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- Noted: Why less than 5% Germans tweet; drawing the line at data-driven emotional manipulation; ethical algorithms; geofencing the Barbican; and guess who’s a jerk? Why Germans shun Twitter, The Economist ( audio edition ). ‘ Facebook’s [timeline] experiment reveals a much deeper problem with the inte...
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- Genevieve Bell: Context is Everything Cultural anthropologist and Intel researcher Genevieve Bell considers stories of London taxi drivers, a mother-in-law navigator, emergency...
- Listen to artist Grayson Perry’s fascinating talks from Playing to the Gallery: BBC Reith Lectures 2013 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry as his female alter ego Claire Grayson Perry , winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, delivers the annual BB...
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- Knowledge sharing: Coders on GitHub collaborate on a definitive list of free programming books Over 100 users on the popular collaborative code sharing host GitHub have resurrected and updated an A–Z of free programming books that ...
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- Book: 10 PRINT (a story about the culture of software) 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (to give the book its full title) takes a single line of code and uses it as “a lens through which ...
- Table Boat Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla used a table — turned upside down and made into a boat — as a metaphor for mobilizing discussi...
- Deductive approach to explanation I stumbled across the flow chart above in the opening chapter of Elementary Statistics for Geographers (1996, Guilford Press). The diagram...
- Listen to artist Grayson Perry’s fascinating talks from Playing to the Gallery: BBC Reith Lectures 2013 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry as his female alter ego Claire Grayson Perry , winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, delivers the annual BB...
- UK Radioplayer — UX/Design Guidelines Radioplayer is a partnership between the BBC and UK commercial radio , to provide radio audiences with easy online listening and to impro...
- New music: The Man Who Died In His Boat by Liz Harris’s Grouper Grouper (Liz Harris), Brisbane, October 2012. (via Flickr ) Liz Harris has a knack of creating stripped-down, unpretentious music that i...
- Music video: CFCF’s ‘Beyond Light’ CFCF, Beyond Light , 2013. Video directed by Derrick Belcham and Ruby Kato Attwood. Creative director Derrick Belcham and artist Ruby K...