More on open development
I realize from delving more into this that several of us have come to the same conclusion. I'm repeating myself but here goes: It's not about building a big repository. Stop that. It's about aggregating, not centralizing. Making it easy to find, aggregate, and mash up.
Continue reading...Global Impact Study: Montpellier workshop report
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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I'm finally sharing this workshop report. It's a personal account for those who were not able to attend. I’ve tried to give a sense of the flavor of the meeting and the range of topics and issues that came up. This is a large and complex project, presenting many challenges — from the methodological to the administrative. I did my best not to air dirty laundry, but also not to sanitize what I heard.
Continue reading...WordPress taxonomy unions
Monday, October 11, 2010
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How do I get Wordpress to display everything in my website tagged "publications" AND "employability"? After looking for "WordPress multiple tags" allover the place I realized my novice self was not even searching for the right terms. What I should have been looking for is "Wordpress taxonomy intersections unions" (e.e.: always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question).
Continue reading...Create an open access repository
Friday, October 8, 2010
Joe and I are overhauling the Technology & Social Change Group website. I took a step back this week to think about what's most important for this first version, and how we're going to transfer over our existing content. I've dubbed TASCHA website 1.0 the "does-not-suck version" in order to keep us focused on the basics, pull together all of our content, and push discussions about feature requests to the point in time where we have something up that works and something concrete to react to.
Continue reading...Collaborative consumption
Monday, September 27, 2010
I was telling a friend this weekend that bike-sharing — a la bixi — is one of the fastest-growing forms of transportation in the world. But then I faltered: Really? I forgot where I got this little factoid. Good thing for me the lovely peeps at Station C posted the video up on their blog — pointing out that coworking is also part of this trend. So... I still don't know if it's true for real. (I want it to be!) but at least I know where my factoid came from.
Continue reading...Microhistory, margins, methods
Monday, September 20, 2010
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All historical narratives are hypothetical to greater or lesser degrees, but what makes them plausible? By reducing the scale of observation, microhistorians argued that they are more likely to reveal the complicated function of individual relationships within each and every social setting and they stressed its difference from larger norms. Nearly all cases which microhistorians deal with have one thing in common; they all caught the attention of the authorities, thus establishing their archival existence. They illustrate the function of the formal institutions in power and how they handle people’s affairs.
Continue reading...Open research, open data, open development
Thursday, September 16, 2010
I've been thinking about this for a while now, gathering resources, printing out stuff to read. Waiting for the right time to pull it all together into a tidy package. Well forget it. Instead I'm going to dribble it out bit by bit.
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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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- Innovation Grounds 1.0
- Open research, open data, open development
- One-dollar books and why reading history matters
- Collaborative consumption
- Note from Seattle
- Create an open access repository
- Make music in the kitchen, the back seat of the car, wherever
- Policy & Technology: Edward Tufte’s keynote for Tech@State's Data Visualization event
- Using mobile technology to collect data
- Robert Bonardi: Christine, I greatly enjoyed the use of the map for visualizing (sorry about the "zeds")informati...
- Christine: Thanks for your comment. One note: This was not meant as epistemological treatise on innovation or o...
- DF Bunnell: There is a tendency for every generation to not only think, but genuinely believe that we just, some...
- Chris Coward: Here's a library getting in on the action http://bit.ly/u4XDU2...
- Chris Coward: Excellent work! I like the four dimensions and the characteristics you list. One point to underscore...
- Wayan: My big takeaway was Joel's startling statistic that +90% of all stock management in healthcare is vo...
- Christine: If you want to practice ...
- Alex: so, now pleasure goeth before a fall? that's not supposed to be the way things go!...
- Dani: Oh so good to read you like this! What a life of luxury you lead!! Well deserved I say....
- Christine: Along the same lines... Julien tweeted this ...
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Monday, October 18, 2010
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