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Category: Digital Age
Best in Data Visualisation 2008
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Computing and Info TechDigital Age | SOURCE: Flowing Data | Comments
Something every data visualising man or woman should know...
Check out "I Want You to Want Me", very amazing work commissioned by New York's Museum of Modern Art and created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
More People Getting News from Web than Print
26 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: 21st Century SocietyDigital Age | SOURCE: Pew Research | Comments
Results from a survey run by Pew Research Center in the US, more people are now accessing news content through the web, than via traditional print media. 40% say they now get their national and international news through the internet, compared to 35% via print media. Television is still the main source for 70% of people.
The Limits to Adoption of New Technologies in the Third World
24 Mar, 2008 | CATEGORY: 21st Century SocietyDigital Age | SOURCE: The Economist | Comments
The spread of new technologies in poorer countries often depends on the availability of older and much more basic ones ones.
Wisdom of the Crowd chooses 10 for questions presidential candidates
24 Oct, 2007 | CATEGORY: Evolution of DemocracyDigital Age | SOURCE: 10questions.com | Comments
A new website uses a digg-style wisdom of crowds approach to determining the 10 best questions to put to U.S. presidential candidates. People upload videos of a question and users vote.
Class divide online
05 Jul, 2007 | CATEGORY: Digital Age | SOURCE: BBC | Comments
Web 2.0 - changing the face of democracy
05 Dec, 2006 | CATEGORY: Evolution of DemocracyDigital Age | SOURCE: Wired | Comments
An article on WIRED about some of the ways the new web is making democracy more well...more democratic.