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Getting Real: An interview with Jason Fried | By Khoi Vinh; Adobe Design Center - Essays on design, culture and technology
The principal author and undisputed champion of this approach is Jason Fried, president of 37signals. Originally a boutique design studio founded in 1999 to build Web products on a for-hire basis, Fried has led 37signals through a startling transition ove
/code-tech/management for:alharris for:rgedwards for:stephentufail goodguys theory/anti-bull web2.0/publicity -
The Rise of Crowdsourcing | Wired 14.06: June 2006, By Jeff Howe
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.
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Welcome to Whyville! Whyville is an on-line community dedicated to learning through exploration and communication.
Whyville has places to go, things to do, and of course, people to see. Whyville has its own newspaper, its own Senators, its own beach, museum, City Hall and town square, its own suburbia, and even its own economy - Whyvillians earn "clams" by playing edu
/e-communities/v-learning elearning/k-12 elearning/tools pedagogy/open v-learning -
edublogs.org - free blogs for education professionals | Free blogs for teachers, librarians, researchers, writers, lecturers and other professionals involved with education
Create your own ad free fully featured WordPress blog at edublogs.org. Including free Yacapaca assessment tool from the Chalkface Project. In addition to a free blog, all users also get an ad free wikispace!
/edu-blogging elearning/small-loose services/blogging -
edublogs : Ewan McIntosh shows how blogs and podcasts are not just a gimmick: they can provide exciting opportunities for learning.
frequent posts on good practice; many real-world example links... good resource
/edu-blogging elearning/practice elearning/techniques elearning/trends elearning2.0/intro resources/tech-tracking -
Promoting the responsible use of JavaScript: writing, teaching and presenting - The Web Standards Project
DOM Scripting Task force have been busy writing and reviewing books, teaching and presenting at conferences and workshops, and preparing for upcoming events; focusing on the responsible use of JavaScript, as well as accessible JavaScript. Here’s an upda
/accessibility ajax/problems/workarounds javascript resources/best-practice web2.0/issues -
Project Pad - Project Pad is a project to build a web-based system for media annotation and collaboration for teaching and learning and scholarly applications.
The system offers an easy to use "direct manipulation" user interface. Project Pad software is available both as a set of Sakai tools and as a stand-alone web application.
/elearning/open-source webtech/MUST-WATCH webtech/annotation webtech/structured-content -
Hoelscher: Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies - Google Scholar
[note to self - dig into these refs]
/academic internet-use theory/cognitive theory/hyper theory/web-semantics -
free DOI guest search | crossref.org
If you have bibliographic data for a journal article and would like to find the DOI, please use the form below. The form is a guest query interface to the CrossRef system for individual DOI retrieval. This interface is not intended for automated querying.
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BBC Blog Network - Find and talk to the BBC's bloggers.
nice front-end aggregating from many blogs. also some helpful top-level links. may make a good intro-to-blogs resource
/basic-intro-materials bbc blogging interface-design/resources portal-admin resources/introductory -
Amazon Feed Generator | onfocus.com : generates atom feed from form on this page using the Amazon ECS API and Amazon XSLT service
'The Amazon Feed Generator is not affiliated with Amazon.com, but does use Amazon Web Services. Like this? You might like Amazon Hacks.
/APIs/amazon atom power-tips/web2.0 resources/introductory rss/intro search-engines services/rss-rehost webtech/syndication -
Continuing an Industry Discussion: The Co-Evolution of SOA and Web 2.0 (web2.wsj2.com)
My presentation this week on Web 2.0 and the Global SOA at the SOA Web Services Edge conference in New York City afforded an opportunity for me to spend some quality time on the subject and really organize my thoughts. Increasingly, this has been a subje
/analysis architectures/service-oriented for:alharris for:rgedwards quotable theory/architectures web2.0/issues -
Flock - Innovative and Universal at Universal Blog : Following the universal release of Firefox, the good people over at Flock have made their application universal
If you haven’t heard of Flock, it’s a web browser based on Firefox that has special features that keep your social life up-to-date. Some of the features in Flock are unlike any other browser, and make you wonder why other browsers haven’t done these
/OS-X/apps OS-X/universal-binaries PLEs flock for:alharris for:grahamattwell social-bookmarking -
Leicestershire schools advised: don't use Moodle | Moodlebug: letter to Principals and Heads from the Local Authority... explicitly advise not to use Moodle (the only software mentioned) as it depends too much on specific local support and knowledge.
'The fact that I was only very recently employed on an extremely successful project to promote and roll out Moodle across the same county, funded by the Local Education Authority, obviously makes me wonder what's going on with the radically restructured L
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Mashing Up The Library competition | Talis Developer Network : To enter, simply produce your functional demonstration and then blog about it, appending the Technorati tag MUTL06 to your post.
This is your chance to wow the world with your ideas; your chance to build better systems on top of library data; your chance to demonstrate the value and the power of libraries; your chance to take library information and display it in exciting new ways;
/library-science library2.0 webtech/MASHUP
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