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Thanks to George Smyth of the One Minute How-To Podcast, I bring you this quick discussion of how to build an online author fan base. This is a quick breakdown of the method that’s worked for me. If you’re looking for more quick how-to’s, visit: www.oneminutehowto.com
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A good clip that comes from Alec Couros’s 80+ Videos for Tech & Media Literacy. It features comedian Louis C.K. offering his funny thoughts on how our generation handles new technology. We’ve added it to our YouTube Favorites.
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Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology and media at the University of Regina, spends his days (among other things) helping new teachers become technologically and media literate. And he runs a well-established blog – Open Thinking — that helps teachers stay ahead of the technology curve. Last week, he pulled together a very handy collection of videos that touch on [...]
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There has been a lot of buzz around Wolfram|Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine” that was unveiled earlier this week. To understand what this new engine is all about, you can watch this shorter introductory video, or watch the lengthy talk above by Stephen Wolfram at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. As you’ll see, [...]
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“Brewster Kahle wants to create a free, online collection of human knowledge. It sounds impossibly idealistic—but he is making progress.”
More on Kahle’s mission here.
via @Harvard_Press
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At Stanford, students have found a way to get mobile phones to make music. As you’ll see, the iPhone can now reproduce the sounds of the ocarina, a twelve thousand year old flute-like instrument. That’s the hi-tech way of doing it. There’s also the low-tech way of getting the same result. In this classic bit [...]
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If you’re late to Twitter, then this video creatively explains what the recent buzz is all about. In a quick two minutes, you’ll figure out the general idea behind Twitter and how to use it. And once you do, you can start to follow our Twitter stream right here. We also have a list of [...]
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Paul Levinson, a professor of media studies at Fordham in NYC, talks here about what Web 3.0 might look like. (Start the video at 17:23.) If he’s right, I’m not sure that even this gadget geek (meaning me) wants to go there. This clip comes from a YouTube channel called The Alcove, a program that features [...]
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Earlier in the month, we made the leap into the world of Twitter, prompted partly by Makeuseof.com, which mentioned our site in a Twitter-related article. (Thanks Mark for that.)
When we first created our Twitter feed, my hopes weren’t especially high. And while I’m still not completely sold on the personal uses of Twitter, I’m definitely [...]
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The open education movement got a little stronger this week with the launch of Academic Earth. Run by Richard Ludlow, a new social entrepreneur only a couple of years out of Yale, Academic Earth brings video lectures from leading universities into a centralized user-friendly site. What you’ll see here is an impressive early implementation of where Academic Earth [...]
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In the latest edition of The New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton, a prominent French historian who now runs Harvard’s Library system, puts out a tantalizing idea: “Google can make the Enlightenment dream come true.” Having settled its lawsuit with publishers and authors, Google is now steaming ahead with its effort to digitize millions [...]
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We have here a short, catchy animated documentary that explains how we get from the 1950s to the internet that we know and love today. Along the way, it covers inventions ranging from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. Have a look:
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Web/Tech, YouTube | ≅ Comments
We’re about to witness the beginning of the YouTube Presidency, as The Washington Post has dubbed it. When Barack Obama takes office in late January, he plans to give a new twist to a longstanding tradition. The weekly presidential radio address will now “air” on YouTube, meaning that you’ll be able to access the president’s messages in [...]
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Thanks to BoingBoing, you can get free access (for 30 days) to three popular tech manuals:
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
• Learning Perl
• Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Get details here
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A quick fyi: Alltop is a new web service (created by Guy Kawasaki) that aggregates RSS feeds about popular topics. Name a topic and they bring you stories from “the best websites and blogs” on the issue. If you want to see a sample of what I’m talking about, you can take a look at [...]
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Today, the world can begin to explore a new web app that will undoubtedly hold appeal for book lovers on the web. The app is called Reframe It, and it lets you write in the margins of any web page, much as you’d write in the margins of a book. And, even better, it lets you [...]
≡ Category: Online Courses, Web/Tech | ≅ Comments
Several months back, we mentioned how the Indian Institutes of Technology (otherwise called the IITs) had launched a series of free technology courses on YouTube. You can find about 50 free courses here in total.
As a quick follow up, it’s also worth letting you know about a new series of courses being webcast live (and [...]
≡ Category: Google, Web/Tech | ≅ Comments
Google recently turned 10, and, as part of the celebration, it has re-published its first search engine index from 2001. A mere 1.3 billion pages. Now, go ahead and do your vanity search and see if you show up. Me, I’m barely there. You?
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Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, some former Google engineers launched a new search engine, Cuil (pronounced “cool”), which claims to be the “world’s biggest search engine,” indexing 120 billion web pages, or roughly about three times what Google supposedly does. (Get more info on the new site’s schtick here.) A quick round [...]
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In advance of tomorrow’s release of the new 3G iPhone, Apple has launched its new App Store on iTunes, which features new tools that will immediately make the iPhone (and iPod Touch) a more versatile — and, in some cases, enlightening — device. Below, we have highlighted ten apps worth exploring if you’re hungry for [...]
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A couple weeks ago we talked about a new trend in the book publishing world — creating promotional videos for new books and letting them go viral on YouTube and other social video sites. Here’s one of the better examples I’ve seen. 12 books by Lemony Snicket get promoted at once. Lots of bang for [...]
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Things got a little nerdgasmic yesterday when Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at WWDC. Although the pitch lasted 107 minutes, the highlights have been boiled down to a neat 60 seconds. In watching the clip, here’s my simple take away: When I bought an iPhone earlier this spring, I apparently paid two times too [...]
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Long ago, I got in the habit of using Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. And I’ve suffered through the painfully slow page loads for the better part of a decade. But then I stumbled upon a better alternative. NinjaWords is “a really fast dictionary … fast like a Ninja.” Give it a try. You’ll enjoy the speed.
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One of the things they promised us in the heyday of the 1990s Internet boom was the end of television and a brave new world of high quality video online, on demand. Well, we’re still waiting. Youtube is great for short clips, but not designed for the technical (or legal) challenge of serving up whole [...]
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At The Berkman Center for Internet and Society (at Harvard Law School), Clay Shirky gave a talk on his highly touted new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. You can catch his talk here: video for computer or portable device – high res video – mp3 audio. And sample some of [...]
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The truism goes that laws and sausages are the two things you don’t want to see being made. Nevertheless, if more of us paid attention to what our congressional representatives are really up to (and let them know when they screw up), we’d probably be a little happier with how the system works overall. Two [...]
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There’s lots of buzz today around the launch of Wikia Search, the new search engine created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. It’s premised on the same ideas that made Wikipedia, Wikipedia …. open source and the power of people. Here’s Jimmy Wales giving a quick explanation of the project. (For a longer conversation with Wales, [...]
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The New York Times ran a fascinating article today about the feud between Intel and the One Latop Per Child program run by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. If you haven’t heard about it, the initiative is intended to develop a reasonably priced ($200) laptop for primary school children in the third world. The model they’re selling [...]
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The iPod can supercharge your learning. But it’s often a matter of finding the right software and content. Below, we’ve listed several new pieces of software that will let you suck more educational media (DVDs, web videos, audio files, etc.) into your iPod. And we’ve also listed some important pieces of content that will make [...]
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Lifehacker has assembled a great list that will help you maximize the use of your iPod. Here, they point you to free software that will let you 1) rip a DVD to your iPod, 2) copy music and videos to and from your iPod, and also from and to any computer, 3) load videos [...]
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