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Interesting links: 05.28.10
Current: A News Project"Current shows a snapshot of what the entire internet-using population in America has been thinking for the last 24 hours, in the form of their collective search history.Primer...
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Geodata clearing house
"[G]eospatial data are critically important for disaster response, protecting the environment, and many other challenges. But much of this information is in danger of being lost due to evolving...
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NodeXL: SNA for Excel
NodeXL is an Excel template that supports network visualization. It's about time (why hasn't MS already made SNA a central feature?).Anyway, the template offers full network/graph customization,...
View ArticleMobile phones, citizen media
The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010 was held this May 6-7 in Santiago, Chile. MobileActive.org was there, and has an interesting write-up:"Mobile phones have already played a significant role...
View ArticleThe Physics of Data
If you have time, I recommend watching Marissa Mayer's presentation at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) last Fall. She shows how Google is connecting social data (e.g., search queries) with more...
View ArticleBiometrics in crowds
Wired is reporting on Smart-Iris, a DARPA-funded device that (inventor Marc Christensen et al. claim) can zero in on individual irises in a moving crowd, regardless of angle:"A long line of people,...
View ArticleCitizen media and oil spills
Oil Reporter is an iPod app that lets locals help with the spill recovery effort by reporting what they see on the ground. "Users can upload photos and videos, reporting oil sighting, harmed wildlife...
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e-scholarship
The Rise of Crowd ScienceThe Chronicle just posted an article on Big Data:"Crowdsourcing is a natural solution to many of the problems that scientists are dealing with that involve massive amounts of...
View ArticleInterwebs and regime change
Information Policy has an interesting report on a presentation that Evgeny Morozov (Georgetown Institute for the Study of Diplomacy) gave at Foreign Policy's Washington office:"Authoritarian regimes...
View ArticlePdF 2010 is NOW!
If you are in NYC over the next two days (June 3-4) and have both time and interest (as well as the $500-600 registration fee), consider attending the sixth annual Personal Democracy Forum at CUNY....
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Gephi GEXF
GEXF (Graph Exchange XML Format) is a network language that supports common formats such as CSV | UCINET | Pajek, as well as a host of XML variants for network data, including GEXF | GML | GraphML |...
View ArticleSNA in R
Last summer, Drew Conway (NYU) gave an excellent introduction to using the igraph package for basic Social Network Analysis in R:
View ArticleSecrets from the Future
Wired is reporting on public-private intelligence projects which mine relational and other data from broad swaths of the Interwebs. Nothing terribly new here, but it's interesting seeing more...
View ArticleCensorship, Digg?
Alternet has posted an article about an effort by self-identified conservatives to censor Digg rankings. For those unfamiliar with Digg, it's essentially a platform for crowd-sourced submission and...
View ArticleUS strategy to prevent leaks, leaked
TechSpot News is reporting that MSNBC has received a memo detailing the US' government strategy to prevent leaks in a "post-Wikileaks environment."Each initial assessment should be completed by January...
View ArticleNerdcore could rise up
Estonia could get elevated - NCS is reporting that the country has formed the Computer Emergency Response Team of Estonia (CERT-E, also known as the Cyber Defense League), a militia intended to protect...
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Sedition in a box
Symantec just released its Mid-Term Internet Security Threat Report, and surprise, surprise - the Wild West is getting wilder. It used to be that knocking a server offline, or stealing confidential...
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Egypt: 404
CNET and many others are reporting that all Internet traffic in Egypt has gone offline.I hadn't realized we would be importing the Internet kill switch. Perhaps Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov are...
View ArticleHow Egypt pulled the plug
GigaOM has an interesting piece on how Egypt Switched Off the Internet."Plenty of nations place limitations on communications, sometimes very severe ones. But there are only a few examples of regimes...
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