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Leo de Carvalho

Tiago Dória Weblog » Blog Archive » Hashtags não derrubam governos - 0 views

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    information in favor of dictatorship.
Johann Höchtl

Defining Gov 2.0 and Open Government | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms - 1 views

  • The future of open government is allowing seamless conversations to occur between thousands of employees and people … You can’t divorce open government from technology. Technology enables the conversation and supports the conversation. We’re finding that if we don’t stand in the way of that conversation, incredible things can happen.
  • will open government be able to tap into the “civic surplus” to solve big problems. That’s Clay Shirky‘s “cognitive surplus,” applied to citizens and government. For open government to succeed, conveners need to get citizens to participate
Johann Höchtl

Questioning Shirky's Cognitive Surplus - 0 views

  • Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead on some sophisticated task
  • True socially-infused movements cannot be forced
  • The bad news for marketers is that Shirky’s examples quietly illustrate that we can’t force meaningful social activities. They happen organically, if not accidentally
Judith Schossboeck

Internet in Numbers - 2 views

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    wenn man mal wieder Zahlen braucht :)
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    Lovin' it!
thinkahol *

How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning This Brutal Class War Against 99% of Us? | Eco... - 1 views

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    How has a tiny fraction of the population arranged for their narrowest economic interests to dominate those of the vast majority?
thinkahol *

America's treatment of detainees - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Amnesty denounces the conditions of Bradley Manning's detention, while new documents shed light on detainee deaths
thinkahol *

What's Missing From Our 'Cognitive Toolkit'? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Thinkers explore whether there are workarounds for cognitive traits that may be holding back human progress.
Leo de Carvalho

FedEx - Nosso Mundo Em Transformação - 0 views

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    Explore the world's data in transformation.
Johann Höchtl

EUROPA - Press Releases - Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission respon... - 0 views

  • I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open data!
  • By involving third parties we can both improve services and be more transparent. That would be the definition of weGov.
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    Neelie Kroes on Open Government Data for Europe
Judith Schossboeck

Wirst du das Twittern - 1 views

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    Studie, wie verbreiten sich Nachrichten im netz
thinkahol *

Brookings' "centrist" opposition to the rule of law - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Think tank "scholars" are lavishly funded to defend elite prerogatives
Johann Höchtl

Bloggen, twittern, chatten: Die Ernüchterung ist absehbar (Startseite, NZZ On... - 0 views

  • Facebook ist das grösste soziale Netzwerk und verbindet bald 600 Millionen Menschen. Sie stellen täglich über 1 Milliarde Informationsinhalte auf Zuckerbergs Netz.
  • Paradoxerweise hat das unser Miteinanderleben auf verschiedenen Ebenen verkompliziert. Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die permanente Pflege der virtuellen Identität.
  • Im Politischen sind soziale Netzwerke ein effizientes Mobilisierungsmittel für Protestbewegungen. In Iran etwa organisierte sich die Opposition vor den Wahlen 2009 über Twitter, Facebook und Youtube
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  • Deshalb ziehen sich erste Mitglieder wieder aus sozialen Netzwerken zurück.
  • m Silicon Valley pumpen Investoren derzeit beherzt Millionen in Firmen wie Yammer oder Tumblr, so dass man sich an die Exzesse der Dotcom-Blase vor einem Jahrzehnt erinnert fühlt.
Johann Höchtl

OpenData + R + Google = Easy Maps - 1 views

  • The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task.
Johann Höchtl

Directgov Syndication API | data.gov.uk - 0 views

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    Open Data API von data.gov.uk, eine Implementierung von CKAN
thinkahol *

Totally Bill Hicks | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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    A celebration of the comedy of Bill Hicks. The film is structured around the different strains of comedy in the Hicks stand-up, sampling the best of his confrontational performance. Interviewees include two major American chat show hosts, David Letterman and Jay Leno, the actor Eric Bogosian and a wide range of comedians who admired his work including Sean Hughes and Eddie Izzard. There are also anecdotal contributions from his high school friends and an interview with his parents.
Johann Höchtl

112th Congress live in Congress API - Sunlight Labs: Blog - 0 views

  • 112th Congress live in Congress API
  • all members of the 112th Congress are now available in our Congress API
  • All members are now added along with their ids on other sites
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  • The email field has been blank for all but about a dozen members for some time
  • it seems that the email addresses get flooded with non-constituent communication
Johann Höchtl

Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults - 0 views

  • Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults
  • a study from the Pew Research Center
  • Tweet counts have increased from 5,000 daily in 2007 to 90 million daily in 2010, while Facebook () went from 30 million users in 2007 to more than 500 million users today
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    Some stats about SNS sites
Johann Höchtl

Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers - 1 views

  • With APIs, you let other developers do your R&D for you. The benefit? You get development at scale with minimal investment. You effectively outsource risk because failures don’t cost you anything.
  • It’s easy to envision how brands whose core business revolves around technology or data could make use of an API
  • By providing access to that value through an API, they would allow the delivery of that value to spread exponentially.
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    Begründungen, warum offene API's einen Mehrwert bringen. Auch anwendbar für Open Data
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