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Ariel Szuch

ScholarSearch - 0 views

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open government scholarsearch

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  • Open government (View details) Perritt, H Government Information Quarterly, 1997, Vol.14(4), p.397-406 [Peer Reviewed Journal] updating... Full text available (GetIt) Add to e-Shelf
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    Article: "Open Government" by H Perritt
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Sep 10
     
    This article has a very interesting section on why open government is important to a democratic society.
anonymous

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker - 2 views

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      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      Do you agree with this?
  • This is in many ways a wonderful thing. There is strength in weak ties, as the sociologist Mark Granovetter has observed. Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. The Internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, seamlessly matching up buyers and sellers, and the logistical functions of the dating world. But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism.
  • The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction; they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.
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  • Boycotts and sit-ins and nonviolent confrontations—which were the weapons of choice for the civil-rights movement—are high-risk strategies. They leave little room for conflict and error. The moment even one protester deviates from the script and responds to provocation, the moral legitimacy of the entire protest is compromised.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Feb 12
       
      But it was just a phone.
  • A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-age girls.
  • These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
  • The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
  • What mattered more was an applicant’s degree of personal connection to the civil-rights movement.
Kevin Watson

$2 billion buys a lot of nothing | Dayton Daily News Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views

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      Kevin Watson on 27 Sep 10
       
      This is the scary view of the "virtual" world. It is the point when you know you are spending too much time online. Go outside! Go Hiking! Take someone to a restaurant! Spend your money on something TANGIBLE!
  • Danny Patterson on 27 Sep 10
     
    Addresses the current market within virtual economies and how people are spending REAL money for non-existing goods/services.
Jeffrey Chen

melancholy mourning in the "empire of feeling" - 0 views

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romantic letter views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 12 Oct 10
     
    a deep article about romantic thought. view into romantic author William Goodwin.
Parker Woody

Boolean Data Type - 0 views

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digiciv tags boolean algebra boole

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  • Most control structures use a test expression that executes either selection (as in the: if then else) or iteration (as in the while; do while; or for loops) based on the truthfulness or falseness of the expression. Thus, we often talk about the Boolean expression that is controlling the structure. Within many programming languages, this expression must be a Boolean expression and is governed by a tight set of rules. However, in C++ every data type can be used as a Boolean expression because the value of any data type within C++ can be demoted into a Boolean value.
Bri Zabriskie

IA Books in Browsers 2010 Agenda - Reading 2.0 - 1 views

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open source publish revolution web2.0 media digiciv

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  • Monocle
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      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      is it the same as this?: "Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design." -- www.monocle.com
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      What do they mean by reader privacy?
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  • Social Reading
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      Social reading -- sounds exciting. I've been thinking how cool it would be to have a class group textbook online. SO like you go online to yoru textbook for your class and you can see what other classmates have highlighted and commented on and tagged and add your own thoughts to the discussion. They can link to their blog posts about a subject in teh book that they did expanded self-directed learning on or just that they thought about more, etc. Sounds SUPER cool, huh? (ok ok, I'll blog about it)
  • discoverability
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      LOVE this word. Discoverability?! he he
  • A network of Books
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      yes! A network of books! just like webpages! 
  • Finding Shelf Space in a World Without Shelves
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      or rethinking the format we're used to!
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
       
      hmm... a sticky subject. 
  • Bri Zabriskie on 31 Oct 10
     
    What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall of this conference.  Check out the contents!
Madeline Rupard

10 Ways How Photoshop Changed The History Of Photography - 0 views

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  • Madeline Rupard on 16 Nov 10
     
    An interesting list.
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