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2014/03/282014/03/28

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Data Collection with Ushahidi

Open Data Collection with Ushahidi March 28, 2014 The crowdsourced data collection platform Ushahidi, now assisting activists worldwide, was first created to facilitate public accountability and social activism during crises in its home nation, Kenya. Not surprisingly, Ushahidi is also the name of the non-profit behind the open-source project. Open-Steps.org interviewed the organization’s director of …

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2014/03/272014/03/27

Jean Lievens: World Open Hash Design

WO#D WorldOpenHashDesign WO#D Manifesto “The present day global set of sovereign states is not capable of keeping peace, and it is not capable of saving the biosphere’s non-replaceable natural resources. What has been needed for the last 5,000 years, has become technologically feasible in the last 100, but not yet politically, is a global body …

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2014/03/262014/03/26

Google: Positive Impact on Elections in India and Indonesia?

Google’s new online tools will keep voters in India and Indonesia informed ahead of upcoming polls Google has launched a series of tools as it seeks to make itself useful to 1 billion Indian and Indonesian voters, who are heading to the polls next month. These tools listed on the respective Elections Hub pages provide …

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2014/03/252014/03/25

Robin Good: Algorithms as Glue Between Content, Data, and Insight

Algorithms as Glue Between Content, Data, and Insight Lutz Finger, reports from SxSW on the topic of algorithms, curation and the future, as the skills of content creators, data analysts and code programmers are seemingly converging for the first time. Among others, he reports Steve Rosenbaum (founder of Magnify.net) significant own words at SxSW: “…a …

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2014/03/242014/03/24

Review (Guest): The Yankee and Cowboy War

Carl Oglesby When the President Bleeds, who will Clean up the Blood? By Herbert L Calhoun on August 15, 2008 This is the first of several high-level political analyses motivated by a need to better understand the politics that led to both the JFK assassination and the Nixon Watergate Affair. It deploys as the primary …

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2014/03/24

Nik Peachey: NowComment Tool Turns Documents Into Conversations

This looks like another useful tool for creating flipped learning. From nowcomment.com – March 23, 5:15 PM NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group. NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide …

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2014/03/232014/03/24

Guy Murchie: The Transcendence of Consciousness

DharmaCafe says: For all that is being written today about spirituality and the “new biology,” bestselling science popularizer Guy Murchie’s classic work, The Seven Mysteries of Life, published in 1978, may come closest to touching divinity. by Guy Murchie To think of worlds beyond this world and muse upon the idea of one’s consciousness being …

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