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The Internet map - 1 views

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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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RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

tools.ietf.org/rfc1866 berners-lee HTML history request for comments RFC
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      Gideon Burton on 30 Aug 12
       
      This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified.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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Playing Games for All the Wrong Reasons - IGN - 1 views

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  • Gideon Burton on 28 Aug 12
     
    On the achievement psychology of video games
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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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  • Gideon Burton on 24 Aug 12
     
    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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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

digitalcivilization.blogspot.com/...content-via-google-reader.html google reader google consume instructions digiciv Google+
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  • Gideon Burton on 20 Aug 12
     
    Instructions and link to a video about using Google Reader (and Google+)
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Home | UTOPIA - 2 views

www.utopianet.org open internet UTOPIA
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  • anonymous on 16 Aug 12
     
    This is an interesting idea. Essentially it is an open fiber network that internet service providers have the option of providing service on. It is sparking lots of debate due to is Private/Public funding. It is something that I would like to keep my eye on.
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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
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  • We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
  • 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.
  • Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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Crowdsourcing Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture in Audio format - 0 views

akma.disseminary.org/...001253.html crowdsourcing audio lessig anthology
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  • Gideon Burton on 19 Jul 12
     
    An archive of the crowdsourcing effort to record Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture. Nice demonstration of the process and the success of open content. This post was the inspiration for the creation of Librivox.org (see http://librivox.org/about)
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WAN IFRA International Newsroom Summit: How The Crowd Saved Our Company | Digital First - 0 views

jxpaton.wordpress.com/...wan_ifra journalism digital transform innovation presentation
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  • Gideon Burton on 14 Jul 12
     
    A seminal statement of how journalism must transform in the digital age.
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