Category Archives: Half Notes

Reading lists, short essays, questions, nascent ideas.

eXtensible Markup Language
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eXtensible Markup Language

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C standard for text document markup. more →
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Archives, Archiving
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Archives, Archiving

Archives are evidence of action. more →
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Information Architecture
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Information Architecture

Information architecture looks at the digital structures of information and software that lay beneath the ubiquitous communication technologies of the internet. more →
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Rich Pictures
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Rich Pictures

Rich pictures makes use of drawings or pictures to gather information about a complex situation. more →
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Microformats
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Microformats

Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats that use existing standards (aka XHTML) to add semantic meaning to what you publish on the web. more →
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Social Bookmarking
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Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving and categorizing web site addresses on a networked computer in a public web site for others to visit. more →
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Links: News
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Links: News

These are online news sources I prefer to read. Many are well known as print sources of news, but I've made a point of including only those that offer good online resources as well. more →
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Design Experiments
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Design Experiments

Working towards a theoretical model of learning and instruction rooted in a firm empirical base. more →
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Christopher Alexander
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Christopher Alexander

English architect who founded the Center of Environmental Structures in Berkley, California. A controversial but influential theorist, especially of urban design. more →
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Games as Learning
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Games as Learning

A reading list on games, learning and pushing boundaries. more →
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