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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags digitalculture & tools

03 December 2006

EVERYTHING 2.0: KNOWLEDGE 2.0

by 1 other
links to knowledge sharing or knowledge management site; larger site is most comprehensive listing of web2.0 sites I have seen, organized into many categories; blogger is from Netherlands

01 December 2006

[debates] A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons

by Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence

27 November 2006

Visuarios: broadcast your skills

how-to videos or, more commonly, audio/slideshows; useful rhetorically for both technical writing and instructional video learning; web2.0 sharing of video that is perhaps instructionally more useful than YouTube.

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards

March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists

Google Page Creator

by 4 others
google tool for helping a person create their own web page and store it free online; very simple interface

INTERNET TREASURES OR VERY USEFUL LINKS... AND FREE TOOLS

by 10 others
Portal with wide variety of categories; most useful are the evaluative and descriptive annotations for each entry, so you can see how the possible "consumer opinion," for example, sites vary. Place to find free reference tools.

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

by 4 others
a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

24 November 2006

Specialty Search Engines

* Answers * Computer * Domain * Financial * Government * Invisible Web * Legal * Mailing Lists * Medical * Newsgroups * Science * Shopping * Travel Search Engines • others

Writing Demonstrations

interactive demonstrations of Conducting Electronic Searches; useful both for the information contained and as a demo of web design and writing instructional media in a library context; the larger site is a resource for writers.

FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds

by 41 others, 1 comment
search the web for material for your soundmixes; various file formats and sampling rates can be specified

22 November 2006

StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator

ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to

21 November 2006

20 November 2006

Morgans Office :: biro.bemidjistate.edu | Office / HomePage

very interestingly designed home page of rhetoric teacher, in the form of a wkik; lots of discussion of teaching, new media, softeware

Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr

various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them

19 November 2006

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide

by 79 others
blog; always something interesting here about software or web sites that could be useful

18 November 2006

JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing

many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing

15 November 2006

Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links

documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US