If you've never seen an Ignite talk watch Noah Iliinsky's talk on data visualizations, Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti.
Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti
Published Juli 1st, 2008 in Main. 0 CommentsThe MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art — a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working — but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be.
The TED Talks for WordPress plugin allows you to display TED Talks videos in your WordPress Blog. It is based on the YouTube WordPress plugin by Joern Zaefferer. I rewrote the code to make it display TED Talks videos in any WordPress blog.
Download the .zip TED Talks for WordPress Plugin here
How to use it:
Download the plugin and extract it to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it just like any other WordPress plugin. Afterwards, you can include a TED Talks video on your posts or pages by writing this (without quotes):
['TEDTALKS filename']
How to find the .flv filename of the TED Talk:
Copy and paste the "embed video" code from ted.com video you want to post to a text editor and look for the .flv filename. Example:
<!–cut and paste–> <object classid=" clsid: d27cdb6e -ae6d-11cf-96b8- 4445535 40000" codebase= "http:// download. macromedia .com/ pub/ shockwave/ cabs /flash/ swflash.cab# version=8,0,0,0" width="432" height="285" id="VE_Player" align="middle"> <param name= "movie" value= "http:// static. videoegg. com/ted/ flash/ loader.swf"> <PARAM NAME= "FlashVars" VALUE= "bgColor= FFFFFF &file= http:// static. videoegg. com/ted/ movies/JOHNMAEDA-2007_high.flv& autoPlay=false& fullscreenURL =http:// static.videoegg. com /ted/flash/ fullscreen.html& forcePlay= false& logo=&allowFullscreen=true"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name=" allowScript Access" value="always"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <param name="scale" value="noscale"> <param name ="wmode" value="window"> <embed xsrc= "http:// static.videoegg.com/ ted/flash/ loader.swf" FlashVars="bgColor= FFFFFF& file=http:// static.videoegg.com /ted/ movies /JOHNMAEDA-2007_high.flv& autoPlay=false &fullscreen URL= http:// static. videoegg. com/ ted/flash/ fullscreen.html& forcePlay= false& logo=& allowFullscreen= true" quality="high" allowScriptAccess= "always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" wmode= "window" width="432" height="285" name="VE_Player" align="middle" type=" application/ x-shockwave- flash" pluginspage= "http:// www.macromedia. com/go/ getflashplayer"></object>
In your WordPress editor you type (without quotes):
['TEDTALKS JOHNMAEDA-2007_high.flv']
Have Fun!
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Published August 15th, 2007 in Chillout and Off Topic. 1 Comment
Episodes in a supermarket a-la web 2.0
Off topic: installing Windows Vista in 2 minutes
Published Februar 25th, 2007 in Off Topic. 0 CommentsActually i'm not into the usual Microsoft bashing, they do have some excellent products. But this video is really great, see it for yourself.