Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Oh My News: Citizen Journalism
Oh My News is a first of its kind website dedicated to ‘citizen journalism’. It is entirely written by members of the community. This represents a radical step away from conventional journalism. It’s yet another way the internet is democratizing the process of writing, editing and publishing content on line. The […]
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
50 Writing Tools
At Poynter you’ll find fifty ideas to improve your writing skills. Though the site is directed at journalists, these writings lessons are useful for any writer looking to build on their craft.
I particularly like the one on ‘X-RayReading’. It’s so useful to learn from other writers who have walked the […]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
DumbLittleMan.com
You know, I’m not actually sure exactly what this site is about. What I do know is that within five minutes of reading through it, I found lots of nifty things to help me learn. I’d put this in the ‘rouse your curiosity and learning’ basket. A good site to visit for […]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
DiggLabs
The folks at Digg have created ‘Digg Labs’, a place to explore new tools that allow users to consider the popularity of peer-reviewed content. The tools are all based on visualisation techniques and provide a real-time feed with news stories from third party sites around the world. Just watching the headlines show themselves […]
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Anthony Robbins addresses his audience at TedTalks
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
About TierneyLab:
John Tierney always wanted to be a scientist but went into journalism because its peer-review process was a great deal easier to sneak through. Now a columnist for the Science Times section, Tierney previously wrote columns for the Op-Ed page, the Metro section and the Times Magazine. Before that he covered science […]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
My Flash File has taken over
It’s been a long time since I saw something as creative as this that made me laugh out loud. This is a disturbing vision of what might happen in the event a freak of nature or mad-scientist experiment goes wrong and spontaneously generates artificial intelligence.
View ‘Animator vs Animation’ at this link: http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-34244097
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Why we age and how we can avoid it
Aubrey de Grey’s talk on ‘Why we age and how we can avoid it’.
Whether we agree with Grey’s hypothesis or not, this topic is one that fundamentally questions what it means to live a human life. Grey argues that the first person who lives to 1000 years old may already have been born. […]