{"id":794,"date":"2007-02-23T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T19:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/23\/mashups-for-non-programmers-an-experiement-gone-slightly-awry\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T19:44:26","slug":"mashups-for-non-programmers-an-experiement-gone-slightly-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/23\/mashups-for-non-programmers-an-experiement-gone-slightly-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashups for Non-Programmers – an experiement gone slightly awry"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we were one of the sessions first up<\/a> at this morning’s Moosecamp<\/a>. At the last minute we decided to change the format; originally we had wanted to try and stay true to the ‘camp’ ethos and do very little presenting and a lot of co-creating with the audience. But competition is fierce for attention at Northern Voice, and there are too many good sessions that I wanted to attend too, so we cut it down from theh originally planned 1 1\/2 to 2 hour we had hoped for to a quick 45 minute show and tell, with the hope that anyone who got really inspired would meet us latter to get hands-on with the tools.<\/p>\n

D’Arcy kicked it off and his set of examples<\/a> worked pretty well, but right at the end, Pipes failed. Hard to tell if it was the Pipes app itself or an overloaded network conneection. I was up next<\/a>, and even though I had a few Pipes-based examples to show, I luckily had a few others too in my bag. Unfortunately, one of the service, OpenKapow, seemed to not respond at the same moment, and Dapper, which I was using to illustrate how to create data sources where none exist, was sooo slooow that we had to move on. Oh demoitis<\/a>, you cruel beast.<\/p>\n

We at least tried to seize the moment and turn it into a teachable moment, illustrating that while there has been a true explosion of services, as “non-programmers” we are largely subject to their availability whims.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brian followed on with a parable of his efforts<\/a> over the years with Aggrssive<\/a>, which while I know he is hard on the results I still think was and is a valiant effort to create a software package to allow us to host our own feed mashups, something many of us at institutions require if we want to introduce these techniques into production.<\/p>\n

And finally, Chris Lott brought a rock-solid performance, with hhis various experiments in Ning and Google Co-op<\/a> working great.<\/p>\n

I don’t noticed how many people we convinced that the potential for non-programmers to mashup content are there; that wasn’t so much our goal. For me the session was meant as an experiment on how far non-programmers could in fact go, and hopefully there were at least a few in the crowd who were inspired to push on further. If you are interested, the wiki page that we used to organize the session<\/a> is chock full of additional examples and technologies to start creating your own mashups. Good luck! – SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, we were one of the sessions first up at this morning’s Moosecamp. At the last minute we decided to change the format; originally we had wanted to try and stay true to the ‘camp’ ethos and do very little presenting and a lot of co-creating with the audience. But competition is fierce for attention … Continue reading “Mashups for Non-Programmers – an experiement gone slightly awry”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,272],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mashups","tag-nv2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}