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How Business Storytelling Set a Project Back on Track - YouTube
How Business Storytelling Set a Project Back on Track - YouTube
Malaysian Airlines was introducing a new ticketing system and the first attempt to engage employees in this change was failing. This is the story of how Dinesh Rudra got to project back on track with some help from Anecdote and business storytelling.
#storytelling#business
·youtube.com·
How Business Storytelling Set a Project Back on Track - YouTube
The Story Collider
The Story Collider
Science surrounds us. Even when we don't notice it, science touches almost every part of our lives. At the Story Collider, we believe that everyone has a story about science—a story about how science made a difference, affected them, or changed them on a personal and emotional level. We find those stories and share them in live shows and on our podcast. Sometimes, it's even funny.
#storytelling#science
·storycollider.org·
The Story Collider
Whoops | Teens have always gone where identity isn't
Whoops | Teens have always gone where identity isn't
My theory: Teens eschew Facebook and Twitter for Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat and other apps not because they're a new, different generation, but because they don't yet have much of an identity to boast of.
#teens#socialmedia
·whoo.ps·
Whoops | Teens have always gone where identity isn't
Learning - Source: An OpenNews project
Learning - Source: An OpenNews project
In-depth case studies by the best journalist-developers in the field. Get schooled on how journo-coders find and build web-native stories, what kinds of questions they ask of data, how choices in presenting the news affects how it’s interpreted, and the ethics they encounter along the way.
#programming#codeclass#code#howto
·source.mozillaopennews.org·
Learning - Source: An OpenNews project
Amaz-ing: Philippe Dubost's fake Amazon page sets new bar for online resumes.
Amaz-ing: Philippe Dubost's fake Amazon page sets new bar for online resumes.
There are bad online resumes, there are good online resumes, and then there's Philippe Dubost's online resume. Dubost, a web product manager, built a webpage that is a near-perfect ringer for an Amazon.com product page, with himself as the product. You can check out his dimensions (186 centimeters), select language (he's trilingual), add him to your cart (which brings up a contact form), or even purchase related products like an airline ticket and some Asics (he's a runner, it seems). And, of course, you can read his customer reviews. They average five stars, of course, but there are a surprising number of one-star ratings—"lots of ex-girlfriends," Dubost explained via Twitter.
#webstory#ds106#web2storytelling
·slate.com·
Amaz-ing: Philippe Dubost's fake Amazon page sets new bar for online resumes.
Pixabay - Public Domain Images
Pixabay - Public Domain Images
Finding free quality images is a tedious task - mainly due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply lack of quality. This inspired us to create Pixabay - a repository for outstanding public domain images. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author.
#ds106#sharing#publicdomain#images#50ways#photography
·pixabay.com·
Pixabay - Public Domain Images
archery
archery
"a perspective on mathematics, the pattern, and the abstract" animations and patterns created in Wolfram Alpha- with source code
#visualization#mathematics
·intothecontinuum.tumblr.com·
archery
Heroreports
Heroreports
Heroreports asks citizens to report moments when others make a difference. These can be small acts of kindness. Giving up a seat for a pregnant woman, holding the door for another, the hero who picks up a fallen child, the bystander who assists in a car accident.
#civic#storytelling#social
·heroreports.org·
Heroreports
Daily Dot | "Buffy vs. Edward" back on YouTube after 3-month legal battle
Daily Dot | "Buffy vs. Edward" back on YouTube after 3-month legal battle
After a winding, months-long copyright battle, a famous vampire YouTube mashup finally won out over LionsGate Films Thursday. Its creator, Jonathan McIntosh, said YouTube offered him no explanation, simply telling him “The content has been reinstated.” The video, 2009's “Buffy vs. Edward: Twilight Remixed,” depicts Buffy, of Vampire Slaying fame, resisting the creepy advances of Twilight's Edward Cullen, eventually driving a stake through his heart. It's enormously acclaimed, having garnered a Webby nomination and more than three million views. It even led to McIntosh, who lectures on copyright law, testifying before the U.S. copyright office about the video as an example of fair use.
#ds106#youtube#remix#copyright
·dailydot.com·
Daily Dot | "Buffy vs. Edward" back on YouTube after 3-month legal battle
Ruschagram - Making pictures
Ruschagram - Making pictures
Ruschagram is intended as a tribute to Ed Ruscha, and is in no way meant to be a criticism of him. It is in no way official endorsed or related to him. Ruschagram was developed as part of EDCMOOC from Edinburgh as a digital artefact. Modern art is seen as dystopic when compared to the more revered classical paintings. In question the ability to create something artistic using devices I wanted to look into how this could be both utopic and dystopic at the same time.
#storytelling#ds106#remix#web2storytelling#netnarr
·ruschagram.com·
Ruschagram - Making pictures
Amazon.com: Funniest Amazon Product Reviews
Amazon.com: Funniest Amazon Product Reviews
"After finding a link to Uranium Ore on Amazon one day, I found myself spending way too much time clicking through many hundreds of hilarious Amazon product reviews. Ever the organizer, I thought it would be nice to collect some of the products with the most creative reviews in one place."
#ds106#web2storytelling
·amazon.com·
Amazon.com: Funniest Amazon Product Reviews
A Look Into: Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Brands
A Look Into: Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Brands
Do you find yourself staring at other designer’s logo and immediately try to decipher what typeface they are using? If you are a designer, it is probably an inevitable habit. There are no hard and fast rules to help you determine which typeface you should land on for your logo. And due to the fact that we are showered with thousands of free fronts on the Internet, deciding on the ideal font to use can be a challenging task.
#typography#design
·hongkiat.com·
A Look Into: Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Brands
15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine
15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.
#ds106#font#typography#design
·smashingmagazine.com·
15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts | Smashing Magazine
Colors in Adventure Time – Dean's Notes
Colors in Adventure Time – Dean's Notes
I can’t keep my eyes off Adventure Time. The stories and animation are reason enough alone to watch the show, but I’m specifically talking about their choice of color. Why is it so captivating? How can I emulate that engaging style? Dan Toth has a pretty cool color swatch gallery from each of the episodes in Seasons one and two, but I’m looking for patterns in the colors that I can use elsewhere. I’m no expert in color, but I figured I’d take a stab at this, so I spent some time poking at the different colors in the title sequence and I found some interesting stuff.
#ds106#color#design
·deanputney.com·
Colors in Adventure Time – Dean's Notes
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista For Learning provides a library of free videos made by and for teachers and students everywhere.
#learning#video
·nextvista.org·
Next Vista for Learning
Beyond the Journal and the Blog - Amodern
Beyond the Journal and the Blog - Amodern
My response to this situation has been to write scholarship of the sort that would usually be presented in a journal and not publish it. In January, I started a technical report series at my lab, the Trope Tank. This Trope Report series is available in print at the lab, can be downloaded from the lab’s website, and is Creative Commons licensed to allow any sort of redistribution, commercial or non-commercial, that includes attribution and preserves the reports’ original sharability. As of this writing, there are four reports in the series, two by me and two which I authored with a visiting scholar. Affiliates of my lab proofread the reports and we have some discussion of them before they are issued, but there is no editorial or peer review process. Technical reports have never been considered publications in the sense that peer-reviewed journal articles and books are, as is discussed in more detail later. Of course, I do not represent the ones in my series as such.
#newmedia#scholarship#blogging#academic
·amodern.net·
Beyond the Journal and the Blog - Amodern
R Bootcamp Materials! — Jared Knowles
R Bootcamp Materials! — Jared Knowles
To train new employees at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, I have developed a 2-3 day series of training modules on how to get work done in R. These modules cover everything from setting up and installing R and RStudio to creating reproducible analyses using the knitr package. There are also some experimental modules for introductions to basic computer programming, and a refresher course on statistics. I hope to improve both of these over time.  I am happy to announce that all of these materials are available online, for free.
#visualization#programming#data#opencontent
·jaredknowles.com·
R Bootcamp Materials! — Jared Knowles
The Bonhamizer
The Bonhamizer
The Bonhamizer will take a track and re-render it as if John Bonham of Led Zepplin was the drummer. This app works by cutting songs up into beats and tatums, and aligning the beats to John Bonham's drum patterns. This is a music hack created at Music Hack Day San Francisco 2013 by Paul Lamere. It is powered by The Echo Nest. This hack was created using the same technology as the Infinite Jukebox, Infinite Gangnam Style and Bohemian Rhapsichord.
#ds106#remix#amazingweb
·static.echonest.com·
The Bonhamizer
Reconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path, with Google Earth, YouTube and high-school math | Ogle Earth
Reconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path, with Google Earth, YouTube and high-school math | Ogle Earth
Like many others, I was absolutely astounded by the meteor strike over Chelyabinsk when I woke on Friday morning. One silver lining to our self-surveilling society is that an event of this magnitude is certain to get caught on the myriad of always-on dash- and webcams. I for one could not get enough of the videos. Might it be possible to use this viral footage with Google Earth to have an initial go at mapping the meteorite’s trajectory?
#googleearth#mathematics#science
·ogleearth.com·
Reconstructing the Chelyabinsk meteor’s path, with Google Earth, YouTube and high-school math | Ogle Earth
StoryCorps National Day of Listening DIY Guide
StoryCorps National Day of Listening DIY Guide
The StoryCorps experience is not limited to our recording booths. We encourage everyone to conduct Do-It-Yourself interviews in your home, workplace, or community. Choose a friend, colleague, or loved one to interview, and find some recording equipment. There’s no wrong way to do it. Just listen closely, and ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. Here’s how:
#storytelling#ds106#audio#howto
·nationaldayoflistening.org·
StoryCorps National Day of Listening DIY Guide
Themeefy
Themeefy
Create and publish your own e-magazine by curating content from the Web or creating your own content!
#50ways
·themeefy.com·
Themeefy
10 ‘Snowfall’-like Projects That Break Out Of Standard Article Templates - 10,000 Words
10 ‘Snowfall’-like Projects That Break Out Of Standard Article Templates - 10,000 Words
“Snowfall” has become a verb in many newsrooms after The New York Times launched its beautiful multimedia project earlier this year. Though the format was touted as the future of online storytelling by some, The Times wasn’t the first to pull of this type of format. If you’re looking for inspiration to make snow fall in your own newsroom, here are a few other examples, not all of which come from newsrooms, as I think it would be irresponsible of us to confine ourselves to the sphere of news organizations when collecting inspiration for innovative storytelling formats.
#storytelling#html5#web2storytelling#publishing
·mediabistro.com·
10 ‘Snowfall’-like Projects That Break Out Of Standard Article Templates - 10,000 Words
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!
We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. (Here's why.) We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Charter...
#ideas#culture
·emailcharter.org·
Save Our Inboxes! Adopt the Email Charter!
Visual Writing Prompts
Visual Writing Prompts
Right now, Luke Neff and I are adding prompts and using labels. Eventually, we want to create a page where you can search based upon subject, type of writing or Common Core standard. We also plan to add some lesson plans and maybe some student samples in the long run. Our goal is to provide a free resource that teachers can use in their classrooms or that individuals can use as inspiration for writing.
#storytelling#ds106#writing#creativity
·visualwritingprompts.wordpress.com·
Visual Writing Prompts