INLS261/461 Tools for Information Literacy
item of interest starters | Summer Session I, 2008
- 12 June 2008 - Jake Shimabukuro on the ukulele, It really starts to get good at the 2:40 mark
- 11 June 2008 - we took a break to focus on databases
- 10 June 2008 - The Carolina Chocolate Drops concert in Amsterdam.
- 09 June 2008 - Ojala, by Silvio Rodriguez
- 06 June 2008 - Books that make you dumb - it might be evidence of someone with too much time on his hand. Note the domain name.
- 05 June 2008 - I don't know how to describe this site by Rafael Rozendaal
- 04 June 2008 - Fedspending.org, a free, searchable database of federal government spending.
- 03 June 2008 - TED talks - Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
- 02 June 2008 - How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people, by Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent, The Guardian, Friday, 01 February 2008. Note also the full-sized graphic.
- 30 May 2008 - TED talks - Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
- 29 May 2008 - similar to the site Christina introduced to us, Kuler is an Adobe tool that can help us to make the choice of complementary color schemes for websites
- 28 May 2008 - Google's Master Plan, the movie
- 27 May 2008 - Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile. Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone. by Richard Koman, Salon.com, 09 Oct 2002
- 23 May 2008 - The Cost of War, by the National Priorities Project. Look at the code to see how the page works.
- 22 May 2008 - TED talks - Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child (in 2006)
- 21 May 2008 - TED talks - Nicholas Negroponte: From 1984, 4 predictions about the future (3 of them correct)
- 20 May 2008 - Jackson Pollock - by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by Michal Migurski
- 19 May 2008 - Piero Scaruffi's knowledge base. An article in the New York Times said it this isn't the best web site of all time, it's at least one of the most visited. Look at his eclectic best-of lists and see if you agree with them, or if you learn anything from them.
- 16 May 2008 - Newsmap, a way to look at news in a different way
- 15 May 2008 - Going Viral - Internet Classics, from Bob Rankin. Ever since the Web went graphical in the early 1990's, there have been people motivated to create websites that exist only to be amusing, annoying or completely useless. And like a car wreck, we just can't keep ourselves from looking at these things... and telling all our friends. Consider these Internet Classics required viewing. They're part of Internet lore and legend, and everyone should see all of them at least once.
- 14 May 2008 - The Human Clock™ - A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day
- 13 May 2008 - what's hot right now on del.icio.us
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