links for 2008-01-31

January 31, 2008

Plasticky Goodness // Current
This is really interesting. It’s a video interview of a band that has modded the plastic Guitar Hero controllers to make “real” music.
(tags: music videogames guitarhero)

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links for 2007-09-20

September 20, 2007

::: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection :::
University of Washington Libraries
(tags: digitization digitization_collection)

Book Scanner « the DIL
(tags: digitization_eq)

Inching closer to a MODS form « the DIL
(tags: xforms MODS digitization)

Search Engine | CBC Radio
“Big Brother Gets Spanked: Michael Geist’s original blog post, the “secret” consultation document, and Minster Stockwell Day’s initial statement explaining what the […]

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links for 2006-12-08

December 8, 2006

NPR : When Virtual Reality Isn’t Really Virtual
Technology contributor Mario Armstrong talks with Farai Chideya about how online virtual communities aren’t entirely virtual.
(tags: secondlife virtuallife socialcomputing)

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links for 2006-10-01

October 1, 2006

Content Wise: Publication Sites That Transcend Print — Nature.com
“print-derived content should be presented so Web audiences can scan it, easily navigate through it, e-mail copies to friends, print it out, and flexibly search archives….that’s like saying a car really should include tires and a steering wheel.”
(tags: EIfolk tagging folksonomies socialcomputing publishing)

Truthdig
“The site is built around […]

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links for 2006-09-29

September 29, 2006

Wired News: Lessons From the Facebook Riots
“The outrage was enormous. One group, Students Against Facebook News Feeds, amassed over 700,000 members. Members planned to protest at the company’s headquarters. Facebook’s founder was completely stunned…”
(tags: facebook privacy socialcomputing)

Inside Higher Ed :: New ‘Threads’ for Computer Science
Georgia Tech throws out the old. “The really big change here […]

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links for 2006-06-10

June 10, 2006

3bubbles - Embracing Conversational Intelligence
Intresting lightweight chat service that embeds into HTML pages. Dead easy to use for spontaneous conversations.
(tags: chat web2.0 webdesign)

Slashdot | Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension
Wow. Now how much do I actually trust Google… ay, there’s the rub.
(tags: firefox google extensions audioconferencing)

The Importance of a Customer-Centric Design Approach: An Interview with […]

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IBM’s dogear

November 15, 2005

Always curious about the inner workings of big corporations, I was enthused to hear of IBM’s growing interest in social software. It was actually Gene Smith’s del.icio.ius feed that pointed me to a reporting on Joho the Blog of IBM’s inner workings where we find that social bookmarking, blogging and similar social services are finding […]

Posted in Social Bookmarking, Social Software

Del.icio.us really is delicious

October 28, 2004

I’ve borrowed the idea of a remaindered links list from Kottke. The way it works is I pull the feed out of my del.icio.us account and display the latest items on the remaindered links page of this site using a script. Del.icio.us is a very organic set of bookmarks and annotations, but I’ve grown very […]

Posted in Web Trails