Seeing the rumors today that Delicious may be shut down by Yahoo makes me want to vomit. Ok, that’s sugar-coating it a little, but you get the idea. And it’s now been confirmed by Liz Gannes that the social bookmarking site that lead the “Web 2.0? movement with its open sharing infrastructure is going to shut down. I have been using the service since 2005 or so and have thousands of bookmarks. Some are just reminders while others are for more routine behaviors like checking certain news sites.
So, it’s time to save your links. Here are a few ways to export and save your Delicious bookmarks:
Harvard’s Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Lieberman Aiden and colleagues have been analyzing the huge corpus of literature that Google digitized in its Book Search program, and they’re uncovering absolutely fascinating information about our cultural lives, the evolution of language, the secret history of the world, censorship and even public health. It’s all written up in a (regwalled) paper in Science, “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books”:
This past weekend, I’d heard enough from mainstream American media about the latest PISA international assessment data comparisons of our kids to everybody else’s kids. According to the results of the 2009 test of 15 year-olds around the world, Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone children are long gone and those left are all just below average. I wanted to know more about the assessment, the findings of the OECD, and how the international media processed the results in other countries.
–from Pam Moran (Sup. Albemarle)
Helpful site to agree on a time/date for a meeting.
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
PBL explained by CommonCraft video.
Gillmor explains how reporters can (and sometimes do) use online media to get their stories straight, and in so doing, explains how you can do the same, and become a smarter consumer of, participant in, and maker of news. This is a crash-course in being a better consumer of the news, asking active questions about how the news you see and hear and read is constructed.
Part two is an information age journalism program encapsulated in a swiftly moving section on using tools and systems to make better news. Even if you’re not planning on starting up your own blog, wiki, mailing list, or even a newspaper, this section should be required reading for anyone hoping to understand how smart use of the right tool can put the news in the service to its community, structured around the values of truth, humility, and honor.
Interesting take on help videos by google. Worth imitating/using?
Some pretty good history/song mashups for history. I’m not sure students learn from watching them (be worth checking out), but I’m confident they’d learn a lot making them.