Toronto TransitCamp: first BarCamp about transit.
A platform/BarCamp for Toronto’s design community and enthusiastic transit users and fans (designers, transit geeks, bloggers, visual artists, tech geeks and cultural creators) to demonstrate their creativity and contribute to a better transit system
Cartograms, Tag Clouds and Visualization
Convincing parallelism by syntactic replacements: "I’ve come to believe tag clouds could be to lists of metadata what cartograms are to maps; attempted solutions to similar visualization problems driven by common and historically consistent information ne
Outside the Market: The Rise of Peer Production
Something new is stirring outside the market. Linux, Wikipedia, PageRank—who would have predicted their success? Loosely-connected people are working together like never before to produce value. And they’re doing it outside—though often in interact
Given enough minds…: Bridging the ingenuity gap
A paper by my friend Hassan Masum trying to find an answer to "What would a sustainable open infrastructure dedicated to finding solutions to world problems such as climate change, poverty, hunger, etc?"
I received the 5 things chain from bonaria. I guess “un gioco e’ bello quando dura poco” (a game is fun if it does not last forever), so I think I better pass a different chain.
Mucio started a chain to spread the “M’illumino di meno” campaign of Caterpillar. The “M’illumino di meno” campaign declared February 26th 2007 as “Energy saving day” (giornata del risparmio energetico). The goal is twofold: become more aware of how much energy we daily use and start with simple (and less simple) acts to reduce our energy consumption. Some simple ideas are in the text of the song/jingle of the campaign. You can download or listen the song from caterueb and read the text (in Italian) at the end of this post.
Mucio didn’t pass the chain to me, but this is a different chain, it is a chain you can pass without waiting for someone to pass it to you or, if you prefer, consider that this post is passing the chain to Everybody. So, don’t wait! Pass it to your friends, now! And there is no limit on the number of friends you pass it to as well. 5? Fine. 9? Good. 15? Better. 100? Perfect!
For people who does not understand Italian, I’d like to mention as well the Climate Change Game made by the BBC that I found yesterday via the glorious WorldChanging. The Climate Change is a Flash game where you are president of the European Nations and you must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.
Ah yes, the last and most important part. I pass this chain to:
bonaria (because she passed me the 5 things one I didn’t pass)
marcella (she is not blogging but flickring so the challenge is to pass the chain via an artistic photo about energy consumption)
marina (because of interesting discussions on her blog)
ingegneria senza frontiere - trento (because it is an association that cares about the environment as well, and i want to check if the blog masters check incoming links ;-)
Geert Lovink "Blogging, the nihilist impulse" by Geert Lovink in Eurozine
Bloggers are nihilists because they are "good for nothing". They have turned their futility into a productive force, are nothingists who celebrate the death of the centralized meaning structures and ignore accusation that they would only produce noise.
mike-love.net - Genealogy of Influence
Visualization (interactive and static) of the connections between the most influential writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians of Western culture.
I highly recommend you to watch the presentation Hans Rosling gave at TED. It is inspiring and passionate, funny and moving, it is the kind of presentation I would like to be able to give, one day. I suggest you to download the file (zipped MP4) and watch it full screen (I did it already at least 5 times!) or just click on the play button here below.
Rosling is founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. In this presentation, with the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few myths about the “developing” world. [Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:34] (from TED blog).
If you want to create yourself graphs like the ones you saw in the video, you can do it with the GapMinder tool (hosted by Google). Explore the data and find even more preconcepts you hold.
[via bruno [via ethan]]
Find Satoshi project
Is it possible to locate a man given only his photograph and first name? A UK-based game company is testing the theory of six degrees of separation (part of an Alternate Reality Game (ARG)).
myclimate :: The myclimate foundation
Self-remind: if i’ll ever organize a conference, it must be Climate Neutral. Here you can buy tickets for compensating for the impact travels will have on our Earth.
My friends of Ymir are currently in Nairobi (Kenya) operating the WebTV of the World Social Forum 2007. Thanks to their work, it is possible to get an idea of what is going on in Nairobi.
The original idea was to broadcast the entire Forum live but they are having great problems in getting an ASDL connections, even if all the agreements were ready before they left for Nairobi. So at the moment you can watch a lot of recorded interviews. They are still working for getting an ASDL connection or more. And don’t worry, most of the videos are in English and just a few are in Italian. It is a pity they decided to use QuickTime format so that I’m having troubles watching the video on my Ubuntu Linux box but, as I said, they had more basic problems to think about until now such as the connection. So, don’t wait, go to www.worldsocialforum.tv.
[via Trentino Cooperazione]
Smart Mobs: Cooperation Prevails When Individuals Adjust Their Social Ties
Paper shows "cooperation cannot evolve as a result of ’social viscosity’ alone in heterogeneous networks with high average connectivity, requiring the additional mechanism of topological co-evolution to ensure the survival of cooperative behaviour"
Creating Passionate Users: The "Dumbness of Crowds"
"It’s the sharp edges, gaps, and differences in individual knowledge that make the wisdom of crowds work", Kathy Sierra discuss the (misinterpreted) vision of Web2.0
Econbrowser: The distribution of world income
Maps are fascinating, this one shows "GDP density", calculated by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer
The Heroic Theory of Scientific Development « Apperceptual
Multiple Discovery is a very thorough study of independent simultaneous discovery in the history of science and technology. It seems that there is almost no instance of a great discovery or invention that was not discovered independently and simultaneousl
Maybe you have missed the part of Steve Jobs speech in which he announces that all Apple products will be 100% recyclable and Apple will take back no longer wanted products so that they don’t get dumped in Asia as e-waste poisoning people and lands. If you have missed this part, press the play button in the video below or go to the youtube page.
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