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MINDMAPPING. TRANSPARENCY. BIG DATA. OPEN DATA. DATA VISUALIZATION. ALGORITHMS. 2015 Internet Trends Report. Perspective on information overload by Anaïs Saint-Jude. Viewcontent. All about Coggle. Coggle gives you a clear way to share and understand complex information.

All about Coggle

WTISD 2013: Message from UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. Committed to connecting the world WTISD 2013: Message from UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon You are here Home > World Telecommunication and Information Society Day > WTISD 2013: Message from UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon Share.

WTISD 2013: Message from UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon

Network of Excellence in Internet Science Research Project. Watch this: Clay Shirky on why the future of government will be open source. E-learning and Digital Cultures.

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JOURNALISM. Opaque Projections. Last night (April 10, 2012), I spoke at the San Francisco Swissnex office on a panel entitled " Data is* the New Oil. " When I was told the title of the panel, it struck me as an odd metaphor. Oh, I understand the intent: oil was the fuel for the 20th century industrial economy, and information is the fuel for the 21st. But oil has a key characteristic that simply isn't true for data. CONTENT STRATEGY. CURATION. New Pollution. Home. All of Wikipedia brings ALL of Wikipedia to your iPhone & iPad for offline reading. Random musings of a fledgling medical informatician… The Case Against Data Lock-in. Related Content.

The Case Against Data Lock-in

About this blog. I believe that it is only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfilment and conversation. I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and intellectual property rights will have the effect of slowing down or sometimes even blocking this from happening. English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout. English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout.

English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation. Over the weekend, the Obama administration issued a potentially game-changing statement on the blacklist bills, saying it would oppose PIPA and SOPA as written, and drew an important line in the sand by emphasizing that it “will not support” any bill “that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.

How PIPA and SOPA Violate White House Principles Supporting Free Speech and Innovation

" Yet, the fight is still far from over. Even though the New York Times reported that the White House statement "all but kill[s] current versions of the legislation," the Senate is still poised to bring PIPA to the floor next week, and we can expect SOPA proponents in the House to try to revive the legislation—unless they get the message that these initiatives must stop, now. So let’s take a look at the dangerous provisions in the blacklist bills that would violate the White House’s own principles by damaging free speech, Internet security, and online innovation:

Fighting for your digital rights in Washington. Infographs. Want To Make Your iPhone’s PIN More Secure? Repeat A Digit. Here’s one for today’s “Yeah, I probably should’ve thought of that” pile.

Want To Make Your iPhone’s PIN More Secure? Repeat A Digit.

If you’ve got anything even remotely private on your phone (and who doesn’t? Your phone has access to your email, and thereby access to everything else), you’ve hopefully got a security PIN on the lockscreen. OmniGraffle for Mac. Research. Project Gutenberg-DE - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Tracking: To improve and finance our website, we work together with third-party providers (this link will take you to an overview of providers in the Privacy Center).

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Together with these third-party providers, we collect and process personal data on our platforms. Using cookies stored on your device, personal identifiers such as device IDs or IP addresses, and based on your individual usage patterns, together with these third-party providers, we can ... 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web. By Alisa Miller Experts say that typical search engines like Yahoo!

100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web

PSI. To broaden available perspectives and provide additional insights into core topic areas of the PSI imprint, we are approaching institutions, both public and private, military and civilian, based in the US and abroad to serve as PSI partners.

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Partnership opportunities range from publication, co-publication or distribution agreements; digitization/indexing of content or links to archival materials; conference participation or award sponsorship. Please send us an email to discuss possible partnership options. AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY The American Public University System (APUS) consists of two online universities: American Public University (APU) and American Military University (AMU). Public Data Explorer. Information Ecology Crawl. Open Definition : Welcome to Open Library.

Environmental Protection Agency: w408. Information. Numerology. Complexity. Information aesthetics. Nieman Lab (NiemanLab) Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - v. Global Information Industry Center. How Much Information?

Global Information Industry Center

2009 Report on American Consumers (PDF) Date of Publication: December 2009 Last Update: January 2010 Executive Summary In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. About Quora. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.

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Digital Culture. From TV to Twitter: How Ambient News Became Ambient Journalism. In a TED talk in June 2009, media scholar Clay Shirky cited the devastating earthquake that struck the Sichuan province of China in May 2008 as an example of how media flows are changing. He explained how the first reports of the quake came not from traditional news media, but from local residents who sent messages on QQ, China’s largest social network, and on Twitter, the world’s most popular micro-blogging service. Media. Information Ecology Crawl. About « The Overview Blog. This blog is about the “Overview Effect”, the most commonly used term in the space community to describe the effect of space travel on the minds and lives of the astronauts. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Will Quora find its place among the stars? Google Books. Royal Pingdom » Internet 2010 in numbers. What happened with the Internet in 2010?

How many websites were added?