New blogging tools etc.

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Antonio Vantaggiato

New nice & dandy blogging tools etc:

1. 2 new Magazine-style WordPress Themes: Mimbo & Gridline

Gridline Lite

mimbo

Both look very elegant and functional. Ideal for content aggregation. This shows there is really a trend in the use of WordPress as a platform for Content Management, much beyond the scope of blog publishing.

2. 2 Tools for Mac: Endo, a news aggregator with a clean interface; and Ecto, a blog editor. Both are from Infinite Sushi.

3. A new development in blog publishing software: the interesting Habári project; an open source blogging platform with twists.

4. Beautiful lifestreaming with Sweetcron: a “free and open source solution for creating a self-hosted Lifestream; a blog-like website that shows your activity across the various websites …“; See an example at Yongfook. Similar effect with  Tumblr + Silo.

5. Last, Weebly, which makes it very easy to create a personal website. Useful, when you just need to publish something on the Web quickly.

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thoughtware.tv: science at one’s fingertips!

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I am very proud of Andrés Colón, who was a student of mine and worked with me for a while. He is brilliant and a very modest person. But he developed a Web wonder, a video-sharing system for scientific advance.

He worked out the concept, the design and the implementation of Thoughtware.TV: Videos on Human Progress. Thoughtware.TV is a site where anybody can share a science video or search for one. It is a Meta YouTube for Science! In fact, it allows people to save there videos that are already on YouTube, thus marking them as highly valuable. The site states:

We collect only the best videos and news on Human Progress, ranging from topics such as Transhumanism, Artificial General Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Life Extension, Biotechnology, Genetics, Ethics and many other fields of Social, Scientific and Technological interest.

This is what Hugo de Garis, a widely known researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware has to say about Andrés system:

I now  look at your site every day,  hoping for a new interesting science documentary. You are changing my life, so I wonder how many other scientists around the world you are having the same effect on. […] You’re changing my life.

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Webcite: Web archiving and citation for all

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Antonio Vantaggiato

WebCite

WebCite®, a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, is an on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a “404 File Not Found” error when clicking on a cited URL. Try it! Archive a URL here. It’s free and takes only 30 seconds.

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Opening Up Education: Webcast and Book

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The Carnegie Commons – Community Event: Opening Up Education

Join the editors of Opening Up Education, Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, and John Seely Brown, who wrote the book’s foreword, to talk about future possibilities for the open education movement and how it can improve the quality of education.

Tomorrow, October 2nd, at 2pm EDT.

The book itself is – Opening Up Education. The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge is available from MIT Press. It is also available, free, in pdf format, or as an iPaper edition.

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iPhone at last in Puerto Rico

Posted on September 30, 2008 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Por fin! iPhone 3G en Puerto Rico Oct 17, 2008 | Mac User Boricua

Sin palabras… llega el iPhone justo después del anuncio del gPhone (el ya famoso celular con el sistema Android.

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