An interesting article about the proliferation of text clouds, one of many predecessors to the ubiquitous tag cloud. Here at education.au we’re developing tag cloud functionality as another discovery mechanism for large resource repositories, so it’s exciting to see them gradually appearing in a variety of applications around the web. For the […]
Watch a brief history of Web 2.0 (2nd draft) by Micheal Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
Thanks to Nelly for passing this on.
Searching through the non-fiction shelves of my local library is now just a tad more annoying than it used to be since perusing the results of a December 2006 survey outlining the demographics of ‘taggers’ and accompanying interview with David Weinberger.
In a forthcoming book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, David […]
First of all, if you’re thinking this post is going to discuss the merits of being able to reach your cleaning products, then you should probably stop reading now or go and read about Ajax as defined by a propeller-head. If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of this asynchronous web development technique […]
Audio and notes from Ted Rheingold’s talk at the recent Carson Workshops summit: The Future of Webapps. I’ve been well aware of the buzz surrounding the summit and have been patiently waiting for podcasts to appear on the sites of the various speakers or their entourages. Ted’s talk was titled ‘The State, Future […]
This Web 2.0 awareness test is a humourous take on the hype surrounding the proliferation of web 2.0 applications. Its also a slightly scary example of how easy it is to fetch information about a user with javascript.
Part disturbing, part humour, this is a built-overnight, fun “Web 2.0 Awareness Test” based on a combination […]
