Archive for July, 2009
July 22, 2009
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Mitchell Whitelaw is an artist and writer with interests in digital ontology and generative systems.
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One third (35%) of American adult internet users have a profile on an online social network site, four times as many as three years ago, but still much lower than the 65% of online American teens who use social networks
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July 19, 2009
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♫☂★©…
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Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public.
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They're gr(rrrrrrrrrrr)eat!
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July 17, 2009
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Robert Niles of the Knight Digital Media Center suggests that "…early online publishing technology affected industry thinking in profound, and, ultimately, tragic, ways as well."
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A mysterious glob of unknown material up to 12 miles long has appeared off Alaska's northern coast. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer says, "It's certainly biological. It's definitely not an oil product of any kind."
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Under Rich Earth is a story about ordinary people with extraordinary courage. In a remote mountain valley in Ecuador, coffee and sugarcane farmers face the dismal prospect of being forced off their land to make way for a mining project.
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July 16, 2009
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Horses of the hackney type were often worked heavily, in the nature of things that were hired out to all and sundry. By the middle of the sixteenth century, hackney was being applied to people in just this sense, and was abbreviated about the start of the eighteenth century to hack, as in hack work; it was applied in particular to literary drudges who dashed off poor-quality writing to order — hence its modern pejorative application to journalists.
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The ikTag contains a RFID chip which can be linked to the profile of a participant of a social network like PICNIC, CCAA, NetwerkCS and many more
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July 15, 2009
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We're a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.
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Ushahidi, which means ''testimony'' in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi's roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.
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July 11, 2009
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From Gotham City to Mega City One, the Architects’ Journal presents a selection of the greatest illustrated urban spaces
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With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.
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July 10, 2009
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Clocks/time-visualizers.
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150+ digital texts with value beyond novelty. H/T @jilltxt
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Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips.
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