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[from edwardgeorge] Your Creation Museum Report
“Yes, finally, ladies and gentlemen, I present you with your Creation Museum report! Thank you for your patience. Our report today has two parts: The first part is a photographic tour, with all the snarktasticness you’ve been no doubt hoping for…”
[from mvh] JISC funded Enhanced Tagging and Terminology Registries - UKOLN
Project will demonstrate and evaluate the combination of use of controlled vocabularies and social tagging in the context of repositories and digital collections, attempting to get the best of both worlds.
[from mvh] Power of Information Report - Matt Jukes (the author)' blogs on this report
It took a hard look at government information over the web and made a number of pretty forward thinking recommendations - a number of which could be important to the HE space online.
[from mvh] The Power Of Information Report Also Wants To Avoid Duplication Of Services - Brian Kelley
ON Matt Jukes report Brian writes “as well as encouraging reuse of government data, the report also recommends: * Working with existing user-generated sites rather than creating anything new ones.” etc
[from edwardgeorge] John Resig - JavaScript Method Overloading
“In a side project that I’ve been working on I built a quick-and-dirty function for doing simple method overloading.”
[from edwardgeorge] Google Sets
“Enter a few items from a set of things. Next, press Large Set or Small Set and we’ll try to predict other items in the set.”
[from edwardgeorge] M/C Journal: "Artificial Intelligence" - Media Illiteracy and the SonicJihad Debacle in Congress
“In other words, lawmakers found themselves looking into a fun house mirror that distorted what should have been familiar artefacts of American popular culture because it was precisely what they wanted to see.”
