This is a wannabe nerd’s dream come true, a website that makes learning code fun (you can track and share your progress and learn with friends). I’ve been struggling to learn JavaScript so I’m really curious to see whether Codecademy will keep me focused and inspired. I made it through lesson 1 unscathed at any rate but I can see variables waiting for me in lesson 3 and I imagine at some point I’ll have to face the dreaded Regex…

Happy World is a project about censorship in Burma and the team have built this Twitter “Censurator” to underline the message in the film. Try it – it’s quite unnerving to watch army generals march all over your Twitter page and put your avatar behind bars (they even put the little Twitter bird in a cage!).

Google are very excited about all the creative possibilities when you bring browsers and JavaScript together with the latest open technologies like HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. Check out Chrome Experiments where they celebrate some of the cool stuff people are creating, including the latest OK Go video, All Is Not Lost.

According to the Stroome site, the word Stroome comes from the Dutch word “stromen” which means “to move freely.” Stroome is a collaborative editing site, and although there doesn’t seem to be much really great stuff on there yet, I can see the potential for some really interesting collaborative projects and remixes.

Steven Johnson is a very clever man and I particularly like his assertion that “chance favors the connected mind.” If you think about it, that’s what Shooting People is doing – connecting interesting, creative people so that good ideas can spring forth!

Do algorithms shape our worldview? What are we not seeing on Facebook and Google? As Eli Pariser puts it, “The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see but not necessarily what we need to see.” This TED talk from Pariser is definitely worth a watch and a ponder.

Hackasaurus is a great project to make kids comfortable hacking the web (it’s not bad for nervous grown-ups either!) I particularly like X-Ray Goggles, it’s a really fun way to (safely) remix stuff on the web and get comfortable with the idea that you too can be a hacker.    

Broadcastr is a new-ish site, currently in beta, that allows you to listen to audio stories tagged to specific locations. You can also record your own stories and create playlists (you could create a playlist of stories connected to the neighborhood you live in for example and listen to it via the Broadcastr iPhone or Android app as you walk around). I’m really interested in the context that location gives to stories, and the idea that you can inhabit the…

“The 19th Century culture was defined by the novel. The 20th Century culture was defined by the cinema. The culture of the 21st Century will be defined by the interface.” I heard this quote in Aaron Koblin’s TED talk and it has made me think a lot about what storytelling on the interface can look like. One project that has really inspired me is Welcome to Pine Point, which came out of the ever innovative and creative NFB Interactive, who…

Jonathan Harris is another artist using technology and the web in interesting ways. I love how Harris is constantly interrogating our relationship with technology and rooting everything in a deep sense of the human. The Whale Hunt is one of my favorite projects because of the way he creates a “photographic heartbeat”, taking more photos during periods of high adrenaline. Harris is working on a new storytelling platform called Cowbird where every story has to be dedicated to someone (we…