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Infotention Part Two: Building Information Dashboards - HowardRh About this original series I stumbled into cyberspace a long time ago and have been a participant observer ever since . I write books and blogs and teach and speak . On my way to doing all that communicating, I seem to do a fair amount of hunting, gathering, and alchemy -- that is, transforming what I hunt and gather into something of value to someone else. Episodes of I couldn't resist sharing a quick look at the paradise where I am privileged to sit when I do my work. Remarkably generous with his time, considering that he was in the early stages of one of the most important social media platforms of the current era, Biz Stone spent time talking to my Social Media class at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2009 -- and went out to dinner with us afterward! For my book in progress on social media literacies, I talked to Pierre Lévy about his specialty, collective intelligence. Short clip from Attention 101. These are my little buddies.

reBlog Bent is an annual art and music festival celebrating circuit bending and its related creative practices: DIY electronics, hardware hacking, glitch, code bending, software art, abstract video. Now in its 8th year, the festival is a public summit where artists from across the country and around the globe gather to share their craft through performances, workshops, video screenings, art exhibitions, and installations, showcasing the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture. If you’re the slightest bit curious about electronics, electronic music, handmade electronic art, or if you’ve ever just really wanted to rip your toys apart, Bent Festival is here. What is Circuit Bending? Circuit bending refers to the act of the creative “short circuit”, a process that began through modifying the circuitry of battery-powered children’s toys to create strange, outlandish, unintended, and unpredictable sounds. Curatorial Statement Installations and Artwork Workshops and Presentations

Google Tutor & Advisor » Blog Archive » Voyeur Heaven: findi We’ve all got a little voyeurism in us. That’s a big reason why the post, Clearing Google Search History to Maintain Your Privacy sent my visitor counts off the charts :). In this article, I’m going to show you how to create search queries that will list the contents of unprotected directories on the internet. You’ll be able to play the music files, watch the videos, look at photos and more. I have to say, it’s really addicting. First of all, what’s an unprotected web directory? I have to say I have not had this much fun with Google for a while! So let’s get to the nitty gritty details. The words “Index of /” are common to these pages, and they end up in the “title” of the page. So, for starters here is a query that will give you a search results page of unprotected directories: [-inurl(html|htm|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size] But, this is kind of boring. Let’s say that we wanted to find any movie files in WMV or AVI format:

_ Over eMailMasters Jamadata nv bestaat al meer dan 25 jaar en is een gevestigde waarde in de software-wereld voor KMO’s. Sinds meer dan 8 jaar wordt er in de richting van Internettoepassingen gewerkt. In het verleden werden programma’s steeds op de PC van de klant geïnstalleerd. De klant stond dan zelf in voor het onderhoud van het pakket. Vroeger was dit vrij eenvoudig en hadden de PC’s een lange levensduur … Maar de snelle veroudering van PC’s en/of operating systemen zorgen voor een duur totaal prijskaartje. Meer en meer studies wijzen uit dat klanten liever gewoon applicaties gebruiken, zonder daarom in te staan voor het beheer ervan. E-mail wint aan belang van jaar tot jaar. Tevens was er een nood aan duidelijk en verstaanbare informatie, naar maat van de klant. Anderzijds werden bedrijven steeds meer verplicht over te schakelen op e-mail. Zo kwam e-mail via een achterdeur in vele bedrijven binnen. Een ander probleem dat zich aandiende, was de beveiliging tegen inbraak.

Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - Flock Amanda Zhang; Jenna Gunderson; Sean Westwood; Tina Lee Project outline: Introduction: what is Gov 2.0? Government as a Platform "Gov 2.0: It's All About the Platform" (Tim O'Reilly, TechCrunch, September 4, 2009)Data and engagement are bi-directional: government to citizen, citizen to government (Andrea DiMaio, Gartner Blog, November 11, 2009) The Four Facets of Web 2.0 in Government (Andrea DiMaio, Gartner Blog, May 29, 2009)Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration.Institutional presence on external social networksOpen government dataEmployees on external social networks The characters A technocentric vision (Adobe): "Government agencies should consider the following with regard to making information about operations and decision-making available to the public: Can the public use it? Normative backing for government accountability and citizen engagement From extenuation to denial Lack of information and motivation Asking the visionaries for direction: a conversation wih Tim O'Reilly:

Research Blog Masters of New Media IP Address Locator - Enter an IP address to find its location - This Geo Ip Location service (on-line IP Address Map lookup service) is provided for FREE by Geobytes, inc to assist you in locating the geographical location of an IP Address. Map Data Map data ©2015 Google Click here to open a code sample showing how to use this service programmatically. In PHP, for example you might access this service like this: function getIP() { foreach (array('HTTP_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED', 'HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_FORWARDED', 'REMOTE_ADDR') as $key) { if (array_key_exists($key, $_SERVER) === true) { foreach (explode(',', $_SERVER[$key]) as $ip) { if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) !

10 Big Myths about copyright explained See EFF notes on fair use and links from it for a detailed answer, but bear the following in mind: The "fair use" exemption to (U.S.) copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. That's vital so that copyright law doesn't block your freedom to express your own works -- only the ability to appropriate other people's. Fair use is generally a short excerpt and almost always attributed. Note that most inclusion of text in followups and replies is for commentary, and it doesn't damage the commercial value of the original posting (if it has any) and as such it is almost surely fair use. The "fair use" concept varies from country to country, and has different names (such as "fair dealing" in Canada) and other limitations outside the USA. Facts and ideas can't be copyrighted, but their expression and structure can. See the DMCA alert for recent changes in the law. False.

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