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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:
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Territorial representation and ideational e-constituencies by Tiago Peixoto | The Connected Republic
It is easy to identify an existent and increasing disjunction between representation based on territorial constituencies and the preferences of citizens that, many times, are not circumscribed by any territory. In practice, such a fact leads to a representation deficit, where elected representatives fail to represent - or even to contemplate - preferences of constituents. In that case, preferences that are dispersed and not contained within a territory have little or no chance of being formally represented.
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.
Video Goes Open Source on Wikipedia: New Format, New Player, New Editing/Sharing Tools
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.
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Putting Government Data online - Design Issues
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.