- 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.
Links for 2007 01 25
Leave a reply
Tag Archives: del.icio.us links
Links for 2007 01 22
- 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)). - How Wizzy Works
The Wizzy I-BOX makes it possible to bring Internet over that last mile … whatever that mile might look like. - ToShare.it | digital affinity | 23-28.01.2007
Piemonte Share Festival. Torino (Italy), 23 – 28 GENNAIO 2007. Free. There will be Bruce Sterling! - Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life
First Life is a 3D analog world where server lag does not exist. Access your closet to build your first life look. - 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.
Links for 2007 01 18
- The Difference Between Significant and Not Significant is Not Statistically Significant
Reassuring … ;-) - 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" - Al concerto? Ora ci si va con il car pooling – Corriere della Sera
Dare e trovare passaggi per andare ad assistere ad eventi di vario genere: è la nuova filosofia di un servizio Ticketone e Muoversi - Swivel is a place where curious people explore data, all kinds of data.
Clever idea! Swivel have lots of dataset (you can upload more) and visual tools for exploring, drawing graphs, … (ideas similar to gapminder.org but more partecipative) - 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
Links for 2007 01 17
- 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 - MTV Overdrive | THE REAL PRICE OF VIRTUAL GOLD | Is Mining Virtual Gold Exploitative?
WOW, MTV Web works perfectly under GNU/Linux! The report is about chinese working in GoldFarms collecting virtual goods on World of Warcraft. GoldFarm manager claims there are 500.000 chineses doing so. - 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
Links for 2007 01 08
- Yahoo! Research Berkeley » Tag Maps: Visualizing the Crowd’s “Mental Map†Using Flickr Geotagged Images
There are so many possibilities with the Flickr data! "Tags that frequently appear in images from a specific location but are otherwise rare suggest a topic unique to the location." (via bru)
Links for 2007 01 05
- Becoming the big brother of your own children (was: Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids)
I already know I’ll become a luddite when it’ll be too late. This is scary. - RFID fitted throughout Tokyo neighbourhood
A location-based services trial that will see a famous Tokyo neighbourhood blanketed with around 10,000 RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and other beacons got underway earlier this month. - The Top 20 of Wikipedia Vandalism
Which are the pages more often under edit wars on Wikipedia? Would be interesting to run stats on this - Article about PsychoGeography (in Italian)
Rethinking the cities with new instruments by drawing new emotional maps