November 29, 2007
sorry for the lack of posting. I’ve on the road again, currently enjoying Rio!
see this story on the state of mobile activism–
here is the teaser:
Cats, mice and handsets
Nov 29th 2007 | SÃO PAULO
From The Economist print edition
Protesters and governments are mastering the tricks of the mobile trade
BACK in September, protesters from many parts [...]
activism, writings
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November 26, 2007
Projects
open source projects at Nokia
(tags: nokia opensource mobile development software s60 programming symbian)
design
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November 25, 2007
CNews: LiveJournal goes offline
“LiveJournal bloggers will be able to express their opinions in the foreign supplement Russia beyond the Headlines of the US Washington Post, the UK Daily Telegraph and Indian Times of India”. Interesting!
(tags: livejournal russia technology blogging citjournalism research)
design
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November 20, 2007
South Korea opens boot camp to confront cyberspace addiction – International Herald Tribune
At a camp fully financed by the South Korean government, students spend their time exercising and doing group activities to wean themselves from the Internet.
(tags: gaming internet teaching addiction technology)
Dialup Radio
Dialup Radio is a tool that distributes human rights and independent media via [...]
design
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November 19, 2007
Augmented Social Cognition: How social tagging appears to affect human memory?
interesting note on how various modes of tagging affect how we remember!
(tags: tagging socialsoftware tags memory social research)
News & Broadcast – New Index Measures Countries’ Ability to Connect to Global Markets
A new World Bank study ranking 150 countries to find where it’s easiest to ship [...]
design
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November 18, 2007
The Modern Library | 100 Best | Novels
by the Random House Board but also by readers
(tags: advice books reading lists reference novels list book literature article art bibliography awards culture)
Vintage Vinyl:Steal This Book
this is that “Free” book Chris Anderson could have written way back in the 70s 
(tags: books free 60s counterculture)
Scientists Successfully Simulate Photosynthesis [...]
design
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November 17, 2007
Future of Newspapers Blog – Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century
J-Lab Director Jan Schaffer on Info-structure: “News organizations need to construct the hub that will enable ordinary people with passions and expertise to commit acts of news and information.”
(tags: blogs change community ideas innovation journalism journalists newmedia oldvsnew)
Politics – washingtonpost.com
Washingtonpost.com [...]
design
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November 13, 2007
rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs
this is way better than Indexed!
(tags: analytics comedy charts design funny graphics graphs hiphop humor music)
design
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November 12, 2007
I didn’t blog a while, preferring to put my witty comments in del.icio.us — in part because there’s been too much travel, as usual (I was in Kyrgyzstan and Russia in the last two weeks–and many more before that). But I just couldn’t resist to bring everyone’s attention to yet another — and this [...]
activism
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Eikongraphia » Blog Archive » Pyramids to reduce noise Schiphol Airport
“…plans have been unveiled for the building of about 150 pyramids around Schiphol Airport, the so-called ‘Polderbaan’,…to reduce the noise…by 20 percent, to reduce the CO2 emissionl…while sustaining a growth of air travel of 10%”
(tags: sound transport architecture travel green airport amsterdam schiphol)
The Future Of [...]
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