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  Posted: May 15th, 2008, 10:00pm PDT

  • China Media Project - Chang Ping: police should tolerate public information sharing in the earthquake's aftermath
    David Bandurski translates veteran journalist's essay about the importance of free speech in times of disaster.
  • Technology and the Greeks - Sunny A. Auyang
    "What is technology? What does technology mean? Where does technology reside?
  • Open Source Initiative OSI - The Academic Free License 3.0:Licensing |
  • start [Phone]
    The purpose of this class is to create a community of phone programmers at UC Berkeley and to enable a new platform for a broad range of research.
  • Business Week: How Nokia Users Drive Innovation
    "You've heard of user-generated content? Instead of people recording silly Web cam videos for YouTube or inventing frivolous advocacy groups on Facebook, they can help make the mobile Internet more useful."
  • Understanding copyright enforcement
    a guide to anti-piracy practices
  • Technologies for Creative Thinking and Learning
    How does the design of new educational technology change the way kids learn and think? Which aspects of creative thinking and learning can technology support? How do we design systems that reflect our understanding of how we learn?
  • Repression 2.0 | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com
    So instead of stopping Netizens from reaching Web 2.0 sites like Facebook or Gmail, the authorities turned to surveillance.
  • Keysigning parties - Orgwiki
    Keysigning parties are events where people digitally sign each other's digital identities, helping to create trust that the digital identity really belongs to the real person who claims to own it.
  • The Sichuan Quake and the Hubris of Twitter Users
    Kaiser Kuo argues Twitter was a complement to, not a replacement for, MSM coverage of China's earthquake.
  • The FASTForward Blog " China Quake - Twitter Comes of Age as THE Breaking News Tool: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
    A good round up of all the different ways that people and news orgs used twitter to track the earthquake in China
  • I heart Wikipedia: How to use Wikipedia for academia (now with video!) at theory.isthereason
    Here's my latest slideshow on using Wikipedia for academia.
  • Scamming the Scammers: 5 Brilliant Reverse 419 Scams at OddOrama
  • Pacific Epoch - Sichuan Earthquake Tears Telecom, Video Sites Count Views
    Chinese video sharing sites get huge traffic spikes on earthquake videos.
  • Freedom of expression and government reform
    Danwei's Joel Martinsen translates an essay by Zi Zhongjun (资中筠) of the Academy of Social Sciences on freedom of expression and institutional reform.
  • textually.org: African mobile subscribers surpass North America
  • Connecting Up 2008 | Nonprofit Information Technology Conference | Brisbane Australia | CU08 - News
  • The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
    generative vs sterile technologies, non+market vs market innovation
  • Virtual Global Offices
    how businesses are experimenting with second life and metaverses
  • Craig (of the List) Looks Beyond the Web - New York Times
    "What Craigslist does well is build a community and a feel of a community," he said. "Building communities is going to be critical for any online product, whether a newspaper or not."
  • Can a Novel Be Written Wikipedia Style? The Results Are In. | Open Culture
  • Our Own Devices: Books: The New Yorker
    Interesting book review that gets into technological determinism
  • Obama's army of small donors - The Associated Press - Politico.com
  • Wikipedia Goes Commercial | Open Culture
    German publisher Bertelsmann announced that it will publish annually a 1,000 page edition of Wikipedia starting next September. To be called “The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia,” it will sell for 19.95 euros
  • Cory Doctorow': " Think Like a Dandelion: reproductive strategies for the Internet era
    about the bio-economics of giving stuff away for free. Mammals worry about what happens to each and every one of their offspring, but dandelions only care that every crack in every sidewalk has dandelions growing out of it.
  • Beyond Strong and Weak: Towards a Typology of Open Access
    Over the past week or so there has been a flurry of posts about ’strong’ and ‘weak’ open access
  • Crooked Timber " " Unions: good for equity, good for efficiency
    interesting argument in the comments
  • CouchSurfing - The CouchSurfing Organizational Structure
  • ProjectPier: Open Source BaseCamp
  • MediaShift . Microblogging Mania::Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News | PBS
    Twitter has gone above & beyond original expectations in terms of usefulness, allowing me to obtain & share information efficiently. But Twitter has also proven to be a tool that should be used with caution lest it become a time suck.
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