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Word clouds with Wordle
I’ve just discovered Wordle, a web application that creates word clouds from any body of text. Word clouds, like tag clouds, are a collection of individual words whose text size reflects the frequency of occurrence in a given body of text. Wordle has some nice layout tools to help you create beautiful word clouds. It’s [...]
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IMS Summit on Interoperability Now and Next
I attended a couple of days of the IMS Summit on Interoperability Now and Next in Birmingham, UK last week. Sheila has written up some notes. I have to say I was disappointed by the learning design session. Five years after the learning design spec was finalised it’s still a complex business using the spec [...]
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Fireflies swarming around your web site
This is interesting.
Firefly allows visitors to a web site to point and chat. Basically a Flash overlay movie with transparent background allows contemporaneous web site visitors to point at content on the site and instant chat with each other. Chat messages are currently anonymous but I expect that will change. Messages are also transient so [...]
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RSS microblogging vs Twitter et al
You know the thing that puzzles me about services like Twitter and Jaiku et al, sometimes referred to as microblogging applications, is that you have to use a central server or service to create and distribute your Tweets or microbloglets or whatever-you-call-thems only to have them converted to RSS and syndicated. Why not just use [...]
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Semantic technologies in the curriculum: pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
How many of us can identify with these questions?
What is this piece of information and what does it mean to me?
I need to find information about…
Do I need to know this?
How can I find the right material for my needs?
What do I know now, and how can I improve my knowledge?
These are question that we [...]
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