links for 2008-01-18
Written on January 18, 2008
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interesting to see people moving from the Onion to MoveOn. Arguably, the Onion gets the Web much better than the MoveOn crowd (well, they don't really)
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Singer explains why he didn't pay for 'In Rainbows'
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Radiohead-like business model has disappointing results for record he produced
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some good bits of advice
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Tom Loosemore, BBC Future Media & Technology, gave this talk at the JISC Annual Conference in Birmingham in March 2007
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a beautiful visualization of "x is the new y" search results for 2007
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Graphviz is open source graph visualization software
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"Apple is the new NASA. Iran is the new Iraq. Beer is the new water, and water is the new oil". Article from Boston Globe accompanying the beautifuly "x is the new y" visualization
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the beta version of the redesigned BBC homepage looks quite interesting
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"This is the initial release of the "Detailed Roadmap of the 21st Century" compilation, a year by year bullet point list of notable advances expected to happen in the 21st century, from 2006 onwards"
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Dec 2007 article from the Wall Street Journal on how new media artists are using data mining and visualization techniques to create new art
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that's one of the most surreal new videos at the Onion. two observations: 1. must have been produced by somebody who has worked in a grant-funded NGO 2. the "child" looks very much like Alexander Litvinenko on his deathbed
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a new Pew study about the imapct of the Internet on the 2008 campaign
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Electronic MSc Dissertation Series from Media@LSE
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Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes.
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The Commons encourages people to help describe the historical photos being added to Flickr by institutions like the Library of Congress by tagging them or commenting on them.
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"In-Q-Tel's mission is to discover, adapt, and deliver leading edge commercial technologies that can enable the CIA’s and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community's critical intelligence work". But, of course, CIA has a venture capitalist firm too
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so, Facebook is one big conspiracy funded by the CIA!
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including an interesting prototype with a step-by-step guide
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Help create the first comprehensive map of Public Art across the UK. Send photos direct from your mobile (or PC) by:
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A new brain scanning study has supported what we've suspected all along, more expensive wine tastes better partly because we expect it to.
Filed in: design.
