visualization
Presentation: “What the f**k is social media?”
Always a big fan of neat visualizations, particularly of complex topics, I found I really liked this 101 on social media by Marta Z. Kagan. Titled “What the f**k is social media“, Marta gives a quick, easy-to-understand rundown of the basic terminology paired with well-presented thoughts on why social media matter:
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Video: White Label eCampaign for U.S. President
In this fun little (supposedly viral) video campaign by the marketers of vanksen culturebuzz you can get personalized campaigning coverage for your candidacy for U.S. president. Consider it a viral meta e-campaign. The one I created below shows the groundswell support for Dr. Jekyll.
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Global map of Open Educational Resources
Heather Fond (blog), director of iCommons, created this map of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the most notable activists and organizations in the field. This is pretty awesome - check it out:
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I just added Creative Commons International - who else is missing? If you know any organization or activist, please add them to […]
State of the Web Summer 2008
The State of the Web Summer 2008 is a neat visual summary of what has happened this summer on the web so far, in 11 steps by Matthew Inman. I like.
Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks
Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk.
(update: I removed the embedded video because it automatically started to play. Please click here to watch Cory […]
Workshop: Social Media in Higher Education
Next Tuesday, I’ll have the great chance to hold a workshop at UOC, Barcelona, on Social Media in Higher Education. UOC is a virtual university with students all over the world, so they’re very web-savvy to begin with. I’m very curious about their feedback on my two cents on Web 2.0 and social media. Also, […]
Waving Cats in China
Photo by Frank Franz* Patzig (licensed under Creative Commons by-nc-sa). Thanks for the dedication!
* Sorry :)
Relaunch: Slowly getting there
Slowly, but steadily, I’m getting to the point where my website looks acceptable again. To be fair, that’s only partly my achievement: The design is to a huge part based on on Boris Anthony’s theme for Joi Ito. (Of course Boris and Joi are referenced in my blog’s footer, and I’ll keep trying to get […]
Dopplr’s new public profiles: gorgeous stats
Last week I noticed that some Dopplr users’ profiles looked somewhat different than others’ and wondered why. Well, now it’s public: Dopplr now offers trips with several stops (which is very useful), but also access to more travel stats, all neatly wrapped up in funky eye candy like Raumzeitgeist (seen below). My favorite improvement? I […]
Wordle: Create wordmaps on the fly. (Good fun!)
A word cloud of my del.icio.us tags, created with Wordle. One thing just became a bit clearer to me: Just how much I use my social bookmarks to really keep track of tools and resources.