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WTISD 2013: Message from UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon
OPEN DATA
Author Clay Shirky has made a name for himself by championing the internet as a source of new ideas and creative collaboration, so it's no surprise that he thinks it will also transform government as we know it... eventually. In a recently published TED video, Shirky draws from the rise of the scientific journal and the open source movement — the first made possible by the printing press, the second by computers — to argue that new technology could let us preserve the benefits of central governance while letting people collaborate on better laws and policy. "A new form of arguing has been invented in our lifetime."
Watch this: Clay Shirky on why the future of government will be open source
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.
New Pollution
I spoke last month at the Swissnex office in San Francisco (Swissnex is kind of the Swiss embassy for technology issues), at an event entitled " Data is ( sic ) the New Oil ." The focus of the event was the tension between privacy and " publicy " (Stowe Boyd's term for the intentional revelation of aspects of one's life, the opposite of privacy). A video of the entire event is now online , and below you'll find the 15 minutes or so of my talk. Jamais Cascio on Polluting the Data Stream from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo . This talk covers what I wrote about in " Opaque Projections ," but this is a moving image, with sound.
CONTENT STRATEGY
There isn’t a single application that has had a greater influence on my knowledge of trivia than All of Wikipedia . In the few days I’ve owned the app I’ve learnt (amongst many other things): that Steve Jobs is Disney’s largest shareholder, that there are more languages spoken in London than in any other city in the world and that if two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together. Agreed, not the most actively used pieces of trivia but fascinating none the less.
All of Wikipedia brings ALL of Wikipedia to your iPhone & iPad for offline reading.
Brian W. Fitzpatrick and JJ Lueck, The Data Liberation Front Engineers employ many different tactics to focus on the user when writing software: for example, listening to user feedback, fixing bugs, and adding features that their users are clamoring for.
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. I believe we keep building layers of lock-in that prevent information from flowing freely, and that we have a lot to learn about the right thing to do in this respect. I believe identity and presence and authentication and permissioning are in some ways the new battlegrounds, where the freedom of information flow will be fought for, and bitterly at that.
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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." 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: The Anti-Circumvention Provision
DATA VISUALIZATION
Infographs
Here’s one for today’s “Yeah, I probably should’ve thought of that” pile. 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. But which numbers should you use?
Want To Make Your iPhone’s PIN More Secure? Repeat A Digit.
OmniGraffle for Mac
Need a diagram, process chart, quick page-layout, website wireframe or graphic design? OmniGraffle can help you make eye-popping graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, providing powerful styling tools, importing and exporting Microsoft Visio files, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Whether you need a quick sketch or an epic technical figure, OmniGraffle keeps it gorgeously understandable. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>By Alisa Miller Experts say that typical search engines like Yahoo! and Google only pick up about 1% of the information available on the Internet. The rest of that information is considered to be hidden in the deep web, also referred to as the invisible web.
Online College Blog and School Reviews | 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web
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. 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. The American Public University System (APUS) consists of two online universities: American Public University (APU) and American Military University (AMU). APUS' origins reach back to 1991, when James P.
PSI
Public Data Explorer
Who enjoys the fastest internet? South Koreans do, according to Ookla- the average South Korean Internet connection is more than 3x faster than the average connection in the US. Eastern European countries like Latvia and Lithuania are also at the top of the pool. Within the US, there is tremendous variation by state.Welcome to Open Library
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INFOTENTION
MINDMAPPING
CURATION
Information
numerology
Complexity
How Much Information? 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. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video).
Global Information Industry Center
LinkedData vs Ontology
SEARCH
Digital Culture
WORLD PRESS
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