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Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style

Lots of great links and pointers to explore in this post by Garr Reynolds who blogs "on issues related to professional presentation design." As the title indicates, this entry is about "the TED style," and includes "the TED commandments" as well as links to examples of great presentations.

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Lifehacker - How to Filter and Manage Your Online Social Life - Social Networks

The title is self-explanatory.

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Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009): Speakers

"MW2009 features speakers from around the world, presenting their latest work and research findings. Proposals have been peer-reviewed by an international Program Committee in a very competitive process. Selected authors should consult the Information for Authors."

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Curators in Context - Main

Curators in Context dot CA is "art curators talk about curating." Page links to individual presentations. (Text and audio)

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Flong - Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators

Portal page for Golan Levin, Pittsburgh artist & educator at Carnegie Mellon University. Runs Studio for Creative Inquiry.

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Rubbersidewalks - Why Save Trees?

Excellent resource on urban forests, benefits thereof.

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Cybercinema Homepage

"An Interactive Site Devoted to the History of Computers and Artificial Intelligence in Film"

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"Create Your Own Magnetic Prototype" (adaptive path » blog » Alexa Andrzejewski »)

File this under "great idea!" Get printable magnetic sheets, print out your design elements, and move them around on a magnetic whiteboard.

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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Google has put the LIFE photo archive online: "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

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Creative Providence - Frontpage

Portal page for "Creative Providence," billed as "a cultural plan for the City" by Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline. Good looking site, friendly UI, easy to navigate. Could/ should be a model for other cities (wish we'd build something like this for Cultural Capital Victoria...).

Note: somewhat mind-blowing - the City of Providence has its own Department of Art, Culture + Tourism... Wow, I guess they take this stuff seriously!

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New breed of 'net newsers' shape US media habits, says Pew report | Media | guardian.co.uk

Jemima Kiss writes about the recent Pew report that describes how "well-educated, technically-savvy young web users are shaping the media habits of the US, with one in 20 Americans saying they do not watch TV on a typical day and a sharp decline in newspaper readership, according to new research."

Interesting findings on education levels and TV-watching *and* interest (lack thereof) in science and technology, too.

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A new generation of well-educated, technically-savvy young web users are shaping the media habits of the US, with one in 20 Americans saying they do not watch TV on a typical day and a sharp decline in newspaper readership, according to new research.
"net newsers" - web users under 35 who read more political blogs than watch national news coverage, rely heavily on web-based news during the day and have a strong interest in technology and technology news.
Net newsers are typically affluent and 80% are graduates, making them a highly desirable demographic for advertisers.
They do favour some traditional media brands, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic and the BBC, the Pew survey of 3,600 adults found. But only 47% watch TV news on an average day.
The research paints a picture of steady decline in the US newspaper industry, with the percentage of Americans who regularly read print titles falling from 58% in 1993 to 34% in 2008.
According to the long-running survey, respondents saying they listened to radio news fell from 47% to 35% over the same period. As for network TV, the national news dropped from 60% to 29% and local news from 77% to 52%.
However, TV is still the most popular medium for the US, with 46% of the public classified as "traditionalists" who watch throughout the day, but are likely to be older and less well educated than net newsers.
More than 40% of this traditionalist group are unemployed, and were found to prefer visual news stories to audio and have little interest in science or technology news.
A further 14% are described as "disengaged", a poorly-educated group with little interest in current affairs.
The research also found that the proportion of young people in the US getting no daily news has increased from 25% in 1998 to 34%, with only 10% of people using social networking sites for their news.

PDF: The Entrepreneurial Advantage of World Cities

31-page PDF (still to read), "The Entrepreneurial Advantage of World Cities," subtitled "Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data."

From the abstract:
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Recent discussions in the Economic Geography literature increasingly focus on creative cities and the importance of creativity for achieving economic growth. Considering the increased attention on urban areas it is not surprising that the regional dimension of entrepreneurship is a subject of great interest. We set out a framework encompassing the individual process between entrepreneurial perceptions and entrepreneurial activity and demonstrate how the urban environment can have an impact on this process.
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Digital Urban: Welcome to MapTube from CASA: A Place to Put Maps

"The main principle of MapTube is that shared maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For example, to see a map of the London Underground overlayed on top of a map of population you simply go to the search page and enter the keywords "tube" and "population". Then click on the two relevant maps to add them."

This has potential for some really fine-grained mapping, specific to local place.

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"Waste not; Making the most of our sewage" 2007-waste-not.pdf (application/pdf Object)

one-page PDF, "Waste not; Making the most of our sewage"

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White paper - distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media « Technobabble 2.0

"...white paper outlining the thoughts and views of several key stakeholders who met late last year to discuss the issue of measuring online influence."

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" Half of Canadians Watch TV on PC" Mediacaster Magazine - 4/25/2008

- article on the results of a Rogers Communications sponsored survey, with last year/this year data, on Canadian online habits: how satisfied we are, what we're using the internet for, etc. Nothing much about local news, but the Ipsos-Reid survey people probably didn't ask that question (Q: "How much time do you spend online finding things out about your local community?" A: "Uh, probably about 80 hours...?" <jk>) (Or how about this question: "How much time do you spend 'conversing' with others about local issues?"...)

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Canadians are moving from simple email exchanges or instant messaging programs to richer Web applications like online video.
Survey results commissioned by Rogers Cable Communications Inc. show that Canadians are embracing the power of the Internet, spending more time using the Internet for day-to-day tasks like paying bills and entertainment.
"Canadians are well-known as early adopters of new technologies and have taken to the Internet in record numbers
"Activities like paying bills and sharing photos are things we used to do off-line, however these two activities saw the greatest growth in terms of online participation over the past year, showing that Canadians are using the Internet to their benefit."
The Internet has become the easiest way to communicate with a network of friends, family and acquaintances and the way that Canadians communicate online has also begun to change.
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- - how has it begun to change, exactly?
  posted by lampertina on 2008-04-26
Activity % of Canadians

Watching live TV on a computer 50

Making video phone calls from a computer 49

Making and sharing videos with friends and family 46

Downloading and reading books online 39

High quality videoconferencing by webcam 34
The average Canadian spends up to 17 hours per week online.
Communicating with friends and family (i.e. Facebook, MySpace)

85 89
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- - "conversation" clearly leads the way....
  posted by lampertina on 2008-04-26

Visualization Methods

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» Six map apps that put Portland on the mapping map - Silicon Florist

- description of six unusual mapping applications ("Portland is map happy"), several by Matt King ("Map King"?):
1. Platial
2. Unthirsty
3. KnitMap
4. SocialMap
5. Mapdango
6. WeoGeo

Meanwhile, the comments board is filling up with even more! (Like expressomap.com ...wow!)

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Videos (and slides) of keynotes available - The Mobile City » Blog Archive »

Michiel de Lange posted keynotes and slides online from the recent Mobile City conference.

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Placemaking « Stephen Rees’s blog

Stephen Rees blogs Jan Gehl's talk at the Gateway Theatre, Richmond February 28, 2008. Found via Gordon Price ("Pricetags"), otherwise I would have missed this excellent summary (and a great comments thread, too). Coincidentally, I also watched Andres Duany's very engaging talk, "On the Edge," from January 16/08 on the SFU "City Program" site (video here: http://www.sfu.ca/city/city_pgm_video014.htm). It's a bit disconcerting to think that but for a fluke, I could have missed both these items. I don't remember seeing Gehl's lecture announced, and I didn't see any media follow-ups anywhere else. Duany's lecture I knew about, but missed that a video of same was available. Well, better late than never, I guess...

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When Professor Gehl first graduated, architects were big and arrogant and people were small and insignificant. Modernists thought streets were bad. They designed towers in the grass. Most schools of architecture didn’t talk about people – and many still don’t. They were led astray by Art: it looks good in a magazine but people won’t use it. That was forty years ago, and then after studying it for a long time people started asking him how it should be done, so he started a consulting firm eight years ago: they call themselves “urban quality consultants”.
During the car invasion of the 1950s planners and politicians panicked. They thought that the purpose of life is to have more cars. Cities were designed for cars and parking.
All city planning then was about the capacity of roads and parking. Every city has a department for traffic engineers. Is there a city department for pedestrians and public life? Does anybody know anything about people?
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- - right, and I guess Duany's additonal question would be, 'why do we need the traffic OR pedestrian experts in the first place?' Shouldn't planners be well-rounded and generalist enough that they can approach problems from multiple perspectives, vs. ONLY from, say, a traffic engineering p.o.v.?
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
“People are an endangered species.”
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- - Duany said the same thing, specifically castigating environmentalists who continue to advocate for every species EXCEPT people/humans, and who insist on seeing humanity as the problem. His take was that it's specifically the North-American-originated middle-class way of life that's the problem, not people as such. That particular group he links strongly with suburbs, not with rural or urban life.
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
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- THAT is hilarious...
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
He has found nine cities including Barcelona, Lyons, Strasbourg, Curitiba – and each has the necessary qualities - lively, attractive, safe, sustainable and healthy. And they did this by putting the emphasis on walking and bicycling.
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- I remember Strasbourg from the late 70s and early 80s, when cars still clotted the old town, and then seeing it after cars were banned from many of those narrow old streets. What a difference. When I was 17, I went to Paris by myself, and, sitting in a sidewalk cafe, I clearly thought, "The car has killed this city." That was over 30 years ago, but it seems Paris is FINALLY starting to realize that it needs to get a grip on the problem.
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
The shift in emphasis has been from market to meeting. People come downtown to see what is going on. The city is a destination in its own right. We are now an experience oriented society, but due to family fission and smaller homes if you want to see other people, you have to get out of the house. We want the kind of quality we see when we go on holiday in our own city. People leave the underpopulated suburbs to come into city, not seeking out greenery but the company of other people.”Life is too short to go on holidays”.
He told the story of the man who found a skunk in his basement. He tried to encourage it to leave by setting out a trail of breadcrumbs to the woods. Next day he had two skunks in the basement.
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- :-)
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
Q, In Vancouver we currently have the notion that density alone will cause these changes to happen

A. You have to be proactive. It has to be wider concept – “clever density” – do not take out the sun and make it windy – no one can see what is going on on the street 50 floors up. Senseless density won’t help – “high rise is the lazy architect’s solution to density” – you need “sensitivity in density”
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- - hmm, I think I prefer Duany's concept of the transect...
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
Q – shared space streets -

A – While the plan is to move that way, Gehl likes pedestrian priority better than shared streets. He was against the idea of traffic sign free streets being tried in Holland. He was very critical of that way to doing it – “people should be free of worry”. We need quality in how people feel about it, not just accident statistics.
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- - again, transects: that idea wouldn't work in every situation, but in some urban and in some rural areas, as well as small towns, it can work.
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06
q – gentritfication?

a – There is no smart answer to that. When you improve the area new people move in. This should not stand in the way of improving cities. You also need a social policy. Bogota used transit as social policy providing good transit not more roads for cars improves the lot of the poor.
At the end of the evening Professor Gehl wanted to present a copy of one of his books to the Mayor of Richmond. There was no Mayor to take the book – nor any councillors. Only a rather junior member of the planning staff. It was explained to me that there had been a day long briefing by Prof Gehl of the staff, but again no politicians attended.
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- Ha!
  posted by lampertina on 2008-03-06

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