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2011/03/302011/03/30

Ushandi Moves Forward with Crisis Mapping Check-In

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Crisis Mapping Meets Check-in

New features could make a Web tool that has helped track events in Japan and the Middle East even more useful.

Monday, March 28, 2011, By David Talbot

MIT Technology Review

EXTRACT: The new feature is known as “check-in,” also used by social sites like Foursquare—in that case as a way of alerting friends to your presence at a particular location.

crisis mapping check-in — Click on Image to Enlarge

For Ushahidi, this is “a pretty powerful step forward,” says Ethan Zuckerman, a board member of the nonprofit, and a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. “Adding check-in to this equation allows me to pull my data apart from the whole. That makes maps usable for multiple purposes—group reporting as well as tracking of my own movements.”

Enabling such tracking simply requires a GPS-equipped phone to allow a quick log-in to record whereabouts

2011/03/302011/03/30

Infinite Games–Play with Rules and Boundaries

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Infinite Games

by jonl on March 29, 2011

Via Flemming Funch, a review of “Finite and Infinite Games – A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility” by James P. Carse: “A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the game….An infinite game has no fixed rules or boundaries. In an infinite game you play with the boundaries and the purpose is to continue the game.”

All finite games have rules. If you follow the rules you are playing the game. If you don’t follow the rules you aren’t playing. If you move the pieces in different ways in chess, you are no longer playing chess.Infinite players play with rules and boundaries. They include them as part of their playing. They aren’t taking them serious, and they can never be trapped by them, because they use rules and boundaries to play with.

Phi Beta Iota: This is a perfect “capstone” commentary from Jon–himself a hacker pioneer–Epoch A is over. Epoch B has begin. Epoch B changes everything, including the rules. It bears emphasis, over and over again, that INTEGRITY is essential for infinite games to create infinite wealth. Corruption is a cancer.

2011/03/302011/03/30

What Google Needs to Do–Besides No Evil….

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Well worth the read….

I don't think this is so much about Google as it is about fostering innovation and good overall business practices, taken from the standpoint of a former Google employee.

There are many good nuggets in here — my favorite being the “NIH” (Not Invented Here) Syndrome and the like.

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots

Posted on March 24, 2011 by slacy

I worked at Google from 2005-2010, and saw the company go through many changes, and a huge increase in staff. Most importantly, I saw the company go from a place where engineers were seen as violent disruptors and innovators, to a place where doing things “The Google Way” was king, and where thinking outside the box was discouraged and even chastised. So, here’s a quick list of things I think Larry could do to bring the startup feel back to Google:

Read detailed posting….

Phi Beta Iota: The post is not only credible, but the comments are spectacularly reinforcing. It is also with sadness that we observe how quickly Google acquired all of the bad habits of its start-up funding partner and continuing co-conspirator in institutionalized ineptitude, the US secret intelligence community. We continue to emphasize that Corruption–and Integrity–are about much more than individual honor or good intent–they are systemic. Corrupt feedback–and losses of integrity in small things–are cumulative.

2011/03/272011/03/27

Worth a Look: Global Voices

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Global Voices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

Tip of the Hat to Mario Profaca at Facebook.

2011/03/27

Public Intelligence Emergent: Citizen Network in Krygzstan to Check and then Counter Rumors

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How To Use Technology To Counter Rumors During Crises: Anecdotes from Kyrgyzstan

Patrick Meier | March 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm | Tags: rumors, Skype, SMS, validation | Categories: Crowdsourcing, Digital Activism, New Media | URL: http://wp.me/pecFU-1n8

I just completed a short field mission to Kyrgyzstan with UN colleagues and I’m already looking forward to the next mission. Flipping through several dozen pages of my handwritten notes just now explains why: example after example of the astute resourcefulness and creative uses of information and communication technologies in Kyrgyzstan is inspiring. I learned heaps.

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The degrees of separation needed to verify a rumor was close to one. In the case of the supposed border attack, one member of the chat group had a contact with the army unit guarding the border crossing in question. They called them on their cell phone and confirmed within minutes that no attack was taking place. As for the rumor about the poisoned humanitarian aid, another member of the chat found the original phone numbers from which these false SMS’s were being sent. They called a personal contact at one of the telecommunication companies and asked whether the owners of these phones were in fact texting from the place where the aid was reportedly poisoned; they weren’t. Meanwhile, another member of the chat group had himself investigated the rumor in person and confirmed that the text messages were false.

Public Intelligence Forensics: Atomic Untruths

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The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession

By Maria Popova

What vintage bomb survival suits have to do with Dr. Stragelove and Richard Nixon.

The recent tragedy in Japan has triggered a tsunami of terror, founded and unfounded, about the potential risks of nuclear reactors.

While there are people better equipped than us to explain the precise implications of the situation, we thought we’d put things in perspective by examining the flipside of these dystopian fears: The exuberant optimism about nuclear power in mid-century America.

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2011/03/272011/03/27

Worth a Look: Brain Pickings Weekly

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More neuroscience than culture or collective brain, never-the-less a fascinating medley of deep probes into the best of the human collective. Added to Righteous Sites (Links).

A couple of headlines:

An Ode to the Brain: TED + Carl Sagan, Autotuned

40K Books: 99-Cent Essays by Million-Dollar Authors

How Musicians Experience and Communicate Emotion

Vision Revolution: Why We See The Way We Do

The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession

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