Tag: Cory Doctorow

Location based culture data app

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sun­light Foun­da­tion that helps you to learn more about your sur­round­ings in sec­onds. Sitegeist takes pub­lic data about the peo­ple, hous­ing, his­to­ry, envi­ron­ment and thing…

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Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Security & Privacy

 

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Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion…

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency

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Biella Coleman studies the anthropology of tech culture

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands hacker culture
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Biel­la Cole­man is a geek anthro­pol­o­gist, in both sens­es of the epi­thet: an anthro­pol­o­gist who stud­ies geeks, and a geek who is an anthro­pol­o­gist. Though she’s best known today for her excel­lent and insight­ful work on the mech­a­nis…

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Rudy Rucker by Cory Doctorow

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

#cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker
Elliot Harmon, creativecommons.org

Cory Doctorow / NK Guy / CC BY-SAIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow writes about the…

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Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Robert Ghrist from Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia wrote in to tell us about his new, free Cours­era course in single-variable Cal­cu­lus, which starts on Jan 7. Cal­cu­lus is one of those amaz­ing, chewy, chal­leng­ing branch­es of math, and…

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