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Monthly archives for August, 2006

LA Casino

Aug29
2006 Leave a Comment Written by egordon

Brilliant commentary about LA, tourism, and gambling. 

Link: the show with zefrank.

Posted in cities

Flickr adds Geotagging option

Aug29
2006 Leave a Comment Written by egordon

This new feature from flickr just continues the trend towards emplacing data.  Geotagging is just another form of organizing data – using the world as file cabinet.  It takes the abstraction of maps, or what I’ve called metageography, and replaced it with a sense of locality.  It’s like always knowing where that scrap of paper is.

Link: Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection.

Posted in maps

Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality

Aug09
2006 Leave a Comment Written by egordon

As usual, Jon Stewart says it best.

Posted in copyright

Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom

Aug02
2006 Leave a Comment Written by egordon

This is more than a little disturbing.  But, sometimes the truth isn’t pretty.

Link: Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom.

Posted in copyright

Twitter

  • Based on the tweets, #citiessummit2012 looks like an amazing event. Question: when does data access turn into civic engagement?
    2012/02/01 12:03
  • Heading home from #Vancouver today after hanging out with the nice people at Emily Carr. What a beautiful place - even when it rains.
    2012/01/28 13:43
  • New Report Shows Value of Funding Policy and Civic Engagement
    http://t.co/ScTAfgkM
    2012/01/22 11:58
  • Grad student opportunity. Come to Finland for a week this summer for workshop on civic tech:
    http://t.co/IR3eb28D
    2012/01/20 09:59
  • About to speak at #holycrosstech about attention, distraction and learning
    2012/01/19 10:23

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