I am taking 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story on a spurt of road shows over next 2 months- Barcuch College, Penn State University, Salem State College, and online version for Wooster College, and then a session at Ed-Media.
Help!
Please.
I am taking 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story on a spurt of road shows over next 2 months- Barcuch College, Penn State University, Salem State College, and online version for Wooster College, and then a session at Ed-Media.
Gulp, am I becoming one of those shlock presenters that milks a show til it wont bleed anymore? I hope not. The entire presentation mode is going to change, and I am rolling in some new secret pieces.
In the next 2 weeks, the content is going through a sweep– links checked, 4 dead tools dropped, and several to be added. Currently I am down to 63 (from 64), but have at least another 5 I could add. Recently added are Prezi the sweeping swoopy cool presenter too (see example) and Pixton- a rather powerful comic creator (see new example).
I could use some input, and you can leave comments here or use the discussion tabs on any of the 50 Ways wikispaces pages (I check them via RSS so I will get your comments quickly):
Thanks in advance!
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Please.
I am taking 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story on a spurt of road shows over next 2 months- Barcuch College, Penn State University, Salem State College, and online version for Wooster College, and then a session at Ed-Media.
Gulp, am I becoming one of those shlock presenters that milks a show til it wont bleed anymore? I hope not. The entire presentation mode is going to change, and I am rolling in some new secret pieces.
In the next 2 weeks, the content is going through a sweep– links checked, 4 dead tools dropped, and several to be added. Currently I am down to 63 (from 64), but have at least another 5 I could add. Recently added are Prezi the sweeping swoopy cool presenter too (see example) and Pixton- a rather powerful comic creator (see new example).
I could use some input, and you can leave comments here or use the discussion tabs on any of the 50 Ways wikispaces pages (I check them via RSS so I will get your comments quickly):
Thanks in advance!
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";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1240210911;}i:1;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:32:"Hash Tags, Trash Tags, Hack Tags";s:4:"link";s:54:"http://cogdogblog.com/2009/04/19/hash-trash-hack-tags/";s:8:"comments";s:63:"http://cogdogblog.com/2009/04/19/hash-trash-hack-tags/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:42:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:22:"Alan Levine aka CogDog";}s:8:"category";s:41:"Blog Pilefolksonomytagstwitterweb bad dog";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3549";s:11:"description";s:1228:"cc licensed flickr photo by Zervas One can hardly read a twitter stream these days without tripping over a boat load of hash tags (for those knot sure of what twitter is or what hash tags are, please go check out Oprah or some other oracle, I am not feeling like explaining everything…). First of all, I [...] Related posts:
cc licensed flickr photo by Zervas
One can hardly read a twitter stream these days without tripping over a boat load of hash tags (for those knot sure of what twitter is or what hash tags are, please go check out Oprah or some other oracle, I am not feeling like explaining everything…).
First of all, I completely get, grok, and am on board with the desire, the reason for hash tags. Twitter as is, lacks anything in its architecture to allow cross grouping oh content. And hash tags do fill that purpose, though IMHO rather awkwardly.
But before going there, I again wonder about our cranial capacity to keep track of hash tags. Event ones are of course short lived. I have been gaming them, toying with them for a while but creating what I call #totalUselessAndRidiculous tags. Just for the fun of it. Just to through a spanner in the works.
captioned for Stephen Downes who hates screen shots of tweets…
Bumps in the cloud? My Gmail reports Server Error. Coincidently, my water is turned off as well. What’s going on? #paranoidConspiracyTheory
@sridgway Indeed— is not all water supply dependent on clouds? #RideThehydrologicCycle Today is a gangbuster of #MeanlinglessHashTrashTags
Why do I do that? It’s because I am a smart***.
And speaking of trashing hash tags, read how Nicholas Carr looks down his lucid and mind boggling nose at what is being called “hashmobs” — people who instead of assembling in a real place to do something (Flashmobs) just gather around some recent hash tag, jumping in with 140 characters of pseudo action.
The members of a hashmob gather, virtually, around a particular hashtag by labeling each of their tweets with said hashtag and then following the resulting hashtag tweet stream. Hashmobbers don’t have to subject themselves to the weather, and they don’t actually have to be in proximity to any other physical being. A hashmob is a purely avatarian mob, though it is every bit as prone to the rapid cultivation of mass hysteria as a nonavatarian mob.
Ew.
Of course, Carr is a #RealBigTimeAuthorTooBusyToBeBotheredWithBlogComments so we must…. never mind.
But now to the hack part. Hash tags are a pure hack. If twitter had some foresight, they might have created a real tagging structure, where the tags are not messily embedded with the content (besides the point that tagging your content takes away from your space for content). They are not microcontent-able. They are glommed on.
Hash tags though do provide a great service for aggregating, searching, etc. I like and use them. I am not against them. I am not against them. I am not against them. I am not against them.
But at some level, IMHO, they are silly and another, they are a wretched sloppy implementation of a workable tagging environment.
Tag this post #________________________________________ (c’mon commenters, unlike the Rough Type, which seems not rough enough, my blog is always open to distracting comments, so fill in my blanks)
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One can hardly read a twitter stream these days without tripping over a boat load of hash tags (for those knot sure of what twitter is or what hash tags are, please go check out Oprah or some other oracle, I am not feeling like explaining everything…).
First of all, I completely get, grok, and am on board with the desire, the reason for hash tags. Twitter as is, lacks anything in its architecture to allow cross grouping oh content. And hash tags do fill that purpose, though IMHO rather awkwardly.
But before going there, I again wonder about our cranial capacity to keep track of hash tags. Event ones are of course short lived. I have been gaming them, toying with them for a while but creating what I call #totalUselessAndRidiculous tags. Just for the fun of it. Just to through a spanner in the works.
captioned for Stephen Downes who hates screen shots of tweets…
Bumps in the cloud? My Gmail reports Server Error. Coincidently, my water is turned off as well. What’s going on? #paranoidConspiracyTheory
@sridgway Indeed— is not all water supply dependent on clouds? #RideThehydrologicCycle Today is a gangbuster of #MeanlinglessHashTrashTags
Why do I do that? It’s because I am a smart***.
And speaking of trashing hash tags, read how Nicholas Carr looks down his lucid and mind boggling nose at what is being called “hashmobs” — people who instead of assembling in a real place to do something (Flashmobs) just gather around some recent hash tag, jumping in with 140 characters of pseudo action.
The members of a hashmob gather, virtually, around a particular hashtag by labeling each of their tweets with said hashtag and then following the resulting hashtag tweet stream. Hashmobbers don’t have to subject themselves to the weather, and they don’t actually have to be in proximity to any other physical being. A hashmob is a purely avatarian mob, though it is every bit as prone to the rapid cultivation of mass hysteria as a nonavatarian mob.
Ew.
Of course, Carr is a #RealBigTimeAuthorTooBusyToBeBotheredWithBlogComments so we must…. never mind.
But now to the hack part. Hash tags are a pure hack. If twitter had some foresight, they might have created a real tagging structure, where the tags are not messily embedded with the content (besides the point that tagging your content takes away from your space for content). They are not microcontent-able. They are glommed on.
Hash tags though do provide a great service for aggregating, searching, etc. I like and use them. I am not against them. I am not against them. I am not against them. I am not against them.
But at some level, IMHO, they are silly and another, they are a wretched sloppy implementation of a workable tagging environment.
Tag this post #________________________________________ (c’mon commenters, unlike the Rough Type, which seems not rough enough, my blog is always open to distracting comments, so fill in my blanks)
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";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1240209765;}i:2;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Everyone was HBO (Here Before Oprah)? Fail.";s:4:"link";s:37:"http://cogdogblog.com/2009/04/18/hbo/";s:8:"comments";s:46:"http://cogdogblog.com/2009/04/18/hbo/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:58:49 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:22:"Alan Levine aka CogDog";}s:8:"category";s:9:"Blog Pile";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3542";s:11:"description";s:1286:"C’mon twitter people, you are liming up zombie lemmings marching off the cliff. I see a stream of people in my stream tweeting something from a site boasting that they were in twitter before @Oprah. Monkey see, monkey click, monkey tweet. So there is a simple box on the site http://herebeforeoprah.com. In theory, you enter your [...] Related posts:C’mon twitter people, you are liming up zombie lemmings marching off the cliff. I see a stream of people in my stream tweeting something from a site boasting that they were in twitter before @Oprah.
Monkey see, monkey click, monkey tweet.
So there is a simple box on the site http://herebeforeoprah.com. In theory, you enter your twitter name, it does not complex communication with the twitter API and returns an appropriate response.
C;mon people think a bit more critically before transforming into a twittering meme-bot.
Play this out with me.
how about if we try someone who hopefully obviously is not on twitter, say:
I am so sure that Zippy The Wonder Lizard was on twitter long before Oprah, right? It is so logical…. let’s press ENTER:
OMG, Zippy was such a pioneer. An early twitterati, not just someone who gets in line behind the sheep.
Except….
Of course there is no http://twiter.com/zippythewonderlizard (well until I publish this and some wise arse, probably in a central Canadian province or central Virginia small town, will register that account).
But geez-o-pease Wally, think before you tweet.
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";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:42:"http://cogdogblog.com/2009/04/18/hbo/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:1286:"C’mon twitter people, you are liming up zombie lemmings marching off the cliff. I see a stream of people in my stream tweeting something from a site boasting that they were in twitter before @Oprah. Monkey see, monkey click, monkey tweet. So there is a simple box on the site http://herebeforeoprah.com. In theory, you enter your [...] Related posts:C’mon twitter people, you are liming up zombie lemmings marching off the cliff. I see a stream of people in my stream tweeting something from a site boasting that they were in twitter before @Oprah.
Monkey see, monkey click, monkey tweet.
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C;mon people think a bit more critically before transforming into a twittering meme-bot.
Play this out with me.
how about if we try someone who hopefully obviously is not on twitter, say:
I am so sure that Zippy The Wonder Lizard was on twitter long before Oprah, right? It is so logical…. let’s press ENTER:
OMG, Zippy was such a pioneer. An early twitterati, not just someone who gets in line behind the sheep.
Except….
Of course there is no http://twiter.com/zippythewonderlizard (well until I publish this and some wise arse, probably in a central Canadian province or central Virginia small town, will register that account).
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… in which the technology blog author bares his ignorance by discovering a tool that is several years old….
With a new sense of urgency, I implore that some big web company buy and save Yahoo– if not just to preserve the most valuable important vital web 2.0 app in the universe but…. Yahoo pipes must be kept alive.
I’ve not of the concept of Pipes for a long time, but for some reason, never ventured inside (although I have the a personalized use of Social Media Firehouse in my reader).
I follow with amazement how deftly Tony Hirst pipe work weaves together feeds from disparate data sources, performs complex transformations, tosses them out to some Google spreadsheet, and produces some geo-data mashup with photos on a map.
It seems magical.
But its not.
Yahoo pipes really allows you to perform programming like actions on RSS and data content, from a visual interface. It is one of the most amazing and elegant tools I have seen. Please keep it alive. I just got started.
I am getting high on smoking Yahoo pipes (if this sentence does not bring me spam, I have no idea what will… wait, I do, but my Mom reads my blog).
My first pipe is not that complex, but gives me the smallest taste as to what else I might do.
Since 2007 I’ve had our NMC Horizon Project use delicious for tagging resources relevant to the project, as a moire dynamic way of easily sharing emerging technology resources. We have tags for each year hz07, hz08, hz09 plus newer ones this year for our Australia-New Zealand version (hzau08]) and the newest on for K12.
I used the feeds in many place- sidebars and pages on the wikis e.g. http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Tagging, but I also bring in the current feed as a block on our drupal site (see sidebar of http://horizon.nmc.org).
The problem I was just noodling is that now the current Horizon report is out, but we still want and see people tagging things for that year (hz09) plus we are asking them to tag things for the next round (hz10). So which do I put in my drupal block? Do I end up with a pile of drupal blocks for each year?
So I started thinking I would try some kind of RSS mixing tool, one of those where you can combine several RSS feeds into one. There are a lot of them. And down at the bottom list was Yahoo Pipes– and it seemed like a good idea to finally jump in and play around.
Yahoo pipes is a free tool, and you just need a Yahoo account to use it (if you use flickr, you are already set up). There’s a fair amount of documentation on the site, including a list of tutorials (that are fed from a tag in delicious, see how recursive this is?).
I’m not going to explain how it works (that’s what all those tutorials are for), but essentially, you start with a blank grid, and you drag little “modules” form the left- each module provides a function, or a thing you can do with RSS feeds. You connect them with “pipes” that connect them into a flow, and at the end you get content.
The powerful thing about this is that you can perform complex transformations on data that comes in from RSS that would only be possible otherwise by writing custom programming code. But what’s better is that in creating it, you think in terms of the high level design of the flow of information, where in programming you’d be in this non linear space of text code abstraction and, if you are like me, getting twisted up in syntax (my kingdom for a missing “;”).
The other fabulous part about pipes is that when you see one, you can inspect it, clone, it, and essentially could remix pipes into new pipes. Mine is at http://pipes.yahoo.com/cogdog/Sjfy0nsr3hGENOF2rLQIDg. I’ll outline the parts, which took me less than 10 minutes to create (mostly because I kept finding new pieces to try).
So what my pipe does is:
And that’s it. As you are constructing the pipes, you can tap the orange title on each module, and the Debugger pane at the very bottom displays a preview of the output. This is really essential to test as you build.
Once published, you get all kinds of ways to grab the feed- as simple as the RSS URL, but also adding to MyYahoo, they even have a button to add as a Google widget, but also JSON, PHP, a service to have results emailed…
I have just scraped one molecule deep into the surface of what is possible, What Yahoo Pipes offers is a way to do more with the feed then what they give you. Filter out words, links. Change the order. Connect images from flickr with keywords from another feed source. It is the uber remix machine.
I am hooked on Pipes.
Now someone, please save Yahoo.
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cc licensed flickr photo by Wade from Oklahoma
… in which the technology blog author bares his ignorance by discovering a tool that is several years old….
With a new sense of urgency, I implore that some big web company buy and save Yahoo– if not just to preserve the most valuable important vital web 2.0 app in the universe but…. Yahoo pipes must be kept alive.
I’ve not of the concept of Pipes for a long time, but for some reason, never ventured inside (although I have the a personalized use of Social Media Firehouse in my reader).
I follow with amazement how deftly Tony Hirst pipe work weaves together feeds from disparate data sources, performs complex transformations, tosses them out to some Google spreadsheet, and produces some geo-data mashup with photos on a map.
It seems magical.
But its not.
Yahoo pipes really allows you to perform programming like actions on RSS and data content, from a visual interface. It is one of the most amazing and elegant tools I have seen. Please keep it alive. I just got started.
I am getting high on smoking Yahoo pipes (if this sentence does not bring me spam, I have no idea what will… wait, I do, but my Mom reads my blog).
My first pipe is not that complex, but gives me the smallest taste as to what else I might do.
Since 2007 I’ve had our NMC Horizon Project use delicious for tagging resources relevant to the project, as a moire dynamic way of easily sharing emerging technology resources. We have tags for each year hz07, hz08, hz09 plus newer ones this year for our Australia-New Zealand version (hzau08]) and the newest on for K12.
I used the feeds in many place- sidebars and pages on the wikis e.g. http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Tagging, but I also bring in the current feed as a block on our drupal site (see sidebar of http://horizon.nmc.org).
The problem I was just noodling is that now the current Horizon report is out, but we still want and see people tagging things for that year (hz09) plus we are asking them to tag things for the next round (hz10). So which do I put in my drupal block? Do I end up with a pile of drupal blocks for each year?
So I started thinking I would try some kind of RSS mixing tool, one of those where you can combine several RSS feeds into one. There are a lot of them. And down at the bottom list was Yahoo Pipes– and it seemed like a good idea to finally jump in and play around.
Yahoo pipes is a free tool, and you just need a Yahoo account to use it (if you use flickr, you are already set up). There’s a fair amount of documentation on the site, including a list of tutorials (that are fed from a tag in delicious, see how recursive this is?).
I’m not going to explain how it works (that’s what all those tutorials are for), but essentially, you start with a blank grid, and you drag little “modules” form the left- each module provides a function, or a thing you can do with RSS feeds. You connect them with “pipes” that connect them into a flow, and at the end you get content.
The powerful thing about this is that you can perform complex transformations on data that comes in from RSS that would only be possible otherwise by writing custom programming code. But what’s better is that in creating it, you think in terms of the high level design of the flow of information, where in programming you’d be in this non linear space of text code abstraction and, if you are like me, getting twisted up in syntax (my kingdom for a missing “;”).
The other fabulous part about pipes is that when you see one, you can inspect it, clone, it, and essentially could remix pipes into new pipes. Mine is at http://pipes.yahoo.com/cogdog/Sjfy0nsr3hGENOF2rLQIDg. I’ll outline the parts, which took me less than 10 minutes to create (mostly because I kept finding new pieces to try).
So what my pipe does is:
And that’s it. As you are constructing the pipes, you can tap the orange title on each module, and the Debugger pane at the very bottom displays a preview of the output. This is really essential to test as you build.
Once published, you get all kinds of ways to grab the feed- as simple as the RSS URL, but also adding to MyYahoo, they even have a button to add as a Google widget, but also JSON, PHP, a service to have results emailed…
I have just scraped one molecule deep into the surface of what is possible, What Yahoo Pipes offers is a way to do more with the feed then what they give you. Filter out words, links. Change the order. Connect images from flickr with keywords from another feed source. It is the uber remix machine.
I am hooked on Pipes.
Now someone, please save Yahoo.
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Since I’ve been Gmailing so long I have pretty much ignored the ticker tape of “web clips” or news/ad-like things that sit atop the inbox.
Until today.
I noticed a link to “edit” the web clips, which is a tab inside the settings, and likely has been there a long time (learn more about Gmail web clips…). Woah, neo, of course- those are all RSS! And… you can remove all the ones you dont want (i zapped them all)… and… drumroll- you can add your own RSS URLs!
For a test, I added feeds for comments to my blog and to my flickr account. Essentially, the web clips are turned into a mini feed mixer (although the docs say the clips are displayed randomly, not sequentially).
So now, instead of unwanted cruft from cookbooks, forbes, my gmail ticker has my own feed items atop my inbox:
I am not 100% sure how useful this is, but now in my email reading, I can get some notifcation using the clips I want, not theirs.
And that. my friends, is a good thing. Good web dog.
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Since I’ve been Gmailing so long I have pretty much ignored the ticker tape of “web clips” or news/ad-like things that sit atop the inbox.
Until today.
I noticed a link to “edit” the web clips, which is a tab inside the settings, and likely has been there a long time (learn more about Gmail web clips…). Woah, neo, of course- those are all RSS! And… you can remove all the ones you dont want (i zapped them all)… and… drumroll- you can add your own RSS URLs!
For a test, I added feeds for comments to my blog and to my flickr account. Essentially, the web clips are turned into a mini feed mixer (although the docs say the clips are displayed randomly, not sequentially).
So now, instead of unwanted cruft from cookbooks, forbes, my gmail ticker has my own feed items atop my inbox:
I am not 100% sure how useful this is, but now in my email reading, I can get some notifcation using the clips I want, not theirs.
And that. my friends, is a good thing. Good web dog.
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But there is a new exciting feature.
Ribbit.
That’s right, you can upload a document file (.doc[x] or .pdf), and it does text to speech to turn it into an audio file.
I tried it today with a one page PDF, this handout I use for my 50 Ways workshop.
Zamar the Wonderfrog reads my document
The voice of course is a little robotic, but not horrible, The mistake I see here is sending it something with a pull out box, as reading goes left to right, across the lines, so you get a weird kind of mashup.
But free text to voice from just uploading a document? Amazing. Even for a frog.
Try it yourself http://www.zamzar.com. Tell the Frog that the Dog says :Wog.
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But there is a new exciting feature.
Ribbit.
That’s right, you can upload a document file (.doc[x] or .pdf), and it does text to speech to turn it into an audio file.
I tried it today with a one page PDF, this handout I use for my 50 Ways workshop.
Zamar the Wonderfrog reads my document
The voice of course is a little robotic, but not horrible, The mistake I see here is sending it something with a pull out box, as reading goes left to right, across the lines, so you get a weird kind of mashup.
But free text to voice from just uploading a document? Amazing. Even for a frog.
Try it yourself http://www.zamzar.com. Tell the Frog that the Dog says :Wog.
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You can hardly glance at twitter or open your RSS feeds these days without reading about zombies. WTF?
Lumbering flesheaters are somehow fashionable?
Time magazine gushes about them. The New York Times loves ‘em. Jane Austen now embraces them. Education Technologists are suspect of becoming them.
Enough zombies! I am yawning. We need more cute puppies. That will set things right.
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posted 26 Oct ‘08, 7.57pm MDT PST on flickr
Cachorritos de Lila
You can hardly glance at twitter or open your RSS feeds these days without reading about zombies. WTF?
Lumbering flesheaters are somehow fashionable?
Time magazine gushes about them. The New York Times loves ‘em. Jane Austen now embraces them. Education Technologists are suspect of becoming them.
Enough zombies! I am yawning. We need more cute puppies. That will set things right.
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I’d heard from a colleague today that they got a Dear John email from Yahoo informing them that the online video editor app Jumpcut was going away, as confirmed by the “in the deadpool” story from TechCrunch. It’s little surprise, given the December 2008 move where Jumpcut removed the ability to upload video (kind of makes it hard to edit, eh- oh, you have to load it to flickr then use it in Jumpcut), and as TechCrunch snarked, promises are all pre-alpha in web 2.0 land:
Yahoo’s closure of their Jumpcut video service feels like the slow peeling off of a bandaid. In December they announced that no new videos could be uploaded, but that they “will be keeping the Jumpcut site up and running for the foreseeable future.”
Apparently the foreseeable future ends in June, when the site will be shut down.
I have yet to get mine. I am feeling rejected by not getting my rejection email. They are clearly communicating the message over at the Jumpcut web site:
Yeah, read that: The easiest way to upload, edit and share your video and photos. Free. except you cant upload video. Except that the site will go black in June.
Keep toting the company line. Heck, there is still a big old register button.
Heck, they are still hiring. Anyone want to toss them a resume?
We’re looking for talented and creative people to join our growing team.
and unjoining our dying team in 2 months?
We value innovators who strive to develop elegant solutions and are adept at overcoming challenges.
That would be quite the challenge to overcome, eh?
Is this the transparency of business that we hear so much about? How is it that companies still miss how easy it is to dig out the scent of the real story? If Jumpcut is folding, why are they pretending the sky has not fallen?
And you don’t need a MBA or a crystal ball to see the crumbling foundation at the good ship Yahoo, who missed even their best hope at getting bought out last year. Is anyone else twitching over the fate of flickr? Better order your archive DVDs…
Everything Web 2.0 is a house of cards… that could stay nicely balanced for a while but could also….
I’m not losing any sleep over Jumpcut. When they bust on the scene, they had done something revolutionary, and took the golden path of Getting Bought by One of the Big Web Companies…. in hindsight, the Wrong One.
So Jumpcut now passes to the Hall of Shame in my 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, and at this rate I may start slipping below 50.
Jumpcut, you could have been a contender, you coulda been somebody, instead of what you are…
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cc licensed flickr photo from irishdragongreen
I’d heard from a colleague today that they got a Dear John email from Yahoo informing them that the online video editor app Jumpcut was going away, as confirmed by the “in the deadpool” story from TechCrunch. It’s little surprise, given the December 2008 move where Jumpcut removed the ability to upload video (kind of makes it hard to edit, eh- oh, you have to load it to flickr then use it in Jumpcut), and as TechCrunch snarked, promises are all pre-alpha in web 2.0 land:
Yahoo’s closure of their Jumpcut video service feels like the slow peeling off of a bandaid. In December they announced that no new videos could be uploaded, but that they “will be keeping the Jumpcut site up and running for the foreseeable future.”
Apparently the foreseeable future ends in June, when the site will be shut down.
I have yet to get mine. I am feeling rejected by not getting my rejection email. They are clearly communicating the message over at the Jumpcut web site:
Yeah, read that: The easiest way to upload, edit and share your video and photos. Free. except you cant upload video. Except that the site will go black in June.
Keep toting the company line. Heck, there is still a big old register button.
Heck, they are still hiring. Anyone want to toss them a resume?
We’re looking for talented and creative people to join our growing team.
and unjoining our dying team in 2 months?
We value innovators who strive to develop elegant solutions and are adept at overcoming challenges.
That would be quite the challenge to overcome, eh?
Is this the transparency of business that we hear so much about? How is it that companies still miss how easy it is to dig out the scent of the real story? If Jumpcut is folding, why are they pretending the sky has not fallen?
And you don’t need a MBA or a crystal ball to see the crumbling foundation at the good ship Yahoo, who missed even their best hope at getting bought out last year. Is anyone else twitching over the fate of flickr? Better order your archive DVDs…
Everything Web 2.0 is a house of cards… that could stay nicely balanced for a while but could also….
I’m not losing any sleep over Jumpcut. When they bust on the scene, they had done something revolutionary, and took the golden path of Getting Bought by One of the Big Web Companies…. in hindsight, the Wrong One.
So Jumpcut now passes to the Hall of Shame in my 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, and at this rate I may start slipping below 50.
Jumpcut, you could have been a contender, you coulda been somebody, instead of what you are…
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Of course by the time Thou Art Metal came out in 2002, they had already lost a lead guitarist to a bizarre accident with a welding torch, and their original keyboard player found Buddha and left the band. But still, with the big bang opener of Remorseless Promises, to the haunting chorus of Dark Wrath, the hypnotic chords of Decayed Chant of Desolation, and the epic closing arc of Grim Delirium, this album holds up as the inspiration for nearly every metal band that has followed.
Are you still with me?
Everything above is made up, of course. Starting with a band, album cover, and song list created by the Metallizer Heavy Metal Music - Random Album Generator . But more than a mere generator, the Metallizer provides a useful widget that will shine up your sidebar:
For fun and neverending metallic mayhem, you can display random metal albums on your own site or blog with the Metallizer.dk Widget…. No adware, spyware, or any other nefarious scheme is involved. However, this service may cause Armageddon, may damn your eternal soul to Hell, and/or may self-destruct without warning.
Found at the home of fun weird stuff at the Generator Blog from where I never fail to find something fun and cheap to blog about.
Someone has to do this stuff, cause most of my once favorite blogs are quite dead or at least lifeless, as everyone seems to only focus their attention on bursts of 140 characters at a time.
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Of course by the time Thou Art Metal came out in 2002, they had already lost a lead guitarist to a bizarre accident with a welding torch, and their original keyboard player found Buddha and left the band. But still, with the big bang opener of Remorseless Promises, to the haunting chorus of Dark Wrath, the hypnotic chords of Decayed Chant of Desolation, and the epic closing arc of Grim Delirium, this album holds up as the inspiration for nearly every metal band that has followed.
Are you still with me?
Everything above is made up, of course. Starting with a band, album cover, and song list created by the Metallizer Heavy Metal Music - Random Album Generator . But more than a mere generator, the Metallizer provides a useful widget that will shine up your sidebar:
For fun and neverending metallic mayhem, you can display random metal albums on your own site or blog with the Metallizer.dk Widget…. No adware, spyware, or any other nefarious scheme is involved. However, this service may cause Armageddon, may damn your eternal soul to Hell, and/or may self-destruct without warning.
Found at the home of fun weird stuff at the Generator Blog from where I never fail to find something fun and cheap to blog about.
Someone has to do this stuff, cause most of my once favorite blogs are quite dead or at least lifeless, as everyone seems to only focus their attention on bursts of 140 characters at a time.
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Since it has been on going for almost as long as I have been in the ed tech field (going back to 1996), the annual Technology, Colleges and Community conference feels like a regular part of the changing seasons. This annual online conference may be the longest running international technology conference (I am sure someone will find an older one, go ahead, please)
I cannot remember if I started participating in it maybe in 1999 or 2000 when it was really a discussion forum based. Since it has always been based out of the University of Hawaii, it was often called the “Hawaiian” virtual conference, which meant the only umbrella drinks on the beach were in your mind.
It was at a 2003 League for Innovation Conference that I first met in person Bert Kimura, who got me more involved by getting my then employer, the Maricopa Community Colleges, on board as an institutional participants, meaning for a reasonable fee, we could register anyone in the system to participate at the conference, so our office could offer it internally for free.
Since then Bert has become a good friend and colleague; we hiked together when I was in hawaii (for real) for the 2005 NMC Conference and I spent a week at Bert’s home last September during my visit to Japan. It is these real connections that have always made the online networking really pay off.
In 2004 I did one of my favorite presentations for TCC on photoblogging, Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images.
I had worked with an art teacher that had his students use photoblogs for sharing and discussion their graphics work. At the time, I was really positive about a now relict service called Buzznet and what was maybe a more active, and much more international service, Fotolog (and what do you know, my photos are still there, 5 years later!). The other key event was I started also looking at this new service called “flickr”…. and you know the rest of the story.
The memorable part of that TCC 2005 session was where I presented. After committing to presenting, I realized I was going to be in San Francisco for a project meeting (this was for the beginning of the NMC’s Pachyderm project). The conference then (and now) used Elluminate, so I was standing in the hallway of a hotel, outside a conference room where the meeting was going on, using the NMC wireless hub, perhaps looking like a strange peson talking into a laptop… the funny part was when some other meeting room opened up, and all of a sudden the hall was full of people talking loudly, jostling, and I think the TCC participants could hear the sounds of the toilets flushing from the rest room I was near. My colleague Cynthia Calongne seems to think this was inspirational (she herself has been a regular outstanding presenter at TCC).
Yet, my favorite presentation at TCC was the keynote I did in 2005, Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Not Widely Distributed Future where I tread to weave a picture of the future using that nutty pirate from Star Trek and Wired Magazine’s “Wired, Tired, Expired” theme (which itself is not expired) to talk about what the future of technology looked like in 2005. Ironically, it was in prep for this conference that I first came across this person at Penn State University named Cole who was doing some interesting things by grading online student work on an iPod.
The other keynoter that year was some woman named “Clinton”. I think she was married to someone of importance.
Today’s entire, now rambling blog post, came because I thought of good old Harry Mudd last night when I got the TCC notification for the conference’s launch today. When I got nostalgic to look back at my presentation, I realized by link pointed to materials that were sitting on an old maricopa server in an archaic wiki format (UseMod) which was not even working anymore.
I knew this was not a major problem, since I always store my source materials on my backup hard drive, and I found not only a folder of the images I had used, but also a document that was my speaking script (that must be the most organized I ever was, it has time estimates per slide).
So it was with very little effort, just some cut and paste for the captions, to post this presentation as a flickr set:
with notes as captions… and all which then plays pretty with CoolIris.
Too bad I later thought last night (plus it was late, time for bed) as I had no audio. But I did! Searching my own blog, I found I had recorded my audio using a small MP3 recorder– I was able to find this because I have my own personal record of what I have done since 2004- this blog. I found the post I made after the presentation. It also seems to still be in the LearningTimes archive.
Anyhow, this was the longest pre-amble ever to say I am excited about this week’s TCC Conference. Especially rewarding is that this year’s keynotes include two innovative people that were on a list I had suggested to Bert as keynotes– both are woman (my belated Ada Lovelace birthday gift?) and both are from outside the US. I am looking forward today to listen to Sue Water’s keynote on ?Global Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World? and tomorrow is Barbara Dieu speaking on ?Interacting to Learn and Learning to Interact?.
So while April showers may bring flowers (actually we are expected to have snow this week), it also brings a great online conference every year.
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I cannot remember if I started participating in it maybe in 1999 or 2000 when it was really a discussion forum based. Since it has always been based out of the University of Hawaii, it was often called the “Hawaiian” virtual conference, which meant the only umbrella drinks on the beach were in your mind.
It was at a 2003 League for Innovation Conference that I first met in person Bert Kimura, who got me more involved by getting my then employer, the Maricopa Community Colleges, on board as an institutional participants, meaning for a reasonable fee, we could register anyone in the system to participate at the conference, so our office could offer it internally for free.
Since then Bert has become a good friend and colleague; we hiked together when I was in hawaii (for real) for the 2005 NMC Conference and I spent a week at Bert’s home last September during my visit to Japan. It is these real connections that have always made the online networking really pay off.
In 2004 I did one of my favorite presentations for TCC on photoblogging, Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images.
I had worked with an art teacher that had his students use photoblogs for sharing and discussion their graphics work. At the time, I was really positive about a now relict service called Buzznet and what was maybe a more active, and much more international service, Fotolog (and what do you know, my photos are still there, 5 years later!). The other key event was I started also looking at this new service called “flickr”…. and you know the rest of the story.
The memorable part of that TCC 2005 session was where I presented. After committing to presenting, I realized I was going to be in San Francisco for a project meeting (this was for the beginning of the NMC’s Pachyderm project). The conference then (and now) used Elluminate, so I was standing in the hallway of a hotel, outside a conference room where the meeting was going on, using the NMC wireless hub, perhaps looking like a strange peson talking into a laptop… the funny part was when some other meeting room opened up, and all of a sudden the hall was full of people talking loudly, jostling, and I think the TCC participants could hear the sounds of the toilets flushing from the rest room I was near. My colleague Cynthia Calongne seems to think this was inspirational (she herself has been a regular outstanding presenter at TCC).
Yet, my favorite presentation at TCC was the keynote I did in 2005, Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Not Widely Distributed Future where I tread to weave a picture of the future using that nutty pirate from Star Trek and Wired Magazine’s “Wired, Tired, Expired” theme (which itself is not expired) to talk about what the future of technology looked like in 2005. Ironically, it was in prep for this conference that I first came across this person at Penn State University named Cole who was doing some interesting things by grading online student work on an iPod.
The other keynoter that year was some woman named “Clinton”. I think she was married to someone of importance.
Today’s entire, now rambling blog post, came because I thought of good old Harry Mudd last night when I got the TCC notification for the conference’s launch today. When I got nostalgic to look back at my presentation, I realized by link pointed to materials that were sitting on an old maricopa server in an archaic wiki format (UseMod) which was not even working anymore.
I knew this was not a major problem, since I always store my source materials on my backup hard drive, and I found not only a folder of the images I had used, but also a document that was my speaking script (that must be the most organized I ever was, it has time estimates per slide).
So it was with very little effort, just some cut and paste for the captions, to post this presentation as a flickr set:
with notes as captions… and all which then plays pretty with CoolIris.
Too bad I later thought last night (plus it was late, time for bed) as I had no audio. But I did! Searching my own blog, I found I had recorded my audio using a small MP3 recorder– I was able to find this because I have my own personal record of what I have done since 2004- this blog. I found the post I made after the presentation. It also seems to still be in the LearningTimes archive.
Anyhow, this was the longest pre-amble ever to say I am excited about this week’s TCC Conference. Especially rewarding is that this year’s keynotes include two innovative people that were on a list I had suggested to Bert as keynotes– both are woman (my belated Ada Lovelace birthday gift?) and both are from outside the US. I am looking forward today to listen to Sue Water’s keynote on ?Global Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World? and tomorrow is Barbara Dieu speaking on ?Interacting to Learn and Learning to Interact?.
So while April showers may bring flowers (actually we are expected to have snow this week), it also brings a great online conference every year.
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