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An illustrated taxonomy of annotation types – Hypothesis
An illustrated taxonomy of annotation types – Hypothesis
I’m often asked: “What does the Hypothes.is software do?” The elevator pitch is easy. “Visit a web page, then select some text and annotate with comments or tags. You’ll see those annotations when you return to the page, and so will other Hypothesis users.” As a general proposition that seems to make sense to almost everyone. Then comes the follow-up question: “Why would I do that?” That’s harder because the answer is: “It depends.” There are several types of Hypothes.is annotations, and many patterns for using them. In this post I’ll present a taxonomy of annotation types. In a follow-up post I’ll explore some patterns of use.
·hypothes.is·
An illustrated taxonomy of annotation types – Hypothesis
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
Embark on a journey that takes you all over the world. From the most desolate roads in Australia to the busy, bustling streets of New York City.
·geoguessr.com·
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
10 Iconic Movie Sounds (And How They Were Made) | Mental Floss
10 Iconic Movie Sounds (And How They Were Made) | Mental Floss
While a movie’s dialogue and sound are recorded during filming, a majority of sound effects and foley work are created during post-production. The average movie has hundreds of different sound effects, from the sound of a door opening to water being poured into a glass. Considering that sound design is just as important to a finished film as its visual elements, sometimes sound designers have to get really creative to bring a movie to life. Here are 10 iconic movie sounds, and how they were made.
·mentalfloss.com·
10 Iconic Movie Sounds (And How They Were Made) | Mental Floss
8 Things Invented by Famous Writers | Mental Floss
8 Things Invented by Famous Writers | Mental Floss
We might not often think of writers as having a creative life outside of the page, but that sells some of our more celebrated authors short. In addition to penning some amazing literature, these 8 writers also came up with innovative inventions.
·mentalfloss.com·
8 Things Invented by Famous Writers | Mental Floss
WikiArt.org - the encyclopedia of painting
WikiArt.org - the encyclopedia of painting
The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art — from cave artworks to the new talents of today. The project is non-profit. WikiArt filling system is based on the principle of wiki, i.e. free filling and editing the contents of the site by anyone who wants to participate in the project. The quality and reliability of the information will be ensured by consistent moderation of all the updates. Wiki functionality of the site is still under development and we are working hard to open editorial section for public. Please request an invitation and we'll let you know when it's ready. The site presents both public domain artworks and works that are protected by copyright. The last ones are posted on the site in accordance with fair use principle, because: they are historically significant artworks; the images are only being used for informational and educational purposes; the image are readily available on the internet; the images are low resolution copies of the original artworks and are unsuitable for commercial use.
·wikiart.org·
WikiArt.org - the encyclopedia of painting
Archive of Our Own
Archive of Our Own
The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization, established by fans in 2007, to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate.
·archiveofourown.org·
Archive of Our Own
Introducing River5
Introducing River5
So I decided it was time to do a restart of my JavaScript RSS aggregator, and it's now ready for Node users -- it's called River5. 
·scripting.com·
Introducing River5
collision detection: "Wired Love": A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting ... from 1880
collision detection: "Wired Love": A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting ... from 1880
In the Victorian era, telegraph operators were the first people to live with virtual reality. It’s all quite nuttily modern. Wired Love anticipates everything we live with in today’s online, Iphoned courtship: Assessing whether someone you’ve met online is what they say they are; the misunderstandings of tone and substance that come from communicating in rapid-fire, conversational bursts of text; or even the fact that you might not really be sure of the gender/nationality/species of the person you’re flirting with.
·collisiondetection.net·
collision detection: "Wired Love": A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting ... from 1880
Back to School with Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate with Students – Hypothesis
Back to School with Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate with Students – Hypothesis
It’s back-to-school season and I find myself once again encouraging teachers to discuss course readings with their students using collaborative web annotation technologies like Hypothesis. Though relatively new to Hypothesis, I’ve been making this pitch for a few years now, but in conversations with educators of late I’ve come to realize that we often mean different things by the word “annotate.” Annotation connotes something distinct in specific subject areas, at different  grade and skill levels, and within certain teaching philosophies. This will be the first semester during which Hypothesis has an active education department and so in the spirit these first days of the school year, I thought it might be worth exploring what we really mean when we say, “annotate.” Annotation is typically perceived as a means to an end. As marginal note-taking it often is the basis for questions asked in class discussion or points made in a final paper. But annotation can also be a kind of end in itself, or at least more than a rest-stop on the way to intellectual discovery. This becomes especially true when annotation is brought into the relatively public and collaborative space of social reading online. Digital marginalia as such requires a redefinition or at least expanded understanding of what is traditionally meant by the act of “annotation.”
·hypothes.is·
Back to School with Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate with Students – Hypothesis
URL Tricks for Google Forms: Pre-populate, and Automatically Submitting Responses - Justin Gale
URL Tricks for Google Forms: Pre-populate, and Automatically Submitting Responses - Justin Gale
The first trick for Google Forms is to pre-populate form responses. The is really very simple, you make your Google Form, then while in the form, choose Responses, then Get pre-filled URL, then enter your “example” date, and click Submit. Google will then give you a URL example with all the necessary parameters for you to tweak your own additional pre-filled responses
·justingale.com·
URL Tricks for Google Forms: Pre-populate, and Automatically Submitting Responses - Justin Gale
The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs | Science | Smithsonian
The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs | Science | Smithsonian
The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs This year, we saw dissolving electronics, flying meteors, gravity-defying chains and rotting pineapples By Joseph Stromberg SMITHSONIAN.COM DECEMBER 24, 2013 598 139 4 153 1.5K 1 2.6K 598 139 153 1.5K 4 2.6K An electronic circuit that dissolves in the presence of water. From video by University of Illinois If a picture's worth a thousand words, a GIF is easily worth a million. The file format—which uses a series of images to produce a looping video, like a flip book—is a tremendous way to convey all sorts of moving wonders, and 2013 was the year that the GIF truly went mainstream, with GIFs of celebrities, sports and politicians filling the Web. But 2013 was also a banner year for science—so much so that the word 'science' was Merriam-Webster's word of the year. It's appropriate, then, that we use the GIF to explore some of the coolest, weirdest, most remarkable science stories of 2013. What follows is a non-exhaustive list of amazing science GIFs from 2013, in no particular order.
·smithsonianmag.com·
The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs | Science | Smithsonian
5 Ways Filmmaking Helped an M.D./Ph.D. Student Become a Better Science Communicator
5 Ways Filmmaking Helped an M.D./Ph.D. Student Become a Better Science Communicator
As an M.D./Ph.D. student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I carried Bill Nye's enthusiasm for science with me, but not his skill at explaining science to a lay audience. And yet a video that I worked on, Spying on Breast Cancer Metastasis, has now been featured on the blog of Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and has received national recognition. The video-making process helped me understand the importance of communicating science to nonscientists and I think it offers valuable lessons for other young researchers.
·huffingtonpost.com·
5 Ways Filmmaking Helped an M.D./Ph.D. Student Become a Better Science Communicator
Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep | Technology | The Guardian
Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep | Technology | The Guardian
Google sets up feedback loop in its image recognition neural network - which looks for patterns in pictures - creating hallucinatory images of animals, buildings and landscapes which veer from beautiful to terrifying. What do machines dream of? New images released by Google give us one potential answer: hypnotic landscapes of buildings, fountains and bridges merging into one. The pictures, which veer from beautiful to terrifying, were created by the company’s image recognition neural network, which has been “taught” to identify features such as buildings, animals and objects in photographs
·theguardian.com·
Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep | Technology | The Guardian
The Open Syllabus Project – Opening the curricular black box
The Open Syllabus Project – Opening the curricular black box
The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is pleased to make the beta version of our Syllabus Explorer publicly available.   The Explorer leverages a collection of over 1 million syllabi collected from university and departmental websites.  It provides: The first version of a new publication metric (Teaching Rank) based on how often texts are taught. A unique course-building tool that provides information about what’s taught with what. A promising means of exploring the history of fields, curricular change, and differences in teaching across institutions, states, and countries. The Syllabus Explorer publishes only metadata (citations, dates, locations, etc) extracted from its collection via machine learning techniques.  It does not publish underlying documents or personally identifying information.
·opensyllabusproject.org·
The Open Syllabus Project – Opening the curricular black box
StackLife
StackLife
StackLife lets you browse all of the items in Harvard’s 73 libraries and Book Depository as if they were on a single shelf. It’s built on a few core ideas: 1. Every book has a context StackLife shows you that context as a stack of neighboring books 2. Every book has many contexts StackLife lets you switch contexts just by clicking. The default stack shows the item in its primary subject classification. But since most works have been classified under more than one subject heading, you can click on any of those headings and see it grouped with those neighbors. 3. Every book has some community relevance StackLife heat-maps books to reflect how often they’ve been checked out, put on reserve, called back early from a loan, etc. Also, it’s not just books. StackLife lets you browse among all of Hollis’ catalog, including DVDs and CDs.
·stacklife.harvard.edu·
StackLife
Anywhere but Medium
Anywhere but Medium
When you give in to the default, and just go ahead and post to Medium, you're stifling the open web. Not giving it a chance to work its magic, which depends on diversity, not monoculture. 
·scripting.com·
Anywhere but Medium
LingoJam | Make a Translator Online!
LingoJam | Make a Translator Online!
LingoJam lets you easily make an online language translation engine. Simply click the button above, add some words, phrases and rules, and you'll have your very own custom built, fully-editable online translator.
·lingojam.com·
LingoJam | Make a Translator Online!
How to Create Tabs in WordPress Settings Pages
How to Create Tabs in WordPress Settings Pages
Using tabs in a user interface can help you better organize content, so it’s only natural that WordPress themes that have a lot of options would benefit from tabs on their settings page. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you’ll get to download a WordPress theme that implements the code.
·smashingmagazine.com·
How to Create Tabs in WordPress Settings Pages
One Room With A View
One Room With A View
We deliver reviews in 100 words and features in a few more. Our central identity stems from a desire to offer sharp reviews and uniquely interesting content as well as to attract diverse audiences and contributors. There’s no click-bait here, only interesting reading, analysis, behind-the-scenes glimpses, championing of independent filmmakers and glorious nostalgia. We offer something for everyone and aspire to share warmth through every page as well as some of the best film journalism around. Under all this we’re a group of friends who adore film and are passionate about sharing our interest with you; we’re all about cinema whether it is through our YouTube videos, podcast or the written word. Founded in September 2013, our London based website had enjoyed success, growth and a burgeoning team… the future is big and bright. OneRoomWithAView.com is humble and hardworking; we do not take anything for granted but instead make the most of opportunities and support to amplify our efforts tenfold. Tag along for the ride and we’ll be sure you’ll be entertained
·oneroomwithaview.com·
One Room With A View
PNGLogo.com
PNGLogo.com
PNGLogo is a web-blog image based site where you can find beautiful PNG logo images, pictures and Clipart for making art designs only for non-commercial use.
·pnglogo.com·
PNGLogo.com
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
For Disney, Mickey Mouse is not just a huge money maker, but the company’s most coveted piece of intellectual property. Mickey is Disney, and Disney is Mickey: the two are simply one and the same, and nothing is more important to Disney than his well-being. (“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known,” Walt Disney once famously said). For this reason, Disney has done everything in its power to make sure it retains the copyright on Mickey -- even if that means changing federal statutes. Every time Mickey’s copyright is about to expire, Disney spends millions lobbying Congress for extensions, and trading campaign contributions for legislative support. With crushing legal force, they’ve squelched anyone who attempts to disagree with them. In the age of the Internet, where vast swaths of creative material are freely available, the central question raised by Mickey Mouse’s copyright ordeal is especially pertinent: Which is more important, a robust public domain, or the well-being of private interests?
·priceonomics.com·
How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
Parsing RSS Feeds in JavaScript – Options | Raymond Camden's Blog
Parsing RSS Feeds in JavaScript – Options | Raymond Camden's Blog
For a while now I’ve used the Google Feed API to parse RSS feeds in JavaScript. It did a good job of converting various RSS flavors into a simple array of entries you could easily work with. Unfortunately, Google has deprecated the API and while it still worked the last time I used it, I would strongly recommend folks migrate their apps away from it as soon as possible. While this makes me sad, you have to move on.
·raymondcamden.com·
Parsing RSS Feeds in JavaScript – Options | Raymond Camden's Blog
Introducing the WP REST API - Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial
Introducing the WP REST API - Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial
With many new features being added to WordPress, one of the latest to-be addition is the REST API that allows other apps and platforms to interact with WordPress. It’s a revolutionary addition that will help developers build custom applications and integrated systems with WordPress. Since it provides the capability to add and retrieve content from any other client or site, without the need of having WordPress installed on that site, it allows WordPress to be used with any programming language or platform. In this multi-part series, we will be taking a look at the WP REST API and how it could be used to create user experiences that were otherwise impossible or at least, arduous with WordPress. We will first take a look at basic concepts including REST and JSON, and then explore the options available to us through the WP REST API.
·code.tutsplus.com·
Introducing the WP REST API - Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial
Pixar's Tribute to Cinema on Vimeo
Pixar's Tribute to Cinema on Vimeo
Pixar pays tribute to cinema. Music: Thomas Newman and Michael Giacchino Note: I don't have include A Bugs's Life because it is a special case. Whole the plot is a tribute to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
·vimeo.com·
Pixar's Tribute to Cinema on Vimeo