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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
The internet and the
As part of a new CNN series on internet and the end of privacy, John D. Sutter reflects on the world of public living — where most everything about a person’s habits...
From Putting People First
Designing for collaborative consumption
Michelle Thorne, international project manager at Creative Commons, spoke at TEDxKreuzberg on Designing for Collaborative Consumption. She posted her slides and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Antikythera Mechanism in Legos
A very sharp correspondent points me to the post on the fastcodesign site about building a model of the Antikythera mechanism using legos. Watch an Apple Engineer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service Business Intelligence
ComputerWorld article on self service business intelligence. Low cost, easy to use tools are becoming more common. " ... It's all about helping business users...
From Schneier on Security
CRB Check Backlash
Against stupid CRB checks: Last January, Annabel Hayter, chairwoman of Gloucester Cathedral Flower Guild, received an email saying that she and her 60 fellow flower...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 December 2010
Did you do anything special for Computer Science Education week last week? The one thing I did was to host a group of about 40 students from Easthampton (MA) high...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Rise of Scientific Journalism
Dissidents from the Wikileaks have founded a competing organization called OpenLeaks. This new organization would differ from Wikileaks in two important ways: (1)...
From Wild WebMink
Mary Oliver Poetry Reading
I was delighted to have found a video of my favourite poet Mary Oliver reading her own poetry at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 4, 2001. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An RFID Turntable
The well known design company IDEO, who helped us construct innovation spaces, has designed a turntable (remember those?) style platform that reads a card withExplained...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Descend on Washington
Despite the bad weather affecting travel across much of the nation,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ant Algorithms
New work on the use of biologically inspired methods. Here the problem is finding shortest paths in busy networks. The inspiration is how ants can find theirReport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP Gives up on BI
In an intriguing development HP has backed off of their business intelligence and analytics efforts. I have visited HP labs a number of times and was always impressed...
From Wild WebMink
? White Waves
The new Mixed Tape compilation is available – 10 free tracks awaiting download. Most of them got 3 stars in the Webmink Rating System but your taste may vary, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Resources
A good list of social media resources from Mashable. Good for those that want to expand their understanding of social methods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals Online
Intriguing essay in Batelle's Searchblog: Signal, Curation, Discovery. On a number of themes in the search industry, the current players and directions being explored...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generated QR codes from Google
Its pretty old news that Google has it's own URL shortener. called goo.gl It is perhaps also old news that you can also use this shortener to create a 2-D QR...
From The Noisy Channel
First Week
It’s hardly surprising, at least in retrospect, that location-based social networking company Foursquare was founded (twice!) in New York City. Where else (at least...
From Wild WebMink
? Cloud Correction
@webminkSimon Phipps Try adding "as long as you don't breach the terms of service – according to our sole judgement" to the end of any cloud computing pitch. about...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-11
WikiLeaks: Stop the crackdown As I said in the "Voltaire Moment" article I posted here yesterday, the attacks on our collective freedom resulting from Wikileaks...
From The Eponymous Pickle