PlaGMaDA’s mission is to preserve, present, and interpret play generated cultural artifacts, namely manuscripts and drawings created to communicate a shared imaginative space. The Archive will solicit, collect, describe, and publicly display these documents so as to demonstrate their relevance, presenting them as both a historical record of a revolutionary period of experimental play and as aesthetic objects in their own right.

The leading online resource of film, television, conference, and video game title sequence design from around the world. We honor the artists who design excellent title sequences. We discuss and display their work with a desire to foster more of it, via stills and video links, interviews, creator notes, and user comments.

Perhaps we need a different metaphor to describe viewer engagement with narrative complexity. We might think of such programs as drillable rather than spreadable. They encourage a mode of forensic fandom that encourages viewers to dig deeper, probing beneath the surface to understand the complexity of a story and its telling. Such programs create magnets for engagement, drawing viewers into the storyworlds and urging them to drill down to discover more. [...] The opposition between spreadable and drillable shouldn’t be thought of as a hierarchy, but rather as opposing vectors of cultural engagement. Spreadable media encourages horizontal ripples, accumulating eyeballs without necessarily encouraging more long-term engagement. Drillable media typically engage far fewer people, but occupy more of their time and energies in a vertical descent into a text’s complexities.

via To Spread or To Drill? « Jason Mittell @ Just TV.

How-To on creating sections that are expandable/collapsable inside your InfoPath forms.

Customers can create multi-machine IT environments in the cloud or upload existing virtual machines. CloudShare supports leading hypervisors (VMWare, Xen) and operating systems (Windows 7, Ubuntu), and provides many templates for new machines with operating systems and software (such as Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 or Ruby on Rails) preinstalled.

Style in The Wire on Vimeo on Vimeo.

Create complex narratives and share rich collections, adhering to Dublin Core standards with Omeka on your server, designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. [...] Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems.

It’s nearing completion

The purpose of this SharePoint and HTML5 series is not to dismember HTML5 but to see how we can apply it within SharePoint. Each article, features relevant research and useful links to other related resources for SharePoint and HTML5, as well as some live samples.

Programming tutorial on how to stamp PDF files downloaded from SharePoint with some information about the user who downloaded the file.

Drafting the technical manual and ship blueprints was, then, largely a matter of reconciling the “imaginary” object of the Enterprise miniature with the “real” object of sets such as the bridge, sickbay, and engineering, explaining in graphic form how exterior and interior aspects of the Enterprise fit together into a coherent whole. In this sense, Joseph’s work might be described as operationalizing the Kuleshov effect, tying down and standardizing relationships created through editing. The technical materials upon which design-oriented fandom thrives – blueprints, models, hand-crafted props –thus serve an essentially conservative function, knitting together loose seams of an imperfectly-manufactured diegetic reality, as opposed to the exploding/perverting of officially preferred meanings that occurs in fan fiction (particularly slash).

http://graphic-engine.swarthmore.edu/?p=1602

http://www.gbv.com

A metro-inspired master page for SP 2010 on Codeplex.

The mission of the SharePoint Maturity Model is to help you understand and improve the maturity of your SharePoint implementation. Includes an online assessment form.

The stratification begins with the badges. Every participant wears a badge on a lanyard. Every encounter begins with an unabashed glance or two down at the other’s badge. It is Davos Man’s defining gesture. So frequently did gazes slip to reëxamine my badge that I came to know what it must be like to have cleavage. The color of the badge denotes a role, and a degree of access. W.E.F. staff wear blue badges—dark blue for full time and light for temps. “Reporting Press” wear orange and can’t get in a lot of places. Entourages get mint green. The coveted pass is the white one, granting delegates free rein. There are variations: A Strategic Partner gets a blue dot and access to an exclusive lounge. A special hologram used to signal membership in an élite faction called the Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders, or IGWEL, but now “serves boring logistical purposes,” according to Monck. I was given a white badge, which meant I’d been knighted a Media Leader. Media Leaders may trump Reporting Press (ha!), but they bow before the Media Governors (curses!), who get invited to the off-the-record sit-downs with Geithner and Merkel.

What happens at the World Economic Forum in Davos? : The New Yorker

The cultural task I have in mind is meaning-making. I think this is the same task that babies undertake and early humans must have undertaken in clapping hands in imitation of one another, in pointing to something to direct attention to it, in intentionally clapping hands in synchrony with another person. These are the the radical cultural primitives, and language, drawing, writing, print, photography, and now computation are all ways of expanding our ability to clap, to point, to think together and synchronize our minds and our behaviors.

via  Inventing the Digital Medium: An Interview with Janet Murray (Part One).

This article contains lists of Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are included with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 in verb order and noun order.

How to add “Hidden” metadata to your page layouts so that they are only visible when editing the page, also provides the specific field names for the most common SharePoint 2010 base columns and web controls.

To make querying easier, Microsoft implemented REST (Representational State Transfer plus HTTP) into the SharePoint 2010 platform using ADO.NET Data Services to make client-side data retrieval easier and more lightweight.

Every file is heavily commented and provides a lot of information about what code is necessary for various SharePoint functionality and content.

Examples of analogies that help explain SharePoint navigation structures.

The Media History Digital Library is a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.

I propose that worldbuilding is the primary distinguishing characteristic of SF and fantasy (at least at a superficial level). Get the worldbuilding wrong, and your readers won’t be able to get a grip on the story line or the motivation of your characters. Or worse — they’ll get a grip, and realize that your story is, at best, a western or an age-of-sail yarn with the serial numbers filed off: that the trappings of the fantastic are only there to add a spurious sense of exoticism to an everyday tale.

Charlie Stross via World building 101 – Charlie’s Diary.

Have you ever wondered what are the major font types, sizes, colors, and images for SharePoint 2010? This post will cover some of the major statistics that are related to SharePoint Branding.

Serial Orientations
from Jason Mittell. Here’s the accompanying description.

How to quickly set up a web part that allows you to add/remove user accounts from groups.

Raymond Johnson – Google+ – I found this on my office chalkboard this morning, thanks….

This reminds me of bad survey design decisions.

J.J. Abrams’ mystery box | Video on TED.com.

An experience map is a holistic view of all of the touchpoints or interactions people have with a brand. It enables you to determine a number of key factors:

“Metadata is a love note to the future.”… – AUSTIN KLEON : TUMBLR.

These resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or Microsoft Visio 2010 files (.vsd), PDF files, and XPS files.

Im Berliner Datenportal stellt das Land Berlin Datensätze der öffentlichen Verwaltung zur Verfügung. So soll Verwaltungsmitarbeitern, Bürgern, Unternehmen und Wissenschaftlern die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, über einen zentralen Einstiegspunkt auf Daten und Informationen der Berliner Verwaltung zuzugreifen und diese weiterzuverwenden, so dass durch neue Ideen sowie Kombination und Analyse neue Erkenntnisse aus den vorhandenen Daten gewonnen werden können.

SharePoint SUSHI is a powerful, user-friendly utility enabling you to accomplish common administrative tasks. You can think of SUSHI as a Swiss army knife for SharePoint. SUSHI = SharePoint Utility with a Smart, Helpful Interface.

How to use SPServices to implement a Google API-based orgchart with jQuery.

40 Year Old 3D Computer Graphics Pixar, 1972 on Vimeo on Vimeo.

How to trick SharePoint into accepting today’s date in a calculated column.

The use of jQuery mobile with SharePoint. Goal is to simply expose company news for as many mobile devices as possible in a single location.

Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status. [...] When undergraduates wrote me, their emails were littered with I, me, and my. My response, although quite friendly, was remarkably detached — hardly an I-word graced the page. And then I analyzed my emails to the dean of my college. My emails looked like an I-word salad; his emails back to me were practically I-word free.

James Pennebaker – The Secret Language Code

Overview about common practices to deduce Intranet navigation structures.

This 64-page guidebook takes you through eight stages of a typical intranet design project. Each stage has many activities that go under it.

From mobile access to SharePoint and (social) search and findability.

Prefetching content allows users to access it more quickly what improves the user experience. Find out how to prefetch SharePoint search results and cut down your users’ waiting time.

An Outlook add-in that extends SharePoint lists by exposing custom columns on calendars, tasks, contacts and discussion boards.

Turn off the ribbon positioning system that SharePoint provides and build your own one with fixed position css styles.