Estimate the oil spill damage
A widget lets you estimate the size of the oil spill – but where’s the context?
Twitter search gets a little more powerful
Now Twitter digs into shortened URLs for your search terms.
Ian Capstick interviews Rob on Open SoSi, humour and more
Long live face-to-face: one of the great things about conferences is reconnecting with old friends. I ran into Ian Capstick, a pal from my election campaigning days, at Northern Voice earlier this month.
He pulled me aside and shot a quick video for his company’s blog, MediaStyle. We covered a lot of territory, much of it involving transparency and openness, in particular our Open SoSi project. Have a gander:
Interview with Rob Cottingham from Ian Capstick on Vimeo.
And by all means start reading Ian’s blog. He has some terrific insights and gives you a valuable look inside his many projects.
Deepwater Horizon: Gulf of Mexico teaches another lesson about government’s role
I don’t usually comment on current events in Noise to Signal, but I’m finding I can’t ignore the Deepwater Horizon disaster. We can’t treat the world as though it’s simple enough for a Missing Manual… or even an O’Reilly In a...danah boyd on the latest Facebook uproar
boyd argues that Facebook started as a “counterpublic” – a refuge for people seeking an alternative to the “publics” they had access to. And the changes Facebook is making are an assault on that counterpublic… which is why you’re hearing such outrage from users.
