Jun 30 2009
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Jun 28 2009
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The sour Wikipedian
Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That’s the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of…
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Why Technology Can't Fulfill
At the beginning of this summer an Amish guy I met online rode his bicycle out to our home along the foggy Pacifica coast. Online, is of course, the last place you’d ever expect to meet an…
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Roundup: Scientists Write to Obama, Retrofitting Detroit, 3D Printers Under $1K and More...
An Open Letter to the President
If you think it’s frustrating to be a climate activist watching Washington, imagine what it’s like for the scientists who are running the numbers while…
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Thinking about complexity in the world we live in today
A few decades ago, I read a book called AI: The Tumultous History of The Search for Artificial Intelligence, by Daniel Crevier. In it, the late and brilliant Donald Michie is quoted as saying…
Jun 23 2009
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First LIFT09 France videos are online
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The first LIFT France conference took place last way in Marseilles. Being in Seoul, South Korea, myself, I missed it entirely, but luckily the videos are now becoming… |
Jun 21 2009
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Stop Press for June 19th
- On the library / from a working library quot;I wonder, then, if the promise of an ebook isn’t the book but the library. And if, in all our attention to a new device for reading, we’re neglecting…
Jun 20 2009
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UK report on how cities use innovation to tackle social challenges
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British Council press release:
Breakthrough cities is a groundbreaking report on how cities can mobilise creativity and knowledge to tackle compelling social challenges. The… |
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Iran, Citizen Media and Media Attention
It’s been an interesting few days for people who study social media. As the protests over election results have continued in Iran, and Iranian authorities have prevented most mainstream…
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Out of control decision-making
I’ve just noticed that TED has recently put another talk online by the entertaining and thought-provoking behavioural economist Dan Ariely where he discusses why our feeling of being in…
Jun 17 2009
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Maps as service design: The Incidental
Schulze & Webb worked as part of the team producing a unique service for the world’s biggest furniture and design event: Salone di Mobile in Milan, this year.
The British Council usually…
Jun 15 2009
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Portugese Sporting Information Graphics
I saw these recently on Chiqui Esteban’s excellent infographicsnews.com.
They are from a new newspaper launched in Portugal called “i”
They show why the Latin world is ahead in newspaper…
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CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED ENERGY?
There’s little doubt that the centralization (the current approach) of alternative energy production is more efficient than decentralization. It enables location optimization (better…
Jun 14 2009
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The New Properties of New Property
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a lefty, and he does not know it. Or maybe Arnie is one of those righty freedom fighters that end up so far off to the right they end up going full circle and re-emerging on…
