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Freebase: Open code for open data
Introducing Freebase: "the easiest way to add free, community-curated, Creative Commons licensed content to your web applications." Watch the video. Imagine the possibilities.
Continue reading...Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information
Monday, February 2, 2009
Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an experimental web platform that crowdsources crisis information. People can submit reports via text messaging using a mobile phone, email, or the web. Looks like it can be deployed (sorry, geek speak) for a specific crisis. It was most recently use to track events in Gaza and was also used [...]
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Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” for The New Yorker’s monthly reading and conversation with Deborah Treisman. Englander’s voice couldn’t be more perfect.
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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- Omar Azfar
- An open letter to Bluehost: Your values matter
- Rite of passage for Liam as he turns 13
- (B)log On at the Canadian Centre for Architecture
- WordPress: Blog not on home page
- For my American friends: the Elite Escape Plan
- Naada Yoga: Something for my nothing
- Sherman Williams paints has worst logo ever
- Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history
- A comic annual report
- L'accompagnement
- Jim Jarmush: Nothing is original
- I believe in open: Take a stand for government transparency
- Hugh McGuire: Books Versus Ebooks
- Montreal
- Alex: If you need any more reasons to have a cold hard look at sustainability, have a look at this: http:/...
- Alex: Maybe music IS something mostpeople do, maybe even everypeople. Maybe this is the tyranny of compar...
- Kirsten: Having troubles getting the blog posts to show on another page. Followed the steps and like Matt, I ...
- BeyondOKC: Thanks Kawika, that explained it for me!...
- Christine Prefontaine: Response to this has been super positive. Hugh is encouraging me to create an online home for the Bo...
- Stefan: Thanks, i feel really dumb now. I've tried to get the blog showing up on a different page to the def...
- Bruce: Putting a note here so I remember as I think this through some more to look at Tonya's theory of cha...
- Yannick: My favourite!...
- Christine Prefontaine: Hi Lauren — You're not the only person who's asked. I'll start compiling the list. Ohhhh... so much ...
- Lauren Thompson: Hello -- I found your blog as I was researching books to give to MY boy as part of a rite of passage...
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