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Seven Ways To Use GitHub That Aren’t Coding | ReadWrite

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GitHub is so often touted as a tool for coding projects that it’s easy to forget just how useful a resource it is for everything else.

At the heart of GitHub are two collaborative functions—forking and branching—that aren’t exclusive to coding. Forking means to create a clone of somebody else’s work for remixing. Branching is a way for each person in a group to create a temporary clone for tandem editing, and then push those updates back to the group project again.

While many of GitHub’s capabilities require knowledge of Git…forking and branching can both be done with nothing more than a GitHub account and a few clicks. GitHub has the additional benefit of a liberal use policy, so you are in complete control of anything you upload there.

The 7 ways discussed:

  1. Travel Logging
  2. Musical Composition
  3. Remixing Recipes
  4. Open Source Font Editing
  5. Data Visualization For Journalists
  6. Writing and Blogging
  7. Legal Documents

Read: Seven Ways To Use GitHub That Aren’t Coding | ReadWrite.

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From Scratch to Tynker: Tools to Teach Kids How to Code | The Digital Shift

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Learning to code is a popular topic in educational circles these days. For good reason. When young people code their own apps, games, stories, or websites they have a chance to think critically, troubleshoot, problem solve, and collaborate. It’s a way to create something real that can be seen and used by lots of different people.

Of course, not all teachers or library staff are proficient coders. But, we don’t have to be. There are several apps and Web-based tools that make it possible to learn, with kids, the basics of coding. These also give young people the chance to try things out on their own and even teach adults how to create with code.

Sceencast tutorials for Daisy the Dinosaur, Hopscotch, Scratch and Tynker. Read: From Scratch to Tynker: Tools to Teach Kids How to Code | The Digital Shift.

The Beginner’s Guide to TweetDeck | Mashable

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TweetDeck‘s development path might look more like a roller coaster than the typical incline, but it’s for good reason. After Twitter bought the app in 2011, TweetDeck pulled support for various social networks — most recently Facebook — and dropped its mobile apps in order to focus on its core purpose in desktop form: Twitter.

Social media managers and casual tweeters alike can benefit from TweetDeck’s organizational tools, such as customizable columns, multiple account toggling and scheduling. With a modern, clean design and automatically refreshing feeds, TweetDeck’s utility comes in its simplicity and ease in setting up.

Here’s how to get started on TweetDeck. Soon your personal and professional Twitter troubles will be long gone.

Read the guide: The Beginner’s Guide to TweetDeck | Mashable

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A Few Twitter Resources for Teachers, Job Hunting, Twitter Management

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Teachers

Twitter Guide For Teachers: Ideas, Resources and More | KQED

Twitter Resources for Educators | Rich Hubbard | Pinterest

Job Hunting

20 Twitter Resources for Job Hunters | Mashable

How to find job using Twitter | Jarkko Sjöman

Twitter Management

Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions and The Complete Guide to Twitter Etiquette from Mashable

3 Free Tools to Manage Who You Follow on Twitter | Mashable
Reviews Manage Flitter, UnTweeps and Tweepi.

Twitter Analytics: A Beginner’s Guide | Search Engine Watch

Spirit for Twitter: Disappearing Act For Your Tweets | Information Space
There’s some new Twitter functionality in town, and this time it’s letting you automatically delete any tweet you want with a little hashtag magic.

How to Erase Yourself From the Internet | Gizmodo

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If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the Internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here’s how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down and eliminating your digital past.

Read: How to Erase Yourself From the Internet | Gizmodo.

Provides instructions for how to remove/deactivate accounts for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Recommends other tools including Account Killer, Just Delete Me and Knowem.

Look Inside the Extremely Rare Codex Seraphinianus, the Weirdest Encyclopedia Ever | Wired.com

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A couple having sex metamorphoses into a crocodile. Fish eyes from some weird creature float on the surface of the sea, staring at me. A man is riding his own coffin. Text accompanies these surreal images, handwritten, seemingly ancient but totally unintelligible. I’ve just stepped into the bizarre universe of Codex Seraphinianus, the weirdest encyclopedia in the world.

Like a guide to an alien world, Codex Seraphinianus is 300 pages of descriptions and explanations for an imaginary existence, all in its own unique (and unreadable) alphabet, complete with thousands of drawings and graphs. Issued for the first time in 1981 by publisher Franco Maria Ricci, it has been a collector’s favorite for years, before witnessing a sudden rise in popularity thanks to a growing fandom on the Internet. Now a new-and-improved edition from Italian publisher Rizzoli is about to hit bookshelves on Oct. 29, with 3,000 pre-ordered copies already sold out. The Codex attracts a new generation of fans, people who grew up surfing the net and eager to explore the exciting and relentless world outside, as bizarre as it is depicted in the book.

Look Inside the Extremely Rare Codex Seraphinianus, the Weirdest Encyclopedia Ever | Underwire | Wired.com

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The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review

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Snip: Wikipedia and its stated ambition to “compile the sum of all human knowledge” are in trouble. The volunteer workforce that built the project’s flagship, the English-language Wikipedia—and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation—has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. Those participants left seem incapable of fixing the flaws that keep Wikipedia from becoming a high-quality encyclopedia by any standard, including the project’s own.

via The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review

An All-in-One Guide to the Maker Culture and 3D Printing | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org

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The maker culture is a thriving movement amongst all types of people who want to create and design their own objects, crafts, or computer code.  This DIY community is using state-of-the-art technology such as 3D printers to design and craft their own 3D objects.  This introductory guide will give you an overview of today’s maker movement, resources for getting started, 3D printer reviews, links to actual project designs and instructions, maker publications, events, and directories, videos about 3D printing and maker culture, and an article list of resources about libraries and makerspaces.

Resources categorized into the following sections:

  • What is the Maker Movement?
  • Getting Started Guides
  • 3D Printers
  • 3D Projects
  • Maker Events
  • Makerspaces Directories
  • Maker Videos
  • Libraries and Makerspaces Resource List

Read: An All-in-One Guide to the Maker Culture and 3D Printing | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org.

10 Lessons For Design-Driven Success | Co.Design

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At the forefront of the economy, good design is a priority. Here’s how to embrace the next wave of innovation.

The 10 lessons discussed:

  1. Design starts at the top.
  2. The Apple myth is powerful–and incomplete.
  3. Today’s disaster is tomorrow’s triumph.
  4. One size does not fit all.
  5. Yes, Virginia, penny-wise is pound-foolish.
  6. Design hunger is real.
  7. There’s something new under the sun.
  8. A well-designed product does not equal a well-designed business.
  9. The big picture is a mass of details.
  10. It is still day one.

Read: 10 Lessons For Design-Driven Success | Co.Design | business + design.

Where to Find Speculative Fiction Online | Kirkus

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Science fiction, fantasy and horror fans in particular have a wealth of online fiction venues that they can visit. But not every destination is worth the time it takes to type in the web address. Let’s take a look at some of better online speculative fiction venues.

Read: Where to Find Speculative Fiction Online | Kirkus.

Reviews various online and print magazine resources for speculative fiction.