January 30, 2008
Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Scientific American
“Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not”
(tags: collaboration blogging academics community networking social_networking science)
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January 29, 2008
The Copenhagen Project
“We are building a catalog of media building bricks in order to reinvent the services we use to understand and keep up to date with what happens in the world”
(tags: media information project news rss socialmedia web web2.0)
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January 28, 2008
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deletionist versus Inclusionist Controversy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
an interesting internal meta-debate on whether an article on deletionist vs inclusionist controversy in Wikipedia should be…deleted or included!
(tags: wiki inclusionism deletionism wikpedia darkside)
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January 27, 2008
Booksthatmakeyoudumb
ever wondered what’s the correlation between favorite books on campus (as measured by Facebook apps) and SAT scores? A new project from the guy who created Wikiscanner
(tags: books facebook visualization statistics literature humor education data academia americans article book charts)
Blogs – The New York Review of Books
New York Review of Books reviews 10 books on [...]
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January 25, 2008
mySociety » Travel-time maps
a collection of interesting public transport-related visualizations from MySociety
(tags: maps travel london visualization transport housing art data design geo flash)
Blogspotting Updated blog numbers from David Sifry – BusinessWeek
Technorati says that 99% of all pings going to its servers are spam
(tags: statistics blogs trends technorati blogosphere 2008 blog internet businessweek stats)
EveryBlock: A news [...]
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January 24, 2008
Extortr: online blackmail for the masses
“it’s what Flickr would have been if Flickr were evil” 
(tags: web2.0 blackmail fun humour flickr parody funny humor anonymity articles community consumer crime culture cool)
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January 23, 2008
Chocolate in Beta Testing, Offered by a Wired Founder – New York Times
…Tcho’s dark chocolate will be available in 50-gram beta bars, representing Version .10. The $4 bars, made of Ghanaian beans and wrapped in brown paper, will be sold only locally at first, only to those who have signed up on the Tcho Web [...]
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January 22, 2008
Wired News – GPS Adds Dimension to Online Photos
“That’s just one of the growing number of uses for geotagging, which is largely practiced by tech-savvy and professional photographers but is likely to expand. Global positioning is becoming omnipresent as more cell phones and digital cameras have built-i
(tags: geotagging tagging flickr gis gps photos tags)
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January 21, 2008
Global Voices Online » A “Robot†for Analyzing the Persian Blogosphere
Arash Kamangir just launched an innovative project for analyzing the Persian blogosphere that provides valuable new information about Iranian blogs.
(tags: robot blogs blogosphere analysis buzz buzzagreggation crawler iran globalvoices)
User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
October 2007 study: The most surprising result is that the [...]
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January 20, 2008
Wikipedia Review: » Criticisms of Wikipedia – A Compendium
summary of major points of criticism towards Wikipedia
(tags: wiki wikipedia criticism critical encyclopedia community)
unwiki
un_wiki gets quotes from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia’s Deletion Log and republishes them almost in real time
(tags: wiki wikipedia media software art archive artificial control showcase publishing)
The dark side of social aggregation: the [...]
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