#letsbuydelicious #2 & #ds106 #webstories

#letsbuydelicious #2 & #ds106 #webstories

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 20, 2011

What better occasion to talk about Delicious’ demise and Yahoo’s foul sale than ds106′s latest assignment. In my last post I told myself (and a few have agreed through Twitter) that there is no reason why some crowd of people … Continue reading →
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#letsbuydelicious .com

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 18, 2011

Yahoo is selling delicious.com for $1-2 Million. I can’t really believe Yahoo let the value of delicious go down so much it is now around that of one single house. However, I think this is also a tremendous opportunity. Why … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist 03/08/2011

by Antonio Vantaggiato
March 8, 2011

Curating news tags: curation tools presentations delicious news Web Meeting and Document Sharing| ShowDocument tags: collaboration tools document sharing meetings delicious Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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#ds106radio: Poetry, Death of Open Web, some Tunes

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 7, 2011

Brian Lamb has posted a recording of our awesome radio show of Saturday (March 5, 2011) with himself, GNA DrGarcía and myself. OMG, was it fun! Thanks to GNA and Brian for the opportunity, I really enjoyed it and weren’t … Continue reading →
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Books! [Finding]

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 4, 2011

Many tools help to collect books and articles’ metadata and create a bibliography. WorldCat.org is the latest I found and it captures my attention because it is a very well done tool. First it can find books from all over … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist 03/04/2011

by Antonio Vantaggiato
March 4, 2011

OpenIDEO – Home Solving challenges important for humans. tags: creativity innovation collaboration Crowdsourcing delicious Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Internet es el presente

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 2, 2011

No tenemos miedo a Internet porque Internet es la salvación de nuestro cine –Alex de la Iglesia Dolors Reig escribió hace dos semanas un post que grita para que se difunda más. Dolors recalcaba las palabras contundentes del ex Presidente … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist 03/02/2011

by Antonio Vantaggiato
March 2, 2011

gaelic | Addictomatic Create a custom webpage with the latest buzz on any topic. Useful in a class! tags: tools Aggregator delicious Mark Bernstein: LectureNotes Beautiful and informative presentations on Hypertext and other topics from Mark Bernstein, creator of Tinderbox, … Continue reading →
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The new LMS

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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February 28, 2011

–Sorry, somehow I forgot to polish this post before publishing it. So, I’m adding the links in their proper places It was doomed, yet the LMS resurfaced with an apparent change, deeper than a facelift. Moodle has finally released its … Continue reading →
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Radio Gnome on #ds106radio

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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February 15, 2011

My latest concoction for #ds106radio {ds as in Digital Storytelling 106} is a mix of Retro, Rock’n'roll and Italian-accented hybrid mixes from Zucchero (there’s one with Maná, another with Cheb Mami, and yet another with Sting). If you can’t really … Continue reading →
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Love Poems

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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February 13, 2011

The daily El País published a post to call for love poems (Las mejores poesías de amor – The best love poems). In the splendid blogging machinery, the one post is hosting now over one hondred comments, each with a … Continue reading →
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Minimalistic poster

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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February 13, 2011

This is my minimalistic poster for the Design Assignment at #ds106 Digital Storytelling. Tom Woodward (through Marta Burtis) posted the assignment, namely to Create a tv/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconograph. … Continue reading →
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Five Card Story: Married Life

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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February 11, 2011

My five card flickr story has been saved! Married Life [created by avunque on Feb 10 2011, 07:09:11 pm] 1. I had to escape. Difficult road less traveled. 2. Got a passage to India. On the road. 3. Lost my licence, … Continue reading →
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Variazioni Swing per Free Radio Libera #ds106

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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January 28, 2011

Now, after Jim Groom’s provocation of his Italian Lolita on #ds106 Radio Libera, I cannot leave him alone. So, what’s better than sharing one of my fixations, ie my love for variations of a same theme. I wasn’t born when … Continue reading →
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¡Bienvenidas, clases de Informática!

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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January 27, 2011

¡Holla! Este es un post de prueba para las clases de Informática. Debe incorporarse automágicamente en el blog de la clase INF103-1 o INF103-8. Por esta razón tiene ambas etiquetas (tags): inf1031, inf1038. Abrazos.
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Jacqueline Kennedy’s story(telling)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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January 22, 2011

At a certain point of the first season of famed TV series Mad Men, there is a little video segment of Jacqueline Kennedy’s ad in Spanish for her husband’s 1960 presidential campaign. All she says, including the fear of Communism, … Continue reading →
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Poetry by captions

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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January 20, 2011

I love constraints They foster creativity. Here I got the idea of using the captions from flickr photos as lines to compose a short poem. It’s all humanity inside these lines. No other words nor anything artificial added. Read the … Continue reading →
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Assignment 1 for #ds106–A Short I Shot Myself

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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January 19, 2011

At last I dare publish the first assignment of a short story about myself for the Digital Storytelling class #ds106 of Jim Groom. It’s simply awful, and the shots didn’t come out clean, I know. I edited two little segments, … Continue reading →
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2011: A Tribute to Blake Edwards

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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January 6, 2011

I want to pay tribute to one of my most admired directors of Hollywood, one who just died at the sunset of 2010: the great Blake Edwards. I’ll only say that I remember watching his movies since I was 17 … Continue reading →
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Merry Xmas

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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December 25, 2010

Happy Holidays! This is my first foray into the adventurous field of #ds106 –Jim Groom’s idea of digital storytelling. So here I am. At last, after some wild shots, I have my best results at animated gifs from cinema masterpieces. … Continue reading →
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Myths of Teaching & Learning – 5

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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December 23, 2010

Quizzes Considered Harmful Yes, another myth on teaching & learning came out of the closet on a Friday at a seminar I was offering on Blogs, RSS and the full Monty. I said it was impossible to ascertain the identity … Continue reading →
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State of Siege ~ Estado de sitio

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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December 17, 2010

The sad situation of the University of Puerto Rico and in general of the neo-liberal ideologies around the world remind me it’s incredible that the peoples have actually voted for Governor Fortuño, like they had for Berlusconi, George W. Bush … Continue reading →
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Nigh at the Museum

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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December 16, 2010

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MACPR) presented a couple days ago a wonderful night of music and poetry. What a splendid occasion to cross again the doors to this beautiful architecture of red bricks and arcades and … Continue reading →
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Stories Told and Made: WikiLeaks, Nobel & World Domination

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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December 12, 2010

A mix of a few ideas about stories being told or made: One. At the Nobel Prize ceremony this week, Mario Vargas Llosa received the highest award for literature. Earlier, on the paper he usually writes on, he published a … Continue reading →
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