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- Postgenomic Postgenomic collects posts from hundreds of science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.
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- hyperexperience for a better sense of reality
- Web Science Research Initiative
Going Public
Inspired by the same interface and knowledge-sharing model as Wikipedia, Wikileaks plans to provide an uncensorable, anonymous forum for sharing information about corrupt or immoral actions in the public realm. Wikileaks will make leaked ...
Text Mapping
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data. The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between technology, data, ...
Making the World A Better Place One Geek at a Time
Geekcorps pairs socially-conscious technology experts with communities to promote development and inter-connectivity. The group tackles these issues on three broad fronts: information technology, business development, and education. To meet the broadest range of ...
Thoughts on News: Intertextualizing out of the Prolefeed
I've spent a bit of time thinking about news lately. Youtube has an interesting feature. When you're watching a video on youtube it shows you a short selection of related ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
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 ...
Connor’s Kameraflage gets noticed
A little shout out to fellow collaborative Connor who's work on Kameraflage is getting a lot of attention today. For those of you who don't know: kameraflage is a context-Sensitive ...
Following the Media’s Coverage on Climate Change
In a similar vein to last week's post. Idiom.at's new award winning Media Watch on Climate Change is an original web application that allows users to view current articles on ...
[graph-watch] All the President’s Graphs
The Wall Street Journal has a nice graph selection taking a look at U.S. presidents' job-approval ratings. The site showcases the average approval ratings over time of modern presidencies from ...
We focus on their head and then slightly to one side.
Stand up comedian Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson gives a remarkable and entertaining talk at TED asking "Do schools kill creativity?" He points out that the values of our educational system ...
So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of ...