Crap Detection 101 | City Brights: Howard Rheingold “Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him.” Ernest Hemingway, 1954 The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge – the search engine. Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational resources, scholarly and scientific research. The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, a technical term I use for information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception. The issue of info pollution has been on my mind since at least 1994, when I wrote “The Tragedy of the Electronic Commons” about the infamous Canter and Siegel – the first Internet spammers. Today, just as it was back then, “Who is the author?”
Overview of the Splunk SDKs | Splunk So, you want to roll your own? Go for it. The Splunk® SDKs are written on top of the Splunk REST APIs. The intent is to give you broad coverage of the REST API in a language-specific fashion to ease your access to the Splunk engine. Currently, Splunk has SDKs for these languages: What you can do Here are a few things that our customers are doing. Integrate with third-party reporting tools and portalsLog directly to SplunkIntegrate Splunk search results into your applicationExtract data for archivingBuild a UI on the web stack of your choice...and so much more REST API coverage by Splunk SDKs The most basic way to programmatically access Splunk's resources is by using the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) model to make HTTP requests. However, we want to make it even easier for you to develop Splunk applications using common programming languages, so we've created software development kits (SDKs) to help out. A little about the Splunk REST API So what does that look like in practice?
Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, Filters | City Brights: Howard Rheingold Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters. The inside and outside of infotention work best together: Honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably.Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy. Knowing what to pay attention to is a cognitive skill that steers and focuses the technical knowledge of how to find information worth your attention. The overall system I’m seeking to understand is one of mindful infotention. Infotention Filters
Web Features: Create a Mashup using our Web Integrator Produce APIs on your own Convertigo's tools, built on our years of experience, provide you the confidence to produce an API around an existing site--be it public or your own--that will be useful for a long time to come. This tool makes the site modernization possible less expensively and on a much faster timeline than a complete rewrite. Create widgets with Convertigo's Web Clipper Save time and money with our Web Integrator With Convertigo's Web Clipper it's very easy to clip a part of an existing web application and prepare it as a widget for reuse (and placement in a Mashup) using our Eclipse Studio. Convertigo's Web Clipper captures both the data and client business logic surrounding it, inheriting the properties of its source. Take what you need, leave what you don't If the desired Mashup only needs a table from a public site as one of its pieces, and not the entire web site, simply grab the extents, add tags/links, edit it, create a mashable and place it in a catalog.
The Infotention Network | Life Skills for Digital Citizenship WebCite Main Page (Mouse over the webbrain below, click on nodes) June 19 - July 26 A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, concept maps, Personal Brain, and synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter Cost for individuals is 300 dollars US or 500 dollars if employer reimburses -- via Paypal. 250 for graduates of Rheingold U courses ($200 if you've taken two courses, etc.) About this Course Think-know Tools dives into both the theoretical-historical background of intellect augmentation and the practical skills of personal knowledge management. As with other Rheingold U. courses, Think-Know Tools involves 6 weeks of Graduates of Introduction to Mind-Amplifiers can treat Think-Know Tools as an extension of what we covered before. Learning objectives About this course: Expect participative and collaborative learning Schedule Missions Lexicon Texts Session Wiki Pages A Set of Short Videos Related to this Course Web-Brain Version of Syllabus
Mantis projects - page 5 - Masterbranch TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (40+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge base, intranets, and extranets. It is actively developed by a very large international community. Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box", arguably more than any other Open Source Web Application. Highly configurable and modular, all features are optional and administered via a web-based interface. Technologies:
Smart Mobs » Page not found The chapters of Smart Mobs, including summaries of each chapter and weblog entries for that chapter. A summary of the book Links to outside evaluations of the book. See Howard Rheingold in your area discussing the book and its implications. Information about resources used in the creation of Smart Mobs. Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. Street demonstrators in the 1999 anti-WTO protests used dynamically updated websites, cell-phones, and "swarming" tactics in the "battle of Seattle." The pieces of the puzzle are all around us now, but haven't joined together yet. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.