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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From thatsinteres
16:54:52 Wednesday Jul 06 2011 -
From thatsinteres
16:13:21 Wednesday Jul 06 2011Cyberspace 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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From thatsinteres
09:34:13 Friday Jun 24 2011 -
What Is Social Psychology, Anyway?
09:30:52 Friday Jun 24 2011yeah. what *is* it?
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[Lifestream] 1984: 'the' on display
Friday April 08, 2011 @ 07:49 AM (UTC)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.
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From thatsinteres
15:23:42 Monday Mar 14 2011The 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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Digital Assets
15:11:27 Monday Mar 14 2011You’re dead. Your data isn’t. What happens now?
by Jesse Davis of Entrustet
(Discovered at SXSW panel)
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Infoid.org | The Web Issue Index
17:00:15 Sunday Mar 06 2011An 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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MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web
17:01:00 Saturday Mar 05 2011Interes 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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From thatsinteres
12:24:59 Thursday Feb 24 2011My 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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