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Wikipedia Walkabout

Posted on February 22nd by Shae Davidson.
Two websites give Wikipedia users a more immediate, spatial connection to data.  Placeopedia allows visitors to connect articles to locales, creating searchable maps linked to the original texts.  To create ...
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Ask a Collaborative Expert

Posted on January 16th by Shae Davidson.
IdeaConectionhelps companies develop new concepts and engage in research without the necessity of maintaining permanent research and development staff.  Customers present a problem and set a payment amount, researchers who have ...
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Tom Paine in PDF

Posted on October 31st by Shae Davidson.
Diffusion provides a way for researchers and artists to share low-cost broadsides and pamphlets through templates for PDF documents.  While sharing PDF files is not exactly new, Diffusion consciously chose to present each ...
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Journey to the West

Posted on October 3rd by Shae Davidson.
Shaun Huston, professor of Geography and Film Studies at Western Oregon University, created Visualizing the West to provide a forum for artists and scholars interested in ...
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Genealogy of Influence

Posted on August 30th by Shae Davidson.
Mike Love's Genealogy of Influence visualizes the relationships between artists, authors, and philosophers in a shifting web.  Arrows show the flow of influence and inspiration; lines indicate a relationship between intellectual peers.  ...
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Urban Renewal

Posted on August 21st by Shae Davidson.
The subtle beauty of working and lower-class housing fascinated poet William Carlos Williams, who praised "the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements." A community arts program in ...
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Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.

Posted on August 19th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
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Cities of Art

Posted on August 15th by Shae Davidson.
UNESCO's Creative Cities Network works with local artists, public agencies, and private supporters to nurture social and economic development while promoting global cultural diversity. The system works on both ...

Alternative Licensing for Recycled Canvas

Posted on May 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Some people have had problems with the recycle-data plugin. The short story is it is likely caused by some namespace like conflicts somewhere in the code. We've corrected some of these but ...

Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now

Posted on May 7th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Sorry for the delay but there is a lot of stuff going on here. In addition to the squeaky visual improvements and all of the basic features like: Clean simple theme in two ...

[release] Personal Zeitgeist

Posted on April 25th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The personal zeitgeist is a small project that builds on top of SimplePie to offer a personal rss aggregator to the distributed individual. We might be doing a little more with this ...
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Barcamp Boston

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Barcamp Boston is this weekend (all day saturday and until 5:30 on sunday). I'll try to stop by for some of the time - it is conveniently adjacent. The only competition is ...

Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.

Posted on March 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of the project, ...