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Open Feedback Publishing - O'Reilly Labs
Open Feedback Publishing - O'Reilly Labs
The Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS) is an O'Reilly experiment that tries to bridge the gap between private manuscripts and public blogs. OFPS allows readers to read in-progress O'Reilly manuscripts, communicate suggestions with the authors, follow others' comments, and directly participate in the development of new books. Manuscripts developed with OFPS sites allow the authors to publish the in-progress work as whenever they think it's ready for public comment and then update the site with new versions as the text is improved. Authors note sections of the text that they'd like comments on (potentially down to an individual paragraph) and that allows readers on the site to comment on that particular section.
#publishing#collaboration#book#hznmc#hz10
·labs.oreilly.com·
Open Feedback Publishing - O'Reilly Labs
unclasses.org - community powered learning
unclasses.org - community powered learning
unclasses.org is a simple site that connects people who want to learn about a topic with those in their area who want to teach it. It’s basically a marketplace for matching interest with passion. The actual (un)classes can be whatever you want them to be. People in your area suggest things they want to learn, others join, and someone volunteers to teach. It’s that simple. (un)classes are meant to be lightweight, fun, and unconventional -- the kinds of things you can't easily learn elsewhere.
#education#learning#community#teaching#crowdsourcing#networking#socialmedia#hznmc
·unclasses.org·
unclasses.org - community powered learning
Mobile Learning in the Workplace: conference proceedings
Mobile Learning in the Workplace: conference proceedings
The Work-based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE) group at the Institute for Education, University of London, held a one day symposium on March 27, 2009 to discuss “mobile learning cultures”. The abstracts for the day are each 3-4 pages, and capture the spirit of the day. The 164 page downloadable document (5.29 MB) is edited by Norbert Pachler and Judith Selpold. As well, most of the slides from presentations are available to download.
#mobiles#mobile#education#business#hz10#hz09biz#hznmc#hzk10#hz10k12
·brandon-hall.com·
Mobile Learning in the Workplace: conference proceedings
Cloudworks
Cloudworks
Welcome to Cloudworks, a place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences. A Cloud can be anything to do with learning and teaching. Each Cloud is 'social' in that it is possible to have a conversation around the Cloud. A Cloud could be: a short description of a learning and teaching idea, information about resources or tools for learning and teaching, detailed learning designs or case studies of practice or a question as a starting point for a discussion. Clouds can be aggregated into 'Cloudscapes' associated with a particular event, purpose or interest. For example you can have Cloudscapes associated with a conference aggregating Clouds about conference presentations or tools and resources referenced. A Cloudscape can be set up for a workshop where Clouds might include workshop resources, tools or activities. Cloudscapes can also be more general for example to stimulate debate about a particular teaching approach.
#web2.0#learning#resources#collaboration#sharing#hz10#hznmc#hzk10#hz10k12#hzk09#collabspaces
·cloudworks.ac.uk·
Cloudworks
Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip
Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip
Today we're adding a new experiment to Google Labs: Google Fast Flip, accessible at fastflip.googlelabs.com. Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. Fast Flip also personalizes the experience for you, by taking cues from selections you make to show you more content from sources, topics and journalists that you seem to like.
#google#mobiles#mobile#webapp#news#hznmc#hz10
·googleblog.blogspot.com·
Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip
Fluid - Fluid Engage
Fluid - Fluid Engage
Fluid Engage is poised to address some of the challenges faced by museums and cultural institutions as they work to incorporate new technology into their web, mobile, and physical spaces. At the moment curators or educators within museums and galleries are using three (potentially integrated but frequently disjointed) environments: 1. The physical space (often augmented or mediated by computers) 2. The Web (also referred to as the virtual or online museum or gallery) including social networking applications, and 3. Mobile device interaction (whether supplied by the institution or through the patron’s personal cell phone or mobile device).
#museum#technology#software#hznmc#hz10#mobiles#mobile#hz10mu
·fluidproject.org·
Fluid - Fluid Engage
Readtwit
Readtwit
Readtwit filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading software / service to read twitter posted content along with the rest of your feeds.
#twitter#rss#feeds#tools#aggregation
·readtwit.com·
Readtwit
Land Art Generator Initiative
Land Art Generator Initiative
The UAE Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is a landmark initiative to bring together artists, architects, scientists, and engineers in a first of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art Generator Initiative is to design and construct a series of land art installations across the UAE that uniquely combine aesthetic intrigue with clean energy generation.
#art#design#sustainability#environment#science#nmcfuture
·landartgenerator.org·
Land Art Generator Initiative
Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar
Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar
According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today). I wonder what surface area would be required and what type of infrastructural investment would be required to supply that amount of power by using only solar panels. To create fuel that can be used in vehicles and equipment I am assuming that some of the electricity generated would be used to create hydrogen. We should all start wondering about these things since we will have really no other choice* by the turn of the next century.
#energy#solar#environment#green#infographics#nmcfuture
·landartgenerator.org·
Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar
Collecta
Collecta
Collecta is not like other search engines. The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen. Give it a try.
#search#realtimeweb#twitter#tools#socialmedia#hznmc#hz10
·collecta.com·
Collecta
HowTo: Rebooting the RSS cloud
HowTo: Rebooting the RSS cloud
In the early days of RSS, we had the idea that instantaneous updates would be the next step. That was 2001. It took a little longer than we thought, but now with "realtime" as the Next Big Thing, it's time to reboot all that stuff.
#rss#programming#realtimeweb
·rsscloud.org·
HowTo: Rebooting the RSS cloud
Wordpress.com Enables RSSCloud In Post Feeds
Wordpress.com Enables RSSCloud In Post Feeds
The new protocol took a big step forward today as Wordpress.com enabled the cloud tag on all post feeds (comment feeds will be enabled at some later point). Winer tweeted about it today, and Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg has since confirmed in an email that all Wordpress.com blog feeds now support the tag. If you view the source of a feed on Wordpress, such as this one, you can see the new tag:
#rss#wordpress#realtimeweb#realtime#api
·techcrunch.com·
Wordpress.com Enables RSSCloud In Post Feeds
Tornado Web Server
Tornado Web Server
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle FriendFeed's real-time features — every active user of FriendFeed maintains an open connection to the FriendFeed servers.
#web#opensource#facebook#realtime#programming#software#realtimeweb
·tornadoweb.org·
Tornado Web Server