skills – Ammon Shepherd https://mossiso.com mossiso = more better Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:13:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://mossiso.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon-96x96.png skills – Ammon Shepherd https://mossiso.com 32 32 140707563 WTTGG #4 https://mossiso.com/2008/03/28/wttgg-4/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:13:38 +0000 http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/wttgg-4-110.html Continue reading WTTGG #4]]> This week is much more historical…

Traveler IQ
Goodies #1: Traveler IQ Challenge – Test your knowledge of geography as it is today not 100 years ago (there’s the history tie-in). I’m not so good. I can’t get past the 6 level…

New York Divided
Goodies #2: New York Divided – This one is all about history. It’s even from the History Channel. It’s an amazingly beautiful animation about New York’s ties with slavery. Very well done.

Randomwocky
Goodies #3: Randomwocky – You’ve all heard the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, and know of the many made up words. I thought it would be fun to re-create the poem using randomly generated consonant-vowel-consonant groupings. It makes the poem even more nonsensical in places, but some of the ‘new’ words are funny!

]]> 110 Omeka goes live https://mossiso.com/2008/02/22/omeka-goes-live/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:15:45 +0000 http://historicalwebber.mossiso.com/omeka-goes-live-98.html Continue reading Omeka goes live]]> Omeka, another fine product produced by CHNM, has released the public beta. This is a great tool for museums and other places (or individuals) who want to create online exhibits.

In other news, there is now a growing movement to archive old skills that are no longer used. Mr. Scoble started a list of obsolete skills on his blog and later made a wiki about it. Now everybody can contribute their obsolete skills. Not only is this a humorous way to look at the evolving world of technology, but it provides a useful archive for anyone who might run across the need to use one of these obsolete skills.

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