As sources become less important, filters are the natural target for those who want to sway opinion.
by Karl Fogel
| @kfogel
| 1 September 2011
When people are trawling so many content sources, it no longer pays to concentrate on sources at all. It makes much more sense to study how the trawlers work and become part of the filtering infrastructure.
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"Big Data Now" is a free collection of Radar's data coverage.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| +Mac Slocum | 1 September 2011
O'Reilly has released "Big Data Now," a free anthology that taps into the data themes and coverage featured on Radar over the last year.
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Android Charting, Illusion of Insight, Mapping API, and Science Storytelling
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 1 September 2011
- A Chart Engine -- Android charting engine.
- The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight -- we are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others.
- Urban Mapping API -- add rich geographic data to web and non-web applications.
- Tell Us A Story, Victoria -- a university science story-telling contest.
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Tom Steinberg on making a website vs making a difference.
by Tom Steinberg
| @mysociety
| +Tom Steinberg | 30 August 2011
Tom Steinberg, head of the UK's civic-hacking non-profit mySociety, uses the launch of the new FixMyTransport to reflect on how organizations can help their open data efforts achieve sustainability.
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Lou Rosenfeld on the benefits of parsing and refining site search.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| +Mac Slocum | 29 August 2011
A gold mine is hiding in the data generated by website search engines, yet many site owners pay little attention to the analytics those engines yield. Author Lou Rosenfeld explains why site search is worth your time.
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PC, mobile, music, film, post-pc: Steve Jobs played an important part in disrupting them all.
by Mark Sigal
| @netgarden
| 25 August 2011
Apple, under Steve Jobs, has always had an unrelenting zeal to bring the consumer — and humanity — back to the center of the ring. Here, Mark Sigal argues that it's this pursuit of humanity that may actually be Jobs' greatest innovation.
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