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Some of you may have read my post back in May which had the title:

This post reviewed the concept of BarCamps and UnConferences. While you might not consider Minnesota a hot bed of technology (too cold up here!), our BarCamps get better attendance than even the Silicon Valley events.


Why should you care? Who cares what’s happening up in Frostbite Falls? The answer is simple, if you are trying to understand and keep pace with the changing pulse of the web … BarCamps are where it’s at.


Our latest effort will have a BarCamp focused around public radio. Thus, from the state that brings you Prarie Home Companion, our version of public radio moves to the forefront even further. I bring you Public Radio BarCamp.


You may also enjoy watching Googlezon. Thus, I invite you to pretend It’s 2014, and GoogleZon rules media, and the net. Take a trip back in time, and watch this Flash video.  It will take you on a tour of media, and the net, from it’s inception in 1989, right up to present day in the year 2014!


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Backpacking Through Europe

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Ah … the good old days … back in the Fall of 1976. I took a term off from Dartmouth, and backpacked through Europe. Now my son Carl will do the same … he leaves tonight. However, Carl will blog about the subject.  My parents we're lucky to hear anything from me. The only way to contact me was to mail a letter to an American Express office in the hopes I might travel through that locale. Carl will have Skype, his blog, etc.

Thus, follow a college student's experiences as he backpacks through Europe via Carl's Travel Blog (or subscribe via RSS). I posted this comment on my son's blog:

"Back in 1976, during my own backpacking trip through Europe, my experiences ranged from hiking up to the edge of an active volcano (Mt. Etna in Sicily) to serving as a guest DJ for an underground communist radio station. Thankfully I'm still alive, and did not ever get arrested! Have fun … Dad"

Carl

Data Visualization Tutorial: IBM Many Eyes

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Late last week I posted that I was intrigued with a new IBM social networking application, Many Eyes. The field of data visualization is interesting, and the idea that one may share and visualize data sets via a social network appealed to me … so I created a tutorial. Now you may share my curiosity, and visualizations (or create your own).

… and more Many Eyes Links:

Link back to my earlier post for engineering data visualization lecture links from Duke.

(Update on Oct. 27, 2008 … See Microsoft's new visualization tool, DataDepot)

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Engineering Data Visualization

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Last Summer Second Life was all the rage in the popular media. In fact, one of the most linked (and found) pages on this blog are the Second Life Tutorials (more SL posts). However, as much as SL gathered media attention, the bigger interest for most of us was the discipline of engineering simulation and data visualization. While conducting some research recently, I became aware of an excellent visualization seminar series from Duke University. Like most research … one link led to another … which led to another, etc. Thus, here are the fruits of my labor with brief descriptions as to why each link is worth a click:

The Duke University Forum, and many of the other links have been added to the Engineering Learning Wiki. Please see these updated wiki sections:

Update on June 23, 2008: I've now created my own Many Eyes Tutorial

Update on Oct. 27, 2008 … See Microsoft's new visualization tool, DataDepot

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