Archive for September, 2009

when do people start their habit of not asking anymore?

Posted on September 30, 2009. Filed under: freedom, friends, life, philosophy, social interaction |

In a second/after thought, if getting educated by the web needs you to give up your habit to accept to not know/understand, then it really doesn’t need the web [to get educated. (However, it helps, since it lowers the barrier to get to the content to do understand)].
However, given the case it needs to dismiss [...]

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the difference between reading content with and without external links

Posted on September 30, 2009. Filed under: community, comprehensibility, digital communication, freedom, terminology, user experience |

I just skimmed that Gizmodo headline “Apple Tablet Aiming To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines” and saw that tablet device next to, featuring a page that looks like a common web page. The snippet on Techmeme says “[...] Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a ‘new device.’ [...]

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Is there any such thing as a video wiki out there?

Posted on September 17, 2009. Filed under: Rails podcasts, Ruby on Rails, human computer interaction, infrastructure/platform, videos |

Watching Railscasts and looking up older casts to see what “the guy” is referring to, I wonder whether there’s some thing like a video wiki. I mean, in a video wiki it should be easily possible to overlay areas of interest within the video and assign an URL there which to follow on click. So, [...]

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