November 2010
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Two funded PhDs in design, social media and the...
The Institute of Design (IDE) has just announced two fully funded PhD positions in design, social media and the city. This looks super cool! So look into it if you’re interested! (thanks kevin for the tip)
More info below:
Goals & sub goals: YOUrban aims to explore how social media may be used in an urban context to challenge the notion that our environment is given, or imposed on...
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Google Maps in another battle between...
[thanks ben hammersley for the tip!]
from Joshua Keating - Nicaragua cites Google Earth to justify ‘invading’ Costa Rica
Costa Rica and Nicaragua are in the midst of a highly tense standoff after Nicaraguan troops crossed into a contested border region and set up camp, taking down a Costa Rican flag. Costa Rica, which has no standing military, has called for an emergency meeting...
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“digitization and related digital access to land title records in Bangalore had...”
– [example of neo-informationalism - open data for wealth creation, thanks benjamin bratton for pointing this out to me! - tricia]
Excerpt from Michael Gurnstein’s Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone?
Efforts to extend access to “data” will perhaps inevitably...
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