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Gideon Burton

The Internet map - 1 views

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

RFC 1866 - Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 - 0 views

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      This historical document laying out hypertext markup language (HTML) is an example of how an emerging standard was codified.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.
Gideon Burton

Playing Games for All the Wrong Reasons - IGN - 1 views

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    On the achievement psychology of video games
Gideon Burton

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

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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
Gideon Burton

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

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

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+)
anonymous

Home | UTOPIA - 2 views

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    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.
Gideon Burton

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

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

Crowdsourcing Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture in Audio format - 0 views

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    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)
Gideon Burton

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

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