Stephen E. Arnold: A Fresh Look at Big Data & Big Data (-) Human Factor (+)...
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding...
View ArticlePatrick Meier: Could Lonely Planet Render World Bank Projects More Transparent?
Could Lonely Planet Render World Bank Projects More Transparent? Posted on June 3, 2013 | 5 Comments That was the unexpected question that my World Bank colleague Johannes Kiess asked me the other day....
View ArticleSmartPlanet: Taiwan uses free widespread Wi-Fi to lure tourists
Taiwan uses free widespread Wi-Fi to lure tourists Taiwan is making it easy for foreign tourists to stay connected. The government recently announced that international travelers to the country will be...
View ArticleReference: 9 Alternative Search Engines
Duck Duck Go This search engine is a great option if you value your privacy above all else. The team behind DuckDuckGo believes in better search functions without tracking its users. Its features...
View ArticleMichelle Monk: Geke.US Lays Out Government-Corporate Circles of Corruption
Here is what they have as of today. An extraordinary effort that should soon become automated. You won’t find these on LinkedIn! Click for individual Venn diagram similar to the Keystone Pipeline...
View ArticleJean Lievens: Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future
Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future Jeremiah Owyang web-strategist.com, 11 June 2013 Thanks to you, last week’s report on the collaborative economy was readily received, and has been viewed over...
View ArticleSmartPlanet: As Many Cell Phones as People, But….
There are (almost) as many cell phone subscriptions as people By Tyler Falk | July 2, 2013 Quartz dug up this graph from a new U.N. report showing the world’s rapid adoption of cell phones. Yes, you’re...
View ArticleJean Lievens: Rachel Botsman – How We Treat People Will Craft Our World –...
Rachel Botsman: How We Treat People Will Ultimately Drive Our World Rachel Botsman advocated the advantage of reputation capital at Wired Money in London yesterday. She noted that an economy based on...
View ArticleBerto Jongman: From the English — High Idiocy on Open Access
Comments are more intelligent than the article. Why open access makes no sense There can be no such thing as free access to academic research, says Robin Osborne in Debating Open Access essays –...
View ArticleRobin Good: Curators as Filter Feeders and Ecosystem Engineers – You Are What...
Back in 2003 visionary artist Anne-Marie Schleiner wrote an inspiring paper entitled “Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders and Future Artists” describing the future role of online...
View ArticleRobin Good: Academic Torrents = Big Data + Open Access
Big Data: Large Dataset Curation & Sharing with AcademicTorrents AcademicTorrents is a new web service which allows any organization owning large datasets (no size limits) to easily distribute them...
View ArticleJean Lievens: LOOMIO – building public infrastructure tool for...
BRING LOOMIO TO THE WORLD LOOMIO is free and open-source software for anyone, anywhere, to participate in decisions that affect them. “The world needs a better way to make decisions together. #Loomio...
View ArticleStephen E. Arnold: Free eBooks, Open Culture, & You
Free eBooks At Open Culture There are legal ways to download books on the Internet without having to resort to Pirate Bay or other P2P networks. If you visit Open Culture, you will discover that there...
View ArticleBerto Jongman: Aaron Moritz on Rethinking Access to Research
We Need to Rethink Access to Scientific Research Aaron Moritz One of humanity’s greatest technological triumphs is today’s potential for widespread and unrestricted access to all of our collected...
View ArticleYoda: Mobile Learning (M-Learning) the Future + InfoGraphic
Why Care About M-Learning? Justic Ferriman+ LearnDash, 27 March 2014 Mobile learning is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace. There are a variety of reasons for this, but many have to do with...
View ArticleStephen E. Arnold: New York Public Library Posts Open Maps
New York Public Library Posts Maps The New York Public Library has a massive collection of beautiful maps, but instead of keeping them locked in an archive Motherboard reports, “The New York Public...
View ArticleStephen E. Arnold: Open Review Breaks the Back of Citation Cabals and...
Open Review Brings Peer Review to the Scientific Masses This seems like a step in the right direction for the world of academic publishing. ResearchGate News announces, “Peer Review Isn’t...
View ArticleJean Lievens: Open Source Urbanism &“Right to Infrastructure”
The right to infrastructure: a prototype for open source urbanism Alberto Corsín Jiménez Abstract. This paper develops an analytical framework to place the rise of open source urbanism in context, and...
View ArticleJean Lievens: WIRED – Insurance Breaks Start-Ups in a Sharing Economy
What Makes or Breaks Startups in the Sharing Economy? Insurance Rates Jason Tanz WIRED 04.28.14 EXTRACT Insurance represents both the lifeblood and the biggest threat to the sharing economy. As I...
View ArticleWorth A Look: Free and Secure Internet for All
The range of speakers and topics is worth a look. There is no focus to open source at the same time that the main emphasis appears to be the role of the state rather than service to the public. Free...
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