My daily readings 03/30/2008

Wall Street Stole My Smart Friends | jsomers.net

tags: entrepreneur, hr, startup

Mediamatic.net - The Aesthetics of Failure:  Annotated

tags: music

Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are self-taught.

Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos

tags: image, recognition

Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : Diigo - Invasion of the Bookmark Snatchers  Annotated

tags: Diigo, review

Somehow, I find myself trusting Diigo more than Facebook, although you
can connect to Facebook via Diigo. What’s also present is the potential
for “Diigo-spam.” Ok, I’ve spammed everyone in my addressbook. I can’t
remember the last time I did it, but I hope that if you received an
email via Diigo from me, you’ll jump in and give this a try. If you
don’t want to, hit delete. Do I think Diigo is that powerful a tool?
Well, yes. It offers something Delicious doesn’t–groups, and a base of
operations that interfaces with other tools. If I could share
information using Diigo, ohmygosh, one ring to rule them all.

One of the other aspects of Diigo I liked was that the Diigo crew is
hopping to improve things. Importing bookmarks from Delicious API wasn’t
working well (i had to try 3-4 times), so they came up with an
alternative way to accomplish the import. Dean
Shareski complained about the interface, and they re-did the user
interface. There’s also talk of creating an education (student) friendly
Diigo….

Easy group subscription - I wish there was a URL I could share with
people. They click on it, and bam, if they have a Diigo account,
they’re subscribed. If they lack an account, it walks them through the
process then makes sure to hook them up with the group. I just don’t
see how to do it easily now.

Lijit | Home

tags: community, ideas, search, social, web2.0

Social Bookmarking Soulmates at WRT: Writer Response Theory  Annotated

tags: diigo, review

During the assignment, students are at first skeptical that they will find anyone with similar interest. Usually it is not till they find a “Gem,” or exciting link, through someone else’s tags that they see the value in the exercise. More importantly, the assignment hammers home the ways in which social bookmarking can help them become part of a network of scholars, collaborating albeit indirectly at times.
After a few weeks of my stressing the importance of effective tagging and annotation, however, students are often a bit disappointed with the disorder they see in the tags of others. I remind them, “That’s right. Stay off the streets. It’s two clicks from chaos out there.”

Learning circuit/hardware; lab book?

tags: book, circuits, discussion, hardware

How to Disagree

tags: communication