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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag tagging

04 December 2006

Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines

by 29 others
based on the question: What do you need to find and what do you already know?

03 December 2006

01 December 2006

28 November 2006

jlesage's reviews

my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.

27 November 2006

Lists of Bests

by 5 others
again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

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

Office 2.0 Database

by 41 others
Oct 06 list of numerous web2.0 apps related to office functions, plus links to reviews of them, when available.Effort to have all apps be on web and not desktop, including photo, sound, and video editing, web publishing, drawing.

ShopWiki

by 2 others
"ShopWiki actively crawls more than 180,000 online stores to ensure you’ll find the products you want at the best prices." For a class looking at web2.0 apps, it's the kind of thing students would enjoy playing with.

Mojiti-video commentary software

by 11 others
useful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

by 7 others
rather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function

24 November 2006

Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need

by 9 others
how to refine a topic and its searches; updated for web 2.0 and specialty searching; good for anyone starting to do Internet research on a topic and will take you to some previously unused search tools

TeacherSource | learning.now . Tag - You're Delicious! | PBS

may 06 discussion of how delicious works; useful overview and collection of comments. PBS teachersouce is also worth visiting from time to time

23 November 2006

21 November 2006

20 November 2006

Listology: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

lists like this give me ideas of what to look for in the library; the whole idea of "listology" is whacky and fun

photos you likebetter: you are what you like

a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you

16 November 2006

Squidoo

by 1 other
social bookmarking portal lets users share expertise on some subject; room for author's comments and explanations; more discursive than delicious; less writing than a blog; see "Visual Thinking," also "Ephemeral Films"

13 November 2006

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb

by 7 others
The invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.

Wayfaring

by 26 others
Create a map of your life* Build a map for your event* Make a travelogue* Create a map with photos and videos

12 November 2006

StumbleUpon

by 62 others
Firefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"

06 November 2006

02 November 2006

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

by 56 others
You sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.

16 October 2006

Swarming Media

blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture