Thursday, March 31, 2022

Collection of Timothy H. O'Sullivan nature photographs

This post is a collection of nature photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882). There are 19 photographs listed below chronologically.

Alpine Lake, East Humboldt Mounts, Nevada (1868)



Shoshone Falls, Idaho (1868)



American Canyon, Utah (1869)



Hot Springs Cone, Provo Valley, Utah (1869)



Alkai Lake in Extinct Volcanic Crater, Eastern Arizona (1871)



Alkali Lake in Extinct Volcanic Crater, Eastern Arizona (1871)



Black Canyon, Looking Below, Toward Camp 7, Colorado River (1871)



Black Canyon, Looking Below, Near Camp 8, Colorado River (1871)



Bluff Opposite Big Horn Camp Black Canyon, Colorado River (1871)



Death Valley, California (1871)



Looking Below Mouth of Diamond River, Colorado River (1871)



Rock Carved by Drifting Sand below Fortification Rock, Colorado River (1871)



Unidentified Mining Area, Nevada (1871)



Canyon of Lodore (1872)



Garnet Canyon, Uintas Mountains, Northeastern Utah (1872)



Junction of Yampa and Green River Canyons, Northern Colorado (1872)



Looking Across the Colorado River to Mouth of Paria Creek, Arizona (1873)



Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho, Mid-Day View... (1874)



View Near Head of Conejos River, Colorado (1874)

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Sue Gardner and civic engagement

This post is a collection of quotes from Sue Gardner in an interview with the Max Bell School of Public Policy in 2021. The interview can be found at this link. I recommend listening to the interview. Sue Gardner was the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2007 until 2014. There are 8 quotes listed below chronologically.

1. "I did say once that the internet is not doing well, and if I had to guess when I said that, I would say that might have been 2010 or so. Because I think now, it's probably more accurate to say the internet now is kind of a dumpster fire." (0:00)

2. "I started working on the internet in 1999... Back then everybody who was doing stuff, we all felt like there was there was a tremendous promise, and when I look back now it's really easy to see how intensely and embarrassingly naive we were. But we did believe it would usher in a revolution of access to information and freedom of expression and people would be able to reach across borders..." (0:34)

3. "It just we felt that it would be amazing for democracy and for civic engagement and that it would just be transformative." (1:22)

4. "...what the internet has changed is everybody has a printing press now. So access to me, access to information includes information from other people which therefore includes the right to speak as well... I think that we need, we want, we should be updating a lot of our thinking about this stuff..." (16:52)

5. "So if you want to make a difference, its a place where you could make a difference because the answers aren't known. You're not walking a well-paved road. You're blazing a path." (26:30)

6. "I so wish that I had a good answer to the question of what policymakers should do... I do not know and I don't think anybody knows for real. We do not know what the answers are." (36:42)

7. "The business model of the internet requires the amplification of inflammatory material to keep people attached to their devices so they can be served ads. It's that simple and so the solutions need to be somewhere at that level." (37:46)

8. "What would it look like if we could engage more? If... citizens could talk more directly to each other so much more easily. We don't think about those things anymore... We can't get there until we stop the sewage, but it would be lovely, imagine if we could realize some of that original promise. It would be great." (42:53)
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Sunday, March 27, 2022

Basic timeline of communication and media

This post is a basic timeline of media and communication. There are 48 events listed below chronologically.

  • Origin of speech (100,000 BC)
  • First symbols (30,000 BC)
  • First pictograms (9,000 BC)
  • First writing systems (5th century BC)
  • First alphabets (2000 BC)
  • Tsai Lun invents paper (105 AD)
  • First wooden block moveable type printing (1305)
  • First printing press with metal movable type (1440)
  • First newspapers (1566)
  • Morse code is created (1836)
  • First practical photography (1839)
  • First long distance telegraph (1843)
  • First commercial typewriter (1874)
  • First telephone call (1876)
  • First phonograph (1877)
  • First successful commercial wireless telegraphy (1894)
  • First radio news program (1920)
  • First television signal (1925)
  • First commercial television broadcast (1947)
  • First photocopier (1958)
  • First modern fax machine (1964)
  • First email (1965)
  • Internet is established (1969)
  • First personal computers (1976)
  • CNN is launched (1980)
  • First mobile phone service (1981)
  • Microsoft Word is launched (1983)
  • World Wide Web is launched (1989)
  • First text message (1992)
  • Mosaic web browser is launched (1993)
  • Netscape Navigator is launched (1994)
  • Yahoo is founded (1994)
  • First wiki (1994)
  • First blogs (1994)
  • GeoCities is founded (1994)
  • Fox News is launched (1996)
  • Google is founded (1998)
  • First internet podcast (2000)
  • Wikipedia is founded (2001)
  • Skype is launched (2003)
  • Myspace is founded (2003)
  • Facebook is founded (2004)
  • YouTube is founded (2005)
  • Reddit is founded (2005)
  • Twitter is founded (2006)
  • iPhone is launched (2007)
  • Instagram is launched (2010)
  • TikTok is launched (2016)

Sources:
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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Collection of Roy Lichtenstein paintings (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a list a collection of Wikipedia pages of paintings by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). There are 41 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

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Collection of Francis Bacon paintings (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a list a collection of Wikipedia pages of paintings by Francis Bacon (1909-1992). There are 28 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Collection of Salvador Dalí paintings (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a list a collection of Wikipedia pages of paintings by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). There are 37 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

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Collection of Henri Matisse paintings (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a list a collection of Wikipedia pages of paintings by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). There are 25 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

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Monday, March 14, 2022

Collection of Pablo Picasso paintings (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a list a collection of Wikipedia pages of paintings by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). There are 40 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: 1889-1900, 1901-1910, 1911-1920, 1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1950, 1951-1960, 1961-1970, 1971-1973

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

David Bohnett: Internet History Podcast interview

This post is a collection of quotes from David Bohnett in an interview on the Internet History Podcast in 2015. I recommend listening to the interview. David Bohnett is best known for founding the website GeoCities in 1994. There are 4 quotes listed below chronologically. Sources: GeoCities Founder David Bohnett, Internet History Podcast

1. "I was a passionate advocate of the validity of user-generated content, that the internet was all about giving people the opportunity to contribute and participate and feel like they are apart of the medium, that it was not a top-down programmed model..." (22:11)

2. "...what I'm dismayed about is, if you look at the 20 year span, what GeoCities was about was sharing knowledge about ideas and knowledge about topics and we've gotten away from that to sharing knowledge about ourselves..." (49:45)

3. "[We need] more of a platform for people to connect with others based upon their love of certain subject matter. Wikipedia is kind of that, but it doesn't have that mass appeal." (50:47)

4. "There is so much knowledge, collective knowledge, and I'm not sure that we're... crowdfunding the human intellectual potential that's out there." (51:15)
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Collection of Jean-Michel Basquiat works (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a collection of Wikipedia pages of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). There are 39 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

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Collection of quote websites

This post is a collection of quote websites. There are 30 websites listed below alphabetically.

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid Course Correction

This post is a collection of quotes from Tim Berners-Lee in a lecture from 2019. Tim Berners-Lee is best known for launching the World Wide Web in 1989 and the purpose of this post is to show some of the early motivations for creating the Wold Wide Web. There are 2 quotes listed below chronologically. Sources: The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction, BBC One

1. "Interestingly, there was no strict rule at CERN, no hierarchical management which said everyone had to use the same sort of computer. So each team used whatever hardware and software systems they thought were best for them to use to build their part of this huge big puzzle." (8:34)

2."My idea... was not to build the biggest, best documentation system. No, it was to build a whole new world in which all the existing documentation systems, warts and all, could coexist and be interlinked." (12:05)
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Saturday, March 5, 2022

Information blogging guidelines

Information blogging guidelines (IBG) is a list of templates and goals for displaying information on a blog post. The introduction paragraph of the post should include at least one of the templates. There are 5 templates and 3 goals listed below.

    Templates
  • This post is a list of...
  • This post is a collection of...
  • This post is a timeline of...
  • There are __ _____ listed below alphabetically.
  • There are __ _____ listed below chronologically.

    Goals
  • Minimalism and clarity
  • Standardization across IBG posts
  • Networks of IBG websites and blogs
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee (1955-now) is a British computer scientist best known for launching the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989. The rest of this post is some quotes from Berners-Lee.

"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards." (Information Management: A Proposal, 1989)

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design." (AZQuotes.com)

"The dream behind the Web is a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information." (AZQuotes.com)

"I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good." (Interview with Scott Lanningham, 2006)
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