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Gideon Burton

Publish your computer code: it is good enough : Nature News - 0 views

www.nature.com/...467753a.html

open developers software good enough

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  • Gideon Burton on 28 Oct 10
     
    open software development: a case for publishing code in process
Brandon McCloskey

You Will Not Believe This Is Just a Powerpoint - 5 views

gizmodo.com/...ieve-this-is-just-a-powerpoint

digiciv web2.0 Powerpoint

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  • The most awesome 450 page presentation ever." That's how the authors call this slide show—and I agree. It is awesome. But knowing that it was made using only Google Docs and no extra software whatsoever, makes it truly unbelievable.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 16 Dec 10
     
    Just goes to show that a lot can be done with free software
Gideon Burton

Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works - 1 views

www.informationdiet.com/...o-not-know-how-congress-works-

congress government sopa politics

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  • the federal government is not attached to Moore's Law
  • Here's an area for both some disruption and some lobbying. Let's build tools that allow members of Congress to aggregate messages being sent to them, and to associate those messages with congressional districts. Let's come up with a way for a member to see what their constituency is saying about any particular issue they'd like, and let's provide that as an open service so that anybody can see what a particular constituency is saying. That way, when a member has a track record of voting against the desires of a substantial portion of his or her district, we've got a record of it, and it can get brought up in the next election.
  • Right now, your voice online -- in the mediums you participate in, not only don't matter: legally they can't matter. Online identities don't count when it comes to the official record
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  • The skill of making software isn't just about making cool software. It's about rewiring society. The sooner we acknowledge that, the sooner we can get on with the rewiring, and hopefully with a watchful eye, rewire it for the better.
  • Gideon Burton on 07 Jan 12
     
    Very important article on those in the info culture needing to understand and speak the language of Congress in order to properly educate and influence it on internet related matters.
Andrew DeWitt

Pay it forward - Wikipedia - 0 views

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pay it forward giving open

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 30 Sep 10
     
    The concept that debt be repaid to a third party not the original creditor.  Consider how this idea is moving and shaping the open software movement.
Brandon McCloskey

Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie - 0 views

ozzie.net/dawn-of-a-new-day

digiciv evolution Microsoft

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 27 Oct 10
     
    5 years after taking the job as Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie steps down and writes this blog post about the progress and needs of Microsoft in our evolving digital world.
Brandon McCloskey

The Internet Services Disruption « Ray Ozzie - 0 views

ozzie.net/...e-internet-services-disruption

digiciv evolution

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 27 Oct 10
     
    Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie wrote this memo back in 2005 and it it a good prediction of where the computing world was headed.
Brandon McCloskey

Real-time computing goes from Wall Street to High Street - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11444051

digiciv economy

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • If the company could monitor sales of ice cream - or bottled water or sun tan cream - on hot days like this one and then gauge future demand, he said, it could alter the way the company behaved
  • Real-time - the act of responding to events as they happen - is changing the way that the world behaves.
  • The software has also been blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis. Computer programmes automatically sold stocks as fear spread in the markets, because their algorithms have built-in "sell" orders.
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  • SAP's software is also being deployed on offshore oil rigs and even in hospitals around the world. This allows diabetic patients, for example, to have their blood sugar levels monitored and insulin administered if it gets dangerously high.
  • Future applications that are being discussed include the military, such as real-time monitoring of troop and tank movements. StreamBase is already used by the US National Security Agency to monitor security threats. "It's difficult to think of an industry that isn't affected by real-time," Mr Palmer says.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How real-time computing is affecting economics
Greg Williams

Many Eyes - 0 views

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visualization data DataVisualization infographics

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  • Greg Williams on 19 Sep 12
     
    data visualization site
Jake Corkin

Economic ideas regarding internet and other "free" things - 4 views

changethis.com/...53.01.BeyondFree.pdf

economics internet free free software

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  • Jake Corkin on 27 Sep 10
     
    Recommended to me by dr. burton. "turns many conventional economic ideas upside down". this should be good.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - How good software makes us stupid - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-11263559

technology communities

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  • Brandon McCloskey on 28 Sep 10
     
    Interesting article about how technology is making it easier for people to get by with less knowledge
  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Sep 10
     
    Great article! It brings up some interesting points. This is something that I have thought about a lot lately, because with a lot of technology options today we don't even have to remember information, we can simply save it and have easy access to it later...just not in our brains but on our phones, computers, etc. Also, a really great reference to some interesting research that has been done with taxi drivers.
Jeffrey Chen

Open Science Project - 2 views

www.openscience.org/blog

Science 2.0 open sourcing blog digiciv

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  • Jackie C on 21 Sep 10
     
    I loved how I went to this URL and the first entry was about molecular simulation. I'm just starting a research project with this. I hope that other people will get excited about the prospect of open science, or even as excited about the research and software as I am :)
  • Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10
     
    Great link Jackie! I followed your link and really enjoyed reading some of the posts. One that I found particularly interesting is called "What, exactly, is Open Science?" I hadn't really thought about the importance of having research be available and open to everyone, but this article made me think about it and I agree. Thanks again for the link.
  • Jeffrey Chen on 13 Dec 10
     
    A great website that shows how science is becoming more open. A group of scientists "who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world."
Erin Hamson

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 4 views

www.wired.com/...ff_free

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Andrew DeWitt liked it
  • zero-cost distribution has turned sharing into an industry
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 27 Sep 10
       
      This article is long but well worth skimming. I used a quote from it in one of my latest blogposts, "Free Entertainment?" at bricolorful.wordpress.com
  • Invent something people use and throw away.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Eliminates scarcity
  • By giving away the razors, which were useless by themselves, he was creating demand for disposable blades.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Supply and demand
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  • The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Still need a way to make money
  • The first is the extension of King Gillette's cross-subsidy to more and more industries.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      That is, giving somethings to make you buy others
  • The second trend is simply that anything that touches digital networks quickly feels the effect of falling costs.
  • And that meant software of broader appeal, which brought in more users, who in turn found even more uses for computers.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Cheaper goods brings in more people allowing the standard of living to rise for all.
  • FREE CHANGES EVERYTHING
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
       
      Wow, this is awesome.  Imagine the world of free electricity.  It makes me wonder what our age of free digital will bring.
    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 28 Sep 10
       
      I actually agree that some things, maybe even more things, should be free. But not as a marketing ploy. And this system seems to go against our capitalist ideals of competition.
  • The most common of the economies built around free is the three-party system. Here a third party pays to participate in a market created by a free exchange between the first two parties.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Where the money comes in.
  • There are dozens of ways that media companies make money around free content, from selling information about consumers to brand licensing, "value-added" subscriptions, and direct ecommerce
  • subscription model of media and is one of the most common Web business models.
  • Isn't it just the free sample model found everywhere from perfume counters to street corners?
  • the manufacturer gives away only a tiny quantity
  • A typical online site follows the 1 Percent Rule — 1 percent of users support all the rest.
  • Yahoo's pay-per-pageview banners, Google's pay-per-click text ads, Amazon's pay-per-transaction "affiliate ads," and site sponsorships were just the start.
  • Gideon Burton on 25 Sep 10
     
    A seminal post that became the basis of Anderson's 2009 book, FREE (Hyperion) 
Katherine Chipman

The Law of the Internet | OER Commons - 0 views

www.oercommons.org/...the-law-of-the-internet

internet

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  • Concurrently, we encounter problems that no one anticipated as we collectively built the internet as we know it today. This seminar will consider some of the most intriguing of the issues to which the advent of the internet has given and continues to give rise. It will focus on a cluster of topics about which any computer user likely knows a good deal already: spam, spyware, peer-to-peer file sharing, personal privacy, and e-commerce. It will also venture into a few issues-like blogging, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), social software, and internet filtering-that may be less familiar.
Rhett Ferrin

Crowdsourcing - 0 views

crowdsourcing.typepad.com

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      Rhett Ferrin on 10 Nov 10
       
      This is the author's blog about crowdsourcing, so this will give you relevant, up to date information.
  • Crowdsourcing: A Definition I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing: The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
  • Gideon Burton on 22 Oct 10
     
    Jeff Howe's blog about the topic he has championed in Wired and through his book Crowdsourcing.
Bri Zabriskie

Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views

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open source software stenography

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  • overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
  • on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
  • into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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  • Steno is the only text input system that’s functionally equivalent to conversational human speech.
  • wearable computing is unlikely to really take off until we get the head-mounted display issue worked out, and I don’t currently have any idea of how to make that happen on a practical level.
  • could be attached to thighs, belly, biceps, or wherever,
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      initial reaction? weird, weird weird weird!
  • phonetic system in your muscle memory.
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me. 
  • hackathon
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      a what?
  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
     
    Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.
David Potter

Michael Feldstein - Open Source, Economics, and Higher Education - 0 views

cnx.org/latest

open Digiciv

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  • David Potter on 29 Sep 10
     
    Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.
Gideon Burton

Coase's Penguin: Or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm - 0 views

www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html

economics Yochai Benkler Ronald Coase peer-production commons labor open seminal

shared by Gideon Burton on 23 Oct 10 - Cached
  • I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Oct 10
     
    A seminal article from Yochai Benkler about changes to economic theory in the digital age.
LeeAnne Lowry

Computer Art - 1 views

digitalblasphemy.com

digiciv media modernism

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  • LeeAnne Lowry on 28 Oct 10
     
    So this guy created a website where he features all his work (he's been doing this since 1995). It's cool to see how both he and the software improves over time. Really cool artwork!
Andrew DeWitt

open link in new tab html code - 1 views

forums.techarena.in/...1184576.htm

open link html code anchor digiciv forum

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 28 Oct 10
     
    I enjoy writing parts of my blog using html code, and I have been frustrated with my own blog that my links do not open up new tabs/windows so I thought I'd so some research on the subject.  Well, this is how!
  • Sarah Wills on 28 Oct 10
     
    thanks for sharing! that annoys me too.
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