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GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started [PART 1 of 2] | ReadWrite
It’s 2013, and there’s no way around it: you need to learn how to use GitHub.
Why? Because it’s a social network that has completely changed the way we work. Having started as a developer’s collaborative platform, GitHub is now the largest online storage space of collaborative works that exists in the world. Whether you’re interested in participating in this global mind meld or in researching this massive file dump of human knowledge, you need to be here.
Read: GitHub For Beginners: Don’t Get Scared, Get Started [PART 1 of 2] | ReadWrite.
Coursera under fire in MOOCs licensing row | The Conversation
A prominent member of the open education movement, former Open University Vice-Chancellor Sir John Daniel, has criticised online education provider Coursera for not making its materials available under creative commons licensing.
Coursera is one of the largest providers of MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – which allow students to take university courses for free online from anywhere in the world.
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“While MOOCs have open enrolment, many of the MOOCs offered through commercial partners do not have open licences,” he said.
“It would be a pity if MOOCs were to act as a brake on the open education movement.”
via Coursera under fire in MOOCs licensing row | The Conversation.
See also: Coursera partners with 10 universities for online classes | CNET
Gizmodo | A Look Behind the Scenes of the Internet Archives Impossible Task
Last fall, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the “online Library of Alexandria” reached 10 Petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes accessible to anyone. Wow.
Filmmaker Jonathan Minard was on hand for the celebration, and in the short doc above he speaks to the Archives founders about how it expanded from a project dedicated to cataloging everything ever published online—to a project to document every piece of information in existence. Turns out its possible—we just need the will to do it.
via Gizmodo | A Look Behind the Scenes of the Internet Archives Impossible Task.
With Black Crown, Random House Gets Into Games – Forbes
Random House, the home of 50 Shades of Grey and The Da Vinci Code, has extended part of its publishing empire into the world of games with The Black Crown Project, a story-based online game based on a suitcase by first-time author Rob Sherman.
via 50 Web-Compliant Shades: With Black Crown, Random House Gets Into Games – Forbes.
I enjoy immersive RPG, puzzle and mystery games. This project is creative and looks interesting. I think the website could use some work…some of the text is too small/fuzzy. It has the feel of the cold war…typewritten messages, gas masks, stained green backgrounds, the content decidedly weird, dreary and at times gruesome/offensive. I think this game would attract those who like the Bioshock and Metal Gear Solid series (n.b. it is a story-based game NOT a FPS game) but it’s not for me.
From the website: “The experience is free-to-play, with opportunities for eager users to make micropayments to unlock story strands, expedite the narrative and acquire items and status within the world.”
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