I recently collaborated with Yona Sipos (LFS grad studentextraordinaire) to create this map of the 2008 BC Food Security Project. It’s a work in progess, but Google has made it extremely straightforward to create maps like these (Setting this one up took about 20 minutes) and it’s a visually engaging way to present the scope …
43 Folders, a blog on productivity and organizing, has an interesting entry on the distraction caused by email notification. In the course of writing this email I’ve been dinged three times and it’s interesting to consider what this does to work flow. I receive a fair amount of email (around 100 messages a day) most …
Wordle is a cool new site that’s spreading like wildfire around the web. It allows you to create word clouds based on the tagging in your del.icio.us account or text. Word clouds (a broader form of tag clouds) make the size of text porportional to the frequency of its use. It also offers lots of …
I’ve found that one of the biggest challenges for those hoping to bring their content online is grappling with copyright. People who aren’t accustomed to working online can find it arduous to work around the laws pertaining to the photo, song or clip they want to use. While Flickr has made finding Creative Commons photos …
This week’s Blog o’ the Week medal goes to Daring Fireball. It’s run by John Gruber, who updates very frequently, and touches on everything Apple (the blog’s subtitle is “Mac nerdery, etc.”). He also manages to squeeze in a bit of pop culture, media news and baseball talk, all of which are close to my heart (even if John …
Some Computer Scientists at the U of Manitoba recently laid to rest a mainframe they had been using since 1960 (!). [youtube jEFPPeUJPEA] More info here. Very funny stuff. (Originally found on Boing Boing)
I’m going to try to highlight a blog that I like each week. This week’s Blog o’ the Week certificate goes to Monoscope. It’s a beautifully presented design blog that showcases beautiful design pieces found on the web. Everyday they find a handful of examples of inspiring design. Great stuff.
I’ve blogged about Google Maps mashups before. We here at the Learning Centre even have a map mashup guide. Here’s a very interesting, topical and, well, heartbreaking use of maps mashups: The California wildfire 2007 map mashup. The LA Times is using this map to update people on the size of fires, how much destruction …
A photo of mine was recently blogged by the Wooster Collective who blog about street art, mainly in New York City, but other places as well. Pretty cool! I took the photo in Atlanta whilst attending the Educause Learning Initiative conference there last January. It was a fruitful trip. Another photo of mine landed on …