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  • Location based culture data app

    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

      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 Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics…

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  • Biella Coleman studies the anthropology of tech culture

    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… RT @BoingBoing: Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands…

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  • Rudy Rucker by Cory Doctorow

    #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… #cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on…

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  • Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

    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… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with…

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