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del.icio.us/digitalmonkey/♫ [ 83 tracks as of apr 6/06 ]
interesting one-character tagging practice - used by some others as well so worth subscribing to 'all'... del will of course play in-listing. Good taste... likely open-content?
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CD and DVD cover Search Engine - Findmycover.com
Just type the name of a CD, or the name of a singer or artist and Findmycover.com will find the CD covers in seconds. Same with DVD's, just type the name of a movie or the name of an actor and Findmycover.com will have the covers in seconds. Easy and qui
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MXG and OpenSearch | Outgoing: Those of you interested in lowering the barriers to inter-system searching should be interested in the work of the NISO MetaSearch Initiative.
nibbling at the interoperability problem and Task Group 3 (Search/Retrieve) has developed the MXG (for Metasearch XML Gateway) protocol.. amounts to a prescribed way to dumb-down SRU, almost all the way to Open Search, in a way that is compatible with SRU
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Restore iPod Album Art v1.1 | Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ | Managing Artwork
This script will attempt to re-add or replace the display artwork of the selected iPod tracks with artwork from a corresponding album's track in your iTunes library. Read Me is a must read. written by Doug Adams update posted: Dec 29, 2005 latest versio
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What is Getting Real? Want to build a successful web app? Then it’s time to Get Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build software.
[free chapter from 37signals' wonderful pdf book] Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing. Getting Real starts with the interfac
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CD-LOR: Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories | CD-LOR aims to investigate barriers and enablers to successful embedding and use of LO repositories, in support of teaching and learning, within a diverse range of learning communities.
communities include those based in individual and federated institutions and those that exist across institutions (regionally, nationally and internationally), e.g. discipline based communities, or communities coalescing around use in teaching and learnin
/JISC elearning/research elearning/uptake for:alharris opendock opendock/requirements projects/UK webtech/repositories -
Report on Learning Communities and Repositories [ MSWord document 1MB ] - CD-LOR's first public deliverable is now available. Details the findings of initial desk research and stakeholder consultation carried out by the project.
The report is intended to give an initial mapping of learning communities to barriers and enablers to uptake and use of LORs. This extensive and detailed report includes a 2-page Executive Summary.
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AllPeers :. Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want! | AllPeers is a free software which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to create a media sharing powerhouse.
[invited beta] Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maximise your privacy, communications are encrypted. Forget about complicated setup or obscure user interfaces. If you know how to use a browser you know how t
/beta client-tech/p2p elearning/p2p extensions/firefox for:alharris for:grahamattwell services/bit-torrents webtech/MUST-WATCH webtech/bit-torrents -
Shut Up! No, *You* Shut Up: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies, Clay Shirky, ETech 2006; March 08 | O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference - March 6-9, 2006 - San Diego, CA
[where the 'experimental wing of political philosophy' quote was made] Group intelligence can be harvested in different ways for different purposes, from the collaborative filtering of Last.FM, to stay-at-home moms coordinating via MeetUp, to the way the
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Cory Doctorow notes from : Shut Up! No, *You* Shut Up: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies, Clay Shirky, ETech 2006; March 08
incl this version of the quote 'Social Software design is the experimental wing of political philosophy, which doesn't know that it has an experimental wing. We are encoding the values of freedom of speech and other democratic fundamentals in our tools. W
/conference for:grahamattwell notes quotable theory/online-collaboration theory/social theory/web-semantics web2.0/issues xref:shirkytalk -
Oren Sreebny's Weblog: [etech06] Clay Shirky - "Shut Up!" "No, YOU Shut Up!"
[another set of audience notes] 'Clay is proposing building these kinds of pattern languages.'...''Best line of the morning so far: Social software is the experimental wing of political philosophy, which doesn't even know it has an experimental wing'
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O'Reilly Radar > ETech: Clay Shirky | notes by Nathan Torkington from which the quote 'Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing'
'Added 10 Mar 2006: just to clarify--I was typing as Clay spoke, so these notes are a mixture of his words and my paraphrases. So before taking umbrage or lauding Clay as a grand master of the English tongue, you should check with Cla
/conference for:grahamattwell notes quotable theory/online-collaboration theory/social theory/web-semantics web2.0/issues xref:shirkytalk
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