Here’s a selection of links shared during February via Google Reader, Delicious and Twitter. Organised into the usual overlapping categories: Systems and the bits and pieces that make them work.Hot topic this month has been the challenges facing global Internet technologies operating within the borders of local government. Enjoy!
Systems
- Internet Freedom: Beyond Circumvention – Ethan Zuckerman “We also need to address a growing menace to online speech – attacks on sites that host controversial speech.”
- Sergey Brin on Google’s China decision – TED interview, includes full transcript
- Did the clouds just get darker? – Blog post on Italian Government’s decision to prosecute Google over video upload
- Facebook deleting HongKong opposition groups – will 2010 be the year companies are challenged for deleting user data?
- 5 ways to prepare for a social media disaster – it helps to be prepared, reactions will often be emotion-driven
- Lessons From a Blue-Collar Millionaire – how responding to the recession fed a pizza business (Inc magazine)
- Gift Economics – Content may be trending towards free but originals still do fine in the long run.. (Gaping Void)
- An Economics Primer – Five interviews exploring the role of economics and government intervention in a crisis
- The Business Value of Social Networks – Irving Wladawsky-Berger reviews recent Economist report
People
- Collective Intelligence vs Stupidity – “‘Intelligent people, when assembled into an organisation, will tend towards collective stupidity‘ – Karl Albrecht”
- How Social Is Too Social? – the privacy challenge in social networks (as demonstrated by Google Buzz)
- Time spent on Social Networks up 82% around the world – still 24 hours in a day, no prizes for guessing where time is being diverted from…
- Amplified Individuals in the Cloud – Pursue the goal rather than the method (ditto for KM and most information systems…)
Information
- How a Giant Shark Took Down an Airplane – fun infographic and useful for showing the benefits of displaying scale with a bit of humour (includes video of the event in question)
- Proof that a great presentation isn’t about pitch perfect – Jamie Oliver shows the value of passion and a couple of clear examples to get across a message: why we should be teaching our children about food
- Google Chart tools – new chart and visualisation APIs for displaying data
- The Internet in 2020: What the Experts Predict – mental note: be fun to review this in 10 years time…
- Gartner predictions for social software: 2010 and beyond
Technology
- The clue is in the I of iPad – and I as in interaction, not information: Joining Dots blog post
- Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual – how augmented reality could revolutionise learning, using maintenance and repair video as an example
- Microsoft TED Talk on Augmented Maps – Blaise Aguera y Arcas does it again, with some funky new features
- Microsoft VP Jeff Teper answers SharePoint questions – talking about early SP2010 feedback
- SharePoint and Windows Mobile 7 – Joining Dots blog post on the new Office hub
- Next Generation Connectivity – Harvard University report on behalf of Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
And finally, finishing with the usual bit of fun – why you shouldn’t always believe what you see…
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