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13 JUL 09
Studies in Atemporality - a set on Flickr (Bruce Sterling) SAVE
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"Outside the timestream with the prepostmodern archaeofuturistic."TAGS
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Bruce Sterling - reboot 11 closing talk SAVE
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"On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading"TAGS
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09 JUL 09
Structurelessness, feminism and open: what open advocates can learn from second wave feminists | eaves.ca SAVE
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"A 'laissez-faire' group is about as realistic as a 'laissez-faire' society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can easily be established because the idea of 'structurelessness' does not prevent the formation of informal structures, but only formal ones."TAGS
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06 JUL 09
Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences SAVE
"We should respect visitors enough to engage them in work that we actually value, to find in-roads that support their participation. We should care enough about their potential usefulness to find the right job for them to do. "TAGS
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30 JUN 09
How Open Data even makes Garbage collection sexier, easier and cheaper | eaves.ca SAVE
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"But this is more than just creating convenience. What are the implications for such an application?"TAGS
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23 JUN 09
Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology - WSJ.com SAVE
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"Deep packet inspection involves inserting equipment into a flow of online data, from emails and Internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Every digitized packet of online data is deconstructed, examined for keywords and reconstructed within milliseconds. In Iran's case, this is done for the entire country at a single choke point, according to networking engineers familiar with the country's system."TAGS
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18 JUN 09
CeLC discussion on openness SAVE
Thanks to Scott for taking notes during a freewheeling discussion on promoting openness in higher ed.TAGS
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17 JUN 09
Widgets 1.0: The Widget Landscape (Q1 2008) SAVE
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" surveys a group of market-leading widget user agents with the aim to inform the requirements of the Widgets 1.0: Requirements document. The survey exposes commonalities and fragmentation across widget user agents, and discusses how fragmentation currently affects, amongst other things, authoring, security, distribution and deployment, internationalisation and the device-independence of widgets."TAGS
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16 JUN 09
Student Statement on The Right to Research SAVE
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"digital technologies have opened new opportunities for research. New tools facilitate faster discoveries, speed the development of new technologies, and accelerate the progress of science. Patients could have access to the latest medical research, citizens could evaluate scientific information on environmental impacts, and developing countries could apply the most recent scholarship to public health and development efforts. But access barriers leave these opportunities under-explored."TAGS