The Public Domain by James Boyle (3)
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James Boyle’s new book The Public Domain is now available. Boyle, a founding board member of Creative Commons, and current Chair of the CC Board, is a professor at Duke University School of Law and a seminal thinker in the field of information property rights and law. The following excerpt from James Boyle’s Preface to The Public Domain sets out issues that make this book a fundamental resource for understanding and advancing the smart mobby ...
Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government | Berkman Center (1)
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Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM's Academy of Technology, discusses participatory governance.
BBC - Radio 4 - alistair cooke memorial lecture (1)
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The Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture, 2008, delivered by David Mamet
Hillary Clinton and the Action Bias (1)
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The same phenomenon is at work when it comes to people's beliefs about their careers and relationships. When things are going well, there is a tendency to stagnate, rather than innovate and make things even better. When things are going poorly, on the other hand, our bias is to flail.In the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the action bias explains why Clinton and most U.S. politicians were biased toward action -- any ...
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Hamish MacEwan said:
Something must be done. Something has been done. Solved, QED.
Rice University | News & Media (1)
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the Nov. 13 gala celebrating the 15th anniversary of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, praised the institute's role in "bridging theory and practice."
New Zealand's biggest internet failure? (1)
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New Zealand's largest Telco and Internet Service Provider has suffered one of the worst internet outages ever experienced in this country. Reports started coming in between 9pm - 11pm on Friday night of internet connections outages, website... (more in the full post)
CabEasy Looks To Pair Off Strangers For Half-Priced Taxi Fares (5)
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With the economy as turbulent as it is, most people are trying to save a few bucks whatever way they can. CabEasy, a 1-man startup that launched earlier this month, is looking to help people save some cash on their Taxi rides. The site allows people to post a public listing of their upcoming taxi travel plans, and pair up with someone else who is traveling a similar route to split the ride. The concept ...
Best Black Friday Specials (1)
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Slightly pixelated grandparents (1)
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The Gray Lady wrote it, I am not telling anyone their grandparents are “pixelated.” But the New York Times speculates in an article today that a generation of toddlers may be getting that impression of Grandma and Grandpa because of the Web communication they are doing. The NYT story “Grandma’s on the Computer Screen” includes this excerpt: . . . In a way that even e-mailed photos never could, the Web cam promises to transcend ...
CC non-commercial study: have your say (2)
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Cultural Capital by Tama Leaver As announced on the main CC website, CC has launched a survey to find out what non-commercial means - and it wants your input. The survey forms part of the larger study into the definition non-commercial that CC announced a while ago. With the growing use of the 'non-commercial' term in online licences (and not just CC licences - it's even on the PM's website), it's becoming more and more ...
OpenStreetMap grows, spawns ecosystem (63)
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This is a guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of property search engine Nestoria. OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map. What began as a few geogeeks wandering the streets with their GPS’s has turned into a global movement with over 75,000 registered contributors. The database has improved rapidly in quality and comprehensiveness, as have the tools and services around it. OSM is ...
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Choosenick said:
I like the idea of roving geo-geeks walking the streets, ambiently mapping their lives ...
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Artem said:
an article in techcrunch about osm
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fesja said:
muy interesante, justamente el otro día hablaba sobre mapas con uno de caminos
Blown off course by butterflies (1)
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People who worried before 2000 that the "new economy" was a bubble, or warned of the terrorist threat before September 11 2001, or saw that credit expansion was out of control in 2006, were not popular. They were killjoys.Nor were they popular after these events. If these people had been right, then others had been blind or negligent, and the latter preferred to represent themselves as victims of unforeseeable events. As John Maynard Keynes observed, ...
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Hamish MacEwan said:
Peter Schiff for example... http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/24/in-2007-pundits-scof.html
BuzzBox’s Fast Forward Is StumbleUpon With A Train Of Thought (35)
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I like StumbleUpon, the website recommendation engine that lets me click a button whenever I’d like to view a new, potentially interesting website. But for all the hours it has helped me waste, I wouldn’t go as far as to call it useful - pages that get recommended are rarely related to each other beyond a general category, so there’s never any logical train of thought. San Francisco-based startup BuzzBox is looking to add some ...
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Patrick Lightbody said:
Pretty cool. If the logic really does bring up related stuff (like we tried to do with mioNews), that could be pretty powerful core technology. Smart of them to use it for something really simple, like a better StumbleUpon.
National Digital Forum (New Zealand Aotearoa): Home (1)
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The National Digital Forum (NDF) is a coalition of museums, archives, art galleries, libraries and government departments working together to enhance electronic access to New Zealand’s culture and heritage.
12 myths about how the Internet works (1)
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Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was first described in a series of technical documents written by early experimenters. Since then, countless engineers have created systems and applications that rely on IP as the communications link between people and their computers.
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Hamish MacEwan said:
AKA "12 ways we have fucked TCP/IP." At least one of these 'myths' ``is an example of an assumption that was never true to begin with'' the rest, you decide.
The Pirate Bay Celebrates 5th Anniversary (8)
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In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. Today, roughly 5 years after this historic day, the founders of the site are celebrities in Sweden, and rockstars on the Internet. The Pirate Bay its roots lead us back to Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), a pro-piracy organization which was founded in August 2003. Since there was no filesharing network in Sweden at ...
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j_aroche said:
Long life The Pirate Bay!
Victorian Cathedral Music in Theory ... - Google Book Search (1)
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This is a fresh critical assessment of Victorian cathedral music, unique in its detailed treatment of the cultural,...
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Via Paul Kedrosky. Feel free to use this as an open thread.Shared by Hamish MacEwan (1)
