http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=240 Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:09:49 +1000 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:09:49 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1955 The nation s foremost academic researchers on child online safety presented their research and answered questions over a luncheon panel on May 3 This was the first time these prominent academics have appeared together to present their research which altogether represents volumes of data on the state of online youth victimization and online youth habits Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee 3 May 2007 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1955 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:09:49 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1940 Better Place Australia is part of a global company dedicated to zero emissions driving We will enable the mass adoption of electric vehicles EVs in Australia by providing the infrastructure and services that make it easy affordable and attractive for motorists to adopt and drive electric vehicles The key barriers to the mass adoption of EVs in Australia and globally have been range anxiety the cost and risk of battery purchase and the impact of EV charging on the electricity grid To overcome range anxiety - the fear of EV drivers that their battery will run out of power - Better Place provides a personal charge spot at home access to a network of charge spots at work and in public access to instant recharge through battery swap stations and in-car services to help drivers know when and where to recharge The system of battery swapping also helps overcome the cost and risk of battery purchase The driver s subscription to Better Place covers use of a battery and the ability to swap and go at any swap station Rather than pay upfront drivers pay a monthly fee which covers their battery use Better Place manages the risk and performance of the pool of batteries by tracking their capability and use through the battery swap stations Better Place manages the impact of EV charging on the electricity grid by using software that coordinates the charge spots so that the charging needs of customers are met within network capacity constraints This helps make the electricity grid more efficient and significantly reduces the need for additional generation transmission and distribution infrastructure Better Place 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1940 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:10:44 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1939 BILL MOYERS But this intrigues me because you ve set out over these years to educate young girls primarily I mean you do have some boys in your schools but primarily your goal is to educate young girls And given the fact that the Afghani and Pakistani societies are so male dominated that men run the families they run the government they run the villages they run the Taliban why focus on girls instead of the men who are going to in that culture grow up and run things GREG MORTENSON Well it s obviously the boys need education also But as a child in Africa I learned a proverb And it says If we educate a boy we educate an individual But if we can educate a girl we educate a community o And what that means is when girls grow up become a mother they are the ones who promote the value of education in the community The education of girls has very powerful impacts in a society Number one the infant mortality s reduced Number two the population is reduced The third thing is the quality of health improves And from my own observation when girls learn how to read and write they often teach their mother how to read and write Boys we don t seem to do that as much They also you ll see people kids coming out for the marketplace have meat or vegetables wrapped in newspaper And then you ll see the mother very carefully unfolding a newspaper and ask her daughter to read the news to her And it s the first time that woman is able to get information of what s going on in the outside world around very powerful to see that And another compelling reason is when women are educated they re not as likely to condone or encourage their son to get into violence or into terrorism In fact culturally when someone goes on jihad they should get permission from their mother first And if they don t it s very shameful or disgraceful So when women are educated as I mentioned they are less likely to encourage their son to get into violence And I ve seen that happen Bill over the last decade in rural areas of Afghanistan Pakistan I mean I could go on all day about this but educating girls is very powerful Bill Moyers Journal 15 January 2010 PBS http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1939 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:43:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1922 The idea of an open city is not my own credit for it belongs to the great urbanist Jane Jacobs in the course of arguing against the urban vision of Le Corbusier She tried to understand what results when places become both dense and diverse as in packed streets or squares their functions both public and private out of such conditions comes the unexpected encounter the chance discovery the innovation Her view reflected in the bon mot of William Empson was that the arts result from over-crowding Jacobs sought to define particular strategies for urban development once a city is freed of the constraints of either equilibrium or integration These include encouraging quirky jerry-built adaptations or additions to existing buildings encouraging uses of public spaces which don t fit neatly together such as putting an AIDS hospice square in the middle of a shopping street In her view big capitalism and powerful developers tend to favour homogeneity determinate predictable and balanced in form The role of the radical planner therefore is to champion dissonance In her famous declaration if density and diversity give life the life they breed is disorderly The open city feels like Naples the closed city feels like Frankfurt Richard Sennett 2006 Fig 1 Busy street in Naples marlenworld com Fig 2 Paris Les Olympiades 1969-1974 Thierry B 233 zecourt in 2005 3 Sennett R 2006 The Open City The Closed System and The Brittle City Urban Age http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1922 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:41:11 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1903 World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and searchabiliity to even the most mundane of physical products Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth This same paradigm will find you wrangling with product-lifecycle- management systems that do for physical objects what the iPod has done for music These and other radical ideas are delivered in Sterling s latest book Shaping Things This concise book was written to inspire designers to visualize radical scenarios connecting information technology and sustainability in a new ecology of artifacts Sterling suggests new connections between the virtual world and the physical world that will have you rethinking many of your assumptions about how we relate to products He will be joined by Scott Klinker 3-D Designer-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills MI who leads a graduate design program known for giving form to experimental cultural ideas Klinker s own design work focuses on digital customization as industry shifts from mass production toward niche production in a networked society The presentation will include an invitation for Sterlling and Klinker Cranbrook to team-up with Google to create a short documentary film that would portray a speculative future of life with SPIMES Distributed online this short film would convey the look and feel of SPIME scenarios as a provocation for widespread industry discussion about the new potentials of ubiquitous ambient searchable geolocative products Google Tech Talks 30 April 2007 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1903 Sun, 30 May 2010 20:21:51 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1901 Nine days ago the data protection authority DPA in Hamburg Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions His request prompted us to re-examine everything we have been collecting and during our review we discovered that a statement made in a blog post on April 27 was incorrect In that blog post and in a technical note sent to data protection authorities the same day we said that while Google did collect publicly broadcast SSID information the WiFi network name and MAC addresses the unique number given to a device like a WiFi router using Street View cars we did not collect payload data information sent over the network But it s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open i e non-password-protected WiFi networks even though we never used that data in any Google products However we will typically have collected only fragments of payload data because our cars are on the move someone would need to be using the network as a car passed by and our in-car WiFi equipment automatically changes channels roughly five times a second In addition we did not collect information traveling over secure password-protected WiFi networks Google 14 05 2010 01 44 00 PM http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1901 Sun, 30 May 2010 18:32:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1900 This document has been created to help people understand the radical transformation digital content will have on the creative industries and to provide businesses with outline areas of opportunity where innovation is most likely to occur In the past decade digital content has become a part of everyday life for all Yet the changes that will occur in the next 5-10 years will be profound They have the power to alter the way we live work play learn and help us to live longer more fulfilling lives These changes will substantially alter existing business models and markets Many historical innovations such as new recording formats more powerful consoles and new advertising media were incremental They changed formats and created new opportunities but they did not alter the industrial landscape The changes taking place now are paradigm shifts that challenge the value chain as a whole These changes represent huge opportunities or threats if not understood For games designers it may mean the migration from console platforms to cloud based applications and casual gaming communities For TV programmes it may mean the end of broadcast where their content must be found and consumed on numerous devices For publishers it may mean the migration to new consumption platforms that radically alter distribution channels For industrial designers it may mean the need to move from object creation to experience creation For all it means the need to radically shift their thinking The following pages outline the key areas highlighted by a project that has engaged with hundreds of key stakeholders across the creative industries and technology industries seeking to map the landscape of the future of digital content Kelechi Amadi March 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1900 Sat, 29 May 2010 20:13:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1893 The Tailenders explores the connections between missionary activity and global capitalism The Tailenders examines a missionary organization s use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces Joy Ridderhoff founded Gospel Recordings in 1939 in Los Angeles She remembered how crowds had gathered around gramophones in the Honduran villages where she had worked as a missionary and decided that rather than compete with this medium she would use it to preach The organization that she founded has now produced audio recordings of Bible stories in over 5 000 languages and aims to record in every language on earth They distribute these recordings along with hand-wind players in regions with limited access to electricity and media The Bible stories played by the missionaries are sometimes the first encounter community members have had with recorded sound and even more frequently the first time they have heard their own language recorded Gospel Recordings calls their target audience the Tailenders because they are the last to be reached by global evangelism The missionaries target communities in crisis because they have found that displaced and desperate people are especially receptive to the evangelical recordings When uprooted from one s home as in the case of Mexican migrant workers the sound of one s own language is a comfort And the audio players are appealing media gadgets Audiences who might not otherwise be interested in the missionaries message will listen to the recordings The Tailenders focuses on how the media objects and messages introduced by the missionaries play a role in larger socioeconomic transformations such as the move away from subsistence economies toward cash economies based on agricultural and industrial labor The film raises questions about how people who receive the recordings understand them Gospel Recording s project is premised on a belief in the transparency of language to transmit a divinely inspired message But because the missionaries don t speak the languages they must enlist bilingual native speakers as translators There is ample opportunity for mistakes selectivity and resistance in the translation The film explores how meaning changes as it crosses language and culture Adele Horne http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1893 Sun, 23 May 2010 13:45:15 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1892 Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell The researchers constructed a bacterium s genetic software and transplanted it into a host cell The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species dictated by the synthetic DNA The researchers constructed a bacterium s genetic software and transplanted it into a host cell The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species dictated by the synthetic DNA Dr Craig Venter likened the advance to making new software for the cell The researchers copied an existing bacterial genome They sequenced its genetic code and then used synthesis machines to chemically construct a copy Dr Venter told BBC News We ve now been able to take our synthetic chromosome and transplant it into a recipient cell - a different organism As soon as this new software goes into the cell the cell reads it and converts into the species specified in that genetic code The new bacteria replicated over a billion times producing copies that contained and were controlled by the constructed synthetic DNA This is the first time any synthetic DNA has been in complete control of a cell said Dr Venter Victoria Gill BBC News http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1892 Thu, 20 May 2010 22:50:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1890 several theoretical views support the position that in life one has strong economic and non-economic claims for control over oneos intangible creations Yet the paper finds that historical and literary theory in conjunction with recent economic arguments of Professors Brett Frischmann and Mark Lemley regarding positive externalities generated by access to ideas and information militate in favor of limits on heirso control over these creations Furthermore insofar as society provides the building blocks from which these creations arise all the theories show that creations must at some point become part of the commons to enable others to generate new creations Thus the paper argues against the growth of trademark or trademark-like authoros rights which have no temporal limit and offer heirs extreme control over access to and use of an authoros work and seeks to balance the interests of creators with societyos interest in fostering later expression and creation of new works Deven Desai Desai Deven R Property Persona and Publicity August 21 2007 TJSL Legal Studies Research Paper No 1008541 Available at SSRN http ssrn com abstract 1008541 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1890 Wed, 19 May 2010 20:17:06 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1889 Ecosia is an eco-friendly Internet search engine backed by Yahoo Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature WWF It basically works like any other search engine but unlike others Ecosia gives at least 80 of its advertising revenue to a rainforest protection programme run by the WWF Because of this Ecosia users can save about two square metres of rainforest with every search they do - without paying anything Furthermore all Ecosia servers run on green electricity so they do not cause any CO2 emissions By using Ecosia you can turn your web searches green Ecosia http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1889 Wed, 19 May 2010 19:06:14 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1878 The Mutato-Archive is a collection of non-standard fruits roots and vegetables displaying a dazzling variety of forms colours and textures The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural Produce has become a highly designed monotonous product The Mutato-Project serves to document preserve and promote these last survivors of biological variety Uli Westphal 2006 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1878 Mon, 03 May 2010 09:42:31 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1876 Deleuze and Guattari s notion of ethics does not suggest relativism Ethics are relative or related to the condition of their use however they have criteria The criteria for ethics according to Deleuze is immanent historical and emergent rather than transcendent essential and static Hayden 121 Thus Deleuze and Guattari assert that thinking belongs to the earth and is not the manifestation of a knowing subject apart from its environment Thinking exists as the fluid effect of the interactions that take place between the force of the body and the environment in which it occurs 121 The reciprocal relationality of bodies and milieux implies that each have effects on the other Evaluation of modes of existence then must proceed from the recognition of this reciprocity or symbiosis 121 Such an ethics requires careful study not only of the natural conditions of phenomena but also of the effects of various modes of existence Therefore though ethics implies a continuous process within diverse milieux this is not to say that it is impossible to distinguish particular modes of existence as more desirable than others 122 However such distinctions are always site-specific so to speak and cannot be measured against a transcendent standard Sheri Benning Rhizomes 15 Hayden Patrick Multiplicity and Becoming The Pluralist Empiricism of Gilles Deleuze New York Peter Lang 1998 Benning S 2007 Claybank Saskatchewan Rhizomes Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge winter 15 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1876 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:03:47 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1842 The world s first zero-carbon city is being built in Abu Dhabi and is designed to be not only free of cars and skyscrapers but also powered by the sun The oil-rich United Arab Emirates is the last place you would expect to learn lessons on low-carbon living but the emerging eco-city of Masdar could teach the world At first glance the parched landscape of Abu Dhabi looks like the craziest place to build any city let alone a sustainable one The inhospitable terrain suggests that the only way to survive here is with the maximum of technological support a bit like living on the moon The genius of Masdar - if it works - will be combining 21st Century engineering with traditional desert architecture to deliver zero-carbon comfort And it is being built now Masdar will be home to about 50 000 people at least 1 000 businesses and a university It is being designed by British architects Foster and Partners but it is the ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan who is paying for it And it will cost between pound 10bn USD 15bn and pound 20bn USD 30bn Tom Heap BBC News Profiled on the BBC Radio 4 programme Costing The Earth Eco-City Limits Monday 29 March at 2100 BST http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1842 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:39:03 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1822 A man who stabbed his ex-lover to death after seeing a Facebook photo of her with a new boyfriend has been jailed for life The Old Bailey found Paul Bristol 25 guilty of murdering Camille Mathurasingh 27 in April 2009 The IT technician who lived in Trinidad and Tobago flew to London within two weeks of seeing the picture and murdered the accountant He has been ordered to serve a minimum term of 22 years Bristol stabbed Ms Mathurasingh 20 times at her home in Bow east London before cutting himself and crashing her car Judge Timothy Pontius told him Clearly you were eaten up by jealousy BBC News 9 March 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1822 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:39:29 +1000