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| The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude |
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*this is not my work - all credits go to
thewebsiteisdown.com*
After much taping, editing, deleting,
drinking and swearing we are proud to
present... Sales Guy vs. Web Dude! A mashup
of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell.
If you've ever called tech support and
wondered what the hell they are doing down
there... well, this should answer some
questions for you.
Created by: Josh Weinberg
Sales Guy: Casey Cochran
Web Dude: Josh Weinberg
Trevor from Arvada: Jesse
JohnsonWhitefellow (The Boss): Josh Childs
Sales Manager Nancy: Ruth SherrodIrving
Music By: Rap Team - myspace.com/rapteam
User interface Open Source Credits:
// VT100.js: fzort.org/bi/o.php
// Released under the GNU LGPL v2.1, by Frank
Bi
Thanks To:
Apple, Skype, Linus Torvalds, SuSE Linux,
Redhat Linux, VmWare, AOL, HijackPro and
Microsoft (for creating so many things to
make fun of).
Please Enjoy.
If you have problems logging in then just try
harder.
Please don't sue me.
halo gaming unix animation short film
trailer geek nerd humor machinima
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| Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us |
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Final version now available!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
http://mediatedcultures.net
Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
This is the 2nd draft, and I plan on doing
one more final draft. Please leave comments
on what could be changed or improved, or what
needs to be excluded or included. Subscribe
if you want to be notified when the revision
is released.
UPDATE: I just added this video to Mojiti
where you can actually write your comments
into the video itself. It is an exciting
experiment in "Video 2.0". Go check it out
at http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313 and add
your voice!
Transcripts are now available as well:
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=78
A couple of people have noted that the
statement, "XML was created to do just that"
(separate form from content) is misleading
because CSS enables the same effect with
HTML. I tried to integrate CSS into the
video, but it ruined the flow. Perhaps in
the next draft.
My statement on XML is based on the following
from xml.com: "In order to appreciate XML, it
is important to understand why it was
created. XML was created so that richly
structured documents could be used over the
web. The only viable alternatives, HTML and
SGML, are not practical for this purpose.
HTML, as we've already discussed, comes bound
with a set of semantics and does not provide
arbitrary structure."
Thank you all for the comments. With your
help the next draft will be cleaned up and
hopefully free of factual errors.
A higher quality version is available for
download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd Please
note that this is the second draft and the
final version will not be available until
late February after I review all comments and
revise the video. Please return for a new
download link at that time.
The song is "There's Nothing Impossible" by
Deus, available for free at
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/103/
Deus offers music under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
license, yet one more example of the
interlinking of people sharing and
collaborating this video is attempting to
illustrate.
CC:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/
2.5/
Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University
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| Web 2.0 |
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Using the Web 2.0 write up in Wikipedia this
video is to help teach educators about Web
2.0 tools.
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| The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) |
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"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
http://mediatedcultures.net
This is a slightly revised and cleaned up
version of the video that was featured on
YouTube in February 2007.
I considered releasing it as an "eternal
beta" in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to
let it stand as is and start working on
future projects. Many of my future videos
will address the last 30 seconds of this
video (the "rethink ..." part).
Thank you all for the helpful comments on the
earlier draft. It has been a great
experience to connect with so many people
interested in
similar issues.
Once again, there are higher quality versions
available for download:
Windows Media File (55 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1
Quicktime File (96 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn
Mojiti Version (for comments, translations,
etc.):
http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984
This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
License. So you are welcome to download it,
share it, even change it, just as long as you
give me some credit and you don't sell it or
use it to sell anything. I received many more
positive comments than negative about the
song choice (great work Deus!), but if you
are one of those who does not like the song
just download the video and change the audio
track to your liking.
The video was created by me (Michael Wesch),
working alone from my house in St. George,
Kansas. I used CamStudio for the screen
captures and Sony Vegas for the
panning/cropping/zooming animations. Someday
I might make a video tutorial for those who
are interested.
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Durée : 273 s |
| The Web That Wasn't |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the
Web is all we have ever really known. It's
almost impossible to imagine a world without
browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years
leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's
world-changing invention, a few visionary
information scientists were exploring
alternative systems that often bore little
resemblance to the Web as we know it today.
In this presentation, author and information
architect Alex Wright will explore the
heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in
search of promising ideas left by the
historical wayside.
The presentation will focus on the pioneering
work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug
Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s
like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the
Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like
Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the
heritage of these systems and the solutions
they suggest to present day Web quandaries,
in hopes of finding clues to the future in
the recent technological past.
Speaker: Alex Wright
Alex Wright is an information architect at
the New York Times and the author of Glut:
Mastering Information Through the Ages.
Previously, Alex has led projects for The
Long Now Foundation, California Digital
Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft,
Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He
maintains a personal Web site at
http://www.alexwright.org/
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| High Performance Web Sites and YSlow |
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Google Tech Talks
November, 13 2007
ABSTRACT
Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has
identified 14 best practices for making web
pages faster. These best practices have
proven to reduce response times of Yahoo!
properties by 25-50%. They focus on the
front-end, for example, why it's bad to use
"@import" for including stylesheets
and why ETags disable browser caching. In
this talk I'll go in-depth on these best
practices and the research behind them. I'll
also demonstrate YSlow and do some live
performance analysis of popular web sites.
Relevant links:
Exceptional Performance:
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Speaker: Steve Souders
Steve Souders holds down the job of Chief
Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! He's been at
Yahoo! since 2000, working on many of the
platforms and products within the company He
ran the development team for My Yahoo! before
reaching his current position.
As Chief Performance Yahoo!, he has developed
a set of best practices for making web sites
faster. He builds tools for performance
analysis and evangelizes these best practices
and tools across Yahoo!'s product teams.
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