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Ask Strangers for Medical Advice | Wired Science | Wired.com
a trend toward DIY health tracking.
Strangers gather on Web to make collective art - CNN.com
a growing group of writers, musicians, visual artists and videographers is turning this Wikipedia-era philosophy into online collaborative art.
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On
With more users and sensors feeding more applications and platforms, developers are able to tackle serious real-world problems. As a result, the Web opportunity is no longer growing arithmetically
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"the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.
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Google Mobile Application for the iPhone. The application detects the movement of the phone to your ear, and automatically goes into speech recognition mode. It uses its microphone to listen to your voice, and decodes what you are saying by referencing not only its speech recognition database and algorithms, but also the correlation to the most frequent search terms in its search database. The phone uses GPS or cell-tower triangulation to detect its location, and uses that information as well. A search for "pizza" returns the result you most likely want: the name, location, and contact information for the three nearest pizza restaurants.
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WaSP InterAct Curriculum
a living, open curriculum based upon web standards and best practices, designed to teach students the skills of the web professional.
bTWEEN 09 Day 1 - Walk the Walk - David Bausola
Purefold Wants You To Write The Next 'Blade Runner'->
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/blade-runner-inspires-ridley-scotts-new-web-series/
emph: media agencies, not creative agencies
InSTEDD
InSTEDD's mission is to harness the power of technology to improve collaboration for global health and humanitarian action. We are an innovation lab for tools designed to strengthen networks, build community resilience and improve early detection and res
The unfundable world-changing startup
So, what is it? It's a database that acts like a wiki. Sounds lame, right? But that's why it's unfundable. You need to spend some time with it to get why this is a world changing technology. The inventor, Terry Jones, has been working on it for 11 years.
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Hi Robert.
Thanks again. I just want to drop a few links here that feel relevant and which give a little more information. The first is the relevant one:
http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/11/10/passi...
This talks about the connection between the creation of value and how obvious that will be to people early on (I argue it must be non-obvious, and hence that rejection is in that sense a good sign).
On the theme of startup rejection:
http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/11/09/expec...
On the history of what I've been doing:
http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/11/09/brief...
And some posts that give more of the flavor of the kind of change I'm trying to effect:
http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/category/represe...
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
[a lot of bandying about of the terms]
We're not talking about your grandfather's socialism. In fact, there is a long list of past movements this new socialism is not. It is not class warfare. It is not anti-American
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But there is one way in which socialism is the wrong word for what is happening: It is not an ideology. It demands no rigid creed. Rather, it is a spectrum of attitudes, techniques, and tools that promote collaboration, sharing, aggregation, coordination, ad hocracy, and a host of other newly enabled types of social cooperation. It is a design frontier and a particularly fertile space for innovation.
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start off simply sharing and then progress to cooperation, collaboration, and finally collectivism
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Magazine Preview - The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com
If the goal is to earn a living, then, maybe it isn’t really true that 18-year-olds need to be imparted with a sense of panic about getting into college (though they certainly need to learn). Some people are hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, when they would rather be learning to build things or fix things. One shop teacher suggested to me that “in schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”
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As it happened, in the spring I landed a job as executive director of a policy organization in Washington. This felt like a coup. But certain perversities became apparent as I settled into the job. It sometimes required me to reason backward, from desired conclusion to suitable premise. The organization had taken certain positions, and there were some facts it was more fond of than others. As its figurehead, I was making arguments I didn’t fully buy myself. Further, my boss seemed intent on retraining me according to a certain cognitive style — that of the corporate world, from which he had recently come. This style demanded that I project an image of rationality but not indulge too much in actual reasoning. As I sat in my K Street office, Fred’s life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it. He also seemed to be having a lot of fun.
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It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians. These relationships are maintained by telephone, in a network of reciprocal favors that spans the country.
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Magazine Preview - The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com
If the goal is to earn a living, then, maybe it isn’t really true that 18-year-olds need to be imparted with a sense of panic about getting into college (though they certainly need to learn). Some people are hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, ag
Us Now on Vimeo
[This is an excellent film, a must-see. Sadly, Vimeo sucks.]
[Torrent here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4896283/Us_Now_(2009)/]
A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet
Why journalists deserve low pay | csmonitor.com
Moral philosophers differentiate intrinsic and instrumental value. Intrinsic value involves things that are good in and of themselves, such as beauty, truth, and harmony. Instrumental value comes from things that facilitate action and achievement, includi
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Today all this value is being severely challenged by technology that is "de-skilling" journalists. It is providing individuals
– without the support of a journalistic enterprise – the capabilities to access sources, to search through information and
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Well-paying employment requires that workers possess unique skills, abilities, and knowledge. It also requires that the labor
must be non-commoditized. Unfortunately, journalistic labor has become commoditized. Most journalists share the same skills
sets and the same approaches to stories, seek out the same sources, ask similar questions, and produce relatively similar
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O'Reilly: The Web is still learning, but it can teach, too | Webware - CNET
"The baby that we built with technology is growing up and starting to go to work," he said, mentioning examples like energy metering aggregator AMEE, the Google search application that predicted where the flu would hit next, and iPhone apps that
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The most important part, he concluded, is that it's crucial to keep up that Silicon Valley attitude of positive change for the greater good as it brings its business principles to the rest of the world. Getting too self-serving was what ultimately caused the market collapse this fall, he said.
State of U.S. birds report is 'a clarion call to action': Scientific American Blog
The information gathered by birdwatchers and citizens in their own back yards has helped to create "spectacularly massive databases" which Fitzpatrick says can now be used to find trends in bird populations. "We should engage all Americans
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• U.S. grassland bird species have declined 40 percent
• Birds in arid lands have declined 30 percent
• 39 percent of U.S. birds restricted to ocean habitats are declining
• Some coastal shorebirds are doing well, but many face habitat losses and dwindling food supplies
• and birds in Hawaii face a conservation crisis, with many species on the edge of extinction
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