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When 'Liking' a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ne-voids-the-right-to-sue.html CAMLF social media legal rights liking
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  • Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights?General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, “join” it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways.
  • David Bloom on 18 Apr 14
     
    All I can say is, Wow!  This is the sort of thing that could have wide-ranging ramifications, and i suspect that museums will, one day, have to decide which legal direction they will head.  Could buying a membership at a museum exempt the member from legal protections?
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You Are Here - 1 views

youarehere.cc/#/maps/by-topic/coffee_shops Demographics CAMLF 3rdSpaces Urban+Planning Community
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  • David Bloom on 10 Apr 14
     
    Three maps depicting the "walkingsheds" of cafes in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. An interesting look at the possible areas of influence of specific Third Spaces.
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Coffee Shops in Brooklyn, New York - 1 views

youarehere.cc/...brooklyn CAMLF Demographics 3rdSpaces Community Urban+Planning
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  • David Bloom on 10 Apr 14
     
    This map shows the location of every independent coffee shop in Brooklyn and the walking-shed community associated with it. Independent coffee shops are positive markers of a living community. They function as social spaces, urban offices, and places to see the world go by. Communities are often formed by having spaces in which people can have casual interactions, and local and walkable coffee shops create those conditions, not only in the coffee shop themselves, but on the sidewalks around them. We use maps to know where these coffee shop communities exist and where, by placing new coffee shops, we can help form them. We applied two steps to generate the data displayed by the map. First, we used the Google Places API to locate all coffee shops in a given city. Second, for each point in the map we queried the walking route and distance to its nearest coffee shop using the Google Distance Matrix API. In the final map the colored areas represent a region which is walkable to a specific coffee shop (within one kilometer or 0.7 miles). The intensity of color at each point indicates its distance from its corresponding coffee shop.
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PlaNYC 2030 - The Plan - Parks and Public Space - 0 views

www.nyc.gov/...public-spaces.shtml CAMLF future trends design Demographics health transportation Environment Food architecture public-enagement
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  • David Bloom on 20 Mar 14
     
    PlaNYC 2030 - a cool future plan for NYC. Of note for my interest is the chapter on Parks and Public Space, but others may find other chapters of interest, especially in terms of how they envision the city 15 years into the future.
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Why do we assume the future will be short? - John Schellenberg - Aeon - 0 views

aeon.co/...ssume-the-future-will-be-short CAMLF time learning future
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  • Why has recognising the deep future been so difficult for humanity? Why, after discovering the place of the Earth in the solar system, the place of the solar system in the universe, the age of the Earth, the age of the universe, and evolution by natural selection over aeons of Earth’s history, do we still need to be prodded to perform the simple act of turning around, to position ourselves to see both forward and back in time?
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20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know - 2 views

io9.com/futurist-should-kno-1545499202 CAMLF language
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  • We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you'll need to navigate our future.
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Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization | MIT Techno... - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...-vulnerable-to-computerization CAMLF Technology jobs
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  • David Bloom on 13 Sep 13
     
    Uplifting news...
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JSTOR: The American Scholar, Vol. 67, No. 3 (SUMMER 1998), pp. 29-35 - 1 views

www.jstor.org/...41212786 CAMLF experience design learning
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  • David Bloom on 10 Sep 13
     
    More good stuff from Geerat j. Vermeij, Distiguished Professor at UC Davis, also a blind geologist. Listening to a Tidepool is a great take on perception and worth the read if you're thinking to incorporate sensory experiences for the seeing and non-seeing visitor.
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TommyEdisonXP - YouTube - 2 views

www.youtube.com/...TommyEdisonXP CAMLF Technology experience design learning
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  • David Bloom on 10 Sep 13
     
    Folks at any museum who are thinking about incorporating experiences for the blind should watch these videos - especially Describing Colors to Blind People, Intangible Concepts to a Blind Person, and How a Blind Person Uses a Computer. Lots of other good stuff here too, plus you gotta love Tommy's attitude.
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Can Futurists Change The Future? - 0 views

io9.com/...an-futurists-change-the-future CAMLF Museums Technology Social experience design fun
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  • Over the last century and a half, science fiction has evolved just as science has evolved. But does this mean there is actually a causal link between futurology and real scientific research? Could science fiction actually determine what technologies humanity ultimately invents? And if so, can this new generation of crowd empowered futurists be the ones who shape our future world?
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An anthropologist explains how hackers are changing the definition of freedom - 0 views

io9.com/...ging-the-definition-of-freedom CAMLF Museums Technology Demographics learning experience Social
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  • Coleman argues that two cultures have been colliding in the United States for years — the culture of hacking and the culture of intellectual property favored by the entertainment industry. Yet this clash has taken place in the shadow realm of code, intellectual rights, and things that glow in the night. The combatants and their weaponry sport strange monikers: Warez, Debian GNU, SOPA. They are fighting for nothing less than what Lawrence Lessig calls the "future of ideas," what it means to be a free individual, and the nature of that elusive beast, software, which is pushing the wave of the future.
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Shared Value in Conservation: Fewer Carrots and Sticks, More Designers - 0 views

www.triplepundit.com/...fewer-carrots-sticks-designers CAMLF Museums social economics social-value social-design Demographics
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  • How can conservation organizations leverage the economic concept of shared value? Can they create tools beyond the regulatory stick, which creates the illusion of a carrot? Can they create collaborative partnerships between NGOs and sustainability-focused social designers?
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The Promise and Peril of the 'Data-Driven Society' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Up to now, the focus on the power and implications of Big Data technology has been involved social media, business decision-making and online privacy. Those are big subjects in their own right. So it’s not surprising that the notion of a data-driven society has not been much considered.
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Google Public Policy Blog: Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager - 0 views

googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/...ur-digital-afterlife-with.html CAMLF technology $planning storage death security
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  • Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done with your digital assets when you die or can no longer use your account.
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Nanocellulose Algae: The 'Super Material' Of The Future Will Be Cheap, Strong And Organic - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...lgae-production_n_3047020.html
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  • Imagine a substance that was strong and light enough to armour soldiers, flexible and conductive enough to be turned into the next generation of flexible smartphone screens - and even absorbent enough to make tampons more effective
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Sugata Mitra: We Need Schools.. Not Factories - 2 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...2013-ted-prize_b_2767598.html CAMLF Technology Learning eLearning Social CitizenScience
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  • David Bloom on 27 Feb 13
     
    One of the more compelling ideas on education I've come across in a while.
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5x5x5: Rick Smolan Of 'The Human Face Of Big Data' Talks About Transformative Tech - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...5x5-rick-smolan_n_2459872.html Technology Museums Data Social CAMLF
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  • David Bloom on 19 Jan 13
     
    Five guests from a variety of sectors will answer questions on how technology and innovation can be used for social good.
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Short documentary: Why Privacy Matters - Boing Boing - 1 views

boingboing.net/...t-documentary-why-privacy.html ReadLater Privacy Technology CAMLF
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  • David Bloom on 20 Nov 12
     
    Privacy International's 16-minute mini-documentary from DEFCON about privacy is a great, compact answer to the question, "Why does privacy matter?"
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Restaurants Use Instagram To Tap Into Food Porn Obsession - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...nstagram-comodo_n_1973754.html CAMLF Museums Social Technology ReadLater
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  • If you're on Instagram, then you know there are plenty of people addicted to pulling out their cell phones to take snapshots of the greasy burgers, frothy mochas and picturesque cupcakes they eat while out on the town.
  • Now Comodo, a Latin American restaurant in New York's SoHo neighborhood, is, by creating an "Instagram menu."
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When you and employer split, who gets your friends and followers? - Red Tape - 0 views

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  • A controversial court ruling last week has shined a light on this made-in-the-digital age problem: Who owns Twitter followers, Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections when employers and employees part ways?
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