Archive for August, 2009

asklab @ bmid (weekly status report)

6 steps to enhance your wiki’s chances of being STOLEN, and the patterns to make it happen | Future Changes STOLEN principle – 6 basic features each identified by the letters STOLEN, which if considered could increase the wikis chances of being successful Specific Overall Objective – Magnet, FAQ Timely – Set Window of Discussion, [...]

Google Books in the Open EPUB Format

[...] starting today, Google Books will offer free downloads of these and more than one million more public domain books in an additional format, EPUB. By adding support for EPUB downloads, we’re hoping to make these books more accessible by helping people around the world to find and read them in more places. More people [...]

Power to Prezi!

via designmind.frogdesign.com “Is it a presentation tool? Or a visual storytelling tool? Visualization software? Or a zooming editor? “ Another one for the short todo-list after my holidays – need to check out Prezi, it might cure my Impress obsession (no Death by PowerPoint for me …) Posted via web from frogpond’s posterous

Art of bookmaking and ebooks

Vintage Vintage Canada Vintage (alternate) Knopf FSG Norton Faber and Faber Penguin via 418qe.com There are more book spine photographs – and some thoughts whether they are going the way of the Dodo. Right, reminds me too of the experience and edcuation we had when we were “flipping through all that vinyl” – and I [...]

Quality vs Quantity Growth Strategies for Social Networks

Crossposted from frogpond’s posterous via blogs.zdnet.com Oliver Marks adds another twist to the (chances of) innovation in social networks discussion, bonding it to the business use of internal social networks (but while he’s right that “friending” everyone in Enterprise 2.0 is of little use, I think that this – potentially extremely networked – setting is [...]

At higher risk of having good ideas

If you have a “closed” network, where everyone pretty much knows or knows about each other. A good aspect of this connectivity is that the network can serve as a filter — multiple tweets or retweets about a topic link usually means it’s worth following — and its possible to generate a common language. However, [...]

Modelling Scientists …

I guess my fascination with models can be described a bit like this (via Sciencegarden, original bei xkcd). Posted via web from frogpond’s posterous