- Phone hacking, News International and operational disaster for News Corp by Guy Rundle | Crikey | 7 July 2011
Back in the day, the analogue and offline day, when a plenitude of images did not circulate, one of the most vital jobs in the newspaper industry was that of the “picture-snatcher”?—?the reporter, often a cub/cadet, who would accompany a senior colleague to the house of a grieving widow whose family member had just been trampled by a horse/died of dropsy/ etc, and, while the bereaved was being engaged in conversation, snatch a picture of the decedent from the mantelpiece, and then sprint back to the office with it.
in Public bookmarks - Platform Wars: TCP/IP vs. the Dollar
Donna Bogatin : � Social Web or Business Web: where is the money? Naturally, people are fascinated by this question of "where's the money?" But it's the wrong question. The more interesting one is "why the money"? And it's still gonna take us a long time to get our heads around that. But that's what we're all gonna be asking at some point. The more effective the internet and the web are at helping us communicate and co-ordinate, the less money will be involved. Because ultimately the economy is a communication network and money is its protocol The network is not the means to the end of money.
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Note: OTHER POST ON http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/johnrobb/2007/02/open_source_eco.html#comments - Technology Review: Physics arXiv blog Best Connectd Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreadrs in Social Networks 100202
The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network.
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Note: Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1001.5285: Identifying Influential Spreaders in Complex Networks - Tele Atlas Map Insight
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In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture.
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an interactive network visualization that aims to reveal the intricate network structure within purchase pattern recommendations. users can explore related books or albums, see how similar items form clusters around common subjects, & discover how the clusters themselves are connected within the information space. it seems the visual information design & interactive features have been dramatically enhanced since their first google browser version about 2 years ago.
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in Public bookmarks by 9 users - ArtMam Art in Internet»
A great collection of links to Asian art sites We are currently gathering a collection of links, Orientations readers, and indeed all Asian art enthusiasts, will find most useful. Our goal is to be able to present a collection of sites each focusing on a various Asian-art related topic. Category Directory: » Directories Region Region: » Hong Kong http://www.orientations.com.hk/link.htm » A.F.T.R.A. "The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists."
in Public bookmarks - BBC NEWS: Middle East | Iraqis use internet to survive war
Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad. As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads. One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block. It's another example of the central role technology plays in the conflict - with the widespread use of mobile phones, satellite television as well as the internet - by all sides and for many purposes.
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in Public bookmarks - Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet - Economics & Culture, Media & Community, Open Source
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in Public bookmarks by 54 users - From Tesla Motors to the “Patriot Hack” Martin Eberhard on Protecting Your Privacy Online
Nursing the best dark brew I’ve ever had, I moved from a great article on free global phone calls to another on the language of gang signs, ultimately landing on a column signed not with an anonymous pseudonym but by Martin Eberhard, co-founder of Tesla Motors. It was so interesting, in fact, that I reached out to Martin after my bear-rich Pacific Northwest roadtrip and asked for permission to reprint his article here. He graciously agreed. This article is broken up into four sections, which I titled: The Patriot Hack - From China’s Firewall to Lockpicking (15%) The Political and Technical Landscape (60%) Strategies to Protect Your Privacy (10%) The “Haystack” Call to Action (15%)
in Public bookmarks - How To Look Like A UNIX Guru Terence Parr http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt
Terence Parr Last updated: August 30, 2006 UNIX is an extremely popular platform for deploying server software partly because of its security and stability, but also because it has a rich set of command line and scripting tools. Programmers use these tools for manipulating the file system, processing log files, and generally automating as much as possible. If you want to be a serious server developer, you will need to have a certain facility with a number of UNIX tools; about 15. You will start to see similarities among them, particularly regular expressions, and soon you will feel very comfortable. Combining the simple commands, you can build very powerful tools very quickly--much faster than you could build the equivalent functionality in C or Java, for e
in Public bookmarks - In Defense of Piracy - WSJ.com by LAWRENCE LESSIG professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder
In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving to the distinctive beat of a song by Prince, "Let's Go Crazy." He had heard the song before. The beat had obviously stuck. So when Holden heard the song again, he did what any sensible 13-month-old would do -- he accepted Prince's invitation and went "crazy" to the beat. Holden's mom grabbed her camcorder and, for 29 seconds, captured the priceless image of Holden dancing, with the barely discernible Prince playing on a CD player somewhere in the background.
in Public bookmarks - In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | By Chris Anderson | Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution. It's definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities. Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.
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The way things are going, I think Google will be the first AI. That is, I think Google will become conscious. As a note, if I can have a conversation with something, I’ll consider it conscious. That’s the Turing Test for intelligence. Right now Google fails miserably. For example, I entered the terms Jesus will return and got: jesus will return to Kings Associated Press July End did did Nature build the worlds largest Sex personals site! I suppose nature can’t explain everything. I got an earlier response which was more relevant - it asked if Nature build the body and emotion, and said the brain was the most important invention … then it went on to mention the Quran and The Prophet by K
in Public bookmarks - Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study
Paper on opennetinitiative.net. Links to other studies on Internet Filtering in Bahrain,Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates * ONI Country Studies See also the Economist article "The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk"
in Public bookmarks - Light Blue Touchpaper » Ignoring the “Great Firewall of China”
It turns out [caveat: in the specific cases we’ve closely examined, YMMV] that the keyword detection is not actually being done in large routers on the borders of the Chinese networks, but in nearby subsidiary machines. When these machines detect the keyword, they do not actually prevent the packet containing the keyword from passing through the main router (this would be horribly complicated to achieve and still allow the router to run at the necessary speed). Instead, these subsiduary machines generate a series of TCP reset packets, which are sent to each end of the connection. When the resets arrive, the end-points assume they are genuine requests from the other end to close the connection — and obey. Hence the censorship occurs.
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