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What a brilliant tool… Superb. Excerpting bits of YT videos…
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Interesting, despite being a map junkie, had never come across this map.
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October 29, 2009 • 3:42 am 0
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October 27, 2009 • 3:04 am 0
links for 2009-10-26
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PG's TheMemory.com, mentioned in passing a while back by a bunch of media. Being worked on by a guy called Alex Mayhew.
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Selection of resources related to impact assessment for HELI – Health and Environmental Linkages Initiative. Includes resources like case studies of participation in decision-making.
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Video Volunteers set this up…
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Get yourself educated!
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October 23, 2009 • 3:06 am 0
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October 22, 2009 • 3:02 am 0
links for 2009-10-21
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Managing News is a pluggable, open source news and data aggregator with visualization and workflow tools that's highly customizable and extensible.
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"When publishers turn the focus back on their Web sites, video has to be a big part of what they do. Look at what's happening outside of journalism. YouTube delivers over a billion video streams to consumers each day. New devices are allowing consumers to view video on [devices from] cell phones to e-readers. When I first started shooting video for my newspaper's Web site in 2004, I was an anomaly. Broadband-delivered Web video was new to both consumers and publications. Now it is mainstream."
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Org dedicated to distribution and exhibition of Latin American cinema in NYC.
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October 21, 2009 • 3:07 am 0
links for 2009-10-20
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The sci-fi author of Diaspora and Quarantine, among others…
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Lots and lots of European cultural magazines.
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In German though.
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Aggregation bonanza, organised by topic.
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"According to the Senegalese Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye, archives are reliable evidence and a vital source of history, hence the "crucial" importance of this meeting for the authorities of his country. "A people without archives risk being without memory. The authorities in Senegal have understood the importance to be given to archives,” Ndiaye said."
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"euro|topics has a Europe-wide correspondent network at its disposal. The correspondents read the most important newspapers from Estonia to Portugal daily, and select articles for the press review."
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mySociety expands to Eastern Europe…
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supported by the BritDoc Foundation and a slew of torrent sites. Good idea…
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"Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer. It can fit 30,000 images onto its 1-gigabyte memory."
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"Because The Photographer isn’t a novel. It isn’t fiction. Didier and the doctors of MSF are real people, fallible and petty, and all the more heroic for their faults." The book's editor explains why she loves it…
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October 20, 2009 • 3:02 am 0
links for 2009-10-19
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Described to me a a junior TED – but for video.
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"Most agencies regularly review ongoing programs, but too often, because of measurement or data constraints, design problems, or lack of resources within the agency, these reviews are not robust enough to provide meaningful information about a program’s outcomes and measurable progress towards the agency’s objective. Many agencies simply don’t have the capacity to carry out a rigorous, strategic research agenda. The result is that policy priorities are established without evidence to back them up. Programs are continued year after year almost by rote, without a hard, objective look as to their effectiveness. We want to break that cycle. We want to provide an honest, up-front analysis of government programs and services. This independent evaluation needs to be built into the DNA of the government’s priority-setting and funding determinations."
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"We haven’t simply created a block grant and told states they can do whatever they want, nor have we dictated a particular program design and told everyone to follow it. Instead, we’ve said that we’re flexible about the details of the program; we only insist that most of the money go toward the programs backed by the best available evidence, and the rest to programs that are promising and willing to test their mettle."
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By Global Partners and Associates – former Article XIX ED (and WITNESS Board Member) Andrew Puddephatt's outfit. Nicely done, step-by-step explanation of how the communication environment that impacts on human rights is changing, and why it is incumbent upon human rights organisations to adapt.
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Jamais Cascio's open source planning.
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Posts about women in computing and technology…
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Go ahead, take part…
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I feel like Terry Eagleton looking at the new Brian Bond book – yes, sure, but isn't that kind of obvious? Certainly explains England/Tottenham problems with getting decent left-wingers. "According to Casasanto right is associated with good because most people are right-handed. 'We can manipulate objects with our dominant hand more fluently than with our non-dominant hand. Over a lifetime of lopsided motor experience, we come to associate good things with the side of space we interact with more skillfully and bad things with the side we interact with more clumsily', Casasanto says. This association in the minds of the right-handed majority gets enshrined in expressions like 'my right hand man' and 'two left feet'."
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Does this mean that industrial designers rule our world? Crown Jonathan Ive NOW. "A few psychologists have begun to ponder applications. Ackerman, for example, is looking at the impact of perceptions of hardness on our sense of difficulty. The study is ongoing, but he says he is finding that something as simple as sitting on a hard chair makes people think of a task as harder. If those results hold up, he suggests, it might make sense for future treaty negotiators to take a closer look at everything from the desks to the upholstery of the places where they meet."
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What will information workers need to develop as skills over the next few years?
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Jane McGonigal on engagement: "how, exactly, do you turn attention into engagement? How do you convert a member of the crowd into a member of your team? To answer these questions, innovative organizations will have to grapple with the new challenge of harnessing "participation bandwidth." To do so, they may start to take their cues not from the world of business, but rather from the world of play."
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"The Institute for the Future’s Abundant Computing Map is an introduction to the technologies and applications that will shape a world of digital abundance. Because the landscape will be shaped not just by new technological innovations but also by innovative uses of existing technologies, a comprehensive list of every future application would be simply impossible to create. What we present instead is a guide that will serve as an outline of key directions of the evolution."
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So Patrick Bateman and friends were right… The gsm of their business cards makes ALL the difference. "…the subjects who took the questionnaire on the heavier clipboards tended to ascribe more metaphorical weight to the questions they were asked–they not only judged the foreign currencies to be more valuable, they gave more careful, considered answers to the questions they were asked."
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October 17, 2009 • 3:07 am 0
links for 2009-10-16
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"What happens to publishing if you can't sell content? You have two choices: give it away and make money from it indirectly, or find ways to embody it in things people will pay for."
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October 15, 2009 • 3:05 am 0
links for 2009-10-14
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via Tim O'Reilly.
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Also pretty fascinating list of people presenting – intrigued to hear the privacy professionals' take on digital journalism and blogging.
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Interesting list of people speaking…
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"The challenge we face as the organisers of the 31st International Conference is that of achieving the approval of a joint proposal on “International Standards for the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data”, allowing the development of a universal, binding legal document, which must be backed by the most extensive institutional and social consensus via the participation of the authorities and institutions guaranteeing data protection and privacy and representatives of both public and private entities and organisations." Yikes.
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I clearly missed this piece of information totally.
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This focuses primarily on the impact of closed technologies and retention of personal data. It's pre-Saddam, pre-Burma, pre-Iran – so it'll be interesting to see what the corresponding chapter looks like in this year's report.
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I am intrigued that this declaration takes no account of audio-visual media. Admittedly there's a huge need to ensure that text-based information is subject to the safeguards they're talking about, but it's strange that no one mentions a/v at all.
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October 14, 2009 • 3:05 am 0
links for 2009-10-13
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Open documentary by the BBC -more on this later.
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That handbook…
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"This Handbook provides a survey of the field of collective intelligence, summarizing what is known, providing references to sources for further information, and suggesting possibilities for future research. The handbook is structured as a wiki, a collection of on-line pages, editable by readers."
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Is what it says.
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Yikes. Thanks to Imran Ali for this @moleitau mind-bender. "People, places, time. The triumvirate of factors at play in mobile, social, locative services might be familiar at the surface level to designers and developers. Our relationships to each other, the cities and places we inhabit and navigate have been transformed in the last few years by the technology, products and services that we have designed — but what about that last one of the three — time? Using examples from the development of Dopplr.com and other services — alongside historical and science-fictional perspectives — Matt will explore what we might call “neochronometry” and illustrate some directions we could take as interaction designers to treat time as a material."
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I used to think of textual journalism as the key kind of public sensemaking, but this, along with the other data-related stuff I've been bookmarking, makes me think a bit more transliterately, perhaps. Time to get a maths tutor on School of Everything?
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And more specifically, the New York end of the School of Everything. Wonder whether anyone needs human rights video advocacy lessons.
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So I am #1272 to delicious this, but what the hell – brilliant idea, and the makenubs boys always rave about this.
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The Situationists were right – the "derive" helps us stay alive.
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Yikes – this is pretty obsessively comprehensive.
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In which…: poverty is, surprise, surprise, identified as the major threat to the world's security.
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Regularly updated link tables on mobile, videos, intense conflict photos, events, data visualization, collective intelligence, open government, new tech, education potential, & software.
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Some very interesting papers here, including on "information accountability".
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And one more on ontologies.
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And other ontologies.
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Create ontologies…
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"As the microscope permitted us to explore biology and the telescope helped us to explore cosmology, so will computers and software permit us to explore cognitive worlds that are still unseen. Computers are epistemological exploration tools. They become the playground for the exploration of the life cycle of knowledge. Eventually, computational resources will construct and falsify knowledge all by themselves."
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Although this is about the origin of the William Gibson quote – and a nice piece of mining – I'm more interested in the idea that the past is not evenly distributed, in terms of archives, especially audio-visual archives. More on this sometime when I get a chance to write…
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Lots of relevance here – CIMA's become a key player really quickly.
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Nice illustration of the layers of crap you have to go through to collaborate pre-wiki.
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Community, business and technology.
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Online Streaming Adds Millions of Viewers for ‘Heroes,’ ‘The Office’ – TV Decoder Blog – NYTimes.comTAMi – Total Audience Measurement Index (not to be confused with TamiFlu) – is NBC's aggregate audience measure across 5 platforms.
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"This website contains online lectures delivered as part of the MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University from 2006-2010. Visiting lectures, delivered online by leading practitioners across the world, were an integral part of the course. Teaching via video, Skype, chatrooms, slideshows, websites and plain old-fashioned discussion boards, the speakers outline the realities of working in new media; detail the rigorous creative and theoretical challenges, and celebrate the sheer pleasure of breaking new artistic ground in this dynamic medium. Their legacy and influence still continues in the work of CWNM students as they graduate and begin their careers."
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Minutes of the proceedings of the Security Council meeting led by Hillary Clinton…
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Thanks to the random @lofting for that one. "After World War II, construction of vacation facilities, which had ceased during the war, recommenced and expanded, and in 1963 the health spa planning agency commissioned its first and only market research survey to determine how Soviet citizens wished to vacation. A completely unexpected 72 percent said they would like to travel from one place to another, not sit in one spa. Some 45 percent wished to vacation with their families, and 41 percent with friends or coworkers; only 15 percent said they preferred being with strangers."
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