As with a benevolent dictatorship, it works really well when the current leader is a great guy. But then he dies, and his evil son takes over. And then everybody’s screwed.
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As with a benevolent dictatorship, it works really well when the current leader is a great guy. But then he dies, and his evil son takes over. And then everybody’s screwed.
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Cyberspace is the latest American frontier. As this and other societies make ever deeper forays into it, the proposition that ownership of this frontier resides first with the people is central to achieving its true potential.
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yeah. what *is* it?
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The first meatspace exhibition of images from the 1984 project are going on display for one night only – Tuesday 12 April – as part of the Books vs. Cigarettes event at the London Word Festival. The event starts at 7pm at Dalston Boys’ Club, 68 Boleyn Road, London, N16 8JG.
The Digital Beyond is a blog about your digital existence and what happens to it after your death. We’re the go-to source for archival, cultural, legal and technical insights to help you predict and plan for the future of your online content.
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You’re dead. Your data isn’t. What happens now?
by Jesse Davis of Entrustet
(Discovered at SXSW panel)
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An interesting attempt to track the social issues that are important to regions around the world by looking at the online campaigning behaviours of NGOs in different countries:
The Web Issue Index of Civil Society is part of a suite of political instruments for the Web, developed by Richard Rogers and govcom.org
Richard says it ran from 2002-2005.
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Interes analyses (with data) of how several types of online information spreads through networks by Prof Jure Lescovec at Stanford.
It’s very much about propagation of messages, primarily based upon quote/semantic pinching. Interesting element: movement form mainstream media to online media (pro blogs) back to mainstream media and back to online media (non-pro blogs).
Discovered at Web Science Meets Network Science, March 2011.
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My occupational anima/animus is represented at both ends of the spectrum in this research about gender divides in PhDs by academic discipline.
Gender divides in Philosophy and other disciplines (at PhD level) — Crooked Timber
Psychology most female. Physics least, with computer science and engineering following closely behind (< 25% lady PhDs).
Via @vaughanbell.
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