links for 2008-04-28

• Science Friday Archives: Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food
  Interview with Michale Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
  (tags: npr MichaelPollan books nutrition Media podcast food)
• OMNIVORACIOUS: Amazon's books blog
  Michale Pollan's posts, "Today's food movement has many faces, some of them more prominent in certain places than others. There is the movement to reform school lunch. There is the effort to regulate or ban the marketing of food to children.
  (tags: pollan michaelpollan food schools nutrition gardening)
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herecomeseverybody.org%2F2008%2F04%2Flooking-for-the-mouse.html
  (tags: no_tag)
• Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 205057-1 : C-SPAN Video Library, Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.
  Coverage from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of UCLA was shown. Segments are available separately.
  (tags: cspan booktalk brinkley dyson humes watson sager)

Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody:

Clay Shirky has a post up this morning that is a transcription of a speech he recently gave at the Web 2.0 conference. He discusses the social surplus that for the last 50 years has been consumed by television watching and is now being used by people to create, share and interact using technology. His arguments about "finding time" are something to think about as we work with our colleagues who are constantly asking that same question...

"From now on, that's what I'm going to tell them: We're looking for the mouse. We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes."

Update: Here is the video...

Technorati Tags: shirky, social surplus

links for 2008-04-27

• Coalition for a Livable Future's Regional Equity Atlas
  "The Coalition for a Livable Future undertook the Regional Equity Atlas Project to advance equity - the right of every person to have access to opportunities necessary for satisfying essential needs and advancing their well-being..."
  (tags: maps economics poverty equityatlas)
• Timeframe
  Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.
  (tags: Ajax webdev webdesign calendar widget)
• The Literacy Project
  A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.
  (tags: google education resources reading literacy tools project)

links for 2008-04-25

• Pew Internet: Writing, Technology and Teens
  "Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them..."
  (tags: internet pew teens literacy)

links for 2008-04-24

• Denial of service attacks
  (tags: politics web denial)

links for 2008-04-22

• ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online
  "This site provides price comparisons among over a dozen online stores that are either booksellers, auction sites, used book dealer networks, or a combination of two or three."
  (tags: isbn.nu books bookstores leadersedge)
• TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world
  A Twitter visualization. There are quite a few of these around, but this is the most polished I've seen...
  (tags: mashup twitter maps visualization flash earth web2.0 3d)
• britannicanet.com
  A program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. Complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background on topics you write about.
  (tags: reference blogging encyclopedia blog widgets research britannica)

links for 2008-04-21

• edazzle dot net - amazonbox
  Widget to genereate an Amazon list to your site...
  (tags: amazon wishlist amazonbox)
• New Statesman - How the rich starved the world
  biofuels
  (tags: sustainability policy food energy)

links for 2008-04-20

• Dialog on Leadership: Ronald Heifetz Interview
  Adaptive Change: What’s Essential and What’s Expendable?
  (tags: heifetz change leadership)
• The Leader of the Future | Fast Company
  Harvard's Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership.
  (tags: leadership future heifetz)
• Feature: Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software
  (tags: free photo panorama photography lifehacker howto)

links for 2008-04-15

• Factor military duty into criticism -- chicagotribune.com
  An article by Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss that compares the military service of Cheney, Bush and Clinton to Rev. Jeremiah Wright...
  (tags: wright politics)
• Jay Rosen: The Uncharted: From Off The Bus to Meet the Press - Off The Bus on The Huffington Post
  Jay Rosen looks at the story behind the recent Obama bitter comments, how it was reported and how the main stream media chose to ignore the methods of how the story was initially reported.
  (tags: rosen obama bitter)

TagCrowd: Visualize Word Frequencies in Web Pages and Documents...

It looks like this has been up since last summer, but today was the first I have heard of TagCrowd. TagCrowd is a web based tool that allows you to visualize word frequencies as a tag cloud. You can visualize web pages, text files, and contents of your clipboard and then embed the tag cloud in your page. This could be great for teachers to use to visualize frequently used vocabulary from text sources. Amazon has a similar feature, concordance, for books that are searchable in their Search Inside feature, but TagCrowd allows you to do this with any text. The example below is from the freely available (in public domain) text of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain at the University of Virginia.

TagCrowd was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University. You can read more about TagCrowd, and some interesting uses ideas, on the TagCrowd Blog...

By way of NancyW and Twitter...

TagCrowd Example: The 100 most frequently found words in Tom Sawyer available at the University of Virginia...

'em (48) ain't (122) almost (35) along (60) anybody (48) anything (56) around (88) aunt (83) away (129) awful (43) becky (109) began (110) being (38) better (40) body (37) boys (288) cave (42) chapter (36) dead (64) done (57) door (47) enough (61) ever (99) eyes (78) face (71) fell (42) felt (37) followed (35) gave (38) girl (37) going (73) gone (43) half (38) hands (41) harper (41) head (77) hear (37) heart (67) himself (104) hour (43) house (55) huck (250) injun (67) interest (35) joe (160) knew (47) lay (46) light (42) looked (45) man (60) mary (38) maybe (43) mind (52) minute (37) moment (72) morning (35) mr (50) night (94) nothing (54) oh (119) once (66) polly (52) poor (53) potter (48) presently (85) reckon (76) rest (40) sat (41) sawyer (36) school (48) seemed (64) sid (79) sleep (33) something (66) soon (45) sound (34) stand (37) started (40) stood (53) stopped (47) talk (67) thatcher (45) things (41) think (50) till (55) told (48) took (82) town (42) tried (38) turned (55) village (50) watch (42) water (39) whispered (41) whole (37) widow (39) wish (39) work (54) world (36) yes (78)

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