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Archives for November, 2007

my story in next week’s The Economist

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 [...]

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links for 2007-11-26

November 26, 2007

Projects
open source projects at Nokia
(tags: nokia opensource mobile development software s60 programming symbian)

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links for 2007-11-25

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)

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links for 2007-11-20

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 [...]

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links for 2007-11-19

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 [...]

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links for 2007-11-18

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 [...]

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links for 2007-11-17

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 [...]

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links for 2007-11-13

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)

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The ugly face of cyberactivism in Russia: how fascists and racists "get" Web2.0

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 [...]

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links for 2007-11-12

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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