Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Katrina Wiki: Internet employed immediately to communicate, connect victims, aid, volunteers.

NerdTV

NerdTV premieres September 6: an hour-long weekly show distributed by PBS exclusively over the Internet under a CC license.

Technorati: Home

Technorati, home of the infamous Top 100 [blogs], is one way to keep tabs on some of what is happening on a part of the web right now.

Jester: The On-Line Joke Recommender

Jester, the joke recommender is a filter that identifies your sense of humor and presents jokes to suit.

UHS: The Longest Journey Hints

Universal Hint System: The Longest Journey will get you over the hump...

Neuromancer

Neuromancer: not sure what this is :o) -- It just popped up some hours after I was scratch-padding NeuroMancer sites.

ID/entity

ID/entity: an exhibition and symposium sponsored by MIT Media Lab. October 2001.

Neuromancer 2.0: A Game

Neuromancer 2.0: this actually looks kind of interesting -- a game that somehow spins off Neuromancer. I haven't had time to explore it yet, but perhaps a student would be interested.

Technolgy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer

Technolgy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer is a paper written for a college english lit class by Orlin Damyanov (1996) , then a student at American University in Paris.

Neuromancer entry in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Neuromancer entry in WikiPedia is actually a pretty good stimulator. Includes links to the study guide (below) and the paper on Frankenstein and Neuromancer (above).

Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)

Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984): a shallow gloss, but not without its value. I wouldn't base a paper on it, but it may kickstart some thinking for some folks.

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action: using the net to make a better tomorrow...

Slate Magazine

Slate Magazine: for politics, pop culture and more -- with new media seasoning.

Democracy For America

Democracy for America is the sequel to DeanForAmerica, seeking to channel and redirect the energy of the Dean Internet Contingent.

Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained

Kubrick2001, the space odyssey explained? We'll see... Examplke: Flash site.

Exmple Site: Radius

Radius, the restaurant, has a really nice site. See esp. for navigation design, use of type and iconography.

Theory.org.uk trading cards

Theory.org.uk trading cards give you modern notions in a nutshell.

Musipedia: The Parsons Code

Musipedia: The Parsons Code: search for melodies by "melodic contour."

Start-Up in Windows: Who ARE those guys?

Learn about the program cluttering your task manager at start up.

Ask Dave Taylor!

Tech Support and Business Questions? Ask Dave Taylor! Great articles offering practical how-to tips and advice.

Virtual Reality Treatment

Program for Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Studies: "The Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies is pioneering the use of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in the treatment of a number of anxiety and stress-related disorders, including fear of flying, fear of storms, fear of heights, fear of bridges, fear of public speaking, and World Trade Center-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder."

VisiBone HTML and CSS Products

References from VisiBone include HTML and CSS Cheat-sheets.

Barbara Feldman: Internet Publishing Resources

Barbara Feldman posts resources that help internet publishers, including this page on how to Use Free RSS Feeds on Your Site. See other links there in orange index column to right of her display space.

Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe Audition 1.5 with Jason Levine

Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe Audition 1.5 with Jason Levine: another little movie with instruction about noise reduction in Audition.

Adobe Audition Tutorials

Adobe Audition Tutorials in little movies you play on the computer.

Sothink Web Page Templates

Created to be used with SoThink's HTML Editor, these Web Page Templates can be downloaded and cracked and used with any web editor. Two pages full of thumbnails -- the second (older of the two) links off the first.

BBC - OpenSource

BBC - OpenSource: "...This site provides information about and links to BBC open source projects. It lists projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source. The site doesn't cover the many open source projects to which the BBC has contributed, but only those that the BBC has initiated and managed itself..."

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT's OpenCourseWare home page is a gateway to free course offerings -- but not degrees, dertificates or MIT faculty.

College and University Distance Learning Programs

Inspect online course, degree and other program offerings with Yahoo's list of College and University Distance Learning Programs.

Creative Writing Process

Mr Kirby's Writing Tips on the creative writing process.

Public Radio Fan

Public Radio Fan lists connections to a zillion public radio station web feeds.

Open Source Web Design - Home /\^/\

Open Source Web Design - Home /\^/\

A Pattern Language - Menu of Patterns

A Pattern Language - Menu of Patterns: looks like a glossary of architectural/design principles. I got here from the Bionic Office page at Joel On Software.com.

Jay Eckles - JERSS project documentation

JERSS is a java-based server-side RSS parser.

Dartmouth News Center: RSS

The Dartmouth News Center offers this succinct introduction to RSS feeds, including a long list of aggregators to check out.

Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging

Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging: a very good introduction to MARC record cataloging system, from LOC.

Tweakheadz

TweakHeadz is a wonderful site for audio newbies -- check his trouble shooting FAQs and other lessons for rank newbies. Clear explanations with pictures --at last, the basics revealed!

RSS Submissions

RSS Submissions: "...A very full, and constantly maintained, list of aggregators that take submissions of feed URLs for their catalogs..."

JazzPlusPlus Midi Sequencer

JazzPlusPlus Midi Sequencer is an excellent open source application for recording and mixing MIDI sequences.

MarcEdit

MARCEdit is Windows freeware for creating and editing MARC records for the library. The MarcEdit Homepage displays links to software downloads, issues, plug-ins, tutorials, etc.

LiveJournal: Theatre of the Mind's Journal

LiveJournal member Theatre of the Mind's Journal is devoted to OTR and points to podcasts of same.

LiveJournl: Podcasting!

Podcasting! is LiveJournal community of shared interest.

FlashFavorite

FlashFavorite is a small utility ($18.95 on 7/7/2005) that lets you browse and save embedded .SWF files from the page you are viewing in your web browser. Use this RegNow Order Form to get it.

Podcast Software - The best in their class!

Podcast Software from the person behind PodCasting101.com.

Turbulence

Turbulence: Commissioned art that exploits the Internet.

Harsmedia :: Found Tapes Exhibition

Harsmedia :: Found Tapes Exhibition: WHo knows what this is?

New American Radio

New American Radio: "Three hundred commissioned and/
or distributed works:
• conceptual new drama
• associational documentary
• language explorations
• sonic meditations
• environmental compositions
• musical explorations
• works that pioneer new
• dimensions in acoustic space
• a primer of radio art-making in America"

Training Materials From The Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

Training Materials From The Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production

RESOURCE: Audioblog.com

Audioblog.com - Create & Publish Podcasts and Videoblogs

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - Fall 2004 Radio Pieces

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - Fall 2004 Student Exhibit includes several pieces for radio.

Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

From the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Home Page:
"We try to make something extraordinary out of the ordinary. We seek to capture a moment in the lives of people around us, and to do justice to that moment. To do so, we work long hours at honing our craft. Some people say we're intense. We keep trying. Our shooting might be a split-second off. Our words won't quite describe what we mean. The sound editing will be cumbersome. So we go back to work again. As many times as are needed. There are no competitors here. There is no "right" way of doing things. We try to help each other step beyond the merely good. We don't fit into any neat categories. We combine discipline and imagination, breadth and detail. When we succeed in what we're doing, we sit back for a minute view and listen to what we've created."

RSS Workshop - a Tutorial

RSS Workshop is a tutorial on the creation, validation and publication of RSS feeds.

6X6X6 Netscape Color Palette Map

6X6X6 Netscape Color Palette Map: Roll-over color chart includes a small Hex calculator to help web designers specify web-safe color codes.

Two4U's Color page

Two4U's Color page: Files with pages to help web designers specify colors for the web.

How-To: Podcasting - Engadget (vintage)

Read (this vintage page)(How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) - Engadget - www.engadget.com) for instructions on how to make your own Podcast.

Podcasting - Wikipedia (vintage)

This article on Podcasting<, from an iteration of Wiki-Pedia dating back to November 2004, includes a brief historical introduction to the medium, links to assorted podcast sources, and connects also to tools and techniques for making or catching podcasts yourself.

TUNING

TUNING looks like a blog with audio. Not a podcast, but a written blog that also offers "MP3 resources."

Colonial Williamsburg: Past to Present: Podcasts

Planning a visit to some historical spot -- say, Colonial Williamsburg? Consider subscribing to its podcast(s) before you go. Bone up on the area before you arrive, or reinforce the things you learned there as you drive away.

Wiki entry on Podcasting

Podcasting

PREP workshop on Quantitative Literacy

The PREP workshop on QL brings together higher education faculty in multiple disciplines to discuss and develop ways to integrate numeracy in college curriculum across the board. Last night's opening keynote by Milo Schield helped focus the conversation we expect to have this week. He began by asserting that to persuade others -- students, colleagues, the Institution -- that QL is important, we have to be clear about what students need to know and be able to do.

He cited four core concepts that their approach considers central:

1. Arithmetic comparisons ("% more than")


2. Ratios (percentages, rates, probability, risk/chance)


3. Comparisons of ratios ("more likely", "more prevalent")


4. Standardizing (comparing apples to apples)

Questions that come up that students should be able to cope with include:

• What is the metric?


• Difference between "percentage change" and "percentage point difference"


• Students should recognize the difference between "the percent of men who are runners" and "the percent of men among runners" -- they should understand which is the pie and which is the slice.


• Students should recognize when a statement containing a statistic or percentage is a prediction and when it is a confirmation of something already known.


• Students whould understand ways in which confounding factors help to create misimpressions. They should learn to spot confounders.

The idea is always to focus on numbers in conext, asking "what are the vulnerabilities of a given statistic?" Sheild suggested that students "take CARE" -- that is -- methodically inspect for Confounding factors, ask how the nyumber was Assembled (what's the data, what's the calculation, how were cases selected), and should understand that they can guard against randomness with a large sample. Finally, students should be alert to measurement Error and/or Bias.

I also learned about something called Simpson's Paradox -- an arithmetic situation in which a comparison can favor one side consistently in "partial" explorations of data, but the other other side can have the best record "overall" -- e.g., two batters -- one has a higher batting average in each of five games, while the other has a higher batting average overall. It happens.

Schield says he thinks the two most important groups to touch with this stuff are people who will go on to touch others -- he focuses on journalists and teachers. Journalism students, and education students or teachers in training.

By September 15 I plan to: develop a module for COM314 that teaches critical use of numbers in news stories. Moreover, I will engineer it so my third year review sessions have this going on, and in that way I can unobstrusively demonstrate both the value of doing this, and a way to do it, to my colleagues in Humanities.

Related Links to check out:

• http://www.Augsberg.edu/StatLit/


• http://www.StatLit.org


• a grammar checker at www.StatLit.org

Netfit

Health and Fitness advice from the Netfit health and fitness team includes stuff about exercise.

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools

I published this article in 1996 in John December's Computer Mediated Communications Magazine. It uses theory presented in Reframing Organizations to explore the potential impact of computer-mediated communications networks on the structural, human resources, symbolic and political dimensions of school life.

CSS: An Introduction

CSS: An Introduction: one of a number of web-dev tutorials.

HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING

HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING: Gets the numbers and the culture right...

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0: web wizards gallery

Audio Theater - Resource Links

Audio Theater - Resource Links

How to Use Director to Story-Board a Multimedia Production

Alan K Demonstrateshow to use Director as a quick and dirty story boarding tool. Finished movie shows also how to print a story board. However, directions aren't completely consistent with our version (Director 8.5 Studio for Windows). When you call up PRINT menu, choose "Stage" form the drop down to get the option to print markers.

The National Archives of Britain

The National Archives of Britain include many facsimile documents, and access to records useful to genealogical study as well as history.

Leonardo's Manuscripts

The British Library presents interactive replicas of Leonardo's Manuscripts in Flash, supporting magnification, mirror imaging (of Leonardo's mirror script) and an audio commentary on each pair of pages as you turn them up.

Leonardo - BBC Homepage

The BBC offers a site dedicated to Leonardo.

EM411.com - - Electronic Music 411

EM411.com - - Electronic Music 411: Links to makers and samples of electronic music.

Role Theory: Design v. Socialization

Kelly Boudreau's paper discusses EverQuest.

Soundscape Artists Online

Soundscape Artists Online: find links to people who paint with sounds. Jim Metzner is here.

p h o n o g r a p h y . o r g

p h o n o g r a p h y . o r g includes links to sound scapes and portraits by sound artists.

The Times Capsule

The Times Capsule was a Millennium project of the New York Times. This site includes a link to "The Sound Capsule" -- a sample of sounds from the last century, and also to NPR which aired JAson Renier's 2-16-1996 world recording.

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM: Who designs the web? New web art.

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM || MONO*crafts 3.0

SURFACE.YUGOP.COM: This one is the clock. There are others.

New American Radio

New American Radio

the sound artist's resource page

the sound artist's resource page

GigPosters.com

GigPosters.com: Internet as Market hub.

PodPoet

PodPoet: poetry meets the iPod.

PodPoet

PodPoet: where poetry meets the iPod. A poem a week.

Pocketcasting.com - Poetry Podcast Directory

Pocketcasting.com - Poetry Podcast Directory: find poetry on the web.

DRS 2006� - PLS & ASX Files

DRS 2006 - PLS & ASX Files: How do I post MP3 files using PLS or ASK?

Poisoned Arts Radio Theatre

Poisoned Arts Radio theatre -- page has links to their 29th Anniversary Gala production in RAM and also in MP3 (via .pls files??). Also: Freddy's Train of Thought and George Washington Birthday Party.

FeedBurner - Syndication

FeedBurner (beta edition) provides syndication services for Blogger (RSS or Atom) content..

Rube Goldberg Gallery

Rube Goldberg Gallery: Links to poor-quality scans of some of Goldberg's inventions. Posted to this blog to remind me that Rube Goldberg might have a role to play in my Pathway on Invention.

Outline Your Novel in 20 Minutes

Outline Your Novel in 20 Minutes: Alicia Rasley gives you a list of free-writing prompts, and then explains what to do with the output. The page includes links to other writing-tip articles.

Invention and Design

Invention and Design: "This page, and its accompanying resources, are geared towards promoting a better understand the principles of the invention and design process, and include an innovative set of active learning modules that employ a 'hands-on' approach."

Plots

Plots

InterWorld Radio (IWR): a free online news and features service for radio stations

InterWorld Radio (IWR): a free online news and features service for radio stations: find example news features for radio production classes.

Camera Obscura Photography

Camera Obscura Photography: Charles Schwartz operates a camera obscura in Manhattan. His site includes discussions and images of historical camerae obscurae, as well as images created in his own.

Technorati: Tags

The Technorati: Tags page explains the phenomenon of "tagging" web pages, and gives you several dozen examples.

Scribbling Women : Radio Adaptations

Scribbling Women Home Page: Links to radio play adaptations of several important pieces of American Lit by women.

Grand Illusions

Grand Illusions is a website with information and examples of several optical illusions, scientific toys and visual effects. It includes a piece on the camera obscura and ver Meer, under the title The Mystery in the Mirror.

Radio Scripts - Scripts from the the Golden Age of Radio

Radio Scripts - Scripts from the the Golden Age of Radio

Matching screenplays, movie scripts and feature scripts to the film industry

Matching screenplays, movie scripts and feature scripts to the film industry

Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists: bios of a byunch o' characters including Leonardo and Michaelangelo, by somebody who lived just after they did. For a century or two, this was the definitive, one-stop-shopping source of life story on the subjects.

Can You See Me Now? | About Us

Can You See Me Now? | About Us: chase game in mixed reality

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - New Media Challenge

Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - New Media Challenge: Find links to Blast Theory.