Links for 2006-02-28
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006-
software for running Digg-like site – content management system where users vote on the content
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links to news articles where readers vote on the content
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Chicago Sun Times
Archive for February, 2006
Links for 2006-02-27
Monday, February 27th, 2006-
guide for creating a composite image of shots of the same person in Photoshop
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leaflets (in different languages) for parents about P2P, file-sharing and music downloading
Photo Friday
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
I decided to submit this photo to the Photo Friday pool where this week’s challenge is “masculine”.
Links for 2006-02-26
Sunday, February 26th, 2006-
a call on sociologists to do more computer and Internet-related work
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university buildings remixed into “monsters”
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National Archives videos on Google Video
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Launch Web sites from the desktop
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interesting article from a reporter who went undercover as a car salesman
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like Digg, but for financial news
Links for 2006-02-24
Friday, February 24th, 2006Links for 2006-02-22
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006Links for 2006-02-20
Monday, February 20th, 2006-
program to ease screen capture uploads to Flickr
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search engine for comics
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compare wiki features
A quarter, give or take
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Create your own light installation! The Hayward Gallery is hosting Dan Flavin: A Retrospective (this seems to be the one that was at Chicago’s MCA recently) and has a fun interactive site to go along with it. You can create your own light installation dedications and add them to the pool. You can view other people’s here.
If you send yourself a copy of the image you create then you’ll have a URL to it like the one for the image above. Feel free to post a link to your creations in the comments.
Travel logistics
Sunday, February 19th, 2006As you could probably tell from my last non-links post – or from viewing my photos – I have been on the road recently.
I used two helpful Web sites in planning the second part of the trip, the part that required that I make hotel reservations. I browsed and reserved hotels through Hotel Club – http://www.hotelclub.net/guest.asp?id=2485304. (I get referral credit if you use this link so it would be great if you did.:) The site has listings for numerous countries and supplies quite a bit of helpful information about the options (e.g. ranking by price, photos, ratings by users) . It also has what seem like very competitive rates. Moreover, every time you use them, you accrue credit toward future reservations, which seems like a nice plus. I recommend it.
To get an idea of where the various hotels are, I recommend the Mappy site. It has the drag option that is so helpful in Google Maps, but it has maps for many many more locations (over two dozen countries to be precise) than GMaps.
With these two sites, I was able to get rooms – with immediate confirmation – very quickly. You do need to have a printed voucher so it’s best to do it when near a printer.
If you haven’t seen my trip photos yet, I have a set for Germany and for Switzerland (I’m still adding to the latter).
Links for 2006-02-19
Sunday, February 19th, 2006-
draft of article by Ron Rice in The Information Society
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documents with sensitive info on the Web and how people find them
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Who’s the Scientist? Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab.
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hosts documents, publicly or privately
Links for 2006-02-18
Saturday, February 18th, 2006-
.. haven’t quite gotten it to work yet, but may work on it again sometime
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Lego blog
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can save, dedicate, send link in email
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design, arts, etc
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Headlines on global map
Ebay exchange point
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Train stations often (or sometimes?) have meeting points where people can arrange – surprise-surprise – to meet up with others. This can be helpful if you don’t know the train station at all since you can just decide to meet at the point and then look for it once there. It’s also helpful if you do know the train station since you can avoid having to address the question of specific meeting location every time you’re meeting up with friends.
I was at the Zürich train station last week and noticed an interesting twist on all this: the ebay Xchange point. I had never seen one before. It looks like a really clever way to advertise the service. Not only is it an ad for the auction site, it is also a very helpful place for people to meet up to exchange items bought and sold on ebay. While people could just say “see you at the meeting point” it’s less helpful when you have never met the person before.
Anyone know of other such points elsewhere?
Links for 2006-02-14
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006Links for 2006-02-13
Monday, February 13th, 2006-
the title’s not kidding, ultra super small yet playable pac-man game
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yikes – although the title is a bit misleading, the arrest was for touching the person, it seems
Links for 2006-02-10
Friday, February 10th, 2006-
abstract of my article in JAIS
Links for 2006-02-08
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006Come to Northwestern!
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
It’s that time of year when many seniors in college start having to make decisions about where to go to college. Northwestern puts out an online newsletter to inform prospective students about various opportunities on campus. They decide to write a faculty profile on me for this newsletter. The interview was fun, a bit of a walk down memory lane to figure out how I got to where I am.
I have really enjoyed both teaching and working with undergraduate students here. If you are a prospective reading this, I hope you consider Northwestern very seriously as it’s a wonderful place to go to college (or so I’m told by undergrads).
Links for 2006-02-07
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006-
a way to follow comment threads on blogs
Links for 2006-02-06
Monday, February 6th, 2006-
looks neat, unfortunately I couldn’t get it to work
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another ajaxy/social calendar
Unique photo gift ideas
Sunday, February 5th, 2006Here is another Lifehacker feature for you by yours truly: Unique photo gift ideas. Note the kid illustration. That’s me.:) I decided to live out the 15 minutes of baby fame I never got back when. Once back at my machine, I’ll post the image on Flickr in full size and will add a link here, in case you’re curious.
UPDATE: I’ve posted the images: greeting card, movie poster.