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A "rough unedited crib" of danah boyd's Nov.2009 talk at Web2.0 Expo in NYC, which analyzes how information is delivered and consumed "in flow." boyd notes,
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For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. What happens when all of this changes? While things are certainly clunky at best, this is the promise land of the technologies we're creating. This is all happening because of how our information society is changing.
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She also some critical things to say about curating and/ or aggregating content:
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We need technological innovations. For example, tools that allow people to more easily contextualize relevant content regardless of where they are and what they are doing and tools that allow people to slice and dice content so as to not reach information overload. This is not simply about aggregating or curating content to create personalized destination sites. Frankly, I don't think this will work. Instead, the tools that consumers need are those that allow them to get into flow, that allow them to live inside information structures wherever they are, whatever they're doing. The tools that allow them to easily grab what they need and stay peripherally aware without feeling overwhelmed.
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That bit gave me pause. If I'm thinking of local context, I have no idea at this point what those tools might look like. Something to think about...

Finally, one of the most interesting angles she discusses comes at the very end of the paper, in her discussion of how business models have changed/ must change:
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...we need to rethink our business plans. I doubt this cultural shift will be paid for by better advertising models. Advertising is based on capturing attention, typically by interrupting the broadcast message or by being inserted into the content itself. Trying to reach information flow is not about being interrupted. Advertising does work when it's part of the flow itself. Ads are great w

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Frances Bula reports on Vancouver City Council's plans to make city information and statistics publicly accessible:
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The idea is that everyone from programmers to curious residents could use city data to do anything from tracking their garbage-truck driver on his route to mapping where the worst landlords' buildings are.

The notion - being pioneered in such places as Toronto, Washington and San Francisco - is that the more information people have, the more cities can tap into the collective energy of their residents to develop new applications or get more involved in the way the city works.
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