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A dedicated site (rather than personal blogs that are already in place for this purpose) would be great. At the moment, I keep a Delicious account to index lea

by buckler 17y ago

A dedicated site (rather than personal blogs that are already in place for this purpose) would be great. At the moment, I keep a Delicious account to index learning material and look for additional content using relevant tags or looking through others' accounts hoping to find other users like myself - time consuming/inefficient task however. If you've had this idea for some time, I'm just curious as to whether you've thought of a way to search for (& gather) such material.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
Gathering content: - Amazon Turk, while defining the sources yourself. ie- Go and find me a link, description, title, etc. for every presentation for Startup School 2009 - Virtual Assistants - User submitted (submit a talk) I'd start with one category to start, most likely tech conferences+keynotes. That alone is enough content to get started. Next, I'd probably move on to a second category: actual school lectures and focus on a few select topics: CS and entrepreneurship. I'd then use mechanical turk to search through the top 100 universities and see if they have online lectures. If it's a yes, id then create another task to index and categorize that content. Lastly, I'd then go to a third category: Online Screencasts. I'd once again focus on a lot of tech material. Ruby on Rails alone has ~200 screencasts via railcasts. You could probably accomplish this for about $1000 or less in mturk+virtual assistant fees, along with a lot of hard work yourself organizing from a higher level perspective. You could certainly launch with the first category alone- tech conference talks, keynotes,etc. I'm pretty certain there is video out there to learn anything you want, and it will only keep growing. What would have cost 100k+ in education fees ten years ago is now 100% freely available. Someone just needs to organize the information. I have lots of other ideas on the topic. Feel free to comment here or each out: j@jasonlbaptiste.com.

by buckler 17y ago

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

Gathering content: - Amazon Turk, while defining the sources yourself. ie- Go and find me a link, description, title, etc. for every presentation for Startup School 2009 - Virtual Assistants - User submitted (submit a talk) I'd start with one category to start, most likely tech conferences+keynotes. That alone is enough content to get started. Next, I'd probably move on to a second category: actual school lectures and focus on a few select topics: CS and entrepreneurship. I'd then use mechanical turk to search through the top 100 universities and see if they have online lectures. If it's a yes, id then create another task to index and categorize that content. Lastly, I'd then go to a third category: Online Screencasts. I'd once again focus on a lot of tech material. Ruby on Rails alone has ~200 screencasts via railcasts. You could probably accomplish this for about $1000 or less in mturk+virtual assistant fees, along with a lot of hard work yourself organizing from a higher level perspective. You could certainly launch with the first category alone- tech conference talks, keynotes,etc. I'm pretty certain there is video out there to learn anything you want, and it will only keep growing. What would have cost 100k+ in education fees ten years ago is now 100% freely available. Someone just needs to organize the information. I have lots of other ideas on the topic. Feel free to comment here or each out: j@jasonlbaptiste.com.