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Changes over time, in photos and maps 21 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
Images gain new meaning when given the context of location or change. Two sites, from NASA and HistoryPin do this to good effect — such as showing the the dramatic melting of the Muir glacier in Alask...
Online courses for developing the developing world 30 Jul 2013 | 01:58 am
Online education can have a real impact in the developing world. Last week, we needed to hire a programmer for a small freelance job. To my surprise, several candidates advertised they had completed p...
NASA boldly redesigns web site for 2005 1 Jul 2013 | 08:13 pm
NASA redesigned their web site, with a magnificent failure of design by committee. It is a failure of content (eliminated the most interesting details about the science and engineering), a failure of ...
What is fan fiction? 5 Jun 2013 | 11:11 pm
Who owns art and culture? Does it belong to the artist? The legal property owner? Or the society that loves and appreciates it? Traditionally, old art is considered public, and new art is copyrighted....
What is fan fiction? 5 Jun 2013 | 11:11 pm
Who owns art and culture? Does it belong to the artist? The legal property owner? Or the society that loves and appreciates it? Traditionally, old art is considered public, and new art is copyrighted....
Lessons to be learned from MOOCs, 2 years out 22 Apr 2013 | 11:55 pm
Online courses with very large enrollments have rapidly matured in the last two years, led largely by experiments outside mainstream academia by Coursera, Udacity and edX. Ambitious educators, technol...
Lessons to be learned from MOOCs, 2 years out 22 Apr 2013 | 11:55 pm
Online courses with very large enrollments have rapidly matured in the last two years, led largely by experiments outside mainstream academia by Coursera, Udacity and edX. Ambitious educators, technol...
What is Crowdsourcing? And how does it apply to outreach? 19 Feb 2013 | 08:21 pm
Crowdsourcing means involving a lot of people in small pieces of a project. In educational and nonprofit outreach, crowdsourcing is a form of engagement, such as participating in an online course, col...
What is Crowdsourcing? And how does it apply to outreach? 19 Feb 2013 | 08:21 pm
Crowdsourcing means involving a lot of people in small pieces of a project. In educational and nonprofit outreach, crowdsourcing is a form of engagement, such as participating in an online course, col...
Cars, trikes, and more create Google Street View 31 Jan 2013 | 11:39 pm
The Grand Canyon is yet another place that Google brings to your digital screens, from their Street View family of content. Google has been collecting street-level views of our world at a vast scale p...
