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Site for members of the opengl help network to share projects and development help with each other.
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“The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design.”
Archive for the “Internet” CategoryI’ve written some notes about how to make and publish podcasts. Please leave a comment or email me if you have any suggestions or corrections. The steps in making a podcast are:
I’m assuming that you have already worked out what you want to say and probably written a script to help you keep on track while making the recording. Howard Rheingold’s 2005 TED talk about new ways of collaborating. He gives a broad sweep of the ‘evolution’ of cooperation in human civilisation:
and says that at each stage new forms of collective action became possible and new forms of wealth developed. He talks about the literature about Collective Action and looks at two social dilemmas - the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Ultimatum Game - as examples of ways to test what people think is fair. Apparently our culture thinks that a split around 50/50 is fair, but other cultures, such as slash and burn agriculture, have different views. He then extends this to the Tragedy of the Commons - humans destroy the commons they depend on - and says that it is a multiplayer version of the prisoners dilemma. The prisoners dilemma can be escaped by creating institutions for collective action and it is possible to identify features that make some of these institutions succeed and some fail. He discusses the development of the internet and open source and asks where are we moving into now? The slides he uses are simple and interesting and often make the audience laugh, even though his talk is quite serious. They are a good example of the approach discussed in the Presentation Zen book I’m reading. His website is http://www.rheingold.com/.
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Science Links for early secondary…Posted by brenda in Home Education, Internet, ScienceI’ve spent some time today adding links into del.icio.us that I think are useful for early high school science, although a lot of them are good for much wider age range.
This is a great video created by Commoncraft introducing Twitter: I’m starting to use Twitter a bit more. I’ve been noticing that it is fun to get the twitter streams from my friends, so I’ve starting posting a bit more myself. This is in contrast to my experience with Facebook which I’m just finding more and more annoying. Not exactly sure why, I think it is the combination of a really crowded user interface and all the annoying games and add ons - maybe I’m just too boring for Facebook. Last year Sharon Lee and Steve Miller tried an experiment of writing a draft of a new book set in their Liaden Universe online. The put a new chapter up each week with some weeks missed for various reasons. I really enjoyed reading it and when Baen published all their earlier Liaden books as ebooks I bought them. This first draft was called Fledgling and is still available online. This year they have decided to continue the project with the draft of the next story about the same character, and the first three chapters are already up. The new story is called Saltation. The project relies on donations to support the writing of the draft, so if you enjoy it, donate! Brian McConnell has written an interesting column about the history of social networks on GigaOM.
I started my networked community experience using FidoNet BBS’s and then running my own and one for the Melbourne OS/2 Developers Group. My first experience of the internet was reading internet news groups through the FidoNet gateways. For quite a while the cost of internet access was high enough that most people got access to internet style resources through FidoNet. Then as the availability of internet access increased and it’s cost dropped FidoNet slowly lost members. He describes the transition from the community based FidoNet, then commercial systems like Compuserve and AOL that started as bulletin board style communities and then became internet access providers, and then on the internet and communities like Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. I agree with Brian’s argument that the history of growth and decline of these different forms of social networking can give us some indications of the future direction - the trend from large, single provider closed systems to open, diverse, many provider systems. He looks at the services provided by the currently popular social networks like Facebook and shows how they are likely to be replaced by an open social network being provided in many different ways by many different providers. (thanks to Jeremiah Owyang’s Weekly Digest of Social Networking for bringing this article to my attention.) As part of the my project to make my information accessible from anywhere, I’ve moved all my bookmarks and links into del.icio.us. I’ve removed all the links I had in the sidebar here and used the del.icio.us tag cloud Javascript instead. The old list of links had become too long and the tag cloud is much more compact. Clicking on a tag takes you to that topic in my del.icio.us account and you then get the searching power of del.iciou.us to find what you are interested in. The “post to del.icio.us” bookmarklet in my Safari menu bar is good for adding new links to del.icio.us. I’m now trying Pukka to see if it is is enough of an improvement to buy it ($14.95USD). I’ve enabled the posting of new links from del.icio.us back to this blog, but I’m not sure if it will get too annoying - it is easy for people to just look in del.icio.us to see what are the latest sites I’ve bookmarked. If I start to use the description field in del.icio.us the posts will be a bit more useful. I’m also trying out DevonThink Pro, and it has a script to import all the del.icio.us tags into a DevonThink folder. Then DevonThink’s integration with Spotlight means that they are all searchable in Spotlight. That gives quick access to my bookmarks in QuickSilver or LaunchBar. So far I’ve found del.icio.us much quicker and easier for checking through my saved bookmarks than the bookmarks menus in web browsers. And having them imported into DevonThink means that they are available offline as well. |
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