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The revolution wasn't televised: The early days of YouTube
The revolution wasn't televised: The early days of YouTube
"The journey began with a possibly fictitious dinner party in San Francisco and ended with a breakfast at Denny’s in Redwood City, California. In between, there were maxed out credit cards, arguments over copyrights, humungous rats, a cameo by MC Hammer and the exit of a third, mysterious founder. When it was all over, digital media would be completely transformed. Before YouTube's 10th anniversary, Mashable talked with some of the people involved in YouTube's formation. The picture that emerges is of a smart startup that came along at the right time but also had the right connections, philosophy of design and, above all, the superb execution that allowed it to come from nowhere and dominate the online video market."
#history#youtube#internet
·mashable.com·
The revolution wasn't televised: The early days of YouTube
MOOx
MOOx
"The goal is to document and sometimes create new acronyms based on the MOO prefix "
#mooc
·abclearning.pbworks.com·
MOOx
Gendered Language in Teaching Reviews
Gendered Language in Teaching Reviews
"This interactive chart lets you explore the words used to describe male and female teachers in about 14 million reviews from RateMyProfessor.com."
#visualization
·benschmidt.org·
Gendered Language in Teaching Reviews
Lessons in Typography from the World’s Most Powerful Brands | Visually Blog
Lessons in Typography from the World’s Most Powerful Brands | Visually Blog
"The fonts you choose for both your logo and your content can say a lot about your brand. Because of this, big brands are extremely particular about their typography choices and smaller brands can learn a lot from studying their visual decision making. After looking at the corporate styling guides for many of the companies on Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful brands, several trends became apparent."
#design#typography#ds106#youshow#logo
·blog.visual.ly·
Lessons in Typography from the World’s Most Powerful Brands | Visually Blog
What Does The Internet Look Like?: Gothamist
What Does The Internet Look Like?: Gothamist
"If you wanted to destroy the internet—rip out the cables, smash the boxes, kill the Takes—would you know where to start? Last year, as the world slowly got wise to the depth of government surveillance in their smartphones and inboxes, artist and writer Ingrid Burrington recognized a trend. "It became increasingly clear that part of the reason we didn't have good visuals for explaining how online surveillance works was that we didn't even have good visuals for the internet itself," Burrington says. "I started thinking, how do you understand the internet as being something that's all around you at all times, when all the physical objects are so obstructed and obscured?" As a resident at Eyebeam, Burrington's answer was to create a field guide for internet infrastructure in New York."
#internet#guide
·gothamist.com·
What Does The Internet Look Like?: Gothamist
Serendip-o-matic: Let Your Sources Surprise You
Serendip-o-matic: Let Your Sources Surprise You
Serendip-o-matic connects your sources to digital materials located in libraries, museums, and archives around the world. By first examining your research interests, and then identifying related content in locations such as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Europeana, and Flickr Commons, our serendipity engine helps you discover photographs, documents, maps and other primary sources. Whether you begin with text from an article, a Wikipedia page, or a full Zotero collection, Serendip-o-matic's special algorithm extracts key terms and returns a surprising reflection of your interests. Because the tool is designed mostly for inspiration, search results aren't meant to be exhaustive, but rather suggestive, pointing you to materials you might not have discovered. At the very least, the magical input-output process helps you step back and look at your work from a new perspective. Give it a whirl. Your sources may surprise you.
#research#writing#webserendipity
·serendipomatic.org·
Serendip-o-matic: Let Your Sources Surprise You
Elog.io
Elog.io
"Elog.io makes it easy to search for information about photographs you see while browsing. Authors, titles and licensing information is available for any photograph part of the Elog.io catalog (currently 22 million images from Wikimedia Commons)."
#attribution#photography#thruthelens#creativecommons
·elog.io·
Elog.io
Why I’ve found that online communities on media sites always seem doomed to fail
Why I’ve found that online communities on media sites always seem doomed to fail
"I’ve spent a long time over the years working at media companies and specifically around the software and design that supports commenting and forums. Having watched the Guardian close the “You Tell Us” thread last week, I thought I might jot down some thoughts I have about the experience. I want to say up front, I love the interactivity of the web. And I think it is a mistake that news companies currently seem to be out-sourcing a lot of the commenting on their articles out to Twitter and Facebook, rather than run it themselves. A lot of people think comments on news sites are toxic, but I’d argue that’s often because they are poorly run, and the company doesn’t really know why it has them. I certainly get annoyed at journalists who are sniffy towards “below the line” commenters, a snobbish attitude that I think belongs back when it was much harder for readers to question your pieces."
#community#online
·martinbelam.com·
Why I’ve found that online communities on media sites always seem doomed to fail
Participad
Participad
"Participad is a WordPress plugin that allows multiple people to edit the same WP content at the same time. Powered by Etherpad Lite, Participad gives you: Notepads, for collaborative notetaking Synchronous authoring of any content in the WordPress Dashboard Front-end editing"
#collaboration#writing#plugin#Wordpress
·participad.org·
Participad
Generate a waveform image from an audio file | Transloadit
Generate a waveform image from an audio file | Transloadit
"Transloadit offers the ability to generate waveform images from audio files. In addition to changing the dimensions and the background color of the waveform image you can also adjust the colors for the gradient that is used on the waveform visualization"
#audio#ds106#image#youshow
·transloadit.com·
Generate a waveform image from an audio file | Transloadit
Chrome text in Photoshop Tutorial - PhotoshopCAFE
Chrome text in Photoshop Tutorial - PhotoshopCAFE
"You might remember the original chrome text tutorial from here at PhotoshopCAFE. It was one of the very first Photoshop chrome tutorials on the web, and oh boy was it copied everywhere. I have just re-written the entire tutorial to update it for modern times. Not only is the result cleaner now, the steps take advantage of features that have been addied in the the more than 10 years since I wrote the original tutorial, I hope you enjoy this updated tutorial as much as you did the original."
#photoshop#tutorial#visual#ds106#youshow
·photoshopcafe.com·
Chrome text in Photoshop Tutorial - PhotoshopCAFE
Internet Arcade : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet Arcade : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
"The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.   The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" videogames, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music. Most games are playable in s ome form, although some are useful more for verification of behavior or programming due to the intensity and requirements of their systems.   Many games have a "boot-up" sequence when first turned on, where the systems run through a check and analysis, making sure all systems are go. In some cases, odd controllers make proper playing of the systems on a keyboard or joypad a pale imitation of the original experience. "
#archive#software#gaming#game#history
·archive.org·
Internet Arcade : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S | The Verge
How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S | The Verge
"Tangerine, a breakout hit from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is full of surprises. There’s the subject matter: transgender prostitutes working in a not-so glamorous part of Hollywood. And there are the characters: flinty, funny, nobody’s victim. But the story behind the camera is as surprising as what’s in front of it. Particularly because the camera used to shoot Tangerine was the iPhone 5S."
#ds106#youshow#video
·theverge.com·
How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S | The Verge
What is the origin of the word ‘serendipity’? | OxfordWords blog
What is the origin of the word ‘serendipity’? | OxfordWords blog
"The wonderfully onomatopoeic serendipity, which is indeed often chosen as Britons’ favourite English word (alongside nincompoop and discombobulate), means the making of happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. It was invented by the writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754 as an allusion to Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka. Walpole was a prolific letter writer, and he explained to one of his main correspondents that he had based the word on the title of a fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, the heroes of which ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of ’."
#serendipity
·blog.oxforddictionaries.com·
What is the origin of the word ‘serendipity’? | OxfordWords blog