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Caught in an information rip?

January 12, 2011
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Being interconnected and tapped into the global flow of data has its risks. Personal risks, global risks, fundamental challenges like the mass extinction of Australia’s biodiversity. But there’s also the very real chance of good – the ability to understand each other, to have richer, far more fulfilling experiences, to come up with new ideas, to solve some of these big problems. Finding the balance is crucial.

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[Reading #7] Changing cities

December 20, 2010
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It’s clichéd to talk about more people living in cities than not, but it’s a milestone.  The way our cities work is changing too. We used to measure them every handful of years in a census, but increasingly we can keep much closer tabs through real time studies of the flow of people and information. So how does that change things?

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#saveDelicious – where to now?

December 17, 2010
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Keeping track of the constantly tumbling waterfall of fascinating articles and ideas that is Twitter and the internet needs a tool like Delicious. Something to sort out the good stuff, and keep track of it. Here are some alternatives.

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Reading #6

December 6, 2010

Reading Steven Johnson’s book, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that people around us affect our creative potential. The, uhh, Art of Manliness doesn’t examine the why, what or when, but it does look at the who of what it calls Master Minds – CSS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin’s inner circles [...]

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Do things #1

November 26, 2010

Journalists waste a lot of time in multiple Freedom of Information requests for the same reports, or getting access to material that’s in the public interest. A couple of new sites aim to help. MuckRock files, tracks and shares FOI documents. DocumentCloud helps journalists, particularly investigative journalists, share their source documents. I reckon both would be just as [...]

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