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Graham Perrin

Popular tags | freshmeat.net - 0 views

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    Beyond this starting point: the GUI for finding things by tag is extremely useful.
Graham Perrin

Introducing Balloons: Free multimedia overlays for bloggers | Zemanta Ltd. - 0 views

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Zemanta Common Tag

shared by Graham Perrin on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Balloons: Free multimedia overlays for bloggers
  • July 30th, 2009
  • Today we’re introducing “Balloons“,
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  • dynamic overlays that allow any blogger or online publisher to integrate multimedia content into their pages.
  • use Zemanta as usual
  • insert links
  • After your post goes public,
  • additional icon
  • allow your readers to access the information
  • without having to leave
  • content from from the Creative Commons-licensed Freebase database
  • includes information from sources such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and MusicBrainz
  • millions of articles from Freebase contributors.
  • Balloon links will appear only when we can show a smart overlay
  • It’s about standards and open web The underlying code for Balloons is open source and built on the Common Tag architecture
  • open tagging format
  • developed by Zemanta, Yahoo, AdaptiveBlue, Freebase, and others.
  • make content more connected, discoverable, and engaging.
  • every aspect of Balloons – from its open source code base to its use of Freebase’s openly licensed content – has been designed to ensure the easy, free, and open spread of information across the web.
Graham Perrin

Technology Review: Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages - 0 views

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artificial intelligence AI data mining Google search semantic semantic web software

shared by Graham Perrin on 08 Jul 09 - Cached
  • University of Washington software pulls facts from 500 million Web pages
  • analyzing basic relationships between words
  • "The significance of TextRunner is that it is scalable because it is unsupervised,"
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  • June 10, 2009
  • "It can discover and learn millions of relations, not just one at a time. With TextRunner, there is no human in the loop: it just finds relations on its own."
  • enter, for example, "kills bacteria,"
  • insights that "chlorine kills bacteria" or "ultraviolet light kills bacteria" or "heat kills bacteria"
  • then visit the Web page
  • ways to preview the text
  • triples
  • prototype
  • the ability of software to achieve rudimentary understanding of text
  • unprecedented scale and scope
  • analogous to technology developed by Powerset
  • a tool that was limited
  • TextRunner technology handles
  • arbitrary text on any page, including blog posts, product catalogues, newspaper articles, and more
  • "this work reflects a growing trend toward the design of search tools that actively combine the pieces of information they find on the Web into a larger synthesis."
Graham Perrin

Mobile Opportunity: A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where ... - 0 views

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metaplatform platform software OS API computing mobile cloud network compatibility problem system creativity backlog disaggregation free FLOSS open source

shared by Graham Perrin on 30 May 09 - Cached
  • where we're going
  • software with APIs that third party developers can write apps on top of
  • grow a tech business more quickly if you get third party developers
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  • lessons about where the industry might go
  • Fair warning: this is a long post.
  • In 1969, the Justice Department, ADR, and several others filed antitrust suits
  • IBM agreed to stop bundling free software
  • disaggregation is a natural outcome
  • multiple companies can move faster
  • backlog of potential creativity
  • The OS is dissolving into a soup of resources distributed across both the network and the local device, with the application in the middle calling on both
  • what it lacks in beauty it more than makes up for in rate of change and versatility
  • hybrids of local and network resources
  • gradual evolution of a super-OS that includes both the network and the device
  • we don't have a name for this new thing
  • trouble talking about it
  • I'm calling it the "metaplatform"
  • Although the metaplatform isn't necessarily elegant
  • compatibility
  • technological advances always lead to value chain fragmentation
  • what happens if that company goes out of business or just decides to stop maintaining the product?
  • If you've incorporated external web services into your site, the site will break if any of those services stops working
  • We don't have any systematic ways to deal with problems like these
  • a business opportunity for the next crop of software entrepreneurs
  • What the metaplatform means
  • Much of the discussion in this post is pretty theoretical
  • practical implications
  • iPhone today gives (in my opinion) the best overall mobile browsing and app discovery experience
  • APIs that will enable other developers to extend
  • implementation is often off-target
  • trying to make their APIs into the business equivalent of an operating system
  • private ecosystem
  • opening the application outward
  • mixed and matched with other functionality in the metaplatform
  • export data isn’t enough... what springs to mind is open source
  • Lots to think about
  • Clayton Christensen
  • The most effective mobile application are
  • a framework to predict where most profits will be made
  • HTML5
  • changes that are brewing in the mobile industry
Josh Miller

How to backup and restore your Joomla site using Akeeba Backup - 7 views

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  • Josh Miller on 13 Mar 10
     
    Quick and easy way to do a full site (including database) in Joomla
liza cainz

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Nikki Red

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Shamblesguru Smith

Shambles Newsletter May 2011 .. now online - 15 views

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shambles shamblesguru newsletter teaching learning k-12 may 2011

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  • Shamblesguru Smith on 13 May 11
     
    Shambles Newsletter May 2011 .. now online and it lives at http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/May2011 or use the short url http://bit.ly/kCxOmP It only comes out three time a year ... designed specifically for k-12 educators The Content in this issue includes - launch of ShamblesPad (built on EtherPad) - Facebook instant OpenSIM VW - IB in LinkedIn - CPD courses and conferences - iPad School Timetable App written by a student - SAGE: Speakers, Authors, Guests, Experts - PLANA Australia New Zealand CPD Portal - #21CLHK #learn21cn #TechEx2011 #barcampcm4 #rscon3 - iDevices Apps #mlearning #Apps #edapp - The Relationship Manifesto - Digitise the Text Book Industry - The TED-Ed Brain Trust - Generation Y: Who, What, How - Flipped Classroom I'd appreciate your help to spread the word by forwarding this email to education colleagues or by Tweeting or through Social networks. It might be more convenient to use the url http://www.shambles.net/newsletter/ which has a sign-up form and also contains archives back to 2002. The next edition out in November (enjoy the summer hols) Many thanks Chris Chris Smith (shamblesguru) http://shambles.net (over 10,000 visitors a day) Bio http://shambles.net/shamblesguruBIO Follow me on Twitter @shamblesguru I hope you are already signed up for the free Shambles newsletter http://shambles.net/newsletter … only 3 a year
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Video-conference is the best way to conduct training sessions, especially given the current high cost of travel. Video-conference sessions utilize video-conferencing solutions and allow participant...

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With a talent for helping others and teaching, becoming a trainer is the perfect career progression for me. To train myself and become recognised in my chosen field, I enrolled to get a Certificat...

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Computer Support US

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Bakari Chavanu

How to Create Screencasts You Can Be Proud Of » The Rapid eLearning Blog - 4 views

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screencasts screencasting

shared by Bakari Chavanu on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Record the best audio you can by using a good microphone.  You can get a decent microphone for less than $100.  And if you do a lot of recording, it makes sense to invest in a good one.   Here’s an example of two different microphones on the same laptop in the same room:  $30 headset and $72 desktop (with no pop filter or any other type of adjustment).
  • Turn off the A/C and fans.  Turn off the office machines.  Sometimes you’ll pick up some noise or humming when the microphone is too close to the computer, speakers, or other electronic devices.
  • Have some water handy.  I find that I do a lot of retakes on that opening line, so I tend to start and stop my screencasts.  This causes my throat to get dry really fast.  It’s easy for me to go from sounding like a smooth rapid elearning coach to Lauren Bacall in just a few takes.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 14 Oct 09
       
      This is so true. My mouth gets very dry when I'm trying to do screencasts. This is a good tip.
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  • Try to use less than 5 minutes.  Screenr gives you 5 minutes.  That doesn’t mean that you have to take all 5 minutes for the screencast.  An ideal screencast is 2-3 minutes.  If you find that the screencast is long, just break it into chunks.  
  • Sometimes I’ll change the resolution of my computer and do a full screen capture at a lower resolution.  When I bring it back up, it looks great and I was able to leverage a full screen for the capturing.  Play around with some techniques that work for you.
  • It’s easy enough to follow the mouse, but make sure to point out what they should be looking at when you change screens or focus on a new area.  This is especially true if you’re doing things they can’t see like using a keyboard shortcut.
  • If you have to do full screen videos where you show your desktop, try a product like Stardock’s Fences.  It’s free and can quickly hide your icons while you do your recording.  Here’s a tutorial to show how to use Fences to hide your desktop icons.
  • When you do screencasts from this account you don’t need to worry about hiding personal information like folders or toolbars in your browser.  I’d also make your desktop image a solid color rather than a distracting background image.  You can also try a virtual desktop.  Set one up just for screencast videos.  Here’s a demo of how to use a virtual desktop.   
  • One trick is to start with the final output.  Tell the viewer that this is what you’ll create and then jump to the tutorial and a different screen.
  • Screenr does come with some default settings that work well in your rapid elearning courses.  For example, 720×540 is the aspect ratio for a PowerPoint slide.  980×560 is perfect for videos in the no sidebar view mode in Articulate Presenter. 
  • If you find that you have to click on buttons and open other screens during your demos, then you want to use Alt+D to pause your recording between mouse clicks. 
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • They should be like the historical coffeehouses, taverns and pubs where one shifts flexibly between focused and collective reading — much like opening a newspaper and debating it in a more socially networked version of the current New York Times Room for Debate.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 16 Oct 09
       
      Many websites like NewsVine seem to offer this kind of experience.
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
  • Reading on screen requires slightly more effort and thus is more tiring, but the differences are small and probably matter only for difficult tasks.
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  • In one study, workers switched tasks about every three minutes and took over 23 minutes on average to return to a task. Frequent task switching costs time and interferes with the concentration needed to think deeply about what you read.
  • After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read. We learn to do so by an extraordinarily ingenuous ability to rearrange our “original parts” — like language and vision, both of which have genetic programs that unfold in fairly orderly fashion within any nurturant environment. Reading isn’t like that.
  • And that, of course, is the problem at hand. No one really knows the ultimate effects of an immersion in a digital medium on the young developing brain. We do know a great deal, however, about the formation of what we know as the expert reading brain that most of us possess to this point in history
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages. If while reading online you come across the name “Antaeus” and forget your Greek mythology, a hyperlink will take you directly to an online source where you are reminded that he was the Libyan giant who fought Hercules. And if you’re prone to distraction, you can follow another link to find out his lineage, and on and on. That is the duality of hyperlinks. A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
  • floor. I once counted my books among my most prized possesions, now I wish I could somehow convert them all to digital files.
  • My book shelves are full, and books are stacked on the
  • Textbooks also require big double pages with margins for notes. Writing and reading are communication between writer and reader, the audience and genre (and thus expectations) are important, and the format and technology can be used for bad or good. One is not better than the other, they are different, and the more we know of the needs of writers and readers the better technology will become.
  • All of the commentators and responses miss a crucial question here: reading for what purpose?
  • To further complicate this, most of what I read for pleasure is about art or photography, and the kind of history that comes with cool pictures. If paper suddenly disappeared I'd be lost. Most of what I read for work has to be verified, cross referenced, fact-checked, etc. on a tight deadline. If the Internet suddenly disappeared, I'd be more than lost--I'd be paralyzed.
  • I also completely disagree that the web has killed editing. It has just changed the process to include the reader. It would be more accurate to say that it is killing the sanctity of Editors. 'Bout time, that.
  • The missing component in E-Reading seems to be the ability to critically grasp and evaluate the material. Learning is transmitted, but it is more linear than holistic. Now in my 70's, I find that reading from a monitor is a distancing experience. There is an intimacy to reading from a traditional book that is missing in the digital format.
  • Chinese reading circuits require more visual memory than alphabets.
  • I assume that technology will soon start moving in the natural direction: integrating chips into books, not vice versa.
  • important ongoing change to reading itself in today’s online environment is the cheapening of the word.
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages.
  • When you read news, or blogs or fiction, you are reading one document in a networked maze
  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
  • However, displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
Graham Perrin

First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud - Open Blog - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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2009 2009-10 2009-10-31 linked data semantic web Creative Commons The New York Times Resource Description Framework DBpedia

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  • October 29, 2009
  • 5,000 Tags Released
  • Linked Data
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  • By Evan Sandhaus AND Rob Larson
  • we have manually mapped
  • person name subject headings
  • Freebase and DBPedia
  • for fun, we also threw in some other tidbits
  • first and last date
  • number of articles about this subject
  • included the NYT Article Search API query
  • widely and freely
  • all data records released at http://data.nytimes.com will be published under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License
  • plan to expand
  • each of the nearly 30,000 subject headings
  • locations, organizations and descriptors
  • license and attribution rights to thousands of dbPedia and freebase entities. The rightsHolder assertions are flat-out wrong
  • compliment not supplant
  • Graham Perrin on 31 Oct 09
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