links for 2008-03-10
Written on March 10, 2008
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an interesting attempt by CSIS (the think-tank) to visualize the global roadmap for 2008-2012 as one of those subway maps!
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The sorry state of much of Africa’s transport and communication networks is holding the continent back and preventing its countries from competing on the global market, the UN Special Adviser on Africa, told the World Bank
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great overview in Wired
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The Financial Times has launched a Facebook application that will give students free access to FT.com. Way to go, FT!!!
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New data released by Hitwise in February shows that there is a socio-economic difference between those frequently using Yahoo and those more frequently using Google.
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"A French court ruled on Monday that a popular Web site can no longer let pupils name and shame their teachers". So, no crowdsourced ratings of French teachers...
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The US government has begun a project ("Reynard") to develop ways to spot terrorists who are using virtual worlds. Iit aims to recognise "normal" behaviour in online worlds and home in on anomalous activity.
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"This essay debunks the myths of the Web 2.0 brand and argues that the popularized phrase limits public media discourse and the imagination of a future World Wide Web."
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Mike Wesch on the online tools he uses in his Digital Ethnography class at KSU
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"iConflict is dedicated to empowering people to share information, and discuss conflicts and crises, wherever they arise" to launch soon
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summary of Ethan'z talk talk at ETech
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New project from Jonathan Harris, this time visualizing online dating :"...Simultaneously, the system forms an evolving zeitgeist of dating, tracking the most popular first dates, turn-ons, desires, self-descriptions and interests"...
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"Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these “million dollar blocks†and of the city-prison-city-prison migration flow for five of the nati
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NYTE illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.
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Review of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" that opened at MOMA last week of February
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leading content management systems visualized as a subway map
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Technology Review on network visualization
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interesing overlay of Flickr geo-tagged data on Google Earth
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"Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Bounce around the map plundering farms, denying grain silos to opposition supporters and robbing the community chest"
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"What happens when the web2.0 architecture of participation meets the marginalised? What are the trends in web-enabled social innovation, and how can we encourage them"
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the Obama campaign was using service called Central Desktop to power a public facing wiki to organize information for precinct captains in Texas
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MobileActive has a post about Ahmad Sherif, an Egyptian artist, who produced three clips that wnet viral in Egypt
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Key terms in social media and social networking
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Marxist academics seem to have discovered Web2.0! "Different historical and contemporary examples are provided to map how the architecture of participation sometimes turns into an architecture of exploitation."
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Welcome to TwitterPacks, where the community recommends fellow Twitter users by topic of interest or geographical area.
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An easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what "information literacy" means, designed for busy public policy-makers, business executives, civil society administrators and practicing professionals.
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"The phone is ringing, and I don't recognize the number, All Caller ID says is, "NAME UNAVAILABLE". Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want"
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"There’s no legitimate claim to be made that openness and groupthink eventually will lead to worthlessness. That point can simply not be substantiated if modern societal ethics are thing we humans still generally adhere to"
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Caplan, the author of "The Myth of The Rational Voter", provides some good arguments against the Wisdom of Crowds thesis at SxSW
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"The streets are full of interesting and potentially useful things that have been thrown out. If you see something good, snap a picture of it with your camera or camera phone, post it to flickr with the tag garbagescout. It will go up on the home page and
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an interesting Wired feature on the social recommendation engine behind Netflix and how insights from behavioral economics and psychology can make it better
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In Iraq, soldiers conducting frontline street patrols finally get software tools that let them share findings and plan missions.
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an extremely interesting (and dense) OECD report from 2007 looking at the Internet infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the developing world and particularly the next billion users that are to come online
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"The private sector alone seems unlikely to provide poor countries access to the global backbone at reasonable bandwidth and cost. State-funded programmes may be needed—precisely the sorts of inefficient ventures, ironically, that the mobile-phone revol
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outline for a pedagogical game that explores the dynamics of building a reputation online by giving and capturing attention
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The site searches as many local authority planning websites as it can find and emails you details of applications near you.
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"Among the 125 million people in the U.S. who visit online dating and social-networking sites are a growing number of dullards who steal personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems." Cut--and-Paste Personalities, OMG!
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The cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.
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What did people do before Facebook? They had an equivalent: autograph albums. Although not as technologically complex as today's web applications, autograph albums can offer an intimate glimpse into a person's life.
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interesting alternative to Sunstein: "[Mutz's research shows] quite substantial negative correlation between exposure to cross-cutting views and willingness to participate ...more participation is likely to go together with less deliberation among people
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easy-to-use tool showing traffic to individual Wikipedia articles
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"The UN's International Narcotics Control Board has released their annual report on the state of the global drug scene, and it looks like we're in the midst of a worldwide coke binge."
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These are vigilante-style operations run by off-duty or former police officers and firemen, who throw out the drug gangs and claim to offer protection to the community, but at a price.
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an overview of CJ platforms in the Spanish-speaking world
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"Henry is a global demonstration of what a superempowered individual can do in warfare: from creating a global criminal economic ecosystem to coordinating guerrilla attacks via cell phone to building a global brand (MEND) via e-mail."
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"Photo agencies are increasingly relying on submissions from regular folk who either happen to bump into celebrities while carrying digital cameras, or who have injected themselves into the cat-and-mouse game of celebrity snapshots, despite any formal tra
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an intriguing paper on the similarities between Wikipedia and Delicious and more traditional social collectives
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Music recommendation website Last.fm said today that inviting external developers to build complementary services has expanded its audience to around 19 million users worldwide, as it launched a dedicated showcase to highlight the best widgets and tools.
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The RIPE Network Coordination Center, an independent organization involved in high-level internet address allocation, released a video that demonstrating what happened when Pakistan Telecom's attempt to censor YouTube managed to wreak havoc globally
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How is FARC different from all those other Latin American leftist militias?
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"So the Surveillance State just continues not only to grow and grow, but does so without any real attention, oversight, or limitations. As usual, there is an inverse relationship between the most consequential matters and the attention such matters receiv
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"With a cynical eye cast on local newspapers such as the pro-government daily, the Straits Times, critics say media coverage has skirted key issues and so more people were turning to alternatives such as blogs for a differing viewpoint"
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'Watch Your Mouth' monitors the BBC's 'Have Your Say' website and detects when comments get censored.
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"...With a more Internet-connected and vocal middle class, a recent history of massive worker layoffs, and a large underclass of migrants, urban unrest could be more difficult to contain"
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"Mortgage crisis kitteh needin Obamaz halp!" is my favorite!
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