RemixClassNotes20060426 - Raymond Yee's Wiki

write today's lecture (4/26/06 7:23a)

lots of things are scriptable: script I use to empty out some email on my calmail account via imap
video

how did International Remix go?
Grouper API: video

Grouper Video API 0.1

scholarly

Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories — Mellon Scholarly Communications
Meeting Goals and Topics — Mellon Scholarly Communications: To agree on the nature and characteristics of a limited set of core, protocol-based repository interfaces (REST-full and/or SOAP-based Web services) that allow downstream applications to interact with heterogeneous repositories in an efficient and consistent manner.

google desktop api

Microsoft Office

C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\test\testMSOffice.py -- part of the win32com package

OpenDocuments

OpenOfficeOrg - Raymond Yee's Wiki
OASIS OpenDocument Essentials
D:\Document\Interactive_University\Docs\2002\05\OpenOfficeAutomation\openoffice.py:

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import win32com.client
objServiceManager = win32com.client.Dispatch("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")
objServiceManager._FlagAsMethod("CreateInstance")
objDesktop = objServiceManager.CreateInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")
objDesktop._FlagAsMethod("loadComponentFromURL")
args = []
objDocument = objDesktop.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/swriter", "_blank", 0, args)
objDocument._FlagAsMethod("GetText")
objText = objDocument.GetText()
objText._FlagAsMethod("createTextCursor","insertString")
objCursor = objText.createTextCursor()
objText.insertString(objCursor, "The first line in the newly created text document.\n", 0)

Google Calendar references

the API doc

Google Calendar Data API

blog entry that gives a gloss on what's happening

Google Code Blog: Google Calendar data API: time to start coding!

discussion group to see the latest

Google Groups: Google Calendar Data API

new IE7

IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (and more) Available

followup to Prof Bauerlein's talk

Take a look at http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?webcastid=15702 and specifically, http://webcast.berkeley.edu:8080/ramgen/events/ls/bauerlein2.rm
Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds - Kaiser Family Foundation table 3-E personal media ownership
NAEP 2004 Trends in Academic Progress Three Decades of Student Performance in Reading and Mathematics: Findings in Brief --- 2 tables figure 4.4 pages read/day for school figure 4-6 -- correlation to leisure reading.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/american_freshman.html -- report might not be available online UCLA American Freshman-- used to talk about how entering freshmen read for fun or not.
American Timeuse survey: American Time Use Survey Home Page. I think: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/history/atus.09142004.news -- table 9 or page 19 of http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/atus_09142004.pdf
NEA survey of public participation in the arts -- I think the latest is http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEASurvey2004.pdf for how often people go to the opera, museum, etc.

my own talk on remix

http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee/2006/04/25#a2098