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Johann Höchtl

Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers - Google Open Source Blog - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • you can read how the Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and data.gov.uk have used it
  • Johann Höchtl on 11 Nov 10
     
    Refine 2.0, a tool for data wranglers
Parycek

9 Professional Social Media Monitoring - 1 views

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socialmedia monitoring tools

shared by Parycek on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 28 Mar 10
     
    & Online Reputation Management. People now are communicating via blogs, forums, discussion boards, wikis, Q&A, and video sites.  With the unless number of social content sharing sites out there, it can be hard to manage what people are saying about you and your brand.  That is why there are a number of social media monitoring tools out there that will allow you to hear what people are saying, help you interact with these people, and analyze trends.
Parycek

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

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socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks activism facebook Gladwell

shared by Parycek on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” 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.”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
  • Parycek on 13 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
Parycek

The Five Best Government Blogs and The Six Reasons Why They Work - 0 views

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blogs tool opengov

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    With the Obama Administration placing a high priority on the goal of transparency in the federal government these days, blogging has become a dynamic, useful tool for agency officials to communicate thoughts, opinions and information directly to the public.
Johann Höchtl

recipe:exploring_survey_data_with_many_eyes - Open Data Cook Book - 0 views

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opendata manyeyes IBM software tool

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11
     
    Tool to visualize open data
Johann Höchtl

Data Wrangler - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 29 Mar 11
     
    Tool to curate data by Stanford Visualisation Group
thinkahol *

#Revolution on Vimeo - 0 views

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#Revolution on Vimeo

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  • thinkahol * on 22 Jan 12
     
    An exploration of how the growth of social media sites-like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook-have become tools for protest and revolutionary change in the U.S. and abroad.
Parycek

Science and Web 2.0: Talking About Science vs. Doing Science « The Scholarly ... - 0 views

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shared by Parycek on 19 Mar 10 - Cached
  • There are far too many sessions on journalism and policy, and far too little on doing science . . .
  • “killer app” that integrates social media into the mainstream of science.
  • Tools for doing science are much harder to envision and build.  But these sorts of tools are much more likely to see uptake and use by the community, simply because scientists are more interested in doing science than they are in talking about science.
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  • ScienceBlogs has around 80 regular bloggers. The Nature Network has around 40 blogs that have been updated in the last month (this figure seems to have dropped by 20% since I last checked). David Bradley lists 600-plus “science type” users of Twitter.
  • Parycek on 19 Mar 10
     
    Science Online 2010, the annual meeting for cutting edge users of Web 2.0 technologies in science, was held last month. It filled the science blogosphere with coverage and allowed far-flung colleagues to meet in person.
Johann Höchtl

Tea Party Patriots Chicago - 0 views

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  • Johann Höchtl on 19 Mar 10
     
    rechtslastige Bewegung der USA gegen Obama. Government 3.0 - "They use their tools"
Parycek

Governor's Office Social Media Usage and Policies - 0 views

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opengov opendata socialmedia case guidelines

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    As part of our commitment to transparency and civic engagement in government, the Office of the Governor uses several tools including: ...
Parycek

You Can Learn From "Dell Hell." Dell Did | CustomerThink - 0 views

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shared by Parycek on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Learning from Dell
  • Customers are in control. Work with them and learn from them. Real conversations are two-way. Think before you talk—but always be yourself. Address any form of dissatisfaction head on. Be aware that any conversation can become global at any time. Size doesn't matter—relevance does. Just as one journalist can trigger a newscycle, one blogger can do the same. Don't be afraid to apologize. Develop direct links to customer community (IdeaStorm for Dell), listen for how we can improve. One customer is part of many communities. Teamwork, transparency and frequent consistent communication are key in this new world. No shortcuts are possible. Implementing business change requires much effort across departments.
  • Engage our people to make it work
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  • Tools are important but people drive processes. Feedback digital media tools for email and chat, inside and outside of Dell, are becoming as vital as call data and traditional online support. Working globally means anti
Parycek

Texas Transparency - 0 views

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transparency opengov opendata case

shared by Parycek on 01 May 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 01 May 10
     
    Where the Money GoesYou pay for your government, and you deserve to know how it spends your money. Use the tools and information on this page to search the state check register, track state spending and see your tax dollars at work.
thinkahol *

The Yes Men Present: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism by The Yes Lab - Kickstarter - 0 views

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The Yes Men Present: Lab for Creative Activism by - Kickstarter

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  • thinkahol * on 17 Sep 11
     
    ABOUT THIS PROJECT For years, the Yes Men have been tinkering with side-splitting mischief as a way to fight injustice. Our latest film about those efforts, The Yes Men Fix the World, won lots of awards and was released all over the planet... but it simply did not fix the world.  So a year ago, we decided that showing what we do wasn't enough: we needed to help people to actually do it themselves. We called our idea The Yes Lab for Creative Activism. It's a factory for meaningful mischief, and a system for helping organizations and individuals carry out Yes Men-style actions on their own, to get media attention for important issues. But the Yes Lab is more than that: it also aims to help YOU take action on issues of social importance. Today, after a year of testing and nearly a dozen successes, we're proud to announce that the Yes Lab is ready for prime time! It's got a set of cool tools in development, that will soon help YOU get involved in new Yes Lab projects, and even to launch them. And it's got a new home at NYU, with space, lots of eager participants, and an ambitious new structure that will soon be cranking out many new projects. The trouble is that in spite of all that, we still have zero budget for the first round of projects themselves! And that's why you're reading this now. We're asking for $10,000, to make the all-new Yes Lab the lean, mean, change-making machine it can be. Any amount raised over $10,000 will bankroll projects beyond the first round.
thinkahol *

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson - YouTube - 0 views

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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson - YouTube

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  • thinkahol * on 05 Oct 11
     
    One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward. Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines. Most exhilarating is Johnson's conclusion that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to come up with tomorrow's great ideas.
Johann Höchtl

About | ScraperWiki - 0 views

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tools opendata scrapper wiki

shared by Johann Höchtl on 07 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor.
  • Johann Höchtl on 07 Oct 11
     
    Collaboratively scrapping data
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