ALT Lab

Twitter lists are incredibly useful. Making them has been incredibly painful. This is a good step forward...

I'm in @scott_bot's #nets workshop at #aha2015 #gsdh, largely because of what I saw @ChuckRybak doing with Dracula: http://t.co/Z9ARyyQ3kz

"They've shortened the company's name to Genius and secured $40 million in funding to plunge fully into a Silicon Valley "pivot": the transition from doing one thing better than anyone else-annotating rap lyrics-to doing something bigger and bolder-"annotating the world," a capaciously vague ambition that no one, themselves included, is certain they can pull off. Annotation has been a Silicon Valley dream since the invention of the first web browser, but it has yet to produce an elegant solution comparable to what Wikipedia did with the crowdsourced encyclopedia. The Genius founders see their platform as a means for enlightened discussion in contrast to the dark world of the internet comment. Users can upload a text, click on any word, and add whatever context they deem worthwhile."

Thank you for sharing how to comment on this site.

" Virtually overnight, Reddit had created the world's largest two-way dialogue between scientists and the general public."

Here's a brief exploration of the Flickr Commons that details some of the interesting things you can find on Flickr. These photos are all Creative Commons licensed.

A broad spectrum of media that is available under CC licenses.

Flickr's creative commons search interface. Lots of photographs, some videos.

An interesting place to find/share/interact with audio. You can remix many of the tracks and make audio notes that are associated with specific points in time on the audio track. Easily embed in WordPress using just the URL to the page.

All of Wikipedia's media. All CC or better.

Licenses here vary but lots of good stuff.

Participatory culture guy who Jon referenced.

This is a collection of courses, students posts etc. (some VCU specific, some from other institutions) that might be useful.

Choose your own adventure game on Twitter.

You have to love the plasticcosmonauts URL and the title.

A D3 art animation a day . . . I need to get on something like this.

To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace. You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube versio

"Sometimes a mistake is so embarrassing, it cycles all the away around the shame circle and becomes kind of awesome. Today's case in point: Kyrzbekistan, a country accidentally invented by a New York Times piece that meant to reference the Central Asian nation Kyrgyzstan."