Tuesday, January 06, 2004

New website will tap into craze for tracing family roots. Online: A new website - poised to be the next Friends Reunited - will tap into the growing craze for tracing your family roots. But beware skeletons in the closet. [Guardian Unlimited] 6:43:48 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Open Source Textbooks. Textbooks are fundamental to modern education. But until recently almost all textbooks have been published for profit by huge corporations, keeping prices artifically high, limiting access, and subjecting content to heirarchical control. That may be changing. A number of efforts... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] 6:40:01 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Tasty Mozzarella Sticks. Mozzarella sticks are quite delicious. This is a recipe to make your own mozzarella sticks that are better than you will get at any fast food or pizza place and probably better than the appetizers at your local Italian restaurant. [kuro5hin.org] 6:39:45 PM  comment []  Trackback []     'Push' technology gets a nudge. Short, mainstream article on RSS: ef="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/01/05/push_technology_gets_a_nudge/">'Push' technology gets a nudge: "Say you frequently check the latest headlines from CNN. Instead of punching in the address for the CNN site every half hour, you could simply put a bit of RSS software on your computer and have it do the work. At regular intervals, up pop the headlines, stripped of gaudy graphics and irksome ads. Each "feed" requires only a tiny bit of bandwidth -- not nearly enough to clog a corporate network or slow down a desktop PC." [elearnspace blog] 6:39:30 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Craftsperson and tool. Rich Gold on PowerPoint. Christina points to UW's David Farkas' course readings in information design as a source of "fine reading". His syllabus is also worth checking out to see how he's chunked them into a semester's worth of work. Since I've lately been very interested in the "controversy" related to PowerPoint, I wanted... [IDblog] A good set of resources in general. Also, Beth points to a fascinating presentation by the late Rich Gold on Powerpoint as a Toy for Thought. As much of a Tufte fan as I am, I think the rhetorical device of blaming the tool, while fun and entertaining, gets in the way. The relationship between tools, craft, and craftsperson is complex. My wife is a photographer. If you want to annoy her, admire one of her pictures and then ask her what kind of camera she uses. Yes, what the tools can and can't do matters. But not as much as Tufte would have us believe. Gold widens the perspective to remind us in the hands of a craftsperson the constraints of a tool can be turned to advantage.   [McGee's Musings] 6:39:02 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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