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Tiana Robles

8 Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    This is a short article about ways to maximize your use of Project Gutenberg.
Daniel Richardson

Micheal Hart: Founder of Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    Interesting blog post about why and how Project Gutenberg was founded and started by Micheal Hart
Xiaotong Liu

Open-source software projects need to improve - 0 views

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    researchers says that 0pen-source software projects need to improve vulnerability-handling practices,
Amanda French

Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008: Clay Shirky | Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus - 0 views

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    Here's a tremendously engaging video of Clay Shirky giving the talk I just linked to about where people find the time to edit Wikipedia -- he thinks they probably stop watching TV. Which do you think is more productive? Another great quote from this piece: "So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought. And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television."
emarmoran

Michael S. Hart - 0 views

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    Michael S. Hart was one of the founding members of The Gutenberg Project. He recently passed away and this is the link to his obituary.
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    Thanks, Erin! He'd be a good guy to do research on for the presentation and final project.
Madalyn Velie

In Preparation for the Final Project - 0 views

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    Hopefully will be helpful when working with WordPress for the final project
Amanda French

How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees - 0 views

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    Turns out yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the worm that Robert Tappan Morris released, so here's another Washington Post article on him. Again, great timing, Britney! Be sure to consult this for your final project.
Natasha Taliferro

Africa's "Father of the Internet" - 0 views

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    Nii Quaynor, Africa's "Father of the Internet" is responsible for establishing the continents internet capabilities. Quaynor, the first African to be on the board of ICANN, was recently inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
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    Natasha, Quaynor would be a terrific person to research for your presentation and final project. Very interesting, and I had never heard of him before.
Talia Wujtewicz

Co-founder of WordPress talks about project's past and future - 0 views

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    We often use websites without realizing that they are viewed as projects to their founders and creators. This video gives some information about what going on behind the curtains of a blog-hosting website.
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    Great -- thanks for re-posting, Talia. Once we start using the site I created in class the other day, you'll get familiar with WordPress.
Taylor Kreinces

Wikipedia:List of free online resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    This Wikipedia page shows all the available online resources open to the public.
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    Interesting, Taylor. Notice that that page is part of a project called "The Resource Exchange" and/or "The Wikipedia Library." I was just talking to a frequent Wikipedia editor named Jake Orlowitz the other day who's volunteering with the Wikipedia Library; we're going to try to bring him to campus to give a talk. If we do, I'll let y'all know. Thanks for the link!
Cameron Wall

JOMC 50 Internet History--People - 0 views

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    A list of some of some important people in the history of the Internet, just to give some ideas to anyone still thinking!
Jimin Kwon

Word Cloud Tutorial (wordle.net) - 0 views

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    Here's a helpful youtube video that tells you how to create word clouds through wordle.net that can be added to the final project.
Adam Munera

Word Clouds for WordPress - 0 views

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    I thought I would post this site where you can make word clouds for our final project, if your interesting in adding some media to it!
Mahrokh Akhavan

Mega CEO: Forget anonymous e-mail. Think privacy (Q&A) - 0 views

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    Mega.com's Vikram Kumar explains why he's building private but not anonymous e-mail, why you won't see Google investing in end-to-end encryption, and lessons learned from the summer of Snowden. Im doing my project with a similar subject so I thought this would be a good article to share in regards to privacy online.
Elloise Lotoc

2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees - 0 views

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    Here is a list of people who are inductees for this year hall of fame, in case anyone still needs a person to do their project about.
Elloise Lotoc

Evaluating the Credibility of Your Souces - 0 views

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    This list of hints for checking the credibility of sources for information can be useful to others who are struggling on what kind of source to use for their project.
Rebecca Lee

Open Access Week: The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia - 0 views

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    I attended one of the events during Open Access Week about the future of libraries and Wikipedia. Jake Orlowitz, recipient of a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant, spoke about "The Wikipedia Library." The Wikipedia Library was a new project he founded in 2012 for the goal of connecting Wikipedia editors with the reliable information sources they need. In the first part of his presentation, he discussed much of what wikipedia is and how it is run. He basically summed up much of what most people don't know about wikipedia and a lot of assumptions that people make about how unreliable information on wikipedia is. Then he went on to discuss more about the wikipedia library and how it would benefit wikipedia editors with vital current reliable sources that they need to do their work. I thought the presentation given by the presenter was very informative and interesting. I learned more about wikipedia and how its more useful than I thought. The most interesting point he raised during his presentation were the benefits of the Wikipedia Library. The thought of connecting university libraries with the wikipedia library will present students and many others information that is reliable and easy to access. Many scholarly articles and information from databases we usually have to pay for will be available for universities to provide students at a much lower cost.
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    Thanks, Rebecca. I'll add 5 points to your Exam 2 grade.
Adam Munera

Constructive Criticism - 0 views

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    Hey guys, I thought this would help with the 5 comments and questions we have to submit, its an interesting way to learn how to give constructive criticism. I was having problems with this earlier.
mgotcher

Help tips on creating and presenting our projects. - 0 views

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    I know that I'm not the best Powerpoint presenter in the world, and thought this might help in my presentation.
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