May 2013
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“The fundamental question here is whether Today’s Internet is , transparent and...”
– Comments from the Iranian representative in the WTPF Informal Experts Group on the ITU Secretary-General’s Draft Report in Feb 2013.
April 2013
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“We are also going revenue-first because we believe in privacy and we’re willing...”
– Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first | philosophically by Vibhu Norby
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“The emergent new media ecology which integrates participatory media into the...”
– “Not This One”: Social Movements, the Attention Economy, and Microcelebrity Networked Activism | Zeynep Tufekci
Open Data Research: Draft open data supply side... →
opendataresearch:
Assessing the breadth and depth of open data publication in different countries, regional and sectors can play an important part in guiding open data policy and practice. The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Data Census, and the World Wide Web Foundation’s Web Index both seek to…
March 2013
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February 2013
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“One Iraqi activist, Mazen al-Zaidi, wrote on his Facebook page that the civil...”
– Iraqi Parliament Rejects Draft Cybercrime Bill
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“President Benigno Aquino signed the law in September last year, amid huge online...”
– Philippines’ SC again blocks cybercrime law
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““The purpose of this Act is to ensure that telecommunications service providers...”
– Canada cans net surveillance law
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“Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to China, Australia and other countries, Mr. Abubakarr...”
– Ambassador Multi-Kamara - possibly the finest name in international diplomacy.
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“There is no question that public awareness of—that is, disgust with—corruption...”
– Spain Is Disgusted With Corruption But Can Anything Be Done About It? | TIME.com
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“Is India turning intolerant to freedom of speech and expression?
At the award...”
– Freedom of expression must include right to offend: Manish Tewari - The Economic Times
January 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
14 posts
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“Building machines with a conscience is a big job, and one that will require the...”
– Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker (via new-aesthetic)
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“In the past, few Indians bothered to initiate defamation suits, because trials...”
– In India’s anti-corruption fight, news networks begin to pay a price - The Washington Post
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“Mandrill operates as a startup within MailChimp. It’s a product that’s both...”
– I have to say I warm to this frankness hugely.
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“The team catapulted a typical policy-planning meeting into the Facebook age with...”
– Reflections on Our Inaugural “Po-Hack” - Facebook, 27 June 2011
I’ve been looking at the relatively limited number of policy hackathon examples online, and this is the one I was both least and most surprised to see.
“Julia is a machine learning algorithm (JuLiA stands for “Just a Linguistic...”
– How the Huffington Post handles 70 million comments a year | Poynter.
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“Broderick sees online participation split into two very different worlds. “There...”
– The Thankless Job of Online Comment Moderators | Adweek
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“TV ratings are measured using mechanical devices that record the presence of...”
– Unpacking how TV ratings are measured…
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“When the tech industry wants to engage, it works through organizations like the...”
– Richard Bennett gives TechCrunch a curt slap for “playing at policy” - The Tech Industry’s Odd Relationship with Government
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WatchMy friend Ravi Mattu goes in front of the camera to interview Mozilla, Moonfruit and Joi Ito for the FT… (via The next big thing - ft business - companies - FT.com)
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October 2012
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“R is an open source statistical programming language. It is incredibly powerful....”
– The people at InfoChimps reveal what they think are Five Trendy Open Source Big Data Technologies - I can understand about 32% of this piece, but it’s clearly helpful insight.
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“Indian think tanks find it virtually impossible to access relevant data. As K....”
– The Prussian General Staff: Lessons for Indian Think Tankers
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“Ever since the Qin and Han dynasties, the number of writers has increased...”
– Master Li’s Mountain Hut Collection | China Heritage Quarterly (via someone on Tumblr or maybe it was Twitter. No, wait, it was Wordpress - er, The Guardian. No, er…)
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“In Rosas danst Rosas, which has in the meantime been filmed under the same...”
– http://brahms.ircam.fr/works/work/22068/#program
“Twitter has come a long way since it started out in 2006 in a small, grimy...”
– Dick Costolo of Twitter, an Improv Master Writing Its Script - NYTimes.com
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“This research has important implications for the way we educate our children....”
– Intelligence and the Stereotype Threat - NYTimes.com
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“Reason and deliberation are thrown out. The ochlocratic mobile vulgus has the...”
– The Twitter ‘black hole’ – Luke Bozier (of Menschn) – The Kernel
September 2012
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“Professor Gates is currently working on a new project that investigates the...”
– Interesting new research focus for Kelly Gates - v close to WITNESS’ new directions.
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“Fast new ways of communicating and vast quantities of information online can be...”
– Ginny Hunt (Google) on the Internet and Democracy | NDI
August 2012
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Watchpoptech:
Watch now: Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, explores how resiliency can empower even the most destitute and vulnerable communities. “When the World Bank was planning to invest $100 million dollars in upgrading the slums in Nairobi, these slum-dweller leaders were represented at the table.”
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“The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock have partnered to create a...”
– The 2012 U.S. Drone Census: Help the EFF and MuckRock track domestic drone deployments | Muckrock
“To appreciate the mechanisms through which information can be exchanged and...”
– To learn how the Internet works is to learn civics | double take - another bit of Betsy Masiello, but I agree with the commenters that civic education about the law-making process is poor too, or indeed about the economy. Literacy in these systems and modes of understanding the world are as crucial...
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“- We need to divorce the idea of innovation from startups. Innovation is as much...”
– Google’s Betsy Masiello offers some framing thoughts for the future of data and innovation, in response to an interview with Mark Pagel on Edge.org.
“BELA is directly inspired by the Los Angeles-based Center for Land Use...”
– BLDGBLOG: British Exploratory Land Archive
“This essay is part of a symposium on Julie Cohen’s book, Configuring the...”
– Room for Maneuver: Julie Cohen’s Theory of Freedom in the Information State by Jack Balkin :: SSRN via Evgeny Morozov
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“With altmetrics, we can crowdsource peer-review. Instead of waiting months for...”
– altmetrics: a manifesto – altmetrics.org
“The inundation of news, tweets, and status updates has left people feeling...”
– NextDraft’s Dave Pell on why email is still the killer app | The Verge
