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anonymous

[publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
  • Most people who download the book don't end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience
  • The thing about an e-book is that it's a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) device, pasted into a mailing list. It begs to be converted to witty signatures at the bottom of e-mails
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  • I've done this with three novels and a short story collection (and I'll be doing it with two more novels and another collection in the next year), and my books have consistently outperformed my publisher's expectations
  • perhaps the most social of all literary genres. Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.
  • As publisher Tim O'Reilly wrote in his seminal essay, Piracy is ProgressiveTaxation, "being well-enough known to be pirated [is] a crowning achievement." I'd rather stake my future on a literature that people care about enough to steal than devote my life to a form that has no home in the dominant medium of the century.
  • t's good business for me, too. This "market research" of giving away e-books sells printed books. What's more, having my books more widely read opens many other opportunities for me to earn a living from activities around my writing, such as the Fulbright Chair I got at USC this year,
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    I've been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
Charity Gamboa

ALISON ABC IT - 0 views

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IT course free

shared by Charity Gamboa on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Charity Gamboa on 04 Apr 09
     
    ALISON Basic Computing IT Course - Free IT Certification
Philipp Schmidt

Mozilla Labs Jetpack | Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web - 0 views

jetpack.mozillalabs.com

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shared by Philipp Schmidt on 21 May 09 - No Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 21 May 09
     
    Mozilla Labs project that makes it easy to extend the functionality of the browser (Firefox).
kfasimpaur

The Kids Open Dictionary Builder - 0 views

dictionary.k12opened.com

open dictionary MozOpenEdCourse

shared by kfasimpaur on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • kfasimpaur on 02 Apr 09
     
    This is an open (PD) dictionary intended to be simple for students, EFL students, etc. It has a glossary builder that exports to wikitext, rtf, etc.
  • kfasimpaur on 02 Apr 09
     
    If you see a use for this in a project you're doing, feel free to contact us to priorize your glossary lists.
Bernard Sadaka

Open Education News - 0 views

openeducationnews.org

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shared by Bernard Sadaka on 23 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Bernard Sadaka on 23 Apr 09
     
    Open Translation Tools 2009 will be held from 22 to 24 June, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The event will be followed by an Open Translation "Book Sprint" which will produce a first-of-its-kind volume on tools and best practices in the field of Open Translation. Both events are being co-organized in partnership with FLOSSManuals.net, and generously supported by the Open Society Institute.
anonymous

Bookmark Shortcuts (and, optionally, Foxmarks/Xmarks) - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    Firefox's bookmark shortcuts are criminally underused. It just makes sense to me to hit CTRL-L (or CTRL-T and then CTRL-L if I want a new tab) and type "g chris lott" to ego surf or "flickrcc dancing monkeys" to search for Creative Commons licensed images on flickr, etc. Here's a list of my current collection of bookmark shortcuts and the key words I use, some of which you might find useful
anonymous

Kaltura | Open Source Video Platform - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • free downloadable video packages, online video player & video editor for wikis, blogs and leading web platforms
  • anonymous on 02 Apr 09
     
    This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more
anonymous

edtechpost - OER Dynamic Search Engine - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 05 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Jun 09
     
    Search all of these Open Education Sites from one place. Got a new site? Log in as username: edtechpost_guest (same password) and add it to the list. Simple, eh?
Philipp Schmidt

Save Elsewhere - 0 views

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MozOpenEduCourse

shared by Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09
     
    Good idea to set this up, so that all your diigo bookmarks are also available to del.icio.us users.
  • Philipp Schmidt on 31 Mar 09
     
    This is an easy way to automatically post new bookmarks to del.icio.us. You need a del.icio.us account to set it up.
Elena Lopez

Study: class podcasts can lead to better grades - Ars Technica - 0 views

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shared by Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09
     
    Students perform better on tests when they use podcasts to take notes-better, even, than simply going to class. Though a recent study stops short of saying podcasts can replace classes, it shows that they can be extremely useful in supplementing lectures.
anonymous

Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
  • Open source [1] developers and users are unusually passionate about their work, unusual in ways that make things work well. So let me begin passionately as we talk about open source as the solution for support of institutional repositories.
  • Now that we have that behind us, let's discuss some of the myths and some of the reasons for dedicating your institutional repository to the use of open source software, open standards and open formats which, I contend, are inseparable.
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  • Institutional repositories have taken a few knocks in the six years since Cliff Lynch's “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” appeared in ARL 226 [4]. But I'm concerned more here about the upcoming crashes than the bumps we hit on the road to more settled standardizations. 
  • Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs.
  • For a long time, it has been argued that the market, as represented by proprietary software solutions, is more responsive to the needs of users, to new requirements and to innovations. Open source is now seen as a diverse infrastructure of solutions each in competition while also free to borrow from each other.
  • The ends and the means of institutional repositories are one and the same. The infrastructure that supports open access needs to be open itself.
  • A quick glance at the most recent statistics produced by the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories suggests that the vast majority of existing institutional repositories are currently built upon open source software.
  • anonymous on 03 Apr 09
     
    Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs. Like software escrow promises, this is a short-term solution to our long-term problems in curation of our valuable materials within our repositories.
Philipp Schmidt

Gargolito Knows: How to Fix WebEx in Ubuntu (Hardy,Ibex) - 0 views

www.gargolito.com/...webex-in-ubuntu-hardyibix.html

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shared by Philipp Schmidt on 02 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 02 Apr 09
     
    This fixes some of the problems that users on Linux have had with webex. However, it's not a work-around for Ubuntu 64.
  • Elena Lopez on 04 Apr 09
     
    Thanks. Hopefully it works in Hardy, too.
Philipp Schmidt

YouTube - A Vision of Students Today - 0 views

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MozOpenEduCourse week1 students web2.0 michaelwesch

shared by Philipp Schmidt on 01 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Philipp Schmidt on 01 Apr 09
     
    Good background for seminar 1. Michael Wesch says about it: "a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what... "
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