Marlboro College Graduate School October 2010

1. technical fluency examples from the elmcity case study Jon Udell Marlboro College Graduate School October 2010 http://jonudell.net http://delicious.com/judell/marlboro1

5. >>> s = open('marlboro2.xml').read() >>> s[0:80] '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www' >>> xml = minidom.parseString(s) >>> xml <xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x0159F7B0> >>> items = xml.getElementsByTagName('item') >>> len(items) 6 >>> titles = item.getElementsByTagName('title') >>> len(titles) 1 >>> title = titles[0] >>> title.toxml() u"<title>Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar</title>"

6. >>> title.firstChild <DOM Text node "u'Developing'..."> >>> title.firstChild.nodeValue "Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar" >>> collection = {} >>> for item in items: ... title = item.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.nodeValue ... url = item.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].firstChild.nodeValue ... collection[title] = url ... >>> collection.keys() ["The principle of indirection - O'Reilly Radar", 'Collaborative curation as a service', 'To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start ', "Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar", 'A new answer to an old question', "The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar"]

7. >>> collection.values() ['http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/', 'http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question/', 'http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html'] >>> for key in collection.keys(): ... print key + ': ' + collection[key] The principle of indirection - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html Collaborative curation as a service « Jon Udell:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/ To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/ Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html A new answer to an old question:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question/ The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html

8. >>> for key in collection.keys(): ... print '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % ( collection[key], key) <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html">The principle of indirection</a> <a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/">Collaborative curation as a service</a> <a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/">To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start</a> <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html">Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar</a> <a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question">A new answer to an old question</a> <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html">The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar</a> >>>

11. versus

12. where=honolulu,hitz=hawaiian contact=elmcity@alohavibe.com facebook=yes where: honolulu,hi tz: hawaiian contact: elmcity@alohavibe.com facebook: yes

13. query http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/trusted+ics+feed data

14. http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/alohavibe/trusted+ics+feed transformation transformation evaluation transformation <item> <title>Hawaii Reggae Guild</title> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:52:21 +0000</pubDate> <guidisPermaLink="false">http://www.delicious.com/url/d107b1cb6d87eb32858daa7fa25b68a9#alohavibe</guid> <link>http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/usb3tucgslji5pdrfgf1luij94%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics</link> <source url="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/alohavibe">alohavibe's bookmarks</source> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">trusted</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">ics</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">feed</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">category=music,reggae</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">url=http://hawaiireggaeguild.com</category> </item> Is alohavibe’s metadata URN tagged with trusted AND ics AND feed? If yes, add to list aggregated by hub. If no, ignore. feedurl: http//www.google.com/calendar/ical..basic.ics category: music,reggae url: http://hawaiireggaeguild.com

15. query http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/alohavibe/tags_json transformation data for computers [{"music":333},{"reggae":171] query http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/alohavibe/tags_html data for people

16. query http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/alohavibe/metadata PartitionKey: alohavibe RowKey: alohavibe Timestamp: 10/8/2010 6:08:18 PM contact: elmcity@alohavibe.com eventbrite_events: 17 eventful_events: 1346 events: 4050 events_per_person: 0.01 facebook: yes facebook_events: 49 feed_count: 7 ical_events: 592 population: 374676 tz: hawaiian upcoming_events: 2095 where: honolulu,hi data merged from delicious

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19. message from a person messages from a computer

20. articles: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/judell/elmcity+azure

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23. status updates: http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcityazure-project-status/feed/

25. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=d4529aab6d88a333bab8e438c4e7ca48 &_render=rss&tag=icalvalid

26. sources: delicious, twitter, wordpress, technorati effect: query for a tag across all sources result: rss feed merging results from all queries

29. 1. the elmcity service operates on twitter as @elmcity_azure 2. the curator for the westborough, ma, hub operates as @westborough 3. if the elmcity sees twitter=@NAME in a hub’s metadata, it follows @NAME 4. because @elmcity_azure follows @westborough, @westborough can send a direct message to @elmcity_azure 5. if @westborough just added a feed and wants @elmcity_azure to aggregate now, instead of waiting 8 hours, he can send the start message:

31. the project manager issues a status update

32. the project manager writes an article about the project

33. any item tagged with the subproject icalvalid is posted to delicious or twitter or wordpress receive authenticated messages from curators

34. jeannettewing’s manifesto To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability. It is a universally applicable attitude and skill. other names for computational thinking digital literacy, systems thinking, 21st-century skills there isn’t an app for that to make the most of the local internet – and the global one! – we need to learn, teach, and apply core principles