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Watch Clay Shirky’s “How social media can make history” talk at TED

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics [...]
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Twitter Daily Updates for 2009-04-07

[Technology] A Perfect Personal Data Collection Application: The number of Web applications to colle.. http://tinyurl.com/c7coa8 # [Interaction Design] Interview with Peter Morville at IA Summit 09: “I think we are at anoth.. http://tinyurl.com/cmnmga # [Interaction Design] Space-time trails and locative technologies: (Pictures of space-time t.. http://tinyurl.com/c85ceu # [China] A Professor’s Comments on Mental Illness Draw Ire in China (Updated): [...]
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Autodesk Announces Availability of New FDO Providers: Geospatial Open Source Community to Drive Faster Innovation

Furthering its commitment to providing the geospatial open source community with faster innovation and support for standards worldwide, Autodesk announced the availability of new providers developed on Feature Data Object (FDO) open data access technology. FDO technology, originally created by Autodesk and now a fully endorsed project in the open source community through the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), allows users to store, retrieve, update, and analyze geospatial data...
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