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  1. D'Arcy Norman

    web 2.0 is kinda people

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    My contribution for the DS106 assignment #3: WTF is Web 2.0? WebTwoDotOh I used clips from: Groks Science Show Kamla Bhatt’s interview with Tim O’Reilly Dutch Thinktank EPN’s Web 1/2/3 video The Computer Chronicles: The Internet Bags of Gold Eric Schmidt on Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0 The audio features the first ever public guitar ...
  2. D'Arcy Norman

    my various bits of personal digital stuff

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    I just moved to a new server, and am now hosting my stuff with MediaTemple. So far, things are going well. While moving my stuff over, it struck me how much of this stuff I use every day, and how much of that is now self-managed. I’m trying to wean myself from relying on third ...
  3. D'Arcy Norman

    where to draw the line?

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    One of the things I’ve been thinking about with regards to personal cyberinfrastructure, is where to draw the line defining where an individual should be focusing their energy. The #ds106 model draws the line just above the LAMP stack. But that’s an arbitrary selection. It could just as easily be pushed down to the hardware ...
  4. D'Arcy Norman

    bags of gold

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    I was in the room at OpenEd 2009 when Gardner laid out the now-famous Bags of Gold manifesto. The excitement and energy in the room was palpable as he talked. His sense of urgency and agency rolled over and through us. Bags of Gold became the unofficial mantra for the rest of the conference. It ...
  5. D'Arcy Norman

    ds106 intro story

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    In the spirit of sharing process, ala Cogdog, here’s how I did it. It’s pretty complicated. This video was shot in one take (no script, just kinda winging it), using my iPhone4 as video camera, resting on a plastic stand on my desk in the basement. To do this, I pressed the “record” button on ...
  6. D'Arcy Norman

    productivity

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    5 hours worth of mouse activity on my computer at work, while putting the finishing touches on my MSc thesis research proposal, ethics application, and supporting documents. Dark spots are where the mouse stopped moving (the big blob must be where I was doing a bunch of typing or something). Lines are where the mouse ...
  7. D'Arcy Norman

    2010/365photos temporal composite

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    a series of composite images, produced from my 2010/365photos daily photo project. Each month was composited separately, and then a composite for the entire year was produced from the monthlies. There’s a lower quality version on Vimeo but it’s been recompressed, so sucks a bit more. Update: Now with an attempt at full html5 compatibility ...
  8. D'Arcy Norman

    How I made the TRON ASCII video

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    Jim asked how it was done, so in the spirit of sharing DIY tricks, here’s the basic steps I followed to make the TRON ASCII video. Basically, it was tying together two separate programs, in a GUI pipe. I grabbed the .mp4 video file from YouTube, to use as the source. The hard work of ...
  9. D'Arcy Norman

    TRON ASCII

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    I always thought TRON (1982) would have been cooler if rendered in ASCII, since that’s what terminals of the era could do. With that, I bring you the light cycle race from TRON, processed as ASCII art: I rewatched the original the other day. H...

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