Group items tagged ; - Digital Civilization

Digital Government report - May 2012 - 0 views

www.whitehouse.gov/...igital-government-strategy.pdf

whitehouse gov open government open data

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Gideon Burton on 23 May 12

The government's plan (as of May 2012) for government-as-platform via digital tools.

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A federal judge learned to code - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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programming digital literacy coding

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Gideon Burton on 23 May 12

A good case made for programming being part of cultural competence.

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We're Creating a Culture of Distraction | Joe Kraus - 2 views

joekraus.com/ating-a-culture-of-distraction

distraction multitasking technology consume

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A potent and sobering call for reflection about our uses of tech and media. This has the merit of not being dismissive and of being realistic and helpful. Worth reading.

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Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...6868

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A classic article critical of how the internet affects us cognitively/

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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 1 views

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What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
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Creating New Business Models with Transactional APIs | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog - 1 views

www.getelastic.com/models-with-transactional-apis

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Content vs. Transactional APIs. As a non-programmer, I've come to learn just how critical it is to understand how APIs articulate services and people across the web. This article explains levels of API openness (perhaps a metaphor for non-commercial entities)

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Watch | Everything Is a Remix - 1 views

www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series

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A web series that is and is about remix (history and theory)

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WAN IFRA International Newsroom Summit: How The Crowd Saved Our Company | Digital First - 0 views

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journalism digital transform innovation presentation

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A seminal statement of how journalism must transform in the digital age.

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A Brief History of the Status Message - 0 views

mashable.com/...status-update-history

twitter history status update anthology

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Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...07crocker.html

protocols internet history RFC open standards

shared by Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12 - Cached

We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
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Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority.
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Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
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Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
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It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
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This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
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we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
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Gideon Burton on 15 Aug 12

Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.

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Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" - 0 views

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Gideon Burton on 21 Aug 12

Seminal article by early computing pioneer Alan Turing on the nature of computing and machine intelligence.

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Digital Civilization: Consuming Content via Google Reader - 0 views

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Instructions and link to a video about using Google Reader (and Google+)

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Declaration of Internet Freedom - 0 views

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Remarks on Internet Freedom - Hillary Clinton - 0 views

www.state.gov/...135519.htm

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Brenda Laurel - Computers as Theatre « Blog 2.0 - 0 views

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Retro Science, Part 1 | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views

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citizen science crowdsourcing

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Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding - 2 views

www.physorg.com/news200150119.html

video games crowdsourcing citizen science

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The development of protein folding sequences has been successfully crowdsourced through a video game developed to reward those who solve this problem in molecular biology

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RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

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berners-lee HTML history request for comments RFC

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  This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified. HTML had been around since 1990. Berners-Lee formalized the standard and the process of revising it further through this informal request for comments.
  
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The Internet map - 1 views

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Visualization map internet

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Gideon Burton on 31 Aug 12

Relative size / popularity of various online services shown through different sized circles.

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Cognitive Science Movie Index - 0 views

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