This was originally posted on my Posterous blog back in June. I’m gradually syncing the content over here in preparation for revamping Electric Chalk some time in the near future.

My Storify’d review of the 2011 Culture Shock digital storytelling conference by Tyne & Wear Museums and Archives on the 29th September. This was previously posted on my Posterous blog.

• QR Codes on the Train « Tech Stuff
  Nice demolition by James Clay of one organisation’s use of QR codes. An example of somebody not thinking through the process from end to end and misunderstanding the whole point of a

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• Engineering Process with Michael Solomon
  Demonstrating the use of digital stories in STEM subjects – the story of an Oklahoma student who created and modified his own wind turbines in an effort to get his family off the power grid.
  tags: oklahoma

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• Vimeo Music Store
  Oh yeah! This makes video production sooo much easier! Finding decent music with the right level of clearance is a pain in the a**e.
  Once again, along with the fantastic mobile app and the Video School, Vimeo

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• Telegraphx – Daily Visual News. Beautifully Done.
  Just at the join the invite list at the moment but might be interesting.
  tags: news infographic data journalism visualisation
• Medify: Side Effects, Treatments and Symptoms
  A site dedicated to helping non-medics to

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• Raphaël—JavaScript Library
  As it describes itself:
  “Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example,

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• How colleges have slowly adopted social media – infographic
  It’s not the prettiest piece of dataviz and the data is from US institutions only but it’s a revealing picture.
  I was surprised that Foursquare was the “3rd most successful” social

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• The Compulsively Tidy Ursus Wehrli Visually Organizes Life
  I love the idea of using real objects and photography for data visualisation. It might look something like this.
  tags: art data visualisation Photography Ursus Wehrli
• BBC Academy – Home
  Free online resources on media

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• Learn to code | Codecademy
  via @sboneham
  Nice, easy, game-like introduction to coding using javascript. Something I need to pick up I think.
  tags: programming code javascript tutorial interactive
• A five-point guide to getting your tweets retweeted
  From the New

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