links for 2009-05-30

• Sustainability is More Important Than Ever in MediaPost – news and directories for media, marketing and online advertising professionals
  One of the real concerns of sustainability advocates is that the stagnant global economy will put pressure on businesses to freeze, moderate, or even eliminate sustainability-oriented programs and messages. At a time when corporate profits have cratered and nearly everyone's job seems at risk, the belief is that spending on sustainability will be lumped in with other examples of unnecessary corporate excess, like corporate jets and stadium luxury suites.
  (tags: sustainability green costsaving)
• How to Save the World
  A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization
  A lot of organizations are struggling with what to do with a host of costly, high-maintenance technologies that they have introduced in the last decade, hoping these technologies would produce (a) improved internal productivity, and (b) better relationships with customers. They have achieved neither objective.
  (tags: web2.0 collaboration social implementation e-learning tutorial socialmedia)

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links for 2009-05-29

• GovGab Blog on Easy Info.
  It wasn't too long ago that I told you about some of the cool things we were experimenting with using social media such as RSS feeds and Twitter to help bring you government information where you want to get it. (If you missed the earlier post, you can find us here: Twitter.com/pueblo81009, Twitter.com/usagov, Twitter.com/gobiernousa.)
  (tags: government2.0)

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links for 2009-05-28

• Forgotten Market Online: Older Women – WSJ.com
  I'm in favor of Web surfing and social networking. I have a Facebook page, and I tweet on Twitter as BinkleyOnStyle. But when it comes to online shopping, there may be a self-fulfilling prophecy at work: I can't find much appeal in sites that market only to twentysomethings. Thus, when I don't buy from those sites, they may continue to believe that the "hasn't-bought-a-house-yet" demographic is their best bet.
  (tags: women fashion online networking culture WSJ)

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links for 2009-05-27

• Writing about the Semantic Web – bobdc.blog
  After writing a few paid articles and doing a lot of blogging about various issues, features, and trends surrounding the Semantic Web, Linked Data, RDF, RDFa, SPARQL, OWL, and related tools and implementations, I thought it would be nice if I could tie them together into something resembling a cohesive whole. So, I wrote a short essay titled RDF, The Semantic Web, and Linked Data with over 70 footnote links to these various pieces. It will be a handy reference for me in the future, and I hope it may be for others as well.
  (tags: semantic web RDF linked_data)
• 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins | Noupe
  (tags: wordpress cms plugin content)
• Google Web Elements
  Add maps, calendars, etc.
  (tags: google widgets webdesign)

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links for 2009-05-25

• Native Plant Demonstration Garden
  The goal of our garden is to enlighten our visitors to the beauty of California native plants, illustrate how they can be used in the home garden, show how to attract wildlife and beneficial insects, and educate them about the many medicinal, cultural and edible aspects used by the local Native Americans. By doing so, we are also contributing to the beautification of a community resource, the formerly neglected Old City Cemetery.
  (tags: gardening native_plants sacramento)
• Garden Bliss: Want to learn more about California native plants?
  volunteer at the SacValley CNPS Native Plant Demonstration Garden at Sacramento City Cemetery.
  (tags: garden native_plants sacramento)
• Catalyst WebQ
  The Digital Government Society makes available to members and non-members version 5.0 (May 2009) of the E-Government Master Library in EndNote TM (Version X2) XML format or a Package Version in ZIP format.

  The library currently contains 3,090 references of predominantly English language, peer-reviewed work. The library has been cleaned, and some 300 references were removed, since they did not meet the inclusion criteria or were undetected duplicates. The library now contains 3,090 entries, a net increase of 21.79 % over version 3.2 (July 2008). We continued detecting older work, which has been added. Also, 345 entries (11.16 %) published in 2008 were included.

  (tags: library egovernment e-government democracy documents)
• 10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress
  .htaccess, the file which control the Apache webserver, is very useful and allows you to do a lot of things. In this article, let’s see how .htaccess can help you with your WordPress blog, for both security,functionnality and usability.
  (tags: wordpress tips tools htaccess)
• Science FIction Books at Orbir www.orbitbooks.net
  arie Brennan’s IN ASHES LIE is out next month from Orbit (US | UK). In the meantime, she’s releasing an ebook of a new novella set in the same world. Best of all, it’s totally free (although you can donate if you’d like) and it’s available in HTML, Epub, and PDF.
  (tags: books writing scifi community publisher)
• Dialogg: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
  We’re interviewing California Governor & actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and asking the most popular questions as submitted and voted upon by you live from the Capital Building in Sacramento, CA. From now until Tuesday, May 26th at 12:00pm PDT, you can submit and Digg up questions to decide which will be asked. The full interview will be posted here and on CNN.com shortly afterwards.
  (tags: interview voting 2009 Schwarzenegger)

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links for 2009-05-24

• io9 – Thirteen Books That Will Change The Way You Look At Robots – Robots
  What will robots really be like when they finally achieve a human level of intelligence and autonomy? No one knows for sure, but we’ve put together a list of books that will challenge and disturb your preconceptions about what robots might become.Special note! For the purposes of this list, I’ve considered a “robot” to be any artificial, technological being – including AIs and cyborgs – with human-level intelligence.
  (tags: books list robots)

• Jessica Gross: Embracing the Twitter Classroom
  “Rheingold points to 5 reasons for teaching students social media:

  1. Developing students’ literacy in our new online environment is as crucial as developing their abilities to read and write. Communication is moving toward social media. We can either help students thrive in this environment or leave them flailing.
  2. Many students bring their computers to class. Why not work with this trend instead of fighting or ignoring it?
  3. Social media is just that: social. Students who use Twitter for class are “learning collaborative skills that are particularly important today.”
  4. There is only so much class time. Rheingold makes mini-lectures on video that students comment on between classes, allowing more time to engage the issues through in-class discussion.
  5. Shy students who hold back in class often speak up online. “If you can extend the discussion to an online message board, you enable students who may not jump into the discussion,” he said, to “make a thoughtful contribution.”(tags: twitter socialmedia socialnetworking technology web2.0 education)

• destinationCRM.com: Social Media: The Five-Year Forecast
  The distinction between traditional and innovative marketing will become significantly more pronounced as the socially driven online communities continue to gain momentum, according to a Forrester Research report released today. “The Future of the Social Web,” by Jeremiah Owyang, a Forrester senior analyst, examines the monumental changes that have shaped — and will continue to impact — how consumers engage with each other. That engagement, Owyang writes, will affect the way each company reaches its customers — and more important, their influencers.”The community will take charge,” Owyang tells CRM magazine in a one-on-one interview, “and that’s going to happen whether or not marketers or brands participate.” Social networking, he adds, will only continue to facilitate the power shift toward the consumer.
  (tags: soc socialmedia trends marketing research future social forrester forecast 2009)

• Library of Congress debuts iconic Great Depression photos « Flickr Blog
  The Library of Congress has created a remarkable set, FSA/OWI Favorites, which includes the “Migrant Mother,” by Dorothea Lange, the original film negative of which is housed at the Library of Congress. The Library preserves Lange’s original, and makes the digitized photo freely available. “Migrant Mother” is part of a landmark photo documentary project based in the U.S. Resettlement Administration, the Farm Security Administration (FSA), and later the Office of War Information (OWI). The most active years were 1935-1943, and the collection was transferred to the Library of Congress in 1944.
  (tags: photography culture iconic)

• Social Media Breakfast – Online Reputation Management « Interactive Snack
  At Interactive Snack: Notes from Minnesota marketing events “Enlightening event with the presentation that could be considered a treasure of facts and numbers (Wow! 65 slides!) I wish Greg Swan and Christopher Lower had the rest of the day to continue.”
  (tags: reputation crisis_communication online)

• Why uncertainty is good for you – Times Online
  “… to get rid of uncertainty is not only impossible — to do so would be to abolish the vitality of life. The first thing to note about uncertainty — or insecurity, the uncomfortable feeling that it produces — is that it is intrinsic to a dynamic existence. Just as you can’t know heat without cold, you cannot experience security without insecurity — for the simple reason that you wouldn’t know what it felt like (just as someone blind from birth doesn’t know what darkness is).”
  (tags: philosophy uncertainty)

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Weekend: Memorial Day

Humanities & Social Sciences Building, UC Riverside

Originally uploaded by bhaven

Discovered some poems to navigate smoothly through today.

Photo of Humanities & Social Sciences Building, UC Riverside

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links for 2009-05-23

• on dot-gov: 5 Social Media Memes Changing Government
  Where, once, government was leading on technology requirements, it is now one among many (competing) consumer interests.
  What I think this means: I’ve been at plenty of meetings where folks say “we’re the government, we are huge, they want our business, they will change to meet our needs.” But if a company’s entire business model is advertisement, and government doesn’t drive enough traffic, where is their incentive to destroy their income stream? If government wants to use the tools, we need to figure out how we can adapt.
  (tags: gov2.0 socialmedia)
• 8 Open Government Data Principles (IdeaScale)
  (tags: opengov collaboration demo democratizingdata)
• Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)
  (tags: font webdesign css)
• Huge Collection of 29 Outstanding Web Hosting Designs
  (tags: websites hosting webdesign)

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links for 2009-05-22

• 4 Ways Social Media is Changing the Non-Profit World
  (tags: socialmedia nonprofit change Change_Management)
• In Defense of Data-Driven Design (Design 2.0)
  (tags: design essay research)
• PrairieMod: Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Sets
  (tags: architecture lego)
• open thinking » 70+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
  (tags: technology media literacy open education)

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links for 2009-05-21

• Data.gov
  (tags: government transparency data databases politics)

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