A Correlation for the 21st Century. Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets. Data mining without prejudice. Bits or pieces? The American Assembly. The current SOPA/Protect IP debate has many antecedents and will probably have many sequels.
The underlying positions haven’t changed much, and probably won’t in the future. To illustrate, let’s play a game with this mystery quote: Several of these analyses of alleged harm to the recording industry… were presented and debated during hearings on copyright… At each hearing, X presented the results of the most recent analysis done for the recording industry by his firm… [As] in his earlier testimonies, he stated that continued [copying] had grave implications for the viability of the recording industry.
Noting that recording-industry releases were down by almost half since ****, and that industry employment had declined… X stated that further growth in [copying] would cause further decline in these industry indicators. Fact-Fiction-Cloud-Computing. Do Common Cloud Assumptions Hold Up to Scrutiny?
State of the Data Center 2011. Peace and Conflict Monitor, Open Source, Dynamic Systems and Self-Organization Footer. Source: Ino Fleishmann Introduction The intention of this article is to explain and compare the ideas of open source with systems theory, particularly regarding self-organized, self-regulating, dynamic systems and strange attractors.
No Copyright Intended. On October 26, a YouTube user named crimewriter95 posted a full-length version of Pulp Fiction, rearranged in chronological order.
A couple things struck me about this video. First, I'm surprised that a full-length, 2.5-hour very slight remix of a popular film can survive on YouTube for over six weeks without getting removed. Now that it's on Kottke and Buzzfeed, I'm guessing it won't be around for much longer. IBM launch Intelligent Water for Smarter Cities. Intelligent water is the latest addition to the IBM Smarter Cities portfolio. in the world’s cities are growing at an astounding rate.
For the 1st time in history, over 50% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Over 1 million people are moving into cities every week, and it is estimated that by 2050 70% of people on the planet will live in cities. This unprecedented growth in urban populations makes the provision of basic services like transport, security, water etc. increasingly complex.
OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own. Want your own personal cloud?
Check out ownCloud. Everyone likes personal cloud services, like Apple's iCloud, Google Music, and Dropbox. But, many of aren't crazy about the fact that our files, music, and whatever are sitting on someone else's servers without our control. That's where ownCloud comes in. OwnCloud is an open-source cloud program. Zittrain in Technology Review: The personal computer is dead.
Credit: Phil Farnsworth The following op-ed by Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain appeared in the Nov. 30 edition of the Technology Review.
[Click here for audio.] In addition to his HLS professorship, Zittrain is faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is also a professor of law at the Harvard Kennedy School, and professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Zittrain is the author of the 2008 book “The Future of the Internet—And How To Stop It.” Big Data in 2012: Five Predictions. Post-PC Computing And The Next Tech Revolution.
The Post-PC Era Starts To Make Sense. The return of the operating system. Source: Brian Proffitt – IT World.
In recent days, if not months and years, I have been arguing that Linux may soon become much more prevalent on the desktop PC, because as applications move to a software-as-a-service model handily served up by the now-ubiquitous browser, the underlying operating system would matter less and less. Tapping into a world of ambient data. More data was transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than in all other years combined.
That’s one reason why this year’s Web 2.0 Summit used the “data frame” to explore the new landscape of digital business — from mobile to social to location to government. Microsoft is part of this conversation about big data, with respect to the immense resources and technical talent the Redmond-based software giant continues to hold. During Web 2.0 Summit, I interviewed Microsoft Fellow David Campbell about his big data work and thinking. A video of our interview is below, with key excerpts added afterward.
What’s Microsoft’s role in the present and future of big data? What happens when you turn a middle school library into a hackerspace? Guest article by Thomas Maillioux above: David designs an animation for his LoL Shield with LoL Shield Theater Editor’s note: Several months ago I put a call out on this blog for a DIY electronics blogger, and I couldn’t believe how many funny, friendly, fantastically qualified people from all over the world responded.
One such person was Thomas Maillioux, an unconventional librarian in France. He told me about his work to bring hackerspaces into the libraries of public schools in metro-Paris to teach kids about electronics, programming, design, and even 3D printing. He graciously accepted my invitation in broken franglais to tell his story here on the blog. Go Daddy Has Lion's Share of IPv6 Address Space. The surprising results of an IPv6 census conducted by the Measurement Factory and sponsored by Infoblox are that the lion's share of actual working IPv6 nodes are being hosted by Go Daddy. I know, any excuse to plug their spokesmodel Danica Patrick is shameless, but what is really going on here? In their census, the number of active IPv6 addresses went from 1.27% of all overall IP addresses in the 2010 sample to 25.4% in the 2011 sample.
And more than 80% of the v6 addresses are being hosted by Go Daddy. Recursivity. Making Text Mining Accessible to Any Developer & Non-Expert. Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that Facebook is gaslighting users into believing that visiting the web is dangerous or threatening.
In this post I intend to not only document the practices which enable this attack, but to also propose a remedy. 1. You Cannot Bring Your Content In To Facebook. What we could do with really big touchscreens - O'Reilly Radar. Will big touchscreen displays—bigger than tablets—usher in new kinds of creative composition? Technology and the Great Stagnation: Has All the Low-Hanging Fruit Been Picked? Data Informed, Not Data Driven. Why embedded systems are "terrifyingly important" A primer on the Smart Grid for laymen. Technology and the Baroque Unconscious. Stop Making Apps. Master Data Management (MDM) vs. Sensemaking. Misleading Metaphors That Drive The War On Online Sharing. Solving the Shakespeare Million Monkeys Problem in Real-time with Parallelism and SignalR. Changing the World with Open Data. Wave Glider, a Floating Robot, Seeks to Network the Oceans. Internet outages scares global business. Widespread internet outages and slowdowns lead to immense business shock and concerns across United States and parts of Europe, leading to absolute shut down of various business processes across the globe for some time.
There were reports of service interruptions from various parts of United States, including all trade hubs such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc. The Public Library, Completely Reimagined. Teaching Strategies. Ambient Connectivity – How 19th century business policies keep us from communicating. Card Case: The new payments app that foretells a world without cash and credit cards. GoInstant and The Dawn of the Completely Shared Web: Manifesto from TC Disrupt Finalist and Digital Sky Funding Recipient. CyberTracker GPS Field Data Collection System - Home.