2.0/intro elearning2.0 elearning2.0/intro basic-intro-materials for:alharris for:grahamattwell for:psychemedia for:opendock for:workplace_ple_project for:mc_dip for:cdmilligan for:rgedwards -
Microsoft to release ODF document converter | CNET News.com: A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Feb 2 to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF.
'Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word processor documents in two different formats.
/ODF microsoft standards/file-formats news policy/open-source policy/open-standards for:alharris for:grahamattwell
del.icio.us bookmarks for Monday February 05 2007
05-February-2007
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Talking with Microsoft about IE.next - The Web Standards Project: WSP took a carefully prep'd list of requests for JavaScript improvements to the MSIE dev team.. 'keenly aware of the issues we brought up and are eager to address them'
THE LIST: fast, arbitrary node-matching API | better error reporting | mutable DOM prototypes | bring IE event system in line with the W3C event model | CSS: implement generated content | fixing CSS bugs | various form control fixes | ...
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Embedded Media HTML Generator: UCSF developed to ease the burden of inserting video and animations into web pages. Asks a series of clear & sensible questions, then displays required html to embed Flash, QuickTime, Real Media or Windows Media
nice resource for brave non-techie web authors.. 'The Embedded HTML Media Generator is provided AS-IS. No warranty is implied or extended with respect to its accuracy or utility. Feedback is welcome, but we will only be able to respond to questions from U
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The extraordinary life of Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother | Guardian Unlimited Books: Red Princess - A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff is published on March 15 by Granta Books at £16.99
ahh... our mate Fiona's grandmother Sofka in a new book by cousin Sofka.. Sofka Zinovieff's grandmother, a Russian princess turned card-carrying communist, led an extraordinary life - the consequences of which are still being felt down the generations
/for-the-kids for:alharris for:grahamattwell book personal
del.icio.us bookmarks for Tuesday February 06 2007
06-February-2007
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50° 0'38.20"N 110° 6'48.32"W - Google Maps - funny/amazing landscape feature east of Medicine Hat
really has to be seen to be believed
/whimsy googlemaps for:alharris for:aglass for:rgedwards for:psychemedia
del.icio.us bookmarks for Thursday February 08 2007
08-February-2007
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OSI e-Infrastructure Working Group: Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation: sets out the requirements for a national e-infrastructure to help ensure the UK maintains/enhances its global standing in science and innovation
links to 2.7MB PDF doc + 6 sept docs for sections: Data and information creation| Preservation and curation| Search and navigation| Virtual research communities| Networks, compute and data storage| AAA (authent'n/authoris'n/account'g), middleware & DRM
/JISC report policy/UK news for:alharris for:rgedwards to-evaluate policy/e-infrastructure
del.icio.us bookmarks for Wednesday February 14 2007
14-February-2007
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Bruce Lawson’s personal site : DTI complaint - blog posts tracking his complaint about an expensively inaccessible DTI website (see also his petition at petitions.pm.gov.uk/govaccessibility) .. DTI blames CMS & contractor
sad tale beginning '..brand-new oh-so-1997 website of the Department of Trade and Industry, built by Fresh 01 and Fujitsu for a cost of £200,000, yet fails to meet a reasonable level of accessibility, even though it is clearly required in the specificati
/accessibility policy/UK news activism/webtech standards/web standards/evangelism for:alharris
del.icio.us bookmarks for Friday February 16 2007
16-February-2007
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Web Applications 1.0 - Working Draft — 16 Feb 2007 [Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group] introduces features to HTML/DOM to ease authoring of Web applications, eg context menus, graphics canvas, inline popup windows, server-sent events
[document changing rapidly] WHATWG is a growing community of browser vendors (Apple, Mozilla, Opera), web developers.. interested in dev of next generation of HTML - specifically to allow authors to write and deploy applications over the Web
/standards-org proposal standards/web standards/web/next-gen webtech/MUST-WATCH client-tech/html client-tech/middleware theory/architectures to-do knotes-issues for:alharris for:rgedwards
del.icio.us bookmarks for Wednesday February 21 2007
21-February-2007
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Explode! [new service from ELGG folks] Explode is a simple way to connect to all your friends regardless of their network!
[see scott wilson and stephen downes for more] Join the go-anywhere network in two easy steps! 1. Enter your interests and website address 2. Grab our widget and stick it on your site
/webtech/identity services/identity widget identity2.0 webtech/MUST-WATCH to-evaluate for:alharris for:rgedwards for:workplace_ple_project
