Wellington Grey has developed a periodic table of the internet, with groupings such as “Search Engines”, “Blogs”, “Social Networking” etc., I like the navigation icons as well….
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Many Eyes
Another rather nifty visualisation tool. I’ve already pointed out Gapminder, and more recently, linked to maps representing a US view of news. In the past, I’ve also looked at some of the sites that present visual maps of the results of searches. ( Kartoo, Quintura [and Quintura for kids] and Touchgraph [which now has a…
Final goodbye for early web icon
Goodbye Netscape Navigator… like so many others, I used Netscape when I started out online. Now, I tend to use Flock, Firefox and IE on a fairly equal basis. I’ve rather drifted away from Opera though….
I think I've found a reason for Twitter!
No, not to keep up with Educational Technology, but Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered! Via: Alexs Krotoski…
How Does the (US) News Shape the Way We See the World
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy ยป How Does the (US) News Shape the Way We See the World Nice maps, but worrying information. I’m not sure, though, that a survey of UK news would produce anything different – and given the size differences between us……
Testing iPaper bookmarklet
Tony Hirst has a rather neat bookmarklet generator for iPaper; though I’m still trying to get it to work. I’ve got as far as creating a publisher reference on scribd, but can’t seem to persuade it to work. This is a Powerpoint presentation….
Issuu – You Publish
Issuu is another document sharing site. Like Scribd it’s for sharing published documents, rather than providing a service to enable creating the document, as Think Free or Zoho do. Issuu at the moment only allows pdf files, but it’s got an interesting way of viewing them – just like a book. The interface rather reminded…
2020? Your vision
Pew Internet have launched their third Future of the Internet Survey. Unlike most Pew Reports, it’s open to anyone (who has computer access), rather than other Pew surveys which generally cover Americans (with phones). Some interesting scenarios, and what I like is that it’s possible to comment on all the answers that you give (allow…
150 years of news.
The Guardian and the Observer have just launched a DigitalArchive At present, they have the Guardian from 1821, the Observer from 1900 – both to 1975. Eventually they’ll have the Observer back to 1791, and both up to 2003. Rather than the current online editions – this is a full archive, adverts and all. The…
How the Spectrum began a revolution
How the Spectrum began a revolution Well, I’m of an age to be able to say “My first computer was a ZX81” The spectrum was my second. I now have a CD that has lots of Speccy games & an emulator on. I can start to rescue Bilbo again!…