Technorati and Tags

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Technorati Takes Tags Global (Ross Mayfield):

So just think about the emergent intelligence mechanism we are creating with a neural network overlaid on the net. Considered blog posts gain authority through link attention. Consensual wiki pages gain authority over time. Links and snapshots bridge across places, physical and virtual. Tags are applied in the blink of an eye and patterns emerge from the crowd.

Ross Mayfield discusses Technorati's announcement that they now support a tagging feature similar to Flickr and del.icio.us.

Ice Storm...

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kgw.com | News for Oregon and SW Washington | Local News Winter's grip descended on the Portland-Vancouver metro area and the Columbia River Gorge for much of Saturday, causing hundreds of accidents, canceling flights in and out of Portland International Airport as well dozens of weekend events, and knocking out electricity to some neighborhoods.

Woke up today to the sound of sleet that soon turned to freezing rain. A layer of ice is covering everything... A lot of the more recent images on Flickr that are tagged as ice are from folks in the Portland area...

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Photo Tagging: A New Art Form?

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Photo Tagging: A New Art Form?: "Between emails and instant messengers, the Internet has done much for productivity. Business moves faster. And people are connecting around the world. And now, a Canadian company is leading the way for a new kind of art form of sorts — it's called tagging."

Tod Maffin of CBC Radio looks at the use of tags in the photo sharing tool, Flickr. His audio report also discusses the use of tags in del.icio.us

On The Media -January 7, 2005

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On The Media -January 7, 2005: "In the wake of the tsunami, a tidal wave of information. Also, the legal storm over age discrimination allegations at the Weather Channel and more harsh accusations about the New York Times. All that plus a nice chat with Mr. Magazine on the first-ever podcast edition of NPR’s On the Media." (Via On The Media from NPR/WNYC.)

This week's On The Media has several interesting conversations regarding the South Asia Tsunami and how the Internet was used to share information and to reach out for donations. Also discussions about the democratization of media... The show includes discussions with Ester Dyson, Jeff Jarvis and Tod Maffin of CBC Radio. Maffin does a nice job explaining the recent phenomena of Podcasting and how it is being used by people to time shift content. He also tries to explain why he likes to listen to The Dawn and Drew Show...

Pulling Back The Curtain...

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On the Media - December 31, 2004

On The Media's John Solomon illuminates a few aspects of the radio production process that might come as a surprise to some listeners.

A very entertaining piece from the NPR program On The Media detailing how pieces that are heard on NPR are edited. As the guy says, I always wondered how everyone sounded so articulate on those shows... the secrets are revealed... Podcasters take note... You too can learn to cut out the "uh, um's," and "you know's"

Also the show itself is available as a MP3 download and as an RSS enclosure for download to your iPod...

The BitTorrent Effect

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Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent EffectWired has a great article about BitTorrent and its creator, Bram Cohen.

Last night I read this and began to think in terms of how this technology could be used in education. For example, last spring our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students put on a production of The Wizard of Oz. One of our parents did a nice job of taping the production and then created a DVD. Copies were made and sold and such. Am thinking now of going over to school this afternoon and putting the whole thing up as a torrent. Not so much because I think many folks want to see the production, (though it was really pretty good as elementary school productions go...) but rather just to mess around with this stuff. Everyone points to illegal uses, but read the article and I believe you will see the idea behind it is brilliant. We have more and more big files that we want to share, this technology provides a very good method of doing so.

Note: I see that Alan Levine just posted about it at Cogdogblog and has some ideas of how it can be used in an education setting.

Flickr Images from South Asia

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image from sarvoday flickr site Flickr: Sarvodaya's Photos I was looking on Flickr this evening for images posted from the tsunami areas in South Asia. I did a couple of searches of Flickr tags and under the tag tsunami I found some images posted from a user called Sarvodaya. Turns out that Sarvodaya is a development group in Sri Lanka. Since Wednesday the organization has posted over 215 images on their Flickr site and have created a weblog with updates and pleas for donations.

In addition I found a Flickr group called Hands to S. E. Asia and there found a listing of more images from the area. One member named Heterotopias has posted 59 images in a group call E.S. Asia Quake & Tsunami. With all the talk of citizen journalism and such, these kind of images and tools bring home the stark reality of the situation. The images are harsh in their depiction of the situation there. These are not just pictures of upended boats or damaged houses, but rather they show in very stark terms the human suffering that is taking place. Sometimes you wish you had a filter... This is something that I really have a hard time comprehending...

Update: Flickr TsunamiMissing tag and Flickr Tsunami Missing Group Images of those reported missing... Also yesterday the Flickr Blog pointed to some of these and to a few others too...

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Week in Review > Postings From the Edge: A Catastrophe Strikes, and the Cyberworld Responds" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/weekinreview/02blog.html?ex=1262322000&en=6d233db45276c28e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">The New York Times > Week in Review > Postings From the Edge: A Catastrophe Strikes, and the Cyberworld Responds

AFTER an earthquake in the Indian Ocean sent tsunamis smashing into coastal Asia and East Africa, much of the initial information about what had happened came from the World Wide Web, especially from the personal journals called weblogs, or blogs. Here are excerpts from Web postings about the catastrophe.

New York Times piece by Peter Edidin. A listing of partial posts from weblogs about the tragedy...