Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

So that's what Power built: a dashboard for all your soc... you had a LinkedIn, a Twitter, Facebook and MySpace (rem... You'd put your usernames and passwords for each into the... from there, you could post to any account, grab contacts... so on.

I am delighted to host a guest blog by Julia Campbell fr... works for the Coigach Community Development Company but ... expresses here are her personal views. They were submitt... the Land Reform Review Group.

LumiNet is a network of low-cost intelligent pixels that... an organic fashion: Without a central point of control, ...
Each node consists of an RGB LED, microcontroller, and c ...
New behaviors are injected into the network from a singl ...
LumiNet nod

LumiNet is a network of low-cost intelligent pixels that...
Each node consists of an RGB LED, microcontroller, and c ...
New behaviors are injected into the network from a singl ...
LumiNet nodes can be used in academia to teach concepts ...
... LumiNet

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In the nineteen-seventies, the Internet was a small, dec ...
This is not the Internet we know today. Nearly two decad ...

In a letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists h... government to "set out a detailed plan to reduce the str... deficit more quickly than set out in the 2009 pre-budget... raises one of my gripes - that the notion of a structura... is unhelpfu

I do not wish to deal with all the domains in which the ... if it were referring to an obvious aspect of the world o... human live. Indeed, the very fact that time can be made ... reflection shows us that what the word time connotes cha... circumstanc

The network takeover
Albert-László Barabási
Nature Physics
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... pidly developing into a new discipline: network science.

Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo...
Fama’s wo

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from ...
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Not the absence of sound, exactly.
The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rig ...
... The birds were missing because the fish were missing.

The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an... effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standar... expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and in... mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of ... publishing,

I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open educa... courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology... in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. ... my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none o... “doc”-u

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

Assistive Technologies empower individuals to accomplish... not be able to do otherwise. Unfortunately, a large perc... Technology devices that are purchased (35% or more) end ... abandoned [7,10], leaving many people with Assistive Tec... inappropria

I’m now going to briefly explore ‘network whispers‮.. content are shared easily through open platforms, and ye... be masked in the flow of dissemination: does credit alwa... due?

Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ...
The upper p

If perovskites mean nothing to you read on, as they may ... impact on your future fuel bill.
If we could capture approximately 1% of the sunlight fal ...

Tremble, thing-makers, because The Pirate Bay has starte... source files for physical objects.
The controversial file-sharing site, known for aiding th ...
Only those with 3D printers will be able to make use of ...
Pirate Bay has started a new category

Creative activities often follow a double-hump model. At... all the obvious ideas. These aren't a waste of time; som...
There's a drop in energy between humps One and Two, as w ...
Bad ideas are not boring, meh proposals. Bad is not the ...
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Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

This web page provides a convenient way to try out and e... JavaScript code from the book Press On. It provides a ra... devices you can experiment with, a JSON import so you ca... devices, and an export function (currently supporting JS... SCXML, Dot

The Code-Point Open dataset is advertised with the bold ... “Code-Point Open locates every postcode unit in the UK... precision”. Unfortunately this is simply untrue, and a... me to point this out, they’ve fallen at the first hurd... Northern Ir

The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here.
Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ...
Other projects visualize Real

Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a... decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of ... engineering challenges. One device designed to help peop... condition is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval. It is kn...
Second Sigh

Arnon Mishkin wrote a post last Thursday on paidContent ...
Arnon Mishkin:
The vast majority of the value gets captured by aggr ...
Jeff Jarvis:
... ates come down to opposing sides exchanging half-truths.

Two interesting things happened last week and neither ha... with social networking or privacy. First, a web server f... new in that, you say; happens all the time. Yes, but thi... web server: it was the machine that hosts the Raspberry ...
The second

E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such ... improve, but research suggests that reading on paper sti... advantages

Two months ago I wrote a blog on "media gurus" who charg... promoting "free" as a business model. The blog drew some... responses, with Guardian contributor Cory Doctorow posti... accusing me of not understanding how giving work away fo... promotional