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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds.
My own intellectual vibrations are ensconced into the annotations I make as I read.
I'm curious how this habit will change my thinking over time.
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The more pieces of information we can “access” and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers.
But are Google's tools really making us more productive thinkers? One might argue that it's attempting to do all the work for us and take out the process of thought all together. We're just rats in a maze hitting a bar to get the food pellet.
What if the end is a picture of us as the people on the space ship at the end of WALL-E? What if it's keeping us from thinking?
What if it's making us more shallow thinkers rather than deep thinkers?
Cross reference P.M. Forni.
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Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, California—the Googleplex—is the Internet’s high church, and the religion practiced inside its walls is Taylorism.
The idea of Taylorism as a religion is intriguing.
However, underlying it is the religion of avarice and greed.
What if we just had the Taylorism with humanity in mind and took out the root motivation of greed?
This might be akin to trying to return Christianity to it's Jewish roots and removing the bending of the religion away from its original intention.
It's definitely the case that the "religion" is only as useful and valuable to it's practitioners as the practitioners allow. In the terms of the McLuhan-esque quote "We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us." we could consider religion (any religion including Taylorism) as a tool. How does that tool shape us? How do we continue to reshape it?
While I'm thinking about it, what is the root form of resilience that has allowed the Roman Catholic Church to last and have the power and influence it's had for two millennia?
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As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”—the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities—we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies.
Similar to the way in which people begin to resemble their dogs?! :)
Daniel Bell defines "intellectual technologies" as tools that extend our mental capacities.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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More history here on the page than I would have thought.
Definitely worth digging into some of the older examples going back to [[Conrad Gessner]] and [[Johann Jacob Moser]].
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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numinous.productions numinous.productions
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The way to do a piece of writing is three or four times over, never once. For me, the hardest part comes first, getting some-thing--anything--out in front of me. Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something--anything-as a first draft. With that, you have acf>ieved a sort of nucleus. Then, as you work it over and alter it, you begin to shape sentences that score higher with the ear and eye. Edit it again-top to bottom. The chances are that about now you'll be see-ing something that you are sort of eager for others to see. And all that takes time. What I have left out is the interstitial time. You finish that first awful blurt-ing, and then you put the thing aside. You get in your car and drive home. On the way, your mind is still knitting at the words. You think of a better way to say something, a good phrase to correct a . certain problem. Without the drafted version-if it did not exist-you obvi-ously would not be thinking of things that would improve it. In short, you may be actually writing only two or three hours a day, but your mind, in one way or another, is working on it twenty-four hours a day-yes, while you sleep-but only if some sort of draft or earlier ver-sion already exists. Until it exists, writ-ing has not really begun."
Some solid advice not only for writing, but even thinking in general. Writing out your thoughts can help to sharpen and improve them.
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Though it is often assumedthat mnemonics were used to memorize speeches, the importance of memory to theinventionofspeech was readily apparent to ancient orators—thus the famous praise of memory as athesauruminventorum(Herennium3.16.28). As Cicero writes inDe Oratore, the orator must commit tomemory“the whole past with its storehouse of examples and precedents,”as well as a knowledgeof all laws general and civil, for without such memories, the orator is left speechless (1.17–18).Expanding on Cicero’s point, Quintilian claims that“it is the power of memory alone that bringsbefore us all the store of precedents, laws, rulings, sayings, and facts which the orator must possessin abundance . . . and hold ready for immediate use”(Institutio11.2.1). The art of memory was thusto be used to recollect not only pre-written orations but also knowledge from a variety of sources tobe called upon when constructing new texts, speakingex tempore, or responding to an interlocutor’sarguments.
Too often, this seems to me to be a missing piece that few talk about now. Those posting to the Art of Memory forum are usually talking about the need to memorize for memorization's sake. Rarely are they talking about or noticing the second or third level order changes as the result of an improved memory.
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dba.stackexchange.com dba.stackexchange.com
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Libib is a website & app that catalogs books, movies, music, and video games
This looks like a pretty solid catalog system for the cloud.
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bookriot.com bookriot.com
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Some interesting discussion of UI and functionality in the reading app/site space.
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- May 2021
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innos.io innos.io
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Innos seems like an interesting note taking app in the vein of Obsidian, but the lack of ability to own the raw data is a deal killer here for me.
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halfanhour.blogspot.com halfanhour.blogspot.com
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I'm just going to offer a short post today as I develop some aspects of gRSShopper. In particular, I now have the gRSShopper MOOC environment up and running in a Docker environment - all the instructions are here if you want a copy for yourself, plus there's a video showing how to do it.
These may be useful to come back to to check out at some point.
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maggieappleton.com maggieappleton.com
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Think of it as a spectrum. Things we dump into private WhatsApp group chats, DMs, and cavalier Tweet threads are part of our chaos streams - a continuous flow of high noise / low signal ideas. On the other end we have highly performative and cultivated artefacts like published books that you prune and tend for years.Gardening sits in the middle. It's the perfect balance of chaos and cultivation.
There's something here that's reminiscent of Craig Mod's essay Post Artifact Books and Publishing.
Reminder to self: revisit this idea.
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ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk ota.bodleian.ox.ac.ukOTA Home1
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Oxford Text Archive A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources. Thousands of texts in more than 25 languages.
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github.com github.comrxi/lite1
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A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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www.pdflabs.com www.pdflabs.com
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PDFtk Free is our friendly graphical tool for quickly merging and splitting PDF documents and pages.
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www.sumatrapdfreader.org www.sumatrapdfreader.org
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Sumatra PDF is a PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader for Windows
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localhost:4000 localhost:4000
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Polar is an integrated reading environment to build your knowledge base. Actively read, annotate, connect thoughts, create flashcards, and track progress.
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www.semanticscholar.org www.semanticscholar.org
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Semantic Scholar, a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature
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www.connectedpapers.com www.connectedpapers.com
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www.indieforums.net www.indieforums.net
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www.pixelartcss.com www.pixelartcss.com
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This is a cool little tool for turning self-made pixel art to CSS.
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libera.chat libera.chat
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The old Freenode staff have left in a dispute with Andrew Lee, and this is their new platform.
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www.inaturalist.org www.inaturalist.org
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Account started on 2021-05-12 at 11:37 PM
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github.com github.com
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Potentially worth noodling around here to export my online site into my bigger private repo in markdown format?
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github.com github.com
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www.stempen.org www.stempen.orgSTEMPEN1
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github.com github.com
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I want to delve into this to move some data around.
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phiresky.github.io phiresky.github.io
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adactio.com adactio.com
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My website is adactio.com. I love my website. Even though it isn’t a physical thing, I think it might be my most prized possession. It’s a place for me to think and a place for me to link.
a stark statement to make about one's website
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jhiblog.org jhiblog.org
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Filed on a card under the key word cogitare, Blumenberg quotes Kant: “Thinking is conversation with oneself… Listening inside.”
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In his “On the gradual fabrication of thoughts while speaking,” Kleist was in turn musing on Immanuel Kant’s metaphor of the teacher as the midwife at the birth of the student’s thought. When stuck in developing a thought, Kleist recommends, find an acquaintance to talk at. No responses are required. The mere presence of the silent interlocutor, and even more so the imminent threat of losing their attention during lengthy stretches of boredom or incoherence will trigger, or so Kleist claims, the “fabrication of my idea in reason’s workshop.”
This sounds a lot like a broader case than rubber duck debugging, which is obviously not a "new" thing.
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Media theorist Markus Krajewski has devoted a book specifically to the paper machinery of cards and catalogs. He traces the origins of this machinery back to sixteenth-century attempts at indexing books, and through the twists and turns of library technology in Europe and the U.S. over the following centuries.
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Ideas have a history, but so do the tools that lend disembodied ideas their material shape −− most commonly, text on a page. The text is produced with the help of writing tools such as pencil, typewriter, or computer keyboard, and of note-taking tools such as ledger, notebook, or mobile phone app. These tools themselves embody the merging of often very different histories. Lichtenberg’s notebooks are a good example, drawing as they do on mercantile bookkeeping, the humanist tradition of the commonplace book, and Pietist autobiographical writing (see Petra McGillen’s detailed analysis).
I like the thought of not only the history of thoughts and ideas, but also the history of the tools that may have helped to make them.
I'm curious to delve into Pietist autobiographical writing as a concept.
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As Friedrich Nietzsche famously conceded to his friend Heinrich Köselitz a century later, “You are right — our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts.”
This is a fascinating quote and something I've thought about before. Ties to McLuhan's "the medium is the message" as well.
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Ruminant machines: a twentieth-century episode in the material history of ideas
ruminant machines is an interesting concept, it sounds like a cross between a cow and Memex.
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www.verzetteln.de www.verzetteln.de
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Daniela K. Helbig </span> in Ruminant machines: a twentieth-century episode in the material history of ideas - JHI Blog (<time class='dt-published'>05/12/2021 21:12:46</time>)</cite></small>
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The scrapbooks reveal a critical and analytical way of thinking and emphasis on experimental evidence in physics, through which he became one of the early founders and advocates of modern scientific methodology. The more experience and experiments are accumulated during the exploration of nature, the more faltering its theories become. It is always good though not to abandon them instantly. For every hypothesis which used to be good at least serves the purpose of duly summarizing and keeping all phenomena until its own time. One should lay down the conflicting experience separately, until it has accumulated sufficiently to justify the efforts necessary to edifice a new theory. (Lichtenberg: scrapbook JII/1602)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg used his notebooks as thinking tools with respect to scientific methodology.
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gordonbrander.com gordonbrander.comPensees1
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There are rumors Pascal wrote the Pensées on notecards, and pinned these cards to a wall, connecting related thoughts with yarn. An early example of hypertext?
This certainly fits into the broad general ideas surrounding note taking, commonplace books, and zettelkasten as tools for thought. People generally seemed to have used relatively similar methods but shoehorned them into the available tools they had at the time.
This also, incidentally isn't too far off from how indigenous peoples the world over have used memory techniques (memory palaces, songlines, etc.) to hold together and pollinate their own thinking.
Raymond Llull took things a step further with his combinatoric methods, though I've yet to see anyone attempting that in the area of digital gardens.
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www.amazon.com www.amazon.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'></span> in Via: Gimmick Book — Gordon Brander (<time class='dt-published'>05/12/2021 14:04:29</time>)</cite></small>
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locus.plus locus.plus
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librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
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But “humane technology” is precisely the sort of pleasant sounding but ultimately meaningless idea that we must be watchful for at all times. To be clear, Harris is hardly the first critic to argue for some alternative type of technology, past critics have argued for: “democratic technics,” “appropriate technology,” “convivial tools,” “liberatory technology,” “holistic technology,” and the list could go on.
A reasonable summary list of alternatives. Note how dreadful and unmemorable most of these names are. Most noticeable in this list is that I don't think that anyone actually built any actual tools that accomplish any of these theoretical things.
It also makes more noticeable that the Center for Humane Technology seems to be theoretically arguing against something instead of "for" something.
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digitalbookhistory.com digitalbookhistory.com
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One of the flaws of using Digital Mappa for projects like this appears to be that it acts more as a viewer (as a result of it's original use with maps) than as something for text. As a result, when looking at various pages, the URL of the page and it's attendant resources doesn't change, so one can't link to particular resources within the work, nor can one easily use digital tools (Hypothes.is for example), to anchor and annotate portions of the text.
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www.digitalmappa.org www.digitalmappa.org
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>whitney trettien</span> on Twitter: "I'm excited to share a digital edition of Susanna Collet's 17th-century commonplace book, held at @morganlibrary. @zoe_braccia & I made it using @digitalmappa. It features a full transcription/facsimile & a searchable library of Collet's source texts. https://t.co/VSCMmBhMS6 https://t.co/fyrbwS9kk1" (<time class='dt-published'>04/09/2021 10:49:31</time>)</cite></small>
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vbd.humnet.unipi.it vbd.humnet.unipi.it
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This is a facsimile and diplomatic edition of Codex Vercellensis CXVII, Archivio e Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli.
An interesting example of a digitized version of a book.
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complimentr.com complimentr.com
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What a cool looking project, courtesy of Grant Codes.
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github.com github.com
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github.com github.com
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Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/promnesia/
Promnesia is a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox (including Firefox for Android!) which serves as a web surfing copilot, enhancing your browsing history and web exploration experience.
TLDR: it lets you explore your browsing history in context: where you encountered it, in chat, on Twitter, on Reddit, or just in one of the text files on your computer. This is unlike most modern browsers, where you can only see when you visited the link.
I've been doing something a bit like this manually and it looks a lot like the sort of UI examples I've been collecting at https://boffosocko.com/2019/06/29/social-reading-user-interface-for-discovery/
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madland.ca madland.ca
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This is a pretty solid overview of a literature review workflow. He doesn't use the words, but this is not a half bad way to build a digital commonplace book or digital garden/personal wiki for research use.
I hadn't thought about using Grav as the method for storing and displaying all of it, but perhaps it's worth looking into?
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madland.ca madland.ca
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An interesting outline of how Colin Madland uses Notion for his Ph.D. research work.
He's got a good list of some pros and cons at the bottom. The export sounds a bit hairy on one front, but at least gives you some sort of back up in case the worst were to happen.
Not sure it's the thing for me and I'm happier with my workflow using Obsidian at the moment, though some of the ideas about process here could be helpful.
It looks like he's got some of the same issues in using Grav for his knowledge work as I do in WordPress, though the taxonomy and Webmention portions do tend to help me a bit.
Colin brought this to my attention at the OERxDomains21 conference.
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www.feedblitz.com www.feedblitz.com
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nesslabs.com nesslabs.com
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www.smashingmagazine.com www.smashingmagazine.com
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You mock up content layout using wireframe models of key pages. You can go deep into this or keep it surface-level. There are dedicated apps like UXPin and Mockflow, but I find that Adobe Illustrator works well with the right wireframe UI kit.
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streamyard.com streamyard.com
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github.com github.com
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www.walmart.com www.walmart.com
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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github.com github.com
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Yunaru.com source code. Follow anyone. Blog anything.
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frankensteinvariorum.github.io frankensteinvariorum.github.io
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Interesting to see this actually hosted by GitHub pages.
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www.digitalmappa.org www.digitalmappa.org
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DM gives you simple but/and powerful tools to mark up, annotate and link your own networked collections of digital images and texts. Mark up your image and text documents with highlights that you can then annotate and link together. Identify discreet moments on images and texts with highlight tools including dots, lines, rectangles, circles, polygons, text tags, and multiple color options. Develop your projects and publications with an unlimited number of annotations on individual highlights and entire image and text documents. Highlights and entire documents can host an unlimited number of annotations, and annotations themselves can include additional layers of annotations. Once you've marked up your text and image documents with highlights and annotations, you can create links between individual highlights and entire documents, and your links are bi-directional, so you and other viewers can travel back and forth between highlights. Three kinds of tools, entire digital worlds of possible networks and connections.
This looks like the sort of project that @judell @dwhly @remikalir and the Hypothes.is team may appreciate, if nothing else but for the user interface set up and interactions.
I'll have to spin up a copy shortly to take a look under the hood.
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laurakalbag.com laurakalbag.com
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Custom CSS to make Twitter write-only! How awesome is this?
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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www.homedepot.com www.homedepot.com
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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2 main types of aeration
hollow tine aeration: pulling plugs out of the soil.
solid tine aeration (a spading fork): you're just poking holes in the ground
Do it after the last frost is past, because if water gets in holes and freezes, the freeze can damage
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Plug tool for transplanting plugs of grass
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www.crabgrasslawn.com www.crabgrasslawn.com
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Is a lawn roller necessary? It is spring, and I imagine the soil in your yard is lumpy because of the frost that occurred in the previous months. This is why you think a lawn roller is necessary. Well, unless you’re maintaining a golf course, I wouldn’t recommend a lawn roller. It just isn’t necessary.
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Most would argue a cardboard drum is better than options like grease drums. The reason for this is that a cardboard drum does not have ridges on it, so it can level the yard properly. Another advantage of this homemade lawn-roller equipment is that it is lightweight and as such won’t lead to soil compaction.
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If you’re installing new sod, you may use a light roller to make sure the pieces come into close contact with soil for the roots to grow and take hold.
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There are times when you may need to flatten a bumpy lawn. For example, a golf course or a cricket pitch may be rolled to attain a smooth, level surface for playing. This is when a lawn roller may be needed.
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In short, here’s why a lawn roller may not be necessary for your lawn: Using heavy rollers on the ground leads to soil compaction.Compacted soil causes slow root development and slower turfgrass growth.
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machinelounge.com machinelounge.com
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Use a leveling drag instead of a grass seed roller If you’re smoothing the lawn to cultivate it, a leveling drag may suffice.
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1. Use Plywood (alternative when laying sod) One of the most inexpensive alternatives to lawn rollers is that sheet of plywood lying around your home. Plus, it’s amazingly simple to use. Follow these steps to help your sod bond with the soil…. Step 1: Place a 4 ft. by 8 ft. piece of plywood on your new lawn. Step 2: Walk over it to press your sod solidly into the soil. We suggest that you invite a friend, if possible, to walk alongside you. The plywood distributes the applied weight evenly and will have an impact similar to a commercial lawn roller.
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machinelounge.com machinelounge.com
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Our advice is to let the neighborhood borrow the tool (you can also rent it out) since there is no value in having it lying idle for the larger part of the year.
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answers.yahoo.com answers.yahoo.com
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What can I use in place of a lawn roller?I raked in some bags of top soil and reseeded a very large section of my lawn (a walkway was moved) but the area is very soft and you sink in about 4 inches if you step there.Is there something I can use instead of a lawn roller? I don't have one...
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Nice man👍 You have to get is as level as you can, since you reel mow.
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ryanknorrlawncare.com ryanknorrlawncare.com
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A tool targeted at journalists that appears to be a silo-based app for backing up/archiving articles on the web as well as providing analytics, newsletter/email functionalities, and other options.
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joplinapp.org joplinapp.org
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Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.
This might be an interesting tool to do import/export from Evernote and/or OneNote to get documents into markdown format (possibly for use in Obsidian.)
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www.mobileread.com www.mobileread.com
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tineye.com tineye.com
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I thought that these sorts of tools had been abandoned by Twitter's API?
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html5up.net html5up.netHTML5 UP1
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@ajlkn has several related projects including this one:
Might be an interesting experiment to make one or more of them IndieWeb friendly and create a set up to dovetail one or more of them in with the GitHub pages set up.
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ludwig.guru ludwig.guru
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Ludwig is the first sentence search engine that helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples taken from reliable sources.
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www.ruanyifeng.com www.ruanyifeng.com
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ActivityPub 是一种去中心化的内容聚合协议,可以让其他用户远程订阅你的内容。它很像升级版的 RSS,但是支持远程推送。这里是 ActivityPub 协议技术细节的介绍。
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A generally good list here with some I hadn't run across. Conveniently lays out some of the best by operating system.
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Online tool. Interface looks a lot like Overleaf's LaTex editor.
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draftin.com draftin.com
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This looks interesting. Web based? Also includes version control as well as collaboration support.
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stackedit.io stackedit.io
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An in-browser text editor.
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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Use the button to get a sharable link to the page with annotations.
so super dope that you can toggle highlights & annotations to be private or public, and then can share a hypothesis link for a page, and then people can see your highlights on the page that are public, and dont see the ones you set as private, oh wow!!!
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plausible.io plausible.io
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twemex.app twemex.app
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I've come across about 20 reference for Ivan Illitch over the past month. Not sure what is driving it. Some mentions are coming out of educator circles, others from programmers, some from what I might describe as "knowledge workers" (digital gardeners/Roam Cult/Obsidian crowds). One tangential one was from someone in the hyperlink.academy crowd.
Here's a recent one from today that popped up within a thread shared in IndieWeb chat:
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Ivan Illich continues to be even more more relevant than he was at the height of his New Left popularity. Conviviality in the digital tools we use has continued to wither https://t.co/D88V6KL7Ez pic.twitter.com/OFDYTjXyCn
— Count Bla (@123456789blaaa) March 15, 2021Deschooling Society and Tools for Conviviality look very interesting. Perhaps they've distilled enough that their ideas are having a resurgence?
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He wrote that "[e]lite professional groups ... have come to exert a 'radical monopoly' on such basic human activities as health, agriculture, home-building, and learning, leading to a 'war on subsistence' that robs peasant societies of their vital skills and know-how. The result of much economic development is very often not human flourishing but 'modernized poverty', dependency, and an out-of-control system in which the humans become worn-down mechanical parts."[13] Illich proposed that we should "invert the present deep structure of tools" in order to "give people tools that guarantee their right to work with independent efficiency."[34]
Amazon anyone?
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the need to develop new instruments for the reconquest of practical knowledge by the average citizen.
This fits into the idea of older knowledge and memory systems of indigenous peoples
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remixer.visualthinkery.com remixer.visualthinkery.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Maren Deepwell</span> in Guest Post: Remixing our Open Education Online Conference : OERxDomains Conference (<time class='dt-published'>03/15/2021 21:56:21</time>)</cite></small>
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github.com github.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks</span> in Kevin Marks on Twitter: "@doctorow The podle app by @AdaRoseCannon could be a good starting point https://t.co/q9Y8DEVbfG" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>03/15/2021 14:41:41</time>)</cite></small>
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theadhocracy.co.uk theadhocracy.co.uk
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Of course, the great thing about IndieWeb ideas is that if I ever do have that problem, a tool is already available. And if you have that problem right now, you just need to open up the IndieWeb toolkit and pull it out.
You don't buy the hardware store because it's there, you visit it to get the right tool for the right job.
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github.com github.com
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This looks interesting.
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www.pcmag.com www.pcmag.com
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This could be fun and useful. I wonder if it will allow focusing on certain sub-portions of the screen?
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github.com github.com
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Looks like an interesting way to transport Hypothes.is annotations to [[Obsidian]].
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github.com github.com
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A command line tool for placing Hypothes.is annotations into [[Obsidian]].
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me.micahrl.com me.micahrl.com
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This is freaking hilarious!
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positivus.io positivus.io
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>@Currofile</span> in marina @ bliss on Twitter: "@__baileybrooks @SlackHQ This looks in line with something that https://t.co/lo2XmYayhG is building." / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>03/09/2021 09:27:46</time>)</cite></small>
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www.floatplane.com www.floatplane.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Molloy</span> in Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites - BBC News (<time class='dt-published'>03/07/2021 16:14:09</time>)</cite></small>
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watchnebula.com watchnebula.comNebula1
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Molloy</span> in Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites - BBC News (<time class='dt-published'>03/07/2021 16:14:09</time>)</cite></small>
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 5). In 4 days: SciBeh workshop ‘Building an online information environment for policy relevant science’ Join us! Topics: Crisis open science, interfacing to policy, online discourse, tools for research curation talks, panels, hackathons https://t.co/SPeD5BVgj3… I https://t.co/kQClhpHKx5 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1324286406764744704
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trailblazer.to trailblazer.to
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Having an understanding of higher level abstractions, such as tasks, activities and the historical code path taken, its debugging trace is much closer to how you, as an engineer, think about your code.
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This is my absolute favorite feature ever and the official reason for (re-)writing Trailblazer 2.1. It makes me happy every time I use it.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘1 week to the SciBeh workshop “Building an online information environment for policy relevant science” Join us, register now! Topics: Crisis open science, interfacing to policy, online discourse, tools for research curation talks, panels, hackathons https://t.co/Gsr66BRGcJ https://t.co/uRrhSb9t05’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 2 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1323207455283826690
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 9). Session 2: The policy interface followed with a really helpful presentation by Lindsey Pike, from Bristol, and then panel discussion with Mirjam Jenny (Robert Koch Insitute), Paulina Lang (UK Cabinet Office), Rachel McCloy (Reading Uni.), and Rene van Bavel (European Commission) [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1325795286065815552
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www.paprikaapp.com www.paprikaapp.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Parecki</span> in #indieweb 2021-03-01 (<time class='dt-published'>03/01/2021 15:30:09</time>)</cite></small>
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www.mysaffronapp.com www.mysaffronapp.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Ben Awad</span> in Scraping Recipe Websites (<time class='dt-published'>03/01/2021 15:28:08</time>)</cite></small>
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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github.com github.com
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tabset makes life easier for iTerm2 users, enabling easy setting of tab and window titles, badges, and colors. If you have a lot of tabs/windows in operation simultaneously, tabset helps to visually distinguish them.
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trailblazer.to trailblazer.to
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You’re allowed to blame us for a terrible developer experience in Trailblazer 2.0. It’s been quite painful to find out which step caused an exception. However, don’t look back in anger! We’ve spent a lot of time on working out a beautiful way for both tracing and debugging Trailblazer activities in 2.1.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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www.qiqqa.com www.qiqqa.com
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This looks like it's in the vein of annotation tools as well as reference managers to compete with Zotero and Hypothes.is.
Looks like it's Windows specific. But it is open source now too: https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source
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blog.webmemex.org blog.webmemex.org
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This project is somewhat related to getmemex.com
Zegnat et al.: FYI WorldBrain's Memex (= getmemex.com) has some shared history with my WebMemex project; we collaborated for some months, then went in somewhat different directions; I focussed on web page snapshotting for a while, and got distracted with other things; WorldBrain's version added more and more features and got a lot closer to what I had in mind for WebMemex. — via treora # 21:34 on 2021-02-12
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unix.stackexchange.com unix.stackexchange.com
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There's a bash debugger, bashdb, which is an installable package on many distros. It uses bash's built-in extended debugging mode (shopt -s extdebug).
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diegodlh.github.io diegodlh.github.io
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I know I've come across this and used it before, but somehow I managed not to bookmark it.
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every.to every.to
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It’s been less than a year since Roam started to gain traction, Notion just added Roam’s signature bi-directional link functionality, and there are already open-source “Roam compatible” apps on the horizon, like Athens.
This is the first reference I've heard about [[Athens]], but there are many others that aren't mentioned here including Obsidian, Foam, TiddlyWiki, etc. which have been adding the backlinking capabilities.
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delta.chat delta.chat
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using email for chat??
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jointoucan.com jointoucan.com
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What a cool idea!
first sighting: https://darkreader.org/help/en/
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www.joinhoney.com www.joinhoney.comHoney1
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typefully.app typefully.app
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This looks like a cool little UI for tweetstorms. I'd love it better if it had Micropub support.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>agentofuser</span> in Micropub Tweetstorm Builder - Apps - Fission Talk (<time class='dt-published'>02/17/2021 22:00:26</time>)</cite></small>
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www.manuscriptsapp.com www.manuscriptsapp.com
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Writing software
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waxy.org waxy.org
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This looks pretty cool!
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jam.systems jam.systemsJam1
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Potential Clubhouse-like audio tool.
Found via tweet mentioned in IndieWeb chat:
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Sam Rye</span> in Sam Rye on Twitter: "Open source alternative to Clubhouse 👏 Great for audio-centric events and group people... https://t.co/UTwbjD8595 Ping @EnrolYourself @danielyep @LornaPrescott_ @unevendistrib @solarpunk_girl" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>02/17/2021 11:45:36</time>)</cite></small>
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www.profweb.ca www.profweb.ca
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sharing it on a cloud-based platform.
Interesting that tools would come up at this stage. Chances are, someone's curation toolkit will cover all the steps and there are some tools which integrate several of these. Refworks, Zotero, and Mendeley might be interesting examples in that they allow for cloud sharing yet focus on the information management.
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museapp.com museapp.com
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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netquiz.ccdmd.qc.ca netquiz.ccdmd.qc.ca
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Déontologie et comportements non discriminatoires en Soins infirmiersLa déontologie – Questionnaire 2.1
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stevenberlinjohnson.com stevenberlinjohnson.com
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The idea of a purely linear text is a myth; readers stitch together meanings in much more complex ways than we have traditionally imagined; the true text is more of a network than a single, fixed document.
The internet isn't a new invention, it's just a more fixed version of the melange of text, ideas, and thought networks that have existed over human existence.
First there was just the memory and indigenous peoples all over the world creating vast memory palaces to interconnect their thoughts. (cross reference the idea of ancients thinking much the way we do now from the fist episode or so of Literature and History)
Then we invite writing and texts which help us in terms of greater storage without the work or relying solely on memory. This reaches it's pinnacle in the commonplace book and the ideas of Llull's combinatorial thought.
Finally we've built the Internet which interconnects so much more.
But now we need to go back and revisit the commonplace book and memory techniques to tie them altogether. Perhaps Lynne Kelly's concept of The Third Archive is what we should perfect next until another new instantiation comes to augment the system.
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www.nybooks.com www.nybooks.com
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They also turned their reading into writing, because commonplacing made them into authors. It forced them to write their own books; and by doing so they developed a still sharper sense of themselves as autonomous individuals. The authorial self took shape in the common man’s commonplace book, not merely in the works of great writers. It belonged to the general tendency that Stephen Greenblatt has called “Renaissance self-fashioning.”
This fits into my broader developing thesis about thinking and writing as a means of evolving thought.
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www.speakly.me www.speakly.me
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Sadly no Welsh yet...
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activatelearning.com.au activatelearning.com.au
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I'm curious to take a look after seeing this. Thanks for the recommendation.
I've tried Memrise and Duolingo before and like Duolingo a lot. I don't think they've got a French option, but I've also been using a platform called SSiW or Say Something in Welsh (they've got a few other languages too). I like their focus on verbal fluency over the methods traditionally taught in most classroom settings.
Having studied a handful of languages in the past, I'm quite impressed at how much and how well I can understand Welsh after only 20 minutes or so a day for about a month.
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www.niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org
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parsejournal.com parsejournal.comPARSE1
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technology can no longer be understood as a set of tools used by humans, and instead has become an ecology in which humans participate
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Tools for determining the value of a keywordHow much value would a keyword add to your website? These tools can help you answer that question, so they’d make great additions to your keyword research arsenal:
With so many tools to determine the value of a keyword, which one do you recommend is the most beneficial and accurate? I struggle with the trial and error aspect of audience acquisition and engagement. With so many great tools available at our fingertips, which I was unaware of until this course, how do we know which tool to use? Do these tools contradict each other?
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discursive.adamprocter.co.uk discursive.adamprocter.co.uk
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www.peardeck.com www.peardeck.com
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cytoscape.org cytoscape.org
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Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. A lot of Apps are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.
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voyant-tools.org voyant-tools.org
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Looks like some serious power hiding in here.
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voyant-tools.org voyant-tools.org
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Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
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miriamposner.com miriamposner.com
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Mobirise looks like an interesting IndieWeb-ish sort of tool for relative beginners. It also looks like it dovetails with Github Pages.
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miriamposner.com miriamposner.com
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I’ve found Pear Deck to be fine, if somewhat clunky. There are other interactive presentation tools, most notably Nearpod, which I actually prefer to use for interactive presentations. But Pear Deck, unlike Nearpod, allows me to monitor student progress from a dashboard and allows students to click links directly from slides. So Pear Deck it is.
My 9 year old has been using Nearpod regularly, but I haven't looked at it yet. Pear Deck's additional functionality sounds helpful though.
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I’ve been considering proximity-based group meeting rooms, like wonder.me, but I worry slightly that the new room won’t work as intended and we’ll all be at sea.
I've also run across rally.video as an option in this space.
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they work through detailed tutorials to learn a tool or skill. The difference, though, is that I’ve converted the blog post-style tutorials to Pear Deck slides. [3]I’ve found Pear Deck to be fine, if somewhat clunky. There are other interactive presentation tools, most notably Nearpod, which I actually prefer to use for interactive presentations. But Pear … Continue reading jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_2241_1_3').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2241_1_3', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], }); Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool designed for K-12, with a lot of interactive features
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www.wonder.me www.wonder.me
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A tool in the vein of Zoom, Hangouts, Rally.video, etc.
via http://miriamposner.com/blog/teaching-technical-skills-online/
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newpipe.net newpipe.net
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devhints.io devhints.io
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Beautiful and smart cheatsheets, for lots of tools and programming languages.
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Integrate with your existing tools in a few clicks
This shows the users that they can easily connect monday.com with any existing online tools they already use to manage and have all their work in one place.
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Nowogrodzki. A., (2020). Four tools that help researchers working in collaborations to see the big picture.nature. Retrieved from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01918 utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf235555174=1
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apostrophecms.com apostrophecms.com
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We believe good tools lead to excellent creations.
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blog.logrocket.com blog.logrocket.com
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LogRocket is a frontend application monitoring solution that lets you replay problems as if they happened in your own browser. Instead of guessing why errors happen, or asking users for screenshots and log dumps, LogRocket lets you replay the session to quickly understand what went wrong. It works perfectly with any app, regardless of framework, and has plugins to log additional context from Redux, Vuex, and @ngrx/store. In addition to logging Redux actions and state, LogRocket records console logs, JavaScript errors, stacktraces, network requests/responses with headers + bodies, browser metadata, and custom logs. It also instruments the DOM to record the HTML and CSS on the page, recreating pixel-perfect videos of even the most complex single-page apps.
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ttytoolkit.org ttytoolkit.org
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Terminal Apps The Easy Way
A ruby toolkit for building terminal apps. Components for handling common (and uncommon) needs.
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www.zylstra.org www.zylstra.org
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I am using a system for myself to plan and do my work, maintain lots of things in parallel, and keep notes. That system consists of several interlocking methods, and those methods are supported by various tools. What I describe in my review of 100 days of using Obsidian, is not about Obsidian’s functionality per se, but more about how the functionality and affordances of Obsidian fit with my system and the methods in that system
Important point to make. I think of this as "Principles before tools", which means that I start with what I want to achieve, and then find tools that help me do that more effectively.
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github.com github.com
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www.davidblue.wtf www.davidblue.wtf
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I’m sure any integration between MSOffice and Git is an utter pain in the ass, but I’d still appreciate any suggestions you may have in that regard.
I found "Using Microsoft Word with git" from 2014.
There's also Word Diff as explained in this blog post.
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material.io material.io
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Material is an adaptable system of guidelines, components, and tools that support the best practices of user interface design
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blog.janastu.org blog.janastu.org
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Inshot Storytelling app, Video Editor & Video Maker InShot has a lot of photo and video editing features in one. There is a small learning curve. Many girls on the field have creatively combined photo and video content, applied effects and enhancements to specific sections and added transitions too. Harnessing the capabilities of InShot for storytelling has immense possibilities. It could potentially lead to a creators movement where people share details about their lives through videos and narration. It also could be used for product stories and marketing. InShot app runs on a phone and ASPi is used as a repository and exchange node - during COVID lockdown, a server online is also used so physical movement is reduced.
Syncthing. A continuous file synchronization program Ever thought of connotations of sharing in today’s world. Well, Syncthing allows us to securely backup data without the need to trust a third-party cloud provider. Sharing and syncing files between devices on a local network or over the internet is made easier through Syncthing. This could help in fostering community archives as access to files over multiple devices can be made effortless. In localised sense, people can also look up resources or their queries and find answers with their peers.
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Kolibri The offline app for universal education Kolibri makes high quality education technology available in low-resource communities such as rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, non-formal school systems, and prison systems. While the internet has thoroughly transformed the availability of educational content for much of the world, many people still live in places where online access is poor or even nonexistent. Kolibri is a great solution for these communities. It's an app that creates an offline server to deliver high-quality educational resources to learners. What makes Kolibri unique is that it offers a way to bring different content sources offline into a central repository in a structured way. Beyond that, it brings in a host of tools to help align the content with national and local curricular standards, and on the student side it offers a self-paced personalized learning experience with support tools for teachers to track student progress. Kolibri can be envisioned also for local teaching, DIY courses, self initiated inquiries, equal opportunities for 21st century skills etc.
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www.mattmaldre.com www.mattmaldre.com
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Is there any service that does this sort of alert when my library gets a book I want?
Not quite the functionality you're looking for, but in the same sort of vein as WorldCat:
Library Extension is a browser extension that works on Amazon, Goodreads (and possibly other book sites) that allows you to register your favorite local libraries, and when you look up books on those services, it automatically searches and shows you which are available at your local library. One click and you can usually download or reserve a copy quickly for pick up.
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www.julian.com www.julian.com
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Call a friend, tell them what's on your mind, and jot down the interesting remarks you both make. That'll generate talking points to write from.If you're passionate about an idea but you lack the interesting insights, you need to consume before you produce: Read blogs and books on your topic, highlight interesting parts, and bank good ideas to pull from when writing your first draft.
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I have two shortcuts for finding topics you're passionate about:The problems that bug you — To identify your strong opinions, consume other people's opinions (via Twitter, editorials, and conversations) and note when you strongly disagree with them. Then sit yourself down, crack open a laptop, and argue your position while you feel the drive.The fun stories you tell — Readers love being privy to vulnerable stories from your life. Take a story you'd excitedly tell a best friend over dinner and write it down with as many cliffhangers as possible.
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www.thieme-connect.com www.thieme-connect.com
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2.0 tools for learning human histology by First year MBBS students and thus make them aware of the features of these
Medical research students Web 2.0 tools
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s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
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Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 1 (2009) 478–482Available online at www.sciencedirect.comWorld Conference on Educational Sciences 2009 To use or not to use web 2.0 in higher education? Gabriela Grosseck* West University of Timisoara, 4 Bd. C. Coposu, office 029, 300223 Timisoara, Romania Received October 8, 2008; revised December 16, 2008; accepted January 4, 2009 Abstract Web 2.0 has been, during the last years, one of the most fashionable words for a whole range of evolutions regarding the Internet. Although it was identified by the current analysts as the key technology for the next decade, the actors from the educational field do not really know what Web 2.0 means. Since the author started to explore and use Web 2.0 technologies in her own development/improvement, she has been intrigued by their potential and, especially, by the possibility of integrating them in education and in particular in the teaching activity. The purpose of this paper is both to promote scholarly inquiry about the need of a new type a pedagogy (Web 2.0 based) and the development / adoption of best practice in teaching and learning with web 2.0 in higher education (HE). The article main objectives are: • to introduce theoretical aspects of using Web 2.0 technologies in higher education • to present models of integrating Web 2.0 technologies in teaching, learning and assessment • to identify the potential benefits of these technologies as well as to highlight some of the problematic issues / barriers encountered, surrounding the pedagogical use of Web 2.0 in higher education • to propose an agenda for future research, and to develop pedagogy 2.0 scenarios for HE sector. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Web 2.0; e-learning; higher education; social artifacts. 1. Insight
Great research article to support my paper on topic of Web 2.0 technology.
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en.wikibooks.org en.wikibooks.org
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purpose of this section is to discuss the influence of Web 2.0 technologies on online collaboration based on different learning theories and modes
This is fitting for my research paper which monitors this topic.
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oedb.org oedb.org
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This useful website provides a host of tools plus a description. 10 out of 10
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The following list includes free tools that you can use to stay on top of current events, including headlines and blogs.
Resources that a teacher can never have enough of. I have used Animoto among others.
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github.com github.com
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the actual upgrade path should be very simple for most people since the deprecated things are mostly edge cases and any common ones can be codemodded
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SWIFT-Review is a workbench of tools that can conduct topic modelling, study categorization and priority ranking for relevance of literature in the health sciences, and the tool RobotReviewer performs data extraction on RCTs to aid in systematic reviews13,14.
Tools used in evidence synthesis for policy
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fortelabs.com fortelabs.com
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Writing then is best seen not only as a tool for thinking but as a tool for personal growth.
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But thirdly, and most valuably, the template gives you a big space at the bottom to write sentences that summarise the page. That is, you start writing your critical response on the notes themselves.
I do much this same thing, however, I'm typically doing it using Hypothes.is to annotate and highlight. These pieces go back to my own website where I can keep, categorize, and even later search them. If I like, I'll often do these sorts of summaries on related posts themselves (usually before I post them publicly if that's something I'm planning on doing for a particular piece.)
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I can't help wondering if this might be modified to be used to pull in Webmentions from around the web using WordPress's Webmention plugin instead of relying on Telegraph.
It sounds sort of like something I had discussed with David Shanske a while back to bookmark related mentions, but which didn't necessarily have my URL on them.
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