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Open Source Open World - 0 views
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IDABC - European Union Public Licence - EUPL v.1.1 - 0 views
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The EUPL is the first European Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) Licence. (Not to confuse nor suitable for open content or open data!)
OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every leve... - 1 views
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As a joint project of two 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation, OpenGovernment will empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level.
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You can support the open-source work on OpenGovernment by becoming a Booster of the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation (a tax-exempt recurring donation of $1/day), giving a one-time charitable gift, or by forking the code on GitHub and start hacking.
News Corpse » Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid: - 0 views
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Yet another study has been released that proves that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What's more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
8 Open Source Microblogging Software To Create Twitter Clone Websites | VisonwidGet - 0 views
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Twitter Clone
Divine Inspiration From the Masses - Los Angeles Times - 0 views
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Open-source programming's organizing principle has been embraced in medical research, engineering -- even religion
The Diaspora Project - 0 views
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We're building the future we want to see -- a new social web that keeps you in control of your data, giving you the freedom to do what you want and have fun. We're a tiny core team of developers working our tails off, and we're also a huge community effort, with more than 150 people having contributed code to our open-source software, hundreds of others engaged in community organizing and spreading the word, and thousands of people providing feedback and financial support. We can't do this without you. Please give what you can. Thank you.
The killing of Awlaki's 16-year-old son - Salon.com - 0 views
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Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen - far from any battlefield and with no due process - it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager's life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people. News reports, based on government sources, originally claimed that Awlaki's son was 21 years old and an Al Qaeda fighter (needless to say, as Terrorist often means: "anyone killed by the U.S."), but a birth certificate published by The Washington Post proved that he was born only 16 years ago in Denver. As The New Yorker's Amy Davidson wrote: "Looking at his birth certificate, one wonders what those assertions say either about the the quality of the government's evidence - or the honesty of its claims - and about our own capacity for self-deception." The boy's grandfather said that he and his cousin were at a barbecue and preparing to eat when the U.S. attacked them by air and ended their lives. There are two points worth making about this:
Openness for Whom? and Openness for What? | Exploring the interactions among public opi... - 0 views
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Openness for Whom? and Openness for What?
Open Data More Valuable Than Big Data, Gartner Says - 0 views
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"Big data is a topic of growing interest for many business and IT leaders, and there is little doubt that it creates business value by enabling organizations to uncover previously unseen patterns and develop sharper insights about their businesses and environments," David Newman, research vice president at Gartner, said in prepared remarks. "However, for clients seeking competitive advantage through direct interactions with customers, partners and suppliers, open data is the solution. For example, more government agencies are now opening their data to the public Web to improve transparency, and more commercial organizations are using open data to get closer to customers, share costs with partners and generate revenue by monetizing information assets.
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The company's report noted that enterprise architects could play an important role in fostering information-sharing practices
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Gartner suggested open data application programming interfaces (APIs) are a lightweight approach to data exchange. These APIs can be new sources of revenue, spur innovation, increase transparency and improve brand equity
ÖNB bringt 400.000 Bücher online - 0 views
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In sechs Jahren soll das Projekt abgeschlossen sein, 2016 wird der gesamte "Open Source" Bestand der Bibliothek der Öffentlichkeit online zur Verfügung stehen, im Volltext und samt Suchfunktion.
"Aus dem Würgegriff der Experten befreit" - science.ORF.at - 0 views
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Auch das Internet hat sich verändert. Durch Phänomene wie Crowdsourcing kam es zu einer Amateurisierung ganzer Berufssparten. Ich denke, dass sich die Kulturindustrie langsam aus dem Würgegriff einiger Experten befreit. Das haben wir zu einem großen Teil dem Internet zu verdanken. Ich sage es immer wieder und ich habe es auch in mein Buch geschrieben: Ich halte diese Entwicklung für äußerst positiv.
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Kritiker des Web 2.0 behaupten, dass die Flut an neuen Medien die Kommunikation zwischen Menschen derart verändert hat, dass sie nun fragmentiert und unpersönlich geworden ist. Ich denke auch, dass sich zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen auf eine Weise verändert haben, die die besondere Vertrautheit, an die wir vor zehn oder 100 Jahren noch gewöhnt waren, bedroht
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Sie arbeiten derzeit an einem journalistischen Projekt, bei dem Crowdsourcing benutzt wird, um Daten über das US-Gesundheitssystem zu erheben. In Österreich stecken diese Konzepte noch in den Kinderschuhen. Gibt es große Unterschiede zwischen Europa und den USA? Sind europäische Journalisten verschlossener gegenüber solchen Methoden? Ich denke, dass es Unterschiede gibt. In den USA erwägen immer mehr Medienunternehmen Crowdsourcing zu verwenden. Bei meinem Projekt geht es darum, Daten von Radiohörern zu sammeln und sich die Kosten für ihre Gesundheitsvorsorge anzusehen. Die Situation in Österreich kenne ich leider zu schlecht, um etwas darüber sagen zu können. Es gibt allerdings einige europäische Länder, die Crowdsourcing relativ früh aufgegriffen haben. Kurz nachdem mein Artikel darüber erschienen ist, gab es ein Experiment in den Niederlanden. Die Regierung hat dort versucht, die Bevölkerung durch Crowdsourcing in den Gesetzgebungsprozess einzubinden
Google search index splits with MapReduce * The Register - 0 views
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Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpinned the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project, Google is moving on.
Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers - Google Open Source Blog - 0 views
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Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases.
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you can read how the Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and data.gov.uk have used it
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Refine 2.0, a tool for data wranglers
National Rail Have Killed My UK Train Times App - 0 views
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About a year ago I wrote a simple web application to present UK train times in a simple format for mobile phone users.
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When I wrote the app none of the official train timetable sites could do this and I don’t believe any can now.
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To reiterate – I built this because it was convenient and would be useful to others. Not to make a profit. …and today National Rail killed it.
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Open Data API von National Railway UK wurde geschlossen - die Daten können potentiell zu viel Geld bringen
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Rethinking Open Data: Lessons... - 0 views
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You can build it but they won’t come. All successful open source projects build communities of supportive engaged developers who identify with the project and keep it productive and useful.
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Ongoing maintenance and distribution of the data hasn’t been budgeted for almost all the data sets we have today. This attitude has to change, and new projects give us the chance to get it right, but most existing datasets are unfunded for maintenance and release.
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there are at least five different types of Open Data groupie: low-polling governments who want to see a PR win from opening their data, transparency advocates who want a more efficient and honest government, citizen advocates who want services and information to make their lives better, open advocates who believe that governments act for the people therefore government data should be available for free to the people, and wonks who are hoping that releasing datasets of public toilets will deliver the same economic benefits to the country as did opening the TIGER geo/census dataset.
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