Is the new boom in digital art sales a genuine opportunity or a trap? | MIT Technology Review
Artists are jumping into a market that will pay thousands for their work. But they're running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype.
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SmART – The Smartphone Accommodation Resource Toolbox
Your guide to using simple video production for teaching and learning
Show/Hide Boxes with Pure HTML [Details Element] – OER Activity Sourcebook
One way to implement local show/hide features without using plugins or fancy javascript is to use a native HTML5 element called . There isn’t currently a WYSYWIG button for it, so do use it, you’ll have to be comfortable working with raw HTML in Pressbooks’ text editor, but the element offers a simple, powerful way to make expanding text boxes (also known as disclosure widgets) in your Pressbooks web book.
How To retrieve flickr photos meta data in a 2021 Stylee!
Been doing this since September 2010! Now with Ruby 3.0 'except'
'Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic
Jeanne Thornton and Miracle Jones—friends and the publishers of the small press Instar Books—have come up with one surprisingly analog answer. Called, appropriately, Remember the Internet, it’s a series of pocket-size books about recent internet history. Each one tells the story of a hyper-specific online subculture from the point of view of a writer who was personally invested at the time. And each wrestles with the fact that these mico-communities are already slipping out of the cultural memory. “Telling a straightforward history of the internet is impossible,” Thornton told me. “It’s not useful to think of.” Instead, the idea is to approximate an exhaustive story by publishing dozens or hundreds of little ones.
INTERFACE CRITIQUE — Olia Lialina: FROM MY TO ME
Me is cheap, Me is easy to control, Me is easy to channel, Me is slave of its own reflection, Me is a slave of the platforms that make the reflection glossy. Me is data. Me is data closest to metadata. This makes Me just perfect to satisfy advertisers and to sate neural networks.
Why I'm Quitting Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple for a Month
Five companies in Silicon Valley are worth a combined $3 trillion. Most of us use at least one of their services everyday and it has become impossible to imagine life without them.
Teaching Students How to Analyze Images and Detect Fakery
Every day, images pass across our screens. They exist everywhere: on television, webpages, social media, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, mobile phones and more. Photographic images get attention in the 21st century. They get respect. They can teach. In Social Studies, for example, they are considered “primary sources.” In English Language Arts, they are the “non-print informational texts” that teachers use. And in the Visual Arts, they are art forms – media that students will analyze for technique and creative value. Photos are so ubiquitous, we often don’t give them much thought. Who took that picture? (authorship); why did they take it? (purpose); where is it seen? (media, exposure); what message might it convey? (interpretation); has it been altered and if so, why? (creative expression, manipulation). These are the kinds of “media literacy” questions that students should be taught to consider as they encounter photos in the news, in marketing situations, in social media.
Mapologies – Maps and other fictions
maps, languages, fun
Spatial: How Work Should Be
Immersive meeting/work space
Leveraged Play
We design in-person games, simulations, and workshops that help organizations explore possible futures and explain complex issues. We’ve designed games for audiences including conferences, foundations, leadership teams. Our games range in size from two players to hundreds. Through play, participants are free to explore new ideas and novel perspectives. Games are great at modeling complex systems and allow players to build intuitions for real world dynamics. By taking on the roles of key organizations and stakeholders, players can understand their incentives and empathise with their situations.
Alfredo de los Santos – South Phoenix Oral History Project
Chapter 9: Maricopa – Special Projects | Hispanic Research Center
supplement to Alfredo de los Santos memoir
Higher ed community mourns Alfredo de los Santos – Community College Daily
The community college world lost a major trailblazer with the passing of Alfredo de los Santos, Jr., on March 8. He was 84. De los Santos was the first president of El Paso Community College (EPCC) in Texas and served in that role from 1971 to 1976. He later was vice chancellor for student and educational development at Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona from 1978 through 1999, and a research professor at Arizona State University from 2000 to 2011. De Los Santos served on the board of directors of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in the 1970s and was honored with the National Leadership Award from AACC in 2004.
The Cultural Logic of Photo-Based Meme Genres
by Limor Shifman This article probes the cultural meaning of contemporary meme genres that are based on photographs. The analysis looks into the broad dimensions of truth and temporality, as expressed in three prominent genres: reaction Photoshops, stock character macros, and photo fads. Based on patterns shared by these genres, it is argued that photo-based memes function as both modes of hypersignification, wherein the code itself becomes the focus of attention, and as prospective photography, wherein photos are increasingly perceived as the raw material for future images. Finally, combining the two frames, memes are conceptualized as operative signs – textual categories that are designed as invitations for (creative) action. While these three qualities were also evident, in one way or another, in traditional forms of photography, they have emerged as governing logics in an era marked by an amalgamation of digital photography and participatory culture.
Ansible is Simple IT Automation
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time. It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it's easy to deploy - and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.
Perpetual Access To The Scholarly Record | fatcat!
Fatcat is a versioned, user-editable catalog of research publications including journal articles, conference proceedings, and datasets. Features include archival file-level metadata (verified digests and long-term copies), a preservation coverage visualizer, work/edition grouping, an open API, and public metadata dumps. This service aspires to be a piece of sustainable, long-term, non-profit, open source, collaborative, digital infrastructure. It is primarily designed to support the archival and dissemination roles of scholarly communication. It may also support the registration role (establishing precedence and authorship), but explicitly does not aid with certification of content, and is not intended to be used for evaluation of individuals, institutions, or venues. This service is "universal", not curated. This means that it includes retracted works (annotated and disclaimed as such) and content some may consider "predatory publishing".
Internet Archive Scholar
Search Millions of Research Papers This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals though the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
Hear me out! - The Educationalist
Welcome to a new issue of “The Educationalist”. This week I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can make best use of audio materials for teaching and learning. We are often too focused on using images and video materials that we tend to forget that voice is a very powerful tool and also a natural way to articulate one’s thoughts and consume information. I’ve put together some thoughts on the advantages of using audio as a medium for teaching and learning, alongside some practical suggestions on how to design and embed audio in our courses. Last but not least, you’ll find some practical tips and, as always, a curated list of useful and inspiring resources on this topic. I hope you enjoy reading this and I look forward to hearing your stories about using audio in your teaching!
Killed by Kindness: Virginia Woolf, the Art of Letters, the Birth and Death of Photography, and the Fate of Every Technology – Brain Pickings
The polymath John Herschel, nephew of the trailblazing astronomer Caroline Herschel, coined the word photography in 1839 in his correspondence with Henry Fox Talbot — a onetime aspiring artist turned amateur inventor.
World Community Grid - Home
World Community Grid is a simple way to support cutting-edge research into important global humanitarian causes. Your computer or mobile device could be powering scientific research on health, poverty and sustainability.
Cheap Bots, Done Quick!
This site will help you make a Twitterbot! They're easy to make and free to run. To use it, create a Twitter account for your bot to run under and then sign in below. The bots are written in Tracery, a tool for writing generative grammars developed by Kate Compton. This site is run by George Buckenham -
Wiki Education Dashboard
This Dashboard provides tools that help instructors and students share their knowledge and track their contributions.
Nimble – Wakoma Incorporated
Wakoma works with our partners to build community networks that provide free or low-cost access to the internet and local offline content and services. Our aim is to make it easier for organizations and communities to seed new networks in places where internet is unavailable, expensive or unreliable. The Nimble is a completely open source solution for starting a new network, or expanding an existing one. Anyone connected to the Nimble can video and voice chat, message, share files, build and run courses and websites, stream media, view global maps, create collaborative documents and spreadsheets, read e-books, play games, and much more, completely offline. If a single internet connection is available, it can be plugged into the Nimble to provide free or paid internet access to anyone on the network. The offline services and content are always available to users, regardless of internet availability. Anyone in the world can build their own Nimble with locally sourced hardware and 3D-printed components.
Callysto – Building Tomorrows Digital Leaders
Callysto is a free, online learning tool that helps Grades 5-12 students and teachers in Canada learn and apply in-demand data science skills including data analysis, visualization, coding, and computational thinking.
How Hank the Cowdog Made John R. Erickson the King of the Canine Canon – Texas Monthly
He wanted to become a serious literary novelist, like Faulkner or Hemingway. Fortunately for millions of Hank the Cowdog fans, he failed.
Three Beautiful Things
Every day I want to record three things that have given me pleasure. This 3BT site is the original Three Beautiful Things.
The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against Algorithms | by stoplapdspying | Medium
In an increasingly policed and surveilled world, algorithms have become critical sites of power, struggle and resistance. By telling the story of our fight against Predpol, a predictive policing technology, we are introducing an abolitionist model for analyzing algorithms: The Algorithmic Ecology. The Algorithmic Ecology is both a framework and an organizing tool that can be critically applied to any algorithm. This model decenters the algorithm itself, looks at the different actors that shape the algorithm, and illustrates whose interests the algorithm serves, with the ultimate goal of dismantling the actors creating algorithmic harm. The Algorithmic Ecology is also a reminder: We must critically examine what lurks beneath “scientific,” data-driven policing, and we must go beyond technology-centered critiques of algorithms and “dirty data.”
Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash
Proctorio has cashed in on remote learning since the start of the pandemic. Now, some schools are abandoning the company's controversial software.
CSS: The Perfect Print Stylesheet | The JotForm Blog
Even today, there are still many people that want to print out the entire internet. This can have many reasons. Maybe a team seeks to discuss an article’s content in a meeting. Or maybe somebody wants to read your article somewhere where they don’t have an internet connection. To satisfy these people, each website requires a CSS file for printing.