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Richard Stahlman: Free Software Supporter Issue 56

Free Software Supporter Issue 56, November 2012 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 64,307 other activists. That’s 1,124 more than last month! View this issue online here: http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/free-software-supporter-issue-56-november-2012 Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience …

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Patrick Meier: Rapidly Verifying Source Credibility on Twitter

Rapidly Verifying the Credibility of Information Sources on Twitter One of the advantages of working at QCRI is that I’m regularly exposed to peer-reviewed papers presented at top computing conferences. This is how I came across an initiative called “Seriously Rapid Source Review” or SRSR. As many iRevolution readers know, I’m very interested in information forensics …

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John Steiner: Cyber Dirty Tricks Crashed Karl Rove / ORCA?

Karl Rove Loses Election After Being Checkmated By Cyber Sleuths? CL OccupyforAccountability, 15 November 2012 Last month, we offered a million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone who rigged a federal election on November 6th.  We urged computer experts to contact us with information about any election manipulation of …

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Patrick Meier: Twitter Maps and Videos Showing Hurricane Sandy in Real-Time, with Geospatial and Substance Tags

The Most Impressive Live Global Twitter Map, Ever? My colleague Kalev Leetaru has just launched The Global Twitter Heartbeat Project  in partnership with the Cyber Infrastructure and Geospatial Information Laboratory (CIGI) and GNIP. He shared more information on this impressive initiative with the CrisisMappers Network this morning. According to Kalev, the project “uses an SGI super-computer to visualize …

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Owl: $20 Table Storms the World — Four Million Back Ordered

How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers, educate billions and transform computing as we know it “This is going to be revolutionary for the developing world” On Sunday Nov. 11, the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will have unveiled the seven-inch Aakash 2 tablet computer Tuli’s company is selling to the government …

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Patrick Meier: What Percentage of Tweets Generated During a Crisis Are Relevant for Humanitarian Response?

What Percentage of Tweets Generated During a Crisis Are Relevant for Humanitarian Response? More than half-a-million tweets were generated during the first three days of Hurricane Sandy and well over 400,000 pictures were shared via Instagram. Last year, over one million tweets were generated every five minutes on the day that Japan was struck by …

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SmartPlanet: Supercomputers Have Limits – Humans Do Not

Why supercomputers will always have limits Joe McKendrick | November 4, 2012 A couple of decades back, in his seminal work MegaTrends, author John Naisbitt pointed out that no technology can ever succeed without a compelling human benefit, referring to it as “high tech-high touch.” EXTRACT: Likewise, some technologists are discovering that many computational challenges may be …

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