Kafka’s Joke Book – McSweeney’s Internet TendencyWhy is a raven like a writing desk?” “I don’t know,” Gregor told the faceless interrogator for the fiftieth time. “We can’t help you if you won’t work with us. Perhaps another day in the machine will convince you to cooperate.” Create Written Notes From YouTube Videos Instantly With this Chrome ExtensionUnlike a transcription app that would just transcribe the whole thing for you, Gnotes has you identify what parts of the video are important to you and then it creates notes specifically for that portion. For instance, maybe you watch a 15-minute video on how to do something, but you really just need information from the last few minutes written down. –starts to get at the idea of new patterns that take into account (and advantage of) how digital tools interact Add Query String Parameters to YouTube oEmbeds in WP – Brett HoffmanNice thing and nice pattern to think about.

What’s Next for Hack EducationI am hoping that the shift away from compiling all the goings-on for that weekly news round-up will give me more time to think deeply and critically about education and technology, instead of perpetually being enraged by how many terrible and silly things are marketed as “solutions” by folks who just want to sell a product or service – some aware, some unaware that their very well-funded load of futurist bullshit is pretty damn dystopian. —best wishes to Audrey as I couldn’t do more than skim those weekly round-ups because I found them so deeply depressing The Chaos – Gerard Nolst Trenité classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Why Data Is Never Raw – The New Atlantis “Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea; to the contrary, data should be cooked with care.” “Raw” carries a sense of natural or untouched, while “cooked” suggests the result of cognitive processes. But data is always the product of cognitive, cultural, and institutional processes that determine what to collect and how to collect it. In this sense, “raw data” is indeed a contradiction in terms. In the ordinary use of the term “raw data,” “raw” signifies that no processing was performed following data collection, but the term […]