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Japan Tragedy - links to help you
A library staff member at Yale reports Google has launched an application to connect and track missing people in Japan: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/japan-earthquake-google-person-finder-_n_834445.html
Our prayers to all those who are in need.
The portal page of the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is easily accessible to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access, with several other projects in planning. IMSLP is also entirely collaborative. The site contains the Petrucci Music Library which you can search by composer in alphabetical order or by time period. You can search by instrumentation or by type of music, or browse recordings by composer. On the same site you can also find articles in the IMSLP Journal. The IMSLP Journal is a music blog with articles touching a variety of music-related topics from the academic to the casual. Finally, the IMSLP Forums is where contributors and users ask questions and discuss various topics. IMSLP contributors are asked to read the Rules thread at the top of the corresponding forum before posting if applicable.
Click on the title, you will see a dark page. You can click on any spot. You can also hold down the mouse button and drag it. You can click on the same spot several times. You can also hold down the mouse button and drag it over and over the same spot. Mild colorful inspiration to help brighten your day.
In a recent post, I showed the lions in front of the recent face lift of the New York Public Library. Patience and Fortitude are identified with some other interesting tidbits about them from this site. Would you believe they were earlier called Leo Lenox and Leo Astor?
Students and Faculty often have questions on exactly what is / is not allowable. This video has mostly a balanced presentation giving fairly complete descriptions of exceptions to the copyright laws as well as touches on what is protected by copyright.
Recently announce, the Google Arts Project, brings out the best of the best of the best. See the Frick Collection's works as if you were in the museum. Study the work up close, very up close, up to each brush stroke. Or, study the entire piece at a glance. Google provides a video visitor guide as well as a video view of the level of effort required to assemble this colossal collection.
This is a six minute video about basketball. I have to confess being a Syracuse fan. Every year it seems the finalist are Villanova, Georgetown, or Syracuse. What I like about this video is that it focuses on an interesting aspect of the game. How do you win a basketball game? ANS: by making baskets, duh!!!. What if I tell you, a game changer plan is also a way to win a basketball game. ANS: Block the opponent from making baskets. This video provides a number of gaming winning techniques which has helped make a star of basketball, not by the number of baskets made, but by the number of baskets prevented. Can this be a game changer in your business, life, profession, career???
Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
TED conferences bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). TED.com, makes the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.
The power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. This Web site launched April 2007 and you're an important part of it. Have an idea? TED Conference is at the heart of TED. The event sells out a year in advance -- and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and global issues. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter presentations, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience. It works because all of knowledge is connected.
TEDGlobal is now held annually in Oxford each summer. The themes of the global conference are slightly more international in nature, but the full TED format is maintained.
TEDActive features a live simulcast of the Long Beach conference, in fabulous Palm Springs, with an emphasis on connection, conversation and creation.
The TED Prize is designed to leverage the TED Community's exceonal array of talent and resources. It is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and, much more important, the granting of "One Wish to Change the World." After several months of preparation, the wish is unveiled at an award ceremony held during the TED Conference. Over the life of the prize, wishes have led to collaborative initiatives with far-reaching impact.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker "ideas worth spreading," talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions.
The TED Fellows helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. TED Fellows, TEDGlobal Fellows, and TED Senior Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED's members: technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, the humanities, the arts, NGOs, business and more.
The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. Eighteen minutes of your time to see a topic which is intended to provide inspiration. The project has more than 250 translations, 50 languages and 100 volunteer translators; one year on, there are more than 11,000 completed translations from our thousands-strong community. The project enhances the accessibility of the talks -- for the hearing-impaired, for those who speak English as a second language, for search engines (which can now index the full transcript of a talk), and for the vast audience of non-English speakers worldwide.
