Bookmarks for January 4th through January 6th

These are my Jumptags for January 4th through January 6th:

• Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » How to Grade a Student Blog – A college math teacher shares her rubric and methods for grading student blogs.
• Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples – Smashing Magazine – This article presents recent trends, examples and innovative solutions for design of modern navigation menus.
• Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends – A gallery of contemporary navigation on web sites.

Bookmarks for December 9th through December 10th

These are my Jumptags for December 9th through December 10th:

• How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong – Smashing Magazine – GIFs of spinning s on the Contact us page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load….
• How to Deal with Feature Creep | Webdesigner Depot – If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a list of things they want to change, from minor
• Project Timeline (Marine Theme) – Google Docs Templates – This is a template for Google Docs for project schedule tracking.
• Cover it Live – TBR08 – Michael Grant – Barry Dahl covered my keynote live and I didn't even know it.
• 6 Hilarious Social Media Motivational Posters – These posters are not the usual motivational posters you see hanging around offices. In fact, the little quotes we see on them aren’t exactly motivating and might even be insulting to social media users. Any offense is obviously intentional, but it’s…
• Sketchy Web Icons: 30 Hand Drawn Icon Pack | Tutorial9 – This Icon Pack includes 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons. This is the perfect set for adding that handmade feel to your own creations online.
• Secrets to a Faster and Attractive Web Site Design Revealed | Web Design | instantShift – A web designer has many challenges to tackle. The creation of an attractive web site is as important as sending the message across effectively. After all, a web , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Evaluation Wiki – Mlawiki – This wiki is an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) as a way for the academic community to develop, gather, and share materials about the evaluation of work in digital media for purposes of tenure and promot…
• How Getting An F On Your School Paper Makes You A Better Blogger – This guest post was written by Rob Sutton from Ramped Reviews. Image by kharied. This comes to be a surprise …
• HOW TO: Manage Successful Social Media Promotions – Retailers are getting more traffic and sales from social media sites. Here are some great tips for turning social media buzz into social shopping buy.
• Easy front-end framework – Easy front-end framework is all in one front-end solution. It includes CSS, HTML and JavaScript predefined code that you can easily use and reuse on your projects.
• 50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design – Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we'll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs. If you're looking for …
• 22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks | Tutorials | instantShift – WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• From Blank Screen To Web Design In 5 Easy Steps – Learn a simple, five-step web design process to make sure you include the basic elements every website needs while freeing your mind to be more creative.
• New Branding Revealed For Winter Olympics 2014 – The official logo for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics was revealed last week. This is the first winter games to be held in Russia and it is the first Olympic logo to include an internet URL.

Bookmarks for July 22nd

These are my Jumptags for July 22nd

• Pew Internet & American Life Project – Links and search for various results on Internet use.
• Blog Research and References – A bibliography of blog research and scholarship, dated to about 2005.
• Teaching Doc Students about Lit Reviews & Research Design – Doctoral students often declare that the choice of a qualitative design is preferred because students fear statistics.
• How to write a scholarly research report. Rudner, Lawrence M. & William D. Schafer – This article discusses the common sections of a research report along with frequently made mistakes.
• Dissertation/Thesis Guide –
• Conceptual Frameworks Learning Object – A tutorial for understand conceptual frameworks and how they fit in your research.
• Design based research EPSS – An EPSS to support design based research by Tom Reeves.
• Qualitative versus Quantitative Research: Key points in a classic debate – Features of quantitative and qualitative research.
• Overview of data collection techniques – Overview of data collection techniques for research.
• Design of research instruments: surveys and interviews – Tutorial on how to design surveys and interview protocols.
• Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams – Dilbert comic on interface and usability on July 22, 2009.

Ownership of knowledge: To whom or for whom do you attribute ?

Something’s been bugging me a lot lately:  I’ve been thinking about “indirect objects,” retweets, and reposts.  Huh? Indirect objects?  You know, indirect objects from 10th grade English grammar class.  They are the “to whom or for who the action is being done.”  They usually come at the end of a sentence.  It’s usually how you can tell whether you’re supposed to use the word who or whom.  And what do they have to do with retweets and reposts?  Here it is:  When someone retweets or reposts a whole post, a massive chunk of a post, or even writes two lines to preface a video, is that ethical?  To whom or for whom will others attribute the ideas?  Are they in some way attempting to leverage someone else’s knowledge and works for their own acclaim or profit or notoriety?  Let me give you a few examples of things that have begun to bother me.

Probably eight to ten months ago, I received an email for an RSS feed from a Diigo group that I subscribe to.  In the email digest, someone had bookmarked and annotated a blog post of which a portion of the blog post was some text I had written.  (Admittedly, this sort of thing where someone actually reads and bookmarks something of mine  everyday, so I happen to notice that the text sounded rather familiar.)  In the annotation, the individual attributed the ideas and point of view to the blog owner instead of to me.  Yes, I had given the blog owner permission to use the text, and he had used my name in the attribution to the post. But the individual who bookmarked it, did not really see the idea as mine.

Also, I read RSS feeds from a lot of places.  In a couple of feeds, I’ve read notes from a presentation.  Someone sitting in the audience is taking notes and then publishes the notes on his or her blog…usually along with the link to the presentation.  If it were my presentation, I’m sure I’d be flattered that someone wanted to publish my ideas.  But here’s where I start to question it.  If they are more well known than I am, have a larger Twitter following, or more subscribers to their blog, then they will receive the hits and acclaim for my ideas through their publishing outlet.  Did I as the presenter just lose some control of my ideas?  By allowing someone else to publish (or even republish) my ideas, did I just give away a portion of my ownership — or even copyrights?

So, my question is, at what point do you lose control of your ideas when they are so easily published and republishable by others? Coming from publishing background, I certainly understand that ideas can be usurped by anyone.  For an intense example, consider the swastika.   I also certainly understand that those individuals with an audience are the ones able to promote ideas.  This have been going on forever with magazines and TV.  But in this “age” or citizen journalism, where anyone should be able to promote their ideas, and “the flat world,” where playing fields have supposedly been leveled, are ideas and knowledge just easier to be misrepresented?

I’m not even talking about embed codes here.  I understand that social media have changed the way we view marketing and celebrity.  Retweets, Delicious, Digg, authority on Technorati—sure these represent new methods to determine authority, value, and credibility.  But what I’m wondering is much more basic and personal.  What are the ethics or netiqette to re-publishing or mashing up others’ ideas?  This is more than just attribution.  Copyright and fair use really doesn’t seem to cover this.  What do you think?

[In an effort of full disclosure, image courtesy of Pasquale D’Silva and Function Web Design & Development .]

Bookmarks for July 1st through July 3rd

These are my Jumptags for July 1st through July 3rd:

• 30 WordPress Development Tutorials – A directory of very good tutorials for development in Wordpress.
• Infinite Thinking Machine – A list of great new search strategies for teachers from Google.
• Use Wikis for Business Projects – One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki. Here is a guide to using wikis for business projects.
• A Growing Acceptance of Social Networking in the Workplace – A June survey released by Facetime, makers of a gateway appliance for managing Web 2.0 applications, revealed the growing popularity of social networking applications in the workplace. Out …
• Zoho Projects Keeps Teams Focused and In Touch – Online office suite Zoho enters the project management realm with a few attention-getting features. One is import support for Microsoft Project files, and another is a consolidate, real-time view of what's going on with, and between, project members.
• Dilbert – Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams on 7-1-09.