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Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories
Summary: Matt Hicks of
Eweek explains the effect of tagging blog entries. Wikipedia,
Technorati, < a href="http://www.Flickr.com">Flickr and
Delicious are all involved. In short. tagging entries, even if by multiple, incommensurate mental universes (individuals) gives one the option to read by category, even subcategory or intersections of categories. For purposeful knowledge building efforts this is a big advantage. Here's the Eweek article[emboldening is mine, SP From
Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog on March 27, 2005 at 8:48 p.m..
Folksonomy 2x2
Gene Smith has posted a helpful diagram from his IA Summit Panel presentation: Click to see full size You get folksonomies when people are tagging stuff — whether it's their own or other's — in public. Thomas Vander Wal, who coined the term "folksonomy," I think would label the X axis [Mnemonic: X is a-cross] differently. In his post on broad and narrow folksonomies, he defines a broad folksonomy as one that "has many people tagging the same object and every person can tag the object with their own tags" (= del.icio.us). A narrow taxonomy has fewer people tagging and... From
Joho the Blog on March 27, 2005 at 7:48 p.m..
Us.ef.ul
There are several reasons you should probably be using del.icio.us. If you use computers in multiple locations, say one at home and one at work, delicious can synchronize your bookmarks. This becomes even more useful if you're using Firefox 1.0... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Schools go high-tech with online grades
Phone calls and e-mails still work. So do notes in backpacks. But Memphis Community Schools last week added another way to help parents and teachers communicate with each other: an online grade book with a built-in message system. Cheryl Hay... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Conflict in Design Education
I recently had to think about design education again. I sense some divide between approaches of design education. The devide is to some degree a difference between classical and novel ways. owrede_log: Conflict in design education... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Teens Health
Welcome to TeensHealth! TeensHealth was created for teens looking for honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up. We offer a safe, private place that's accessible 24 hours a day to get the doctor-approved info you need... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
Quantum Teleportation
It would sure beat the five hours of flying I just did with our baby to Mexico. Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
A Letter to Planet Earth
In our cyber school science club there was a posting to a link called "a letter to planet earth". An interesting link written by one of our cyber students which made me giggle and yet restored my faith in the... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 5:54 p.m..
P2P backup
I think I'm missing something obvious, but why can't I find a p2p backup system that lets me and a designated buddy swap storage space? I'll give my pal, say, 5GB of storage on my computer if she'll give me 5GB on hers. My computer is pretty much always on, and so is my buddy's. All we need is some basic sw for letting us designate the directories we want kept up to date and for making the p2p connection. Maybe a little encryption and compression. Neither of us guarantees 24/7/365 access, multiply redundant raid arrays, or whatever, but it... From
Joho the Blog on March 27, 2005 at 3:48 p.m..
The Great Apes: A Mini-Biography
Given the current debates of Biblical proportions (yes, you can groan now) and the discoveries over recent times, I thought I would expand a little on a recent diary entry and give you a biography on the Great Apes and the evolution of humanity, as it is currently known. From
kuro5hin.org on March 27, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
Is my blog burning? #13
The food bloggers continued their tradition of collaborative events this week with a day devoted to muffins and cupcakes -- dozens of contributions are linked at
Just Hungry, who provided the event summary this time around and generously categorized the contributions. IMBB continues to be an important model for bloggers who want to find ways to break out of the peculiar isolation of... From
Weblogs in Higher Education on March 27, 2005 at 2:52 p.m..
“The Feminine Technique": Tannen on Gender and Discourse
In an L. A. Times column, linguist Deborah Tannen explores gender differences in the context of a) the sciences and b) public discourse. I'm not convinced by all of her argument, some of which relies on reductive West vs. East cliches about modes of thought, and some of which extends ... From
Gardner Writes on March 27, 2005 at 1:00 p.m..
Conflict in design education
I recently had to think about design education again. I sense some divide between approaches of design education. The devide is to some degree a difference between classical and novel ways. I try to identify the differences in these two conceptions: The classical way all theoretical implications are researched in the moment they are required through the practice of work designs situations that are supposed to be simulations of working life: assignments are seemingly similar to the kind of jobs you are supposed to do as job starter suggests th From
owrede_log on March 27, 2005 at 12:47 p.m..
Trillian IM flaw exposed - Matt Hines, CNET News
Researchers have reported a vulnerability in the Trillian instant messaging application, adding to the rapid development of IM-related security threats. Workers at LogicLibrary, a company that makes software development tools, including programs designed From
Techno-News Blog on March 27, 2005 at 11:50 a.m..
Some Objections to Learning Objects
Prompted by increasing attention from government and industry initiatives worldwide, this article addresses problems associated with (i) attaching ill-defined labels to e-learning tools and methods, and (ii) attempts at standardizing e-learning in ways that do not account for the complexities... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..
Trends in North American E-learning.
The talk is focused on the United States but points to some resources worldwide. What I like is the author's line of argumentation, showing as she does that open education, such as the OpenCourseware initiatives, is the best way to... From
Teaching and Developing Online. on March 27, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..
ED-MEDIA 2005 & the Montreal International Jazz Festival
Attend both ED-MEDIA & the Montreal International Jazz Festival NOTE: The Advance Program/Registration will be online by mid-March. _______________________________________________________________ ED-MEDIA 2005 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications June 27-July 2, 2005 * Montreal, Canada FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION... From
Rick's Café Canadien on March 27, 2005 at 1:53 a.m..
Open Access Publishing
I've been thinking about the ramificaitons of open access publishing for quite some time now, especially with the work that
Lawrence Lessig is doing. It's no secret that he's become one of my real heroes, and so his ideas are forcing me to rethink a lot of what I've always believed about intellectual property and publishing and how that relates to academia in general and the classroom specifically. Here's how I come at this issue. The capability now exists for mere mortals to publish ideas to large audiences, and it's now ea From
weblogged News on March 27, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..