Entries Tagged as 'Etc'
Internet filtering: Listen to the people (December 18th, 2009 - 709 views)
Senator Conroy has just announced that the Labor government is green-lighting a plan to censor all Australian internet traffic with a mandatory ISP-level internet filter. Kevin Rudd’s election promise was that the filter wouldn’t be mandatory, and this backflip has dramatic consequences.
How many complaints does a government need before listening to the people they represent? [...]
What is my signal vs noise? (December 1st, 2009 - 666 views)
I have been thinking quite a bit lately about which messages in my stream people like to see and haven’t come to any real conclusions… Is it signal? Is it noise? Foursquare?
What better way to find out than to ask you! What do you like? What don’t you like? Why do you follow?
I’d love to continue [...]
Reader census / How accurate is Hunch? (November 9th, 2009 - 497 views)
Hunch is the new brainchild of Caterina Fake (of Flickr fame) – it is a prediction engine that asks you a few questions and then is able to predict very accurately many of your future choices. They have just launched the blogger widget which means I can ask you to participate in the reader census. [...]
Donkey Wheel House (October 25th, 2009 - 1 views)
It’s a recurrent question – what is Donkey Wheel and Donkey Wheel House? There isn’t much information online so I snapped a photo of a descriptive poster there at Trampoline 2.
The donkey wheel Prescribed Private Fund and Charitable Trust was established in 2004 for the purpose of philanthropic gifting. Our goal is to make every action [...]
Stories through sand (September 1st, 2009 - 618 views)
Kseniya Simonova moulds the shifting sands to tell the story of the Nazi invasion of Ukraine that began in 1932. It’s refreshing to see what is possible with nothing but background music, sand, and fingertips.
