Wikivoyage – The FREE worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit
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It's like Discogs, for Record Shops & Record Events. Our mission is to document every physical record shop and record event on the planet. With your help, we can create an accurate listing of all record shops & record events, useful to diggers and travelers everywhere. VinylHub is brought to you by Discogs.
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Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national research studies on what it is like being a college student in the digital age. We examine how college students find and use information -- their needs, strategies, practices, and workarounds -- for course work and solving information problems that arise in their everyday lives.
Reading Blogs to Learn: Seeking Knowledge From a Community of Strangers - EdTech Researcher - Education Week
Blogs aren't dead. You know that since you're reading one right now. A recent study from Project Information Literacy (PIL) suggests that reading blogs to learn is more widespread than accounts of their demise might suggest. Published in the October issue of First Monday, the study by Alison J. Head, Michele Van Hoeck, and Kirsten Hostetler claims that recent college graduates are not only reading blogs, they're reading with a very specific purpose in mind: to learn about something they need to know.
Strangeness - Alex Armstrong
A friend asked me if I celebrate Thanksgiving yesterday. As a vegetarian, I don’t find this holiday particularly appealing. Also, it’s not at all a thing in Greece, where I live. Knowing that my father is American, she noted that some people celebrate their “home thing”.
Rambox : Free, Open Source and Cross Platform app for Slack, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype and much more...
Free, Open Source and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
maps of the internet
There are hundreds of “maps of the internet,” but most are rather illegible (scientists will always need designers!), and most are just variations on a few basic types. I’ve identified four main kinds of maps; below are some of the best of each variety. Note that most maps of the internet don’t come with very good legends, or even explanations of what’s going on. I’ve tried to include this information below as best as I can. I've taken these from various sources, notably the “Atlas of Cyberspaces” website, which unfortunately is now out of commission.
Passbolt | Open source password manager for teams
The password manager your team was waiting for. Free, open source, self-hosted, extensible, OpenPGP based.
Privacy Badger | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.
Surveillance Self-Defense | Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications
Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
Harmonia: An interactive utopian tale
Harmonia is an interactive short story by Liza Daly entered into the 2017 Interactive Fiction Competition.
Interactive marginalia – Liza Daly – Medium
Some asides about asides For this year’s annual Interactive Fiction Competition, I entered a hypertext story called Harmonia. (It came in third place, hooray.) The story, in part, pertains to the ways in which narratives are re-read and re-interpreted over time, as expressed by annotations and scholarly commentary. I’ve always been fascinated by the scribbles found in old or scanned books; I once wrote a program to deface books for me. Harmonia is a story about the dialogue that annotation represents between readers separated by years, decades, or even centuries.
The Interactive Fiction Competition
An annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
Audiotool - Free Music Software - Make Music Online In Your Browser
Audiotool is a powerful online music production studio right in your browser. All crafted with lots of love for the small details.
Mozilla Safety Tips
KEEPING YOU & YOUR DIGITAL LOVED ONES SECURE
TAPoR
TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval.
Learn & Understand JavaScript’s Reduce Function – codeburst
The reduce() method is used to apply a function to each element in the array to reduce the array to a single value.
Imj: A web-based tool for visual culture macroanalytics – Zach Whalen
So-called “movie barcodes” are both elegant to look at and useful ways to explore how color schemes and designs shift throughout a film. Image montages can also demonstrate how a visual corpus changes over time, and plotting an image set into a graph based on values like hue and saturation could provide a stylistic fingerprint for particular set. Visual culture analytics or macroanalytics is a methodology for drawing interpretations of large sets of data with the aid of computers. Just like scholars may use computational tools to analyze n-gram frequencies in literary corpora, for example, others also like Lev Manovich use software to create similarly condensed or arrayed views that reveal patterns and trends within visual corpora. I’ve encouraged my students to try these methods in my classes, but the tools for creating these can be intimidating or even buggy. I’ve written a post about using ffmpeg (avconv on Ubuntu) with imagemagick, but for someone to follow those steps they’d have to be comfortable working in a command line. I’ve had some success with ImagePlot in the past, but I’ve yet to get it working on my current laptop. What I really wanted was something web-based with the combined accessibility and power that Voyant-Tools.org or even Wordle, but for images. Finding nothing satisfactory, I made it myself:
Five Things I’ve Learnt in Five Decades Documenting Everyday Life
I’ve spent a lifetime recording British society, trying to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life, mainly with photographs but also with audio recordings and short movies. The work I do is collaborative, that is I aim to make media with people, not do it to them. My website Photobus is an omnibus in more senses than one. The name comes from my early project Free Photographic Omnibus, where I travelled around England in the early 1970s aboard a somewhat ramshackle double-decker bus that I’d converted into my home, darkroom and gallery. But the site has become a repository for many other documentary projects, stretching from the early 1970s to the current day. Here’s 5 things I’ve learned in over 40 years of documenting everyday life
#LTHEchat | The weekly Learning and Teaching in HE chat created by the community for the community – Wednesday 8-9pm
The weekly chat is open to anyone interested in higher education and will provide an opportunity to share practices as well as ideas and connect with other practioners on a regular basis. Each week the chat will have a focus on a specific aspect of learning and teaching in HE.
Data Detox Kit
Welcome to your 8-day data detox! In just half an hour or less per day, you'll be well on your way to a healthier and more in-control digital self. What are you waiting for?
Digital Hydra: Security Implications of False Information Online | StratCom
NATO report
Master New Instructional Moves – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Instructional Moves focuses on Building Community, Lecturing Interactively, and Facilitating Discussions, with each module containing fifteen or more “moves” that faculty can experiment with on their own
Programming, meh… Let’s Teach How to Write Computational Essays Instead | OUseful.Info, the blog...
From Stephen Wolfram, a nice phrase to describe the sorts of thing you can create using tools like Jupyter notebooks, Rmd and Mathematica notebooks: computational essays that complements the “computational narrative” phrase that is also used to describe such documents. Wolfram’s recent blog post What Is a Computational Essay?, part essay, part computational essay, is primarily a pitch for using Mathematica notebooks and the Wolfram Language. (The Wolfram Language provides computational support plus access to a “fact engine” database that ca be used to pull factual information into the coding environment.)
Critical Algorithm Studies: a Reading List | Social Media Collective
This list is an attempt to collect and categorize a growing critical literature on algorithms as social concerns. The work included spans sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, communication, media studies, and legal studies, among others. Our interest in assembling this list was to catalog the emergence of “algorithms” as objects of interest for disciplines beyond mathematics, computer science, and software engineering.
Why we post
Why We Post is a global anthropological research project on the uses and consequences of social media.
Making Sense of "Memes": Where They Came From and Why We Keep Clicking Them - Inquiries Journal
Are memes mere distractions from our normal office boredom? Funny, stupid, or poignant, this most simple digital medium captures our attention in particularly unique ways. But how and why did this form of cultural transmission become so popular, and potentially, so powerful?
Lynda Barry’s Illustrated Field Guide to Keeping a Visual Diary and Cultivating a Capacity for Creative Observation – Brain Pickings
How to master the infinitely rewarding art of “being present and seeing what’s there.” Barry traces her own journey and what is to be gained by those endeavoring to master this simple, powerful practice
ideaFM – Broadcasting and Farming Ideas
My name is David Theriault and I’m a high school English Teacher in Southern California. My primary blog is thereadinessisall.com. That blog is more of a long form blog where I work through more complex ideas or share my process for solving and asking questions. For about two years I had two sections on my blog that were dedicated to shorter posts, but the implementation was messy. Starting today: 1/2/2015 http://www.ideaFM.org will house those shorter ideas and questions. Sean Ziebarth and I have been using the #ideaFM in our classes for a while. IdeaFM combines two ideas. 1. The concept of Idea Farming, which is our innovation process for adults and students 2. idea FM which is the concept of sending out or sharing our ideas like a FM radio signal.
ideafarming: An Innovation Project
SEAN ZIEBARTH AND DAVID THERIAULT ARE CREATING AN INNOVATION PROCESS WITH THEIR STUDENTS. FIND OUT MORE BELOW.