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Call for Proposals - Museums and the Web 2013: 17-20 April 2013 Oregon USA
As part of the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, Google decides to back the release of a special Monopoly edition to honor one of its most famed players.
Massimo Banzi on How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
Forbes Tech predicts the Top Tech Trends in 2013 = Cheap tablets these things are going to be $19.95 soon - Mobile payments Square and Paypal roll out - Wearable computing revamped iPod Nano, the Pebble watch project, and/or others - Corporate IT moves to the cloud, trillions of dollars of IT spending are moving from data centers and software licenses to cloud services, The aas-ing of everything, companies are moving software and storage to the cloud and they’ll soon realize those cloud services can easily pull from cloud-based data sources (Jigsaw, Insideview, Rapleaf) plus cloud-based labor pools, both crowdsourced and professional services firms - The ideal TV experience is a a single box that lets you both record and download any content you want at any time via a single interface. ... read more
Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole reflects on two days working with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC on their Digitization programs - " ... as far as I know, the Smithsonian is pretty unique in having access to a team of internal specialists dedicated to bringing research and statistical analysis to bear on the strategic challenges faced by the Institution. I was able to speak with them about the strengths and weaknesses of our research (The Cost of Digitising Europe's Heritage) and the challenges of defining scope (ie. what gets included in the cost model) and the benefits of internal capacity-building over external outsourcing." The material already digitized can be accessed online
This is a nice idea - the Golden Goose Awards created as tribute to science oddities and obscure studies - a counterbalance to the negative stereotype often attached to odd or obscure studies. Back in the 1970s, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., created the Golden Fleece Awards to ridicule federally funded projects that he thought were wasteful. His "winners" included NASA, which sought $2 million to fund a radio-based search for extraterrestrial intelligence; and the National Science Foundation, for spending $84,000 on relationship research.
The eight Golden Goose recipients were announced over the weekend. Here's the first winner Charles Townes, a physicist who was told early in his career not to waste resources on an obscure technique for amplifying waves of radiation into a continuous stream. His research in the 1950s led to the invention of laser technology, which was initially seen as a "solution looking for a problem." Today, of course, lasers are essential for applications ranging from DVD players and grocery-store scanners to surgery, military weapons and nuclear fusion experiments. Townes' work earned him a Nobel Prize in 1964. see more winners
The WhatWasThere project is similar to the HistoryPin idea and allows people to place photographs and stories onto Google Maps.
False positives: Alok Jha, science correspondent with Guardian, post on fraud and misconduct in recent scientific research that have sent shock waves through a discipline that was already facing serious questions about plagiarism. "In many respects, psychology is at a crossroads – the decisions we take now will determine whether or not it remains a serious, credible, scientific discipline along with the harder sciences," says Chris Chambers, a psychologist at Cardiff University.
CTX Virtual Keyboard fits on a keychain - article on Gizmag
1st comprehensive atlas of Australia’s groundwater ecosystems Australian Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Atlas. Presents the current knowledge of GDEs across Australia, and shows known GDEs as well as ecosystems that potentially use groundwater. The GDE Atlas is a tool to assist the consideration of ecosystem groundwater requirements in natural resource management, including water planning and environmental impact assessment.
The GDE Atlas was funded by the Australian Government through the National Water Commission's Raising National Water Standards Program. It was developed by the National Water Commission, SKM, CSIRO, Cogha and the Bureau of Meteorology with input from every State and Territory as part of the Groundwater Action Plan. A key aim of the Groundwater Action Plan is to improve Australia's understanding of groundwater dependent ecosystems and facilitate how they are considered in water management.
How Google Builds Its Maps & What It Means for the Future of Everything. Alexis Madrigal's article in The Atlantic. "Where you're searching from has become almost as important as what you're searching for. Google responded by creating an operating system, brand, and ecosystem in Android that has become the only significant rival to Apple's iOS. And for good reason. If Google's mission is to organize all the world's information, the most important challenge -- far larger than indexing the web -- is to take the world's physical information and make it accessible and useful. ... read more"
Bass Culture - 4 New double-CD's on evolution of Jamaican music coincide with 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence. The Quietus review of - This Town is Too Hot! - Ska & Rocksteady Original 1960s Recordings, Boss Sounds - Early Reggae 1968-1972, When Reggae Was King - Roots, Rockers, DJs and Dub 1970 – 1980, Mash You Down - The Birth Of Dancehall 1978 – 1985
Socialmatic "Instagram" camera moves closer take pictures, apply filters & print the photos out on paper. Jakob Schiller's Wired Article
Copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards while Neil Gaiman receives award for #DrWho script - article by Annalee Newitz on IO9
The Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit This open hardware kit costs only $35, but has a range of more than 400-900 nanometers, and a resolution of as high as 3 nm. A spectrometer is essentially a tool to measure the colors absorbed by a material. You can construct this one yourself from a piece of a DVD-R, black paper, a conduit box, and an HD USB webcam - on Kickstarter
Bit of Sydney Artworld scandal - Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney drops photo artist Ben Ali Ong after works found to be sourced from stock - see article
Manifesto Of the Passionate Creative Worker - Blog Post from Edge Perspectives with John Hagel - "We are living in a modern renaissance. Like the printing press during its time, our new tools have the capacity to spread knowledge faster and farther than ever before, resulting in an unparalleled and ever increasing rate of progress and change. As we consider the free information and universal connectivity that is now available, we are struck by the potential that each individual has to impact the world. "
1. Live our lives, and not someone else’s
2. Blaze new trails.
3. Prioritize learning over efficiency
4. Share knowledge freely.
5. Recognize that institutions exist to serve people
6. Quit jobs that we hate.
7. Escape the trap of wasting time by being busy.
8. Live life for the adventure.
9. Stay on the edge.
10. Continually reinvent ourselves.
11. Never settle.
read more
Pleased you've persevered and made it to the bottom cause this was kept me up very late one night - Sound on Sound magazine's "Classic Tracks" series providing technical and personal details behind the recording of classic tracks. eg Tricky - "Black Steel", The Undertones - "Teenage Kicks", Aerosmith - "Walk This Way", 10cc - "I'm Not In Love", Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Relax", The Four Tops - "Reach Out I'll Be There" and so on ...
Interplanetary broadband DTE Not as sophisticated as you might expect:, "Curiosity's ability to capture images and other data easily outstrips its capacity to beam it all back home. Nonetheless, it delivers vastly more information from the red planet than any previous mission did. The rover makes use of two separate radio systems. One is dedicated to Direct-to-Earth (DTE) transmissions and uses frequencies of 7-8 gigahertz (GHz). Michael Watkins, mission manager for Curiosity (formally, the Mars Science Laboratory) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explains that this system has extremely low capacity and is designed for receiving (and sometimes acknowledging) terse instructions to carry out a day's tasks. A separate system allows the rover to connect to one of two American satellites in orbit around Mars twice each Martian day, or sol, to relay the scientific data back to Earth. ... " read full post
Call for Proposals - Museums and the Web 2013: 17-20 April 2013 Oregon USA
As part of the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, Google decides to back the release of a special Monopoly edition to honor one of its most famed players.
Massimo Banzi on How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
Forbes Tech predicts the Top Tech Trends in 2013 = Cheap tablets these things are going to be $19.95 soon - Mobile payments Square and Paypal roll out - Wearable computing revamped iPod Nano, the Pebble watch project, and/or others - Corporate IT moves to the cloud, trillions of dollars of IT spending are moving from data centers and software licenses to cloud services, The aas-ing of everything, companies are moving software and storage to the cloud and they’ll soon realize those cloud services can easily pull from cloud-based data sources (Jigsaw, Insideview, Rapleaf) plus cloud-based labor pools, both crowdsourced and professional services firms - The ideal TV experience is a a single box that lets you both record and download any content you want at any time via a single interface. ... read more
Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole reflects on two days working with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC on their Digitization programs - " ... as far as I know, the Smithsonian is pretty unique in having access to a team of internal specialists dedicated to bringing research and statistical analysis to bear on the strategic challenges faced by the Institution. I was able to speak with them about the strengths and weaknesses of our research (The Cost of Digitising Europe's Heritage) and the challenges of defining scope (ie. what gets included in the cost model) and the benefits of internal capacity-building over external outsourcing." The material already digitized can be accessed online
This is a nice idea - the Golden Goose Awards created as tribute to science oddities and obscure studies - a counterbalance to the negative stereotype often attached to odd or obscure studies. Back in the 1970s, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., created the Golden Fleece Awards to ridicule federally funded projects that he thought were wasteful. His "winners" included NASA, which sought $2 million to fund a radio-based search for extraterrestrial intelligence; and the National Science Foundation, for spending $84,000 on relationship research.
The eight Golden Goose recipients were announced over the weekend. Here's the first winner Charles Townes, a physicist who was told early in his career not to waste resources on an obscure technique for amplifying waves of radiation into a continuous stream. His research in the 1950s led to the invention of laser technology, which was initially seen as a "solution looking for a problem." Today, of course, lasers are essential for applications ranging from DVD players and grocery-store scanners to surgery, military weapons and nuclear fusion experiments. Townes' work earned him a Nobel Prize in 1964. see more winners
The WhatWasThere project is similar to the HistoryPin idea and allows people to place photographs and stories onto Google Maps.
False positives: Alok Jha, science correspondent with Guardian, post on fraud and misconduct in recent scientific research that have sent shock waves through a discipline that was already facing serious questions about plagiarism. "In many respects, psychology is at a crossroads – the decisions we take now will determine whether or not it remains a serious, credible, scientific discipline along with the harder sciences," says Chris Chambers, a psychologist at Cardiff University.
CTX Virtual Keyboard fits on a keychain - article on Gizmag
1st comprehensive atlas of Australia’s groundwater ecosystems Australian Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Atlas. Presents the current knowledge of GDEs across Australia, and shows known GDEs as well as ecosystems that potentially use groundwater. The GDE Atlas is a tool to assist the consideration of ecosystem groundwater requirements in natural resource management, including water planning and environmental impact assessment.
The GDE Atlas was funded by the Australian Government through the National Water Commission's Raising National Water Standards Program. It was developed by the National Water Commission, SKM, CSIRO, Cogha and the Bureau of Meteorology with input from every State and Territory as part of the Groundwater Action Plan. A key aim of the Groundwater Action Plan is to improve Australia's understanding of groundwater dependent ecosystems and facilitate how they are considered in water management.
How Google Builds Its Maps & What It Means for the Future of Everything. Alexis Madrigal's article in The Atlantic. "Where you're searching from has become almost as important as what you're searching for. Google responded by creating an operating system, brand, and ecosystem in Android that has become the only significant rival to Apple's iOS. And for good reason. If Google's mission is to organize all the world's information, the most important challenge -- far larger than indexing the web -- is to take the world's physical information and make it accessible and useful. ... read more"
Bass Culture - 4 New double-CD's on evolution of Jamaican music coincide with 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence. The Quietus review of - This Town is Too Hot! - Ska & Rocksteady Original 1960s Recordings, Boss Sounds - Early Reggae 1968-1972, When Reggae Was King - Roots, Rockers, DJs and Dub 1970 – 1980, Mash You Down - The Birth Of Dancehall 1978 – 1985
Socialmatic "Instagram" camera moves closer take pictures, apply filters & print the photos out on paper. Jakob Schiller's Wired Article
Copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards while Neil Gaiman receives award for #DrWho script - article by Annalee Newitz on IO9
The Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit This open hardware kit costs only $35, but has a range of more than 400-900 nanometers, and a resolution of as high as 3 nm. A spectrometer is essentially a tool to measure the colors absorbed by a material. You can construct this one yourself from a piece of a DVD-R, black paper, a conduit box, and an HD USB webcam - on Kickstarter
Bit of Sydney Artworld scandal - Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney drops photo artist Ben Ali Ong after works found to be sourced from stock - see article
Manifesto Of the Passionate Creative Worker - Blog Post from Edge Perspectives with John Hagel - "We are living in a modern renaissance. Like the printing press during its time, our new tools have the capacity to spread knowledge faster and farther than ever before, resulting in an unparalleled and ever increasing rate of progress and change. As we consider the free information and universal connectivity that is now available, we are struck by the potential that each individual has to impact the world. "
1. Live our lives, and not someone else’s
2. Blaze new trails.
3. Prioritize learning over efficiency
4. Share knowledge freely.
5. Recognize that institutions exist to serve people
6. Quit jobs that we hate.
7. Escape the trap of wasting time by being busy.
8. Live life for the adventure.
9. Stay on the edge.
10. Continually reinvent ourselves.
11. Never settle.
read more
Pleased you've persevered and made it to the bottom cause this was kept me up very late one night - Sound on Sound magazine's "Classic Tracks" series providing technical and personal details behind the recording of classic tracks. eg Tricky - "Black Steel", The Undertones - "Teenage Kicks", Aerosmith - "Walk This Way", 10cc - "I'm Not In Love", Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Relax", The Four Tops - "Reach Out I'll Be There" and so on ...
Interplanetary broadband DTE Not as sophisticated as you might expect:, "Curiosity's ability to capture images and other data easily outstrips its capacity to beam it all back home. Nonetheless, it delivers vastly more information from the red planet than any previous mission did. The rover makes use of two separate radio systems. One is dedicated to Direct-to-Earth (DTE) transmissions and uses frequencies of 7-8 gigahertz (GHz). Michael Watkins, mission manager for Curiosity (formally, the Mars Science Laboratory) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explains that this system has extremely low capacity and is designed for receiving (and sometimes acknowledging) terse instructions to carry out a day's tasks. A separate system allows the rover to connect to one of two American satellites in orbit around Mars twice each Martian day, or sol, to relay the scientific data back to Earth. ... " read full post
