A colleague reminded me of Wordle. I truly find it beautiful. Both in the elegance that the Java app works (cannot say that about all java apps!) and in the actual creation of the tool. So, without further ado, here is my Wordle based on current tags in my delicious account!
This is just darn cool technology and a great message to boot.
As I continue to look over the impressive technology and social media used for Earth Hour 2009, I found this part of the site. Print out a little graphic, point it to your webcam and BAM – you have the world in your hand.
I am intrigued to know how it works but also rather happy with just going with the whole “it’s magic” thing!
So, we are part of the RecycleBank now..the recycling bin has a little gadget on it and we get points for how much we recycle. Those points can be redeemed for, well, more stuff.
Kinda strange cycle but here is the widget, nonetheless….
What a great story! A poster from 1939 created by a British civil worker charged with creating propaganda to comfort the most certainly stressed UK as they faced the Nazis. There were three and this particular phrase was the one seen because it was designed for the even of a Nazi invasion.
The poster was found again in the bottom of a box by a bookstore owner. He put it up and it is taking the world by storm. You can get shirts, hoodies, posters, screensavers and so on.
And, in the spirit of creativity – there are spoofs and variations. My favorite of these is:
Both slogans are great. I am going to try to take them to heart.
Yes, it took me a year to figure out the use of Twitter but I use it almost everyday for work and personal learning, news, entertainment, and more. Kinda cool to see everybody all together.
The time for Change is also in the HTML..
So, instead of a photo a day, you could just do a time lapse video of the same spot:
While I wait for my iPod to update to the latest firmware, I took a quick trip through my iTunes playlists and was reminded about my @Last Five list for what I have listened to most recently. Here’s the latest:
Leave it to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to come up with another cool way to engage us in their research. I have always enjoyed their backyard bird studies that allow folks from all over the world to gather data from their own world and share it with the scientists at Cornell.
Now, they have CamClickr (missing a vowel, of course,so it must be cool!) which is done entirely online. This is a game-like environment that helps analyze their catalog of nest cameras. From the site:
Now we are enhancing this learning experience by introducing, CamClickr, a year-round citizen science project carried out completely online that allows cam viewers to “tag” and classify breeding behaviors from our archived images. CamClickr will help us answer questions that can only be answered using the cams while providing scientists with a tool to search and sort images once they are tagged. It’s fun, easy, and promises to change the way you think about breeding behavior! Try it for yourself and see if you can become the top CamClickr!
This is clearly engaging, really science and just kinda fun. The sorta thing I wish I had done when I worked in the informal science field.
Image: ‘The Navigator‘
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