[FM Discuss] remixin'

[Anne Gentle]

A couple of neat remixing examples this week that I wanted to share with FM
- one is, check out http://laptop.org/manual - a remix by OLPC's Seth
Woodworth mentioned in today's OLPC Community news contains content from 4-5
different books. Nice.

And I also have to share a photo of old school remixing - printing out
Wikipedia articles and recombining them with scissors and tape. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28074914@N08/2894803279/in/set-72157607553679650/

Not exactly the remix we've come to expect from FM. :) This was a fun
learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a
Sugar Activity called InfoSlicer. Instead of using scissors, you can now
slice information by downloading Wikipedia articles, editing and remixing
them and viewing the remix in Sugar.

For the XML enthusiasts, under the covers it is using the Darwin Information
Typing Architecture, also known as DITA (dih-tuh), a standard set of DTDs
(or schemas) that allow sharing of open source transformations and an open
toolkit implementation. (See http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/ for more
information.)

Watch a demo of the InfoSlicer Activity in action here:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0UDRi37MWM

Happy remixing.
Anne

-- 
Anne Gentle
email: annegentle at justwriteclick.com
blog: www.justwriteclick.com
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