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Nature Soundmap
Nature Soundmap
A group of professional nature recordists from around the globe have collaborated to develop Nature Soundmap, an enjoyable and interactive way of exploring the natural sounds of our planet. Combining high-quality field recordings with the latest satellite imagery, the project brings together some of nature’s most beautiful, interesting and inspiring sounds.
#education#maps#sound#audio#ds106
·naturesoundmap.com·
Nature Soundmap
How to use the iPhone as the Best Backpacking GPS - Adventure Alan
How to use the iPhone as the Best Backpacking GPS - Adventure Alan
Best Backpacking GPS: The iPhone is the best backpacking GPS. It just works! We’ve taken our iPhones pack-rafting in Alaska, winter rafting down the Grand Canyon, technical Canyoneering in Utah, and climbing in the Wind Rivers and the Sierras
#iphone#backpacking
·adventurealan.com·
How to use the iPhone as the Best Backpacking GPS - Adventure Alan
Definition of Free Cultural Works
Definition of Free Cultural Works
This document defines "Free Cultural Works" as works or expressions which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose. It also describes certain permissible restrictions that respect or protect these essential freedoms. The definition distinguishes between free works, and free licenses which can be used to legally protect the status of a free work. The definition itself is not a license; it is a tool to determine whether a work or license should be considered "free."
#copyright#culture#evernoted#ccc
·freedomdefined.org·
Definition of Free Cultural Works
International Time Capsule Society - Crypt of Civilization
International Time Capsule Society - Crypt of Civilization
The 1989 Oxford English Dictionary defines a time capsule as “a container used to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time.” Time capsules are interesting to people of all ages and touch people on a world-wide scale. Properly prepared time capsules preserve the salient features of history and can serve as valuable reminders of one generation for another. Time capsules give individuals, families and organizations an independent voice to the future. The International Time Capsule Society (ITCS) is an organization established in 1990 to promote the careful study of time capsules. It strives to document all types of time capsules throughout the world. The group is headquartered at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia.
#history
·crypt.oglethorpe.edu·
International Time Capsule Society - Crypt of Civilization
Running a Jekyll Site on Reclaim Hosting
Running a Jekyll Site on Reclaim Hosting
This weekend I decided to experiment with a feature we have enabled on some of our servers that is sort of an unsung hero for advanced users (so advanced I hadn't taken the time to understand how it works!). Jekyll is a static site generator that has grown in popularity in large part due to its inclusion in GitHub Pages as well as a wider movement to have sites built from HTML based on Markdown templates. Plenty of folks today already run Jekyll sites but the process of using them with Reclaim typically involved generating the files locally on your computer and then publishing them to Reclaim because of Jekyll's requirement to run newer versions of Ruby than cPanel supports.
#webdesign#webdev#jekyll
·blog.timowens.io·
Running a Jekyll Site on Reclaim Hosting
DiSo Project
DiSo Project
Silo free living. Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards — both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard APIs, and open-source software are key building blocks of these technologies. This model can be described as having three sides: Information, Identity, and Interaction. Diso (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web.
#evernoted#ccc
·diso-project.org·
DiSo Project
Activity Streams 2.0
Activity Streams 2.0
In the most basic sense, an "Activity" is a semantic description of an action. It is the goal of this specification to provide a JSON-based syntax that is sufficient to express metadata about activities in a rich, human-friendly but machine-processable and extensible manner. This can include constructing natural-language descriptions or visual representations about the activity, associating actionable information with various types of objects, communicating or recording activity logs, or delegation of potential actions to other applications.
#json#metadata#evernoted#ccc
·w3.org·
Activity Streams 2.0
Disappearing West
Disappearing West
Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field worth of natural area to human development. This project maps a rapidly changing landscape, explores what is being lost, and profiles a new movement for conservation that is gaining ground.
·disappearingwest.org·
Disappearing West
13 Steps to a Faster Jekyll Website | Wiredcraft
13 Steps to a Faster Jekyll Website | Wiredcraft
I started using Jekyll (or rather GitHub pages) about 6 years ago after years of disappointment with the CMS space (I’m looking at you, Drupal). Getting back to building actual HTML pages and not fighting some “framework” was refreshing, but what made me and my team fall in love with it was its speed. Over the past 6 years, we went on to build a ton with it: simple landing pages, developer documentations, Open Source communities, blogs like this very website, and Web apps (for example the subnational data browser for the World Bank). And along the way, we figured out a thing or two when it comes to performance. I shared these discoveries at JekyllConf 2016 and I thought I’d offer some more details about what it is that we do to build fast Jekyll websites.
#webdev#code#jekyll#static#website
·wiredcraft.com·
13 Steps to a Faster Jekyll Website | Wiredcraft
How to talk about copyright? | CopySpeak.org
How to talk about copyright? | CopySpeak.org
There are 52 cards in a deck. Each card refers to a single popular word used in the copyright debate. Even very few people in the conference room using the cards can raise awareness of the importance of the copyright language. Copyright Debate: The Conference Card Game
#copyright#gaming#evernoted#ccc
·copyspeak.org·
How to talk about copyright? | CopySpeak.org
Santana On 'Black Magic Woman,' A Pioneering Cultural Mashup : NPR
Santana On 'Black Magic Woman,' A Pioneering Cultural Mashup : NPR
When Carlos Santana recently reunited members of his original band for a new album and short tour, it was more than a trip down memory lane. The band's members say it was a rekindling of a spiritual connection among a group of musicians who crafted a sound that proved to be not only hugely popular, but was also a pioneering cultural mashup.
#music#mashup#remix#ds106
·npr.org·
Santana On 'Black Magic Woman,' A Pioneering Cultural Mashup : NPR
ExifTool by Phil Harvey
ExifTool by Phil Harvey
ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony. ExifTool is also available as a stand-alone Windows executable and a Macintosh OS X package
#photography#metadata#exif#thruthelens
·owl.phy.queensu.ca·
ExifTool by Phil Harvey
Edit Suite: The Mysteries of Screen Direction | Videomaker.com
Edit Suite: The Mysteries of Screen Direction | Videomaker.com
These principles are deceptively simple: There are only two basic directions in the screen world: toward the right edge of the frame or toward the left edge. Screen directions have no relation whatever to real-world directions. You can control screen direction by keeping the actors and the camera on opposite sides of an invisible "action line."
#cinema#filmmaking#ds106#video
·videomaker.com·
Edit Suite: The Mysteries of Screen Direction | Videomaker.com
Left or Right? Why a Character's Lateral Movement On-Screen Matters in Film
Left or Right? Why a Character's Lateral Movement On-Screen Matters in Film
If there's only one tenet of filmmaking you learn today, let it be that everything, everything in your film matters -- including the direction your characters are moving on-screen. That's right. It matters whether your actors are moving right or left across the screen. Or whether your character appears on the right or left side of the screen. Or whether they are right-handed or left-handed. Why? Because -- science -- and psychology.
#filmmaking#cinema#ds106
·nofilmschool.com·
Left or Right? Why a Character's Lateral Movement On-Screen Matters in Film
Credly Dev Portal
Credly Dev Portal
Open Credit gives you the power to seamlessly integrate every aspect of digital badge and credential management into your own sites or applications. The entire Credly system is built from the ground up around Open Credit, a highly modular API built with an emphasis on performance, scalability and security. Open Credit is RESTful, fault tolerant, speedy, and returns JSON. API endpoints encompass the entire spectrum of digital credential management. Badges issued with Open Credit are compliant with the emerging Mozilla Open Badges standard, and Credly is the only system with complete two-way OBI support.
#api#certification#evernoted#ccc
·developers.credly.com·
Credly Dev Portal
Open Badges Technical Specification
Open Badges Technical Specification
This specification describes a method for packaging information about accomplishments, embedding it into portable image files as digital badges, and establishing an infrastructure for its validation.
#badges#education#evernoted#ccc
·openbadgespec.org·
Open Badges Technical Specification
Fifty shades of open | Pomerantz | First Monday
Fifty shades of open | Pomerantz | First Monday
Open source. Open access. Open society. Open knowledge. Open government. Even open food. The word “open” has been applied to a wide variety of words to create new terms, some of which make sense, and some not so much. This essay disambiguates the many meanings of the word “open” as it is used in a wide range of contexts.
#open#openness#evernoted
·firstmonday.org·
Fifty shades of open | Pomerantz | First Monday
A successful Git branching model » nvie.com
A successful Git branching model » nvie.com
In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for some of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management.
#git#Programming
·nvie.com·
A successful Git branching model » nvie.com
Researching Love and Thanks on Wikipedia: CrowdCamp Hackathon Report | MIT Center for Civic Media
Researching Love and Thanks on Wikipedia: CrowdCamp Hackathon Report | MIT Center for Civic Media
Research on thanks and love could yield powerful explanations on matters of the design and governance of crowd platforms. It might also help us understand the role of appreciation in human behaviour. In the area of design, we might be able to quantify the trade-offs between offering personalized messages and simply having a "thanks button." Qualitative studies have shown that learners in the online creativity platform Scratch prefer personal remix attribution to automated messages, but which of these actually have the most meaningful effect overall? Emily and I are hoping to answer that question. We're also hoping that research on the role of appreciation in commons based peer production (like Wikipedia) might contribute to general knowledge about human behaviour. Expressions of thanks have been shown to affect performance in a variety of contexts: the timeliness of juvenile justice case workers, the size of tips in restaurants, the likelihood of repeat mentorship sessions, and the efficiency of volunteer fundraising. The Wikipedia dataset is one of the largest measurable collections of gratitude in a community anywhere, and by studying it, we might be able to learn more about how thanks functions in creative communities, especially in relation to our sense of self-efficacy, reputation, and social worth.
#gratitude#research
·civic.mit.edu·
Researching Love and Thanks on Wikipedia: CrowdCamp Hackathon Report | MIT Center for Civic Media
RightsStatements.org
RightsStatements.org
RightsStatements.org provides 11 standardized rights statements for online cultural heritage. Our rights statements make it easy to see if and how online cultural heritage works can be reused.
#resources#copyright
·rightsstatements.org·
RightsStatements.org
Pro Git Book
Pro Git Book
The entire Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress, is available here. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. Print versions of the book are available on Amazon.com.
#book#books#git#github#ccc#evernoted
·git-scm.com·
Pro Git Book
OpenContentToolkit - home
OpenContentToolkit - home
The purpose of the Open Content Toolkit wiki aims to share both contemporary and historical openly licensed content from media archives and collections around the world. The toolkit provides a space to explore, discuss and share examples of the use of open media at all school stages and at all levels of education. It is intended to be a truly Cross Curricular resource. The toolkit is free and open to all with an interest in open resources, media archives, education and the digital humanities.
#open#opencontent#openeducation#ccc#evernoted
·opencontenttoolkit.wikispaces.com·
OpenContentToolkit - home
Why some Great Depression photos were punched full of holes
Why some Great Depression photos were punched full of holes
The photos look just like the most famous FSA images of Depression-era America. Laborers with weathered faces stare into the distance, sharecropping families stand on splintered porches and rag-clad children play in the dust. But each picture is haunted by a strange black void. It hangs in the sky like an inverted sun, it eclipses a child’s face, it hovers menacingly in the corner of a room. The black hole is the handiwork of Roy Stryker, the director of the FSA’s documentary photography program. He was responsible for hiring photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein and Gordon Parks and dispatching them across the country to document the struggles of the rural poor. Stryker was a highly educated economist and provided his photographers with extensive research and information to prepare them for each assignment. He was determined to get the best work possible out of his employees — which also made him a bit of a tyrannical editor. When the photographers returned with their negatives, Stryker or his assistants would edit them ruthlessly. If a photo was not to his liking, he would not simply set it aside — he would puncture the negative with a hole puncher, “killing” it. 
#photography
·mashable.com·
Why some Great Depression photos were punched full of holes
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes (TMLMTBGB) is the longest running show in Chicago[1] and the only open-run Off-Off-Broadway show in New York.[2] Starting in 1988, the show has run 50 weekends of the year since then. As its subtitle states, the show consists of 30 short plays performed in a 60 minute space, written, directed, and performed by a small ensemble called the Neo-Futurists. The plays tend to be a mixture of autobiography and performance art, as with much of the Neo-Futurists' work.
#improv
·en.wikipedia.org·
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CSPD Comics
CSPD Comics
A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the “Rocky” theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights to the song. Can this be true? “Eyes on the Prize,” the great civil rights documentary, was pulled from circulation because the filmmakers’ rights to music and footage had expired. What’s going on here? It’s the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it’s the inspiration for this new comic book. Follow its heroine Akiko as she films her documentary, and navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property. Why do we have copyrights? What’s “fair use”? Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture. This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
#copyright#publicdomain#ccc#evernoted
·web.law.duke.edu·
CSPD Comics