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Tweetcendental
Rarely do we get the opportunity to shift perspectives. Tweetcendental allows you to read Twitter from the perspective of someone else. After signing in with your Twitter account, you can create lists based on the people that others follow. Twitter has been about cultivating individual collections of content. By following the content that others have curated it is likely that you will discover new voices.
Mbedr - Embedded Flickr Notes
"a Flickr photo embedding utility This utility will allow you to embed a photo from Flickr on your own site while retaining any annotated regions present on the original. See the example below. If the photo you want to include on your site doesn't have any annotations ("notes", as Flickr calls them), then don't bother using this utility, as it's pointless."
Storytelling Techniques For Effective Business Communications » Removing the Tension from the Budweiser Puppy Love Video (Literally)
"Yet, the ability to bring failure or even a problem to the narrative is what separates industrial-grade storytelling from “but enough about me; let’s talk about me” copy. Whether you call it tension or drama, there is none unless something bad happens, which sets the stage for the company to demonstrate its character in overcoming the bad stuff. As a tool to hammer home this point, I’ve started using the Budweiser Puppy love video that misted eyes during last year’s Super Bowl. Take a look at the recut video below where we’ve eliminated the scene in which the stranger adopts the puppy and starts to drive away."
antiboredom/videogrep
"Videogrep searches through dialog in video files (using .srt subtitle tracks) and makes supercuts based on what it finds."
The Podcast of Doom | Castmate Members Area
"Epic Failure Analysis at its Finest Greetings! Welcome to the Podcast of Doom--a podcast that explores the famous disasters and emphatically bad decisions of history. We will travel around the world and analyze how these calamities occurred."
Welcome to the Next Golden Age of Animated GIFs — Medium
"Animated GIFs, those silent, looping, video-like images are back in a big way — and this time it’s serious. "
altc 2014: Catherine Cronin - Navigating the Marvellous: Openness in Education (702) - YouTube
"Inspired by a Seamus Heaney poem, Catherine will explore “navigating the marvellous”, the challenge of being open in higher education. To be in higher education is to learn in two worlds: the open world of informal learning and the predominantly closed world of the institution. As higher education moves slowly, warily, and unevenly towards openness, students deal daily with the dissonance between these two worlds; developing different skills, practices and identities in different learning spaces. Both students and educators make choices about the extent to which they learn, teach, share and interact in bounded and open spaces. If, as Joi Ito has said, openness is a “survival trait” for the future, how do we facilitate this process of opening? The task is one not just of changing practices but also of changing culture; we can learn much from other movements for justice, equality and social change."
The ineffable joy of transforming boring scientific explanations into exciting comics - Boing Boing
"Cartooning entomologist Jay Hosler's forthcoming young adult graphic novel Last of the Sandwalkers masterfully combines storytelling with science; in this essay, he explains how beautifully comics play into the public understanding of science -- and why that understanding is a matter of urgency for all of us."
Create beautiful photo narratives - Exposure
"You’ve got tons of photos and stories. Don’t they deserve better than hashtags and slideshows? With Exposure, you can easily create beautiful photo narratives that look amazing on computers, tablets, and mobile phones. Exposure is also a community of passionate photographers and storytellers just like you. "
Whisper Stories
Secrets share in words and pictures, anonymouseexcept for geographc location
Downloads - Terms of Service; Didn't Read
"Install the browser extensions to get instant information about the terms and privacy policies of websites you browse! Please select your web browser: Mozilla Firefox - Google Chrome - Opera - Safari - Internet Explorer."
Photogrammar
"Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United State’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI)."
Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
"Generate a fake name, address, date of birth, username, password and biography."
Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
"A Dark Pattern is a type of user interface that appears to have been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills. Normally when you think of “bad design”, you think of the creator as being sloppy or lazy but with no ill intent. This type of bad design is known as a “UI anti-pattern”. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind. We as designers, founders, UX & UI professionals and creators need to make a stance against Dark Patterns."
Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
"A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services."
What The Tweet? Your Illustrated Guide To New Twitter Jargon - ReadWrite
"Twitter has a problem: New users just don't know how to use it. To help newbies sign up and start tweeting, the company has made a number of recent changes. Redesigned profiles, a giant World Cup marketing push, and rejiggering the Home timeline are just part of Twitter's many attempts to make it friendlier for first-time users. The problem: It's not just Twitter's design or interface that makes it an intimidating service for the average Internet user. It's, well, Twitter users themselves. Habitual Twitter users like me have a habit of tossing out terms and references that are utterly opaque to newcomers:"
Bridgy
Bridgy is a service that pulls comments, likes, and reshares on social networks back to your web site. You can also use it to post to social networks - or comment, like, reshare, or even RSVP - from your own web site.
The social web before social networking: a report from 2003 — Medium
"The Web was social before it had social networking software. It just hadn’t yet evolved a pervasive layer of software specifically designed to help us be social. In 2003 it was becoming clear that we needed — and were getting — a new class of application, unsurprisingly called “social software.” But what sort of sociality were we looking for? What sort could such software bestow?"
What is Open Pedagogy?
"If you’ve heard me speak in the last several months, you’ve probably heard me rail against “disposable assignments.” These are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away. Not only do these assignments add no value to the world, they actually suck value out of the world. Talk about an incredible waste of time and brain power (an a potentially huge source of cognitive surplus)! What if we changed these “disposable assignments” into activities which actually added value to the world? Then students and faculty might feel different about the time and effort they invested in them. I have seen time and again that they do feel different about the efforts they make under these circumstances."
Resetting AirPlay | The Mac Admin
"I have been having occasions lately where I’ll lose audio whilst using AirPlay mirroring from my Mac running OS X version 10.8.4 to my Apple TV running the latest Apple TV Software, version 5.3. When this issue occurs, audio from iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, etc. on the Apple TV plays audio normally, as does AirPlay content from an iOS device. It seems to be only OS X devices that are affected. Searches of Apple support forums and other places Mac nerds share information showed that this is not an issue peculiar to my equipment. I have reported the issue to Apple, as I’m sure others have, and will continue to investigate on my own to see if I can uncover a specific cause and more finely tuned fix. In the meantime, forcing Core Audio on the Mac to restart seems to solve the problem, at least temporarily."
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
"The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It's expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders. And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web is an immense ghost land of disembodied places. Who knows if you are even there, there. Yet everyday we navigate through this ethereal realm for hours on end and return alive. We must have some map in our head. I've become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I've been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That's all. More than 50 people of all ages and levels of expertise have mapped their geography of online."
Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network : Nature News & Comment
"Giant academic social networks have taken off to a degree that no one expected even a few years ago. A Nature survey explores why."
The Emerging Open Source Camera | Photofocus
"Projects like SnapPiCam represent a potential sea change in camera software because they are built on an open source platform, wherein lies their real potential. Open source means that anyone can design their own camera and the software to run it. This opens the door to cheaper purpose built cameras like camera traps, beetle cams and aerial drones. It is a platform on which developers can build innovative camera applications … in both form factor and software control … that no one has considered before."
Telling the Story of the Brain’s Cacophony of Competing Voices - NYTimes.com
"Dr. Gazzaniga, 71, now a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is best known for a dazzling series of studies that revealed the brain’s split personality, the division of labor between its left and right hemispheres. But he is perhaps next best known for telling stories, many of them about blown experiments, dumb questions and other blunders during his nearly half-century career at the top of his field. Now, in lectures and a new book, he is spelling out another kind of cautionary tale — a serious one, about the uses of neuroscience in society, particularly in the courtroom."
Your Storytelling Brain | Michael S. Gazzaniga | Big Think
"The left hemisphere of the brain is always trying to make sense of past thoughts and experiences. Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga ponders our need to hear and tell coherent stories about ourselves."
WordPress › HTML5 Slideshow Presentations « WordPress Plugins
"Create HTML5 slideshow presentations using our favorite cms, WordPress. Host your own presentations and share/present them anytime."
The Art Of Getting Lost | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR
"Remember how we used to plan road trips? Get out the atlas, find the highways, roads and rural routes that would get us from Point A to Point B. And what happened if we got lost? Pull over to the side of the road and ask for directions. While reading maps is a skill some of us love and others of us loathe there is no doubt today it’s being replaced by digital technology. Google Maps in our cars and on our phones not only makes it easier than ever to get around. It also allows us to find a restaurant at the last minute or avoid a traffic jam. This has some wondering: is it still possible to be lost? Diane and her guests discuss the art of getting lost."
Markov Chains
A visual explanation by Victor Powell /w text by Lewis Lehe Markov chains, named after Andrey Markov, are mathematical systems that hop from one "state" (a situation or set of values) to another. For example, if you made a Markov chain model of a baby's behavior, you might include "playing," "eating", "sleeping," and "crying" as states, which together with other behaviors could form a 'state space': a list of all possible states. In addition, on top of the state space, a Markov chain tells you the probabilitiy of hopping, or "transitioning," from one state to any other state---e.g., the chance that a baby currently playing will fall asleep in the next five minutes without crying first. "
WordPress Minify - Best Practices - Better WordPress
"Everyone wants their pages to load fast because that makes visitors and search engines happy. WordPress itself is lightweight and optimized for speed, but when plugins and themes come into play, performance can suffer a lot. As I have pointed out in a previous article, speeding up WordPress is firstly a developer’s duty. The thing is, if a huge number of plugins are loaded on a single page, it’s nearly impossible for anyone to speed up a WordPress site simply by optimizing codes. One of the most significant components of the World Wide Web that affects page load time is HTTP request. The number of HTTP requests, the time they take to get responses from a server, as well as the size of responses all contribute to your site’s sluggish performance."