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links for 2008-02-05
SpaceCollective “where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today” (tags: toexplore space science future scifi visualization generative emergence navigation) February 4, 2008 update from David Weinberger 2 great articles: Is the Web different? Is the Web just [...]
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Unevenly Distributed: Production Models for the 21st Century Mark Pesce illuminates how the audience became not just the distributors but the producers of their own content, and have brought down the walls which separate pros from amateurs. Then he outlines the future: how the value of media is based on salience. (tags: mustread media production [...]
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Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky, most lucid thinker on social effects of communication tools, launches new book and thought provoking blog, Here Comes Everybody, about what happens when people have the tools to do things together without needing traditional organizational structures. Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work Epiphany has little to do with [...]
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Google China Released Holiday Mass Migration Map (tags: google China internet map maps mashup weather service)
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BBC NEWS | Africa | GPS helps pygmies defend forest When Baka pygmies in Cameroon go into the forest to hunt and gather, they take GPS units to record locations of hunting grounds, sacred trees and rivers. Before if someone chopped down a tree, there was no proof it existed. Now there is. Watch the [...]
Read more →@Everyone – Open Social on Earth… Come Play
One minute I’m checking messages in Facebook, the next I’m frolicking through olive orchards in Sardinia with John Borthwick wearing an astronaut suit. Oh what a world we live in… More compelling than Scrabulous, Unype is a Facebook social network application that lets people see, chat and Skype with each other in Google Earth. Unype [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-01-31: Questioning Consciousness
Questioning Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey in SEED To understand consciousness and its evolution, we need to ask the right questions. (tags: consciousness mind qualia)
Read more →Links for 2008-01-30: People Projects
BIL conference wiki Sounds like an excellent adventure! BIL is the self-organizing unconference across the street from the TED conference, overlapping by a day. (tags: unconference conference BIL TED) The Citizenship Exchange Project CEP proposes a resolution to highly bureaucratized and political systems of immigration. The Peer-to-Peer immigration network makes alienating systems of human migration [...]
Read more →GhostGarden and More GPS Games
The surreal romance of aristocratic expat Lucy and castaway Jack enchanted me as I strolled through Sydney’s Royal Botanical Gardens in early January, following their love story on a handheld HP GPS device preloaded with Anita Fontaine‘s spooky sweet Ghost Garden, part of the 2008 Sydney Festival. As I traveled through the gardens, certain locations [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-01-28: Qtrax
From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs – legally – Times Online Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks. (tags: music mp3 p2p qtrax drm free filesharing) Update: [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-01-25: Funky Forest
Funky Forest, interactive ecosystem installation by Emily Gobeille and Theodore Watson Funky Forest’ is an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and the [...]
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Tuna Troubles Though some mercury in the atmosphere occurs naturally, roughly two-thirds is produced by industrial sources — especially coal-burning power plants. It settles into the water in a form called methylmercury, is absorbed by bacteria and then makes its way up to the very top of the food chain — to humans. It is [...]
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High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency. (tags: fish tuna mercury food safety health) [...]
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