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• 6 minute video interview with Howard Rheingold regarding digital literacy & “narratives of participation”

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 511
  From the Internet as Playground and Factory conference at The New School, November 12-14, 2009: The Internet as Playground and Factory - Howard Rheingold from Voices from The Internet as Play on Vimeo .
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• Crowdsourcing the Jerk Store

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 122
  George Castanza (Jason Alexander) from Seinfeld. Reference is to "The Comeback" episode (1997). On my other blog, I did a post about driving pet peeves and a close call I had on the mean streets of Toronto .  I made a passing reference to the idea of “crowdsourcing” a database on boorish road behaviours. ...
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• Turkey wants universal email surveillance from birth

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 880
  Evgeny sez, "The Turkish government has a very disturbing Internet plan, which includes 1) creating a new search engine that would reflect Turkish sensibilities (i.e. filter out certain results) 2) supply each of 70 million Turkish citizens with a 10 GB email account that would be linked to their national ID numbers ...
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• Welcome to the Inspection House

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 466
  Presidio prison on Isla de Juventud in Cuba has a Panopticon design, which allowed guards to observe without prisoners knowing it. Photo credit: Wikipedia Mind control prison. It was built from 1926 to 1931 and held 6,000 prisoners, Wikipedia says. Fidel Castro was jailed on the Isla de Juventud after ...
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• Chicagos Camera Network Is Everywhere - WSJ.com - Kittyburgers - FriendFeed

  
  NOAH DAVID SIMON : — Authority: 148
  "A giant web of video-surveillance cameras has spread across Chicago, aiding police in the pursuit of criminals but raising fears that the City of Big Shoulders is becoming the City of Big Brother. While many police forces are boosting video monitoring, video-surveillance experts believe Chicago has gone further than ...
  3 weeks ago

• When The People Speak: a new book about deliberative democracy

  
  Smart Mobs — Authority: 511
  I’ve been interested in the public sphere for a long time , and I’m increasingly concerned about the amount of misinformation, disinformation, sloganeering, and brutal polarization among citizens. I grew interested in Jim Fishkin’s work long before I started teaching in the Communication Department at Stanford ...
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• Facebook as your alibi

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 612
  We’ve surely heard enough stories about how posting status updates on social networks can give away more information about you than you intended , so here’s the positive flipside of that: Rodney Bradford was a suspect in a Brooklyn mugging case, and it’s partly thanks to a Facebook status update made from his ...
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• The Spread of Swine Flu: Blame it on Louisiana

  
  The Map Scroll — Authority: 479
  Nate Silver has a map based on data from Google Flu Trends that shows the timeline of the spread of swine flu around the US: Google Flu Trends works by applying the Google Panopticon to searches that correlate with CDC data on actual flu cases, and has the benefit of being immediately responsive to trends ...
  3 weeks ago

• KedgeForward: Who We Are & What We Do

  
  KedgeForward! — Authority: 92
  Hello all! After much refinement (and excellent input from colleagues), we have distilled KedgeForward’s passions and protocol’s to their essence to show you – friends, colleagues, and potential clients. We look forward to partnering with you for competitive advantage, building creative processes, increasing ...
  5 weeks ago

• Guest Post: The Economic Sociology of Triathlons

  
  Economic Sociology — Authority: 99
  This guest post is the first in what I hope will be a series of contributions by some of my former students from Brown University: people who took my course in Economic Sociology, and who have stayed in touch over the years. It’s always wonderful to hear from former students, and especially so when they find that ...
  6 weeks ago

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