Ten HTML5 Drafts Updated 29 March 2012 The HTML Working Group has published ten updated working drafts. Two documents that hold special interest in the light of WikiData project are HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata. Both are ways of marking up HTML so that you can easily extract semantic data and relationships. HTML+RDFa 1.1 HTML Microdata So how… [Read more…]
March 26, 2012
I came across this infographic today - Wikipedia – Redefining Research Some observations and ideas for projects: “In comparison to College Level Text Books – Wikipedia is 98% accurate”. It will be interesting to see whether Wikipedia’s coverage is as extensive as a recommended book for a specific course? Wikibooks may be designed to meet these… [Read more…]
October 13, 2010
Semantic Media Wiki is an extension to the Media Wiki, a wiki engine used by Wikipedia and lots of other public wikis. I have been watching Semantic Media Wiki for a while but never really spent time thinking of how we can use it. Today I spent a couple of hours reading the introduction to… [Read more…]
November 25, 2009
Six types of social media tools: Blogging Podcasting Creating Online videos (including sketch casting and Screen casting) Social networking (participating in popular ones like LinkedIn and Facebook as well as creating your own using Ning) Message boards and comment forums (like Disqus) Using Wikis (both public as well as private) to share knowledge externally and… [Read more…]
January 20, 2009
This is an amazing video, a well articulated, very different view of learning. Here are some snippets: Web is a hyper-personalized, hyper-individualized medium for learning content We still need schools, since they provide the community that inspires people to participate in learning together How can we get the students intelligence involved in learning? Inspiring good… [Read more…]
July 1, 2008
Stumbled upon this site today. Seems to be taking the wiki based collaboration one level higher. Wikiprofessional’s Concept Web Initiative is a global collaboration to innovate how knowledge is represented and expanded on the Internet. Knowlets The Knowlet summarizes the relations between the concepts and presents the strength of the relationship based on a value… [Read more…]
April 10, 2008
In the Next Programming Skill You Should Learn, Scott Hackett talks about the ability to communicate well, especially in writing. I totally agree. The post is certainly worth a read. An unexpected bonus in this post is Scott’s tips on the golden rule of documenting software design. The golden rule of documenting software design Try… [Read more…]
April 8, 2008
Information Intelligence is the practice of gathering intelligence useful to an organization. It uses Open Source Intelligence to enrich an organization’s ability to gather intelligence for internal use. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is an information processing discipline that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence.… [Read more…]
November 2, 2007
This is an article I wrote for I.T. Magazine. It appears in their Nov 07 issue. They were kind enough to let me put this on my blog. Wiki Trends You have probably heard about wikis; some of you have probably used Wikipedia or other wikis. In this article, we assume that you know a… [Read more…]
August 23, 2007
I have been talking about some of the wiki attributes for normal text. For lack of a better term I called it Wikiness. It is nice to see that as one of the new features added to Plone 3.0 which was released recently. From the Plone.org: Lets you use the wiki markup to create and… [Read more…]
March 31, 2012
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