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Workshop on Mass Collaboration – Day One

Introduction to the Workshop – Ulrike Cress

Why a workshop in mass collaboration? Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space

Who is creating these? Nature article on massively collaborative mathematics (see the wiki PolyMath).

How do we describe these phenomena? Is it just aggregation? What role does coordination play? Is it a mass phenomena? Is it an emergent phenomena? Is it collective intelligence? And what are the processes behind this?

In science we need new methods for this. Previously, we would passively observe – but now we want people interacting. We have to try and find what these methods can do.

Can we design mass collaboration? Is it just something that self-starts, or can we create this?

CSCL 2013, we brought together people to talk about this. This led to the larger workshop we are hosting today.

Learn more.

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2014/05/222014/05/22

Robin Good: Six Key Content Curation Insights Emerging from the Leaked NY Times Executive Summary

Advanced Cyber/IO, Media

Six Key Content Curation Insights Emerging from the Leaked NY Times Executive Summary

The leaked New York Times memo of less than a week ago is making the round on the Internet, as it touches upon many of the key issues and opportunities any news journalism operation is facing today.

From my personal viewpoint the most interesting aspect of this lengthy 97-page memo is how much curation, news and content curation specifically, are part of the future view being described in it.

Since, even trying read the in-depth curated version of the leaked NY report done by the excellent Nieman Lab it may take you in excess of 30 minutes, I have extracted and highlighted here below only the points that are specifically relevant to curators and to anyone researching the future of content curation within the context of news and journalism.

Here, six key points to pay strong attention to:

…resurfacing archival content. The report cites this passage: ““We can be both a daily newsletter and a library — offering news every day, as well as providing context, relevance and timeless works of journalism.”
…restructuring arts and culture stories that remain relevant long after they are initially published into guides for readers.
…consider tools to make it easier for journalists, and maybe even readers, to create collections and repackage the content.
allow readers to easily follow certain topics or columnists.
better tagging of the info and content being published.
focus on the less glamorous work of creating tools, templates and permanent fixes that cumulatively can have a bigger impact by saving our digital journalists time and elevating the whole report.

Nieman Lab curated report of the NY leaked Executive Summary document:

Original leaked copy of NY report: 97-pages

2014/05/222014/05/22

Berto Jongman: CYBER – 10 Ways to Kill the Internet — and Information-Sharing Analysis Centers (ISAC)

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

The bad with the good.

The Plan to Kill the Internet Uncovered

10 ways web freedom is being butchered worldwide.

LIST ONLY:

1) The Death of Net Neutrality
2) Intelligence Agencies are Manipulating the Internet With Deliberate Disinformation
3) Governments are Paying Trolls to Sway Public Opinion
4) Mainstream News Websites are Killing Comment Sections
5) The Obama Administration’s “Cognitive Infiltration” of the Internet
6) False Flag Cybersecurity Attacks as a Pretext to Increase Web Regulation
7) Fairness Doctrine for the Internet
8) Homeland Security’s Internet Kill Switch
9) New Taxes and Regulations Set to Stifle Communication & Sales on the Web
10) SOPA, CISPA & The FBI’s Internet Backdoor

Read full article with elaboration and links.

ISACs: Let the Sharing Begin

A while back, I wrote about the value of information sharing, and the role of ISACs (Information Sharing and Analysis Centers) – see “The Bad Guys Are Winning: Information Sharing And Asymmetric Advantage.” I’m a huge fan of this model for sharing information about cyber threats.

A shining example of an effective ISAC is the Financial Services ISAC (FS-ISAC), but one of the lurking questions about their work is whether they are violating any anti-trust regulations in the US. Having worked with them, it was my opinion that they weren’t doing anything that felt like anti-trust, but I’m not a legal expert. By the way – the ICS-ISAC, which deals with Industrial Control Systems, recently showed its value in an attack on the US Utility Control System infrastructure.

Read full article.

2014/05/202014/05/20

Nik Peachey: Elctrocity Urban Energy & Environmental Sustainability Game and Tool

04 Education, IO Tools

Great vocabulary rich educational game.

ElectroCity is an online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.

2014/05/202014/05/20

Stephen E. Arnold: Is Google Breaking the Internet?

IO Impotency

Google: Owning the Internet

I read “Google Is Breaking the Internet.” The write up addresses the issue of links between and among other Internet accessible content. The discussion focuses on search engine optimization. Google has a problem with relevance related to generating revenue. The pressure Google is exerting with regard to links is a logical reaction to the situation that Google has created. Once the relevance horse is out of the barn, Google has to send out search parties and take extraordinary actions to find the horse, get the horse under control, and put the horse back into its stall. Web sites desperate for traffic want to let horses out of the Google barn. An arms race for ad related relevance control is underway.

The author makes one of those statements that make sense from the point of view of a non Googler; for example:

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2014/05/192014/05/19

Wayne Madsen: NSA Spies on US Allies — With Direct Witting Assistance of AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

Washington Spies on NATO; Other Allies

Wayne MADSEN

Strategic Culture.org | 18.05.2014

EXTRACT

Implants are inserted by NSA into targeted computer systems and network devices through what the NSA calls «supply-chain interdiction». Equipment is intercepted between the manufacturer and the end-user. At a secret facility called a «load station», devices called «beacons» are inserted clandestinely into a device’s hardware. These pre-positioned access points permit later access by NSA into «hard target» networks around the world.

NSA names its strategic partners in its «collect-it-all», codenamed ASPHALT operations, around the world. These are AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon. In all, over 80 «major global corporations» support NSA’s worldwide collection efforts. With corporate cooperation, NSA captures Internet data from seven «international choke point» access sites in the continental United States. Their cover names are Breckenridge, Tahoe, and Sun Valley on the U.S. West Coast; Whistler in the South; and Killington, Coppermountain, and Maverick on the East Coast.

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2014/05/182014/05/18

Sepp Hasslberger: Drones that Save Lives – Made in … Iran

Drones & UAVs

Who would have thought it … drones that actually can save lives. Made in … Iran.

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