Tag Archives: del.icio.us links

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

Links for 2007 05 28

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Death By Lawyer: 10 Cool Sites We Miss
Unfortunately, people are slowly accepting that some cool things are gone, because someone somewhere needs to make more money. Letâ€™s take a trip down memory lane: OLGA, OnLine Guitar Archive, The original Napster and some more.

(tags: copyright, napster, olga, riaa, law, close)
Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple store | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
A horde of decaying zombies invaded San Francisco’s downtown Apple store on Friday evening, hunting for brains, terrifying the customers, and gnawing on iMacs. The event was titled "SF Zombie Mob 2007,". It’s akin to a flash mob.

(tags: apple, zombie, flashmob, funny)
Tux 500
Our goal is simple: we want to collect community donations to enter a Linux sponsored car in the 2007 Indianapolis 500.

(tags: advertising, donations, linux, community)
StudioDell – Linux 101: What’s All The Fuss?
A video from Dell in its campaign to promote GNU/Linux to the general computing users. Simple and instructive.

(tags: gnu, linux, ubuntu, video, dell, 101)

Links for 2007 05 22

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"Digital Handshakes on Virtual Receiving Lines"
Imagine what would happen if politicians SINCERELY reached out to their "friends" and started commenting? danah geniusly offers some advise about how politicians could involve young people

(tags: campaign, friendship, politics, danah)
1.000.000+ smart card based OpenID-s, one for every citizen of E-stonia
Estonia is really one step forward about Internet usage. *Every Estonian eID holder (around 80% of Estonian population) has an unique OpenID with the format open.id.ee/[firstname].[lastname](.number) Example: open.id.ee/martin.paljak *No registration, n

(tags: estonia, identity, openid)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-APDIP International Open Source Network
Welcome to the International Open Source Network an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.

(tags: ict4d, opensource, free_software, floss, un, undp, united, nations)
How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community
Angry people looking for fights will inevitably try to poison successful Internet communities. Cory Doctorow looks at ways to remove the poison without killing the discussion too. In particular, learn from trolls whisperers.

(tags: doctorow, trolls, whisperer, Social_software, community, web2.0)
Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers | CNET News.com
Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks: R. Preston McAfee (microeconomics research group) and Duncan Watts (human social dynamics research)

(tags: yahoo, research, social, networks, microeconomics, web2.0)
Digital Ethnography Â» Blog Archive Â» The History of YouTube
Very informative video about the history of YouTube by those geniouses of Digital Ethnography

(tags: Digital, Ethnography, youtube, video, history)
Lunch over IP: Magazine covers: good contrarian indicators
Researchers analyzed companies featured on cover of BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune. Question: positive (negative) stories were associated with superior (inferior) future performance of the featured company? Asnwer: the opposite. I.e.: the coverage was a

(tags: economics, research, coverage, predictor, correlation)
GigaOM Â» Here come Virtual World Intranets… Seriously
Judging by recent initiatives from Sun and IBM, the latest trend is a corporate-controlled, business-centric virtual world architected for internal use onlyâ€“ call it the intranet metaverse. But protocols must be public.

(tags: 3d, Collaboration, secondlife, virtual, world)
Switching family and friends to GNU/Linux – S5 presentation slides
Great presentation about switchng friends to Linux (I would call it GNU/Linux) given at BarCamp portland. Main complaint from the father is "FreeCell is more difficult than the Windows version" ;-)

(tags: gnu, linux, free_software, presentation, s5)
iTWire – Has Microsoft violated the GPL?
Microsoft has effectively become a Linux distributor. It gets SUSE Linux licences from Novell and distributes them to Dell. So it is bound to the GPL, which might even violate.

(tags: microsoft, gpl, free_software, violation, patents)
Science Commons: Scholar’s Copyright Agreement
The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher’s copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights.

(tags: copyright, science, commons, phauly, to, creative_commons, cc, archive, papers, academia)
Science Commons Â» Blog Archive Â» Science Commons, SPARC Announce New Tools for Scholarly Publishing
Scholarâ€™s Copyright Addendum Engine is one of these tools, making it easier for authors to select and attach an addendum to the standard copyright transfer form, allowing them to amend the traditional terms of agreement with publishers

(tags: copyright, science, commons, creative_commons, cc, archive, papers, academia)
Joho the Blog: Violate copyright? $150,000. Violate free speech? $0.
Viacom sent YouTube a list of 100,000 videos that Viacom claims violate copyright and got them removed. VC didn’t look every video, some certainly didn’t violate copyright. VC violated First Amendment free speech rights but paid 0.

(tags: copyright, viacom, youtube, videos, free, speech)
Estonia Computers Blitzed, Possibly by the Russians – New York Times
E-stonia was target of first Internet war attack but there’ll be more. In future, if you invade a country, wouldn’t you first make Internet unusable? Where citizens will get information of the invasion, then? The old easily controllable television …

(tags: attack, internet, estonia, russia, war, television, invasion)

Links for 2007 05 14

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Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: wikipedia, technical, gudeline, wiki)
Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lot of them! "The following articles may be too technical for readers to understand AND someone thinks that they can probably be improved. To add an article to this category, insert {{technical}} at the top of the article’s discussion page."

(tags: wikipedia, wiki, technical, expert)
Epidemix Â» Why Does Wikipedia Suck on Science?
Interesting points about accessibility of Wikipedia technical articles: "you get the tragedy of the uncommon, meaning topics that the common folk just donâ€™t get – and thus canâ€™t help in editing the entry on." Interesting comments as well.

(tags: Wiki, wikipedia, expert, technical, tragedy, uncommon, science)
â€¦My heartâ€™s in Accra Â» What I think weâ€™re trying to doâ€¦
Ethan shares insights about GlobalVoices and how the task of "encouraging people from around the world to talk to one another" is changed from 1989 to date. Terribly worth every single word.

(tags: globalvoices, ethan, couchsurfing, Global)

Links for 2007 04 25

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Andrew Keen’s Manifesto – Eleven Unfashionable Thoughts on Digital Utopianism
The next Great Seduction is digital utopianism. Think of it as the Silicon Valley version of communism. Its outline can now be glimpsed in the fantasies now being peddled by utopians in a revolution that Silicon Valley insiders call â€œWeb 2.0.â€

(tags: web2.0, manifesto, controversial, digital, utopianism, communism)

Links for 2007 04 23

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Bokardo Â» How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior – NYTimes "Is Justin Timberlake the product of Cumulative Advantage?"
Paper by Duncan Watts. They created 8 different environments for music download with the same songs. After some time, the top10 lists on the different worlds were different. No intrinsic quality induces popularity but aggregated activity and display

(tags: Timberlake, Watts, music, popularity)
RatePoint for Second Life
RatePoint is an easy and FREE way for you and your friends to rate and review Residents you encounter in Second Life. Uses a local trust metric (collaborative filtering like)

(tags: ditto, reputation, trust_metric, secondlife, rating, local, trust, metric, collaborative_filtering, whuffie)
Fostering Online Communities by Tara Hunt Â» SlideShare
Presentation by Miss Rogue at FOWA. It mentions CouchSurfing.

(tags: CouchSurfing, presentation, slides, community)
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Cartoon: And over there we have the labyrinth guards, one always lies, one always tells the truth, and one stabs people who ask tricky questions.

(tags: comic, funny, geek, cartoon, comics, labyrinth, truth, lie)
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Optical illusion, disgusting but it might probably work with many of my friends (myself included) ;-)

(tags: comic, funny, comics, cartoon, geek, keyboard)
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Richard Stallman fighting the microsoft ninjas ;-)

(tags: comic, comics, geek, math, spinning, cartoon, funny, gpl, stallman, linux, raymond, free_software)
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Cartoon: "What are you doing?" "Spinning counterclockwise / each turn robs the planet of angular momentum / slowing its spin the tiniest bit / lenghtening the night, pushing back the dawn / giving me a little more time here / with you"

(tags: comic, comics, geek, math, spinning, cartoon, funny)
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": sheep
It’s OK to act like a sheep (just so long you act like a COOL sheep) – cartoon

(tags: cartoon, comics, fumetto, sheep, herding, social)

Links for 2007 04 22

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Wired 15.03: Herding the Mob
Reputation hacking: survey of different ways to attack trust metrics, i.e. manipulate reputation systems such as digg, del.icio.us, ebay

(tags: reputation, hacking, digg, ebay, fraud, identity, trust, trust_metric, attack, web2.0, social, resnick)
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
A heat map for the draft version of the new Free software GNU General Public Licence version. "Phrases that are subject to more comments are highlighted more intensely". Very useful to visually grasp in 2 seconds which parts are more controversial.

(tags: visualization, controversial, gpl, gnu, fsf, licence, free_software, heat_map, comments)
Presentation Zen: PowerPoint: sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying
Powerpoint presentations used for making you laugh. Extremely funny, and instructive.

(tags: funny, geek, presentations, powerpoint, videos, video, slides)
3rd Global Summit on Peace through Tourism – paper on CouchSurfing
3rd Global Summit on Peace through Tourism – There is a paper on Couchsurfing and Social Capital "Sustainability of Worldwide Connections by and for Travel: Applying Social Capital in Virtual Travel Community"

(tags: CouchSurfing, hospitality, peace, social, capital, social_capital, tourism, papers, research, pdf)
DoMyStuff.com – Main Menu
Bu giving it a pay-it-forward, totally non monetary twist, it might become a gift network supporting the gift economy. Need to think about it more. "DoMyStuff.com is an online community where busy people can quickly find Assistants to complete their chore

(tags: gift, domystuff, crowdsourcing, economy, pay_it_forward)

Links for 2007 04 14

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Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops | CNET News.com
I have very mixed feeling about the One Laptop Per Children project. I’m very curious to see what happens in future about this project.

(tags: photos, olpc, laptop, nigeria, linux)
Crisis in Darfur – Museumâ€™s Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative – on Google Earth
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfoldi

(tags: activism, africa, darfur, sudan, culture, earth, maps, visualization, genocide, google)
YouTube – Human Ball – MÃ©dÃ©cins Sans FrontiÃ¨re Ad Video
Video Commercial from MÃ©dÃ©cins Sans FrontiÃ¨res regarding the access to Aids treatment. Clever use of 3d animation technique by an NGO.

(tags: animation, msf, rolling, ball, aids)
White Lights Lead to Red Lights
Mark Pilgrim’s presentation on "the future of Web". Simple and clear. The future of the Web is … HTML. I agree! ;-)

(tags: greasemonkey, pilgrim, microformats, web, html)
Human Connectedness / Projects / Iso-phone
I want it. I don’t know where to place it but I want it. Check photos! "The user wears a helmet that blocks out all peripheral sensory stimulation while keeping the head above the surface of the water. The water is heated to body temperature, dulling the

(tags: experience, phone, floating, water, relax)
3pointD.com Â» Blog Archive Â» User-Created Trust Networks in Second Life [UPDATED]
(tags: secondlife, social_networks, social, network, trust, trust_metric)

Links for 2007 04 13

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (Jo Freeman)
People would try to use the â€œstructurelessâ€ group and the informal conference for purposes for which they were unsuitable out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive.

(tags: activism, community, social, Structurelessness, tyranny, feminism, structure)
Sympathetic point of view – Wikinfo
On Wikinfo, if you wish to write an article about Al Qaeda being a charitable organization, then you can go ahead, and we are not going to stop you.

(tags: Sympathetic, neutral, wikipedia, Wiki, point_of_view, relativism, objective, subjective, culture)
Positive Point of View – GetWiki
A "neutral" policy, such as Wikipedia’s, strives to represent all perspectives in a balanced, unified manner. But all too often, it leads to endless bickering and "edit wars" over what is the balanced view. PPOV (adapted from SPOV) allows each perspective

(tags: positive, wikipedia, Wiki, point_of_view, relativism, objective, subjective, culture)
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing views fairly, proportionately and without bias. Neutral point of view is a fundamental Wikipedia principle.

(tags: neutral, wikipedia, Wiki, point_of_view, relativism, objective, subjective, culture)

Links for 2007 04 12

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Why Use Software Illegally When You Can Use Legally …. Â« Linux and Open Source Blog
You can find a free replacement for most of the proprietary software out there. Hereâ€™s a list of some proprietary software, and their Free Software equivalents :

(tags: alternatives, list, free_software, Open_source, opensource, free, software)
London, Tokyo Submerged by Rising Seas — In "Second Life"
"The idea was, this happened virtually, but this could really happen in real life and you need to do something about it,". Interesting hactivism strategy. I didn’t get how they were able to flood so much of the virtual world but this is because I don’t se

(tags: secondlife, climate, hacktivism, activism, virtual, warming)

Links for 2007 04 11

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Opening of the experimental Italian Institute of Culture within the 3D interactive on-line world of "Second Life"
(tags: italy, secondlife)
Seminar Bingo – Piled Higher and Deeper
Mark over each square that occurs throughout the course of the lecture you are attending. The first one to form a straight line must yell out "Bingo" to win.

(tags: doctorate, funny, geek, phd, comics, ;-))
Are we really friends? The trouble with buddy lists in social applications.
The trouble with buddy lists is that we end up collecting friends like baseball cards. Because Iâ€™m on your buddy list, it could be because weâ€™re really closely connected, it could be because we met once at a conference two years ago, or it could be be

(tags: buddy, list, reputation, trust, public, private, Social_software, social)
A Scarlet Letter For Second Life — RatePoint — InformationWeek
"Residents of Second Life will be able share their opinions of people in the form of a five-star rating, which is designed to establish which individuals are commerce-worthy". Very interesting! It uses a local trust metric (collaborative filtering-like):

(tags: ditto, reputation, trust_metric, secondlife, rating, local, trust, metric, collaborative_filtering, whuffie)