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A daily dump of the URLs I found interesting on a certain day and bookmarked on del.icio.us

Links for 2007 07 11

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Delaminate the Bastards!
The only way to get Net Neutrality with teeth is by changing the business models of the businesses providing us with access. Bust ’em up so that the companies that connect us to the Internet don’t also sell us services over the Internet.

(tags: freedom, internet, net, neutrality, hyperorg, economics)

Links for 2007 07 07

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Mobile Technology: 2012: Online Only Video: The New Yorker
"Presentation by Younghee Jung who leads a multidisciplinary research team at Nokia called â€œInsight and Innovation.â€ She talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas in the pipeline, and the questions that Nokia is asking w

(tags: nokia, future, mobiles, presentation, video, research)
Stop the clash of civilizations
Worthy to watch vide on not easy topics. And petition.

(tags: peace, video, activism, clash, civilization)

Links for 2007 07 05

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Online Gender Analysis by Hugo Liu | wanderingstan
Analysis of "time" words used by men and women. It seems that women write much more about the here-and-now, near future, and on a day-of-the-week scale. And men write more about the future, and on a month scale. And much more!

(tags: hugo, liu, research, gender, analysis, blogs)
TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world (video)
In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty.

(tags: visualization, economics, development, data, world, research, rosling, gapminder, cool, stats)
Implemented: Ubuntu Dell is $50 Less Than Windows Dell – Dell IdeaStorm
From the official Dell site. I don’t really know what you are expecting for. Come on, get freedom on your laptop! Get Ubuntu on your Dell!

(tags: dell, ubuntu, windows, freedom, gnu, linux)
Teaching Hacks.com Â» Blog Archive Â» Tips On Developing A Wiki Community
"The individual is important. The biggest difference between a group of 50 and a group of 43,000 is that a small group needs to value each individual much more highly." and other useful suggestions on how to develop a wiki community

(tags: wiki, community, tips, howto, Collaboration)

Links for 2007 06 22

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Wikipedia:Trust network – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a feature that didn’t get approved. "The trust network exists to allow users to systematically document their trust-relationships, and to see which users have declared trust in another user. It is not a popularity contest or editor rating."

(tags: Trust, wikipedia, trust_metric, discussion, jimbo, wales)
mySociety
Using colours and contour lines maps show how long it takes to travel between one place and every other place in the area, using public transport. They also show the areas from which no such journey is possible, because the services are not good enough.

(tags: maps, time, travel, public, transport, commute, mysociety, cool)

Links for 2007 06 20

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Academic Productivity Â» Soft peer review? Social software and distributed scientific evaluation
Although I donâ€™t think social software will ever replace hard evaluation processes such as traditional peer review, I suspect soft evaluation systems (as those made possible by social software) will soon take over in terms of efficiency and scalability.

(tags: academia, peer_review, research, evaluation, Social_software)
Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything – lifehack.org
The open-source concept doesnâ€™t have to just apply to software. It can apply to anything in life, any area where information is currently in the hands of few instead of many. Some examples but I’m more interested in money (think Ripple).

(tags: future, free_software, opensource, change, money, ripple)
visualcomplexity.com | Segoland
Segoland is a visual representation of 1054 local blogs that supported the 2007 French presidential candidate, Segolene Royal. It displays an intricate network of sites, divided by political party and geographically placed throughout France.

(tags: blogs, network, map, geolocation, segoland, politics, france)
Lawrence Lessig – Required Reading: the next 10 years
Lessig could have kept being the star of the free culture movement for ever but decided 10 years are enough and is time to start with a new challenge, from scratch: fix "corruption of the political process". I’m speechless and admiring.

(tags: lessig, activism, courage, politics, corruption, future)

Links for 2007 06 09

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Open Money Manifesto (built on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
We, the People declare that The current monetary system does not respect Human Rights It generates inequalities, segregation, hidden forms of slavery and prevents access to basic needs (healthcare, food, education, housing, safety, workâ€¦).

(tags: money, manifesto, declaration, economics, human, rights)
MicroID – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An open source, decentralized identity protocol. A MicroID is a simple identifier comprising a hashed communication/identity URI (email, OpenID,..) and claimed URL. The 2 elements create a hash that can be claimed by third party services.

(tags: microid, identity, openid, simple, occam)
Category:Money – P2P Foundation
This section’s theme are generally the monetary aspects of P2P trends, and more specifically, aspects of monetary reform, that aim to make the monetary system into a participatory resource that more broadly benefits larger sectors of the world population.

(tags: money, p2p, gift, economy)
P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects – P2P Foundation
Here are projects that seek to create an underlying infrastructure for p2p-based exchanges, monetary, gift, or otherwise.

(tags: p2p, gift, economy)
SPIEGEL Interview with African Economics Expert: "For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!" – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News
Read it. "Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. Development aid weakens local markets and dampens the spirit of entrepreneurship."

(tags: africa, development, economics, poverty, aids)

Links for 2007 06 08

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O’Reilly Radar > Don’t Call Me a User!
Words shape understanding. And "user" does not inspire participation. What is your suggestion? member, participant, contributor, citizen, author, creator, editor are some. What is yours? I like "meaning creator" but it is not catchy, nor single word

(tags: words, web2.0, culture, community, user)

Links for 2007 06 06

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Linux.com | Movable Type 4 to go Free Software (GPL)
It tool SA years to see the light but better late than never. "But we’ve also seen what amazing contributions the open source community makes, and how much more comfortable people feel knowing that, instead of data lock-in, an open process of development

(tags: movable_type, blog, wordpress, GPL, free_software)
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"By using Einstein words, Lobacevskij challenged an axiom. Whoever dares to challenge an accepted truth, seemed required and reasonable for the great majority of intelligent men during at least 2000 years, risks his own scientific reputation, if not actua

(tags: controversial, progress, challenge, Lobachevsky, math, bell, axiom)

Links for 2007 06 05

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Keenâ€™s â€œThe Cult of the Amateurâ€: BRILLIANT!
Genious Lessig comments on Keenâ€™s book â€œThe Cult of the Amateurâ€, calling it a brilliant self-parody and highlighting some of the serious errors in the book. You can add more on a Wiki page. Brilliant!

(tags: Book, review, lessig, keen, amateur, wiki)
Doing Business Map – The World Bank Group
Discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in 175 countries. Italy is one of the few yellow countries in a green Europe ;-(

(tags: economics, maps, statistics, business)
An Open Letter to the Open Source Community
Women represent approximately 50% of population, average female representation in Open Source is 1.5%, in the proprietary software industry is 28%. A letter by Melissa Draper (Ubuntu Member) about the conditions of women in Open Source projects.

(tags: gender, female, opensource, free_software, ubuntu, women)

Links for 2007 05 29

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26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong
Bandwagon effect, groupthink, herd behaviour, Bias blind spot, Choice-supportive bias, Endowment effect, Hyperbolic discounting, Illusion of control, Impact bias, Loss aversion, … all of them with handy Wikipedia links and short descriptions

(tags: cognitive, right, wrong, wikipedia)
Dr. Dobb’s | Web 2.0 and the Engineering of Trust | December 12, 2006
Trust is important in business, but basic to Web 2.0. Sections such as "The Sociology of Web 2.0" or "Trust Never Sleeps". Very interesting!

(tags: trust, sociology, engineering, social, web2.0)
O’Reilly Radar > Google Calls for Real-Time Spectrum Allocation
Google filed a proposal with the Federal Communications Commission to let companies allocate radio spectrum not in a long-term service contract but instead in ongoing open auctions. "Iâ€™m hoping we treat spectrum as a scarce renewable resource which shou

(tags: google, spectrum, allocation, scarse, auctions)
Tasty Data Goodies: Introducing Swivel G
Easily represent any data on an interactive world map using Swivel.

(tags: map, cool, visualization, data)