P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Passionate creatives and their long march through the institutions. Instead of pursuing scalable efficiency, institutions must learn how to pursue scalable peer learning.
On U.S. Labor Day, John Hagel calls for a unified movement of passionate creatives, in order to change human institutions, from the edge to the core. John Hagel, excerpts: “Why will more and more people evolve into passionate creatives? Because we live in a world that is shifting inexorably from an obsession with efficiency to an obsession with learning. We initially experience this shift in terms of mounting pressure as competition intensifies on a global scale. Those of us pursuing our passions as our professions will move quickly to address the opportunities created by these new infrastructures, participating in richer and more diverse knowledge flows and challenging each other to new levels of performance.
But there is an even more profound factor driving the growth of this category. The journey to engage our existing institutions. Open Festival. Open-symposium – Tutkimus.parvi.fi. Territorial representation and ideational e-constituencies by Tiago Peixoto. Video Goes Open Source on Wikipedia: New Format, New Player, New Editing/Sharing Tools. In a Beet.tv interview posted yesterday, Wikimedia deputy director Erik Moller gave a few clues as to the Foundation's train of thought when it comes to video editing and distribution.
In the interview clips, included below, Moller hints at the site's upcoming suite of editing tools and sharing options. He compares video to text and image content, subtextually posing the question: If other kinds of non-video content are so easy to grab, remix, and reuse, why not video, too? "The typical video that we see on the web is basically a black box format in a Flash container.
I can't easily manipulate it; I need to buy proprietary tools to really do things with it or even to rebroadcast it. " All these factors go harshly against the free-as-in-beer, Creative Commons grain of Wikipedia/Wikimedia, so it should come as no surprise that the Foundation's video player and tools are to represent a dramatic shift from current web video standards. A New View of Data.Gov.
On May 21, the Obama administration launched Data.gov, a web site that provides access to raw data from federal government agencies.
Access to this raw data is useful, but to unleash the power of the data, you need tools for visualizing it. Today, we're going to show you how to use Google Fusion Tables to visualize and analyze data from Data.gov. Fusion Tables, which we launched in Google Labs in June, is a system for managing data in the cloud, combining powerful features of desktop database systems with easy-to-use collaboration tools. You can read more about it on the Google Research Blog. Before we start with Fusion Tables, let's find a data set from Data.gov to use. An important note here is that while Data.gov does a great job linking to data available from government agencies, the data can be formatted inconsistently because it's coming from many sources, and this can sometimes make it more difficult to use. Once you've conducted your search, locate the data you want to use. Putting Government Data online - Design Issues.
Up to Design Issues Abstract Government data is being put online to increase accountability, contribute valuable information about the world, and to enable government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently.
All of these purposes are served by putting the information on the Web as Linked Data. Start with the "low-hanging fruit". Whatever else, the raw data should be made available as soon as possible. Introduction This, 2009, is the year for putting government data online. So if you want to do this, what should you do? Using Linked Data as the interconnection bus Government data is put online typically for 3 reasons: Increasing citizen awareness of government functions to enable greater accountability; Contributing valuable information about the world; and Enabling the government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. Each of these purposes is best served by using Linked Data techniques. In general Linked Data is: That's enough about why it is useful.