December 2011
208 posts
2011 Gov 2.0 year in review →
Sections Three dominant tech policy issues
A meme goes mainstream
Gov 2.0 goes local
Rise of the civic startups
Emerging civic media
Open source in government
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Gov 2.0 year in review: A look at the Gov 2.0... →
T-shirt computers? A team of material scientists... →
At 28C3: a lecture on the rise of printer malware.... →
A look at the Gov 2.0 themes, moments and... →
A wiki for problems formulations and solvers that... →
Hadoop 1.0.0 release notes, including new... →
What would you like policy-makers to know about... →
Computer programmers roll their eyes when they hear about anti-circumvention bans, SOPA, Pakistani disruption of the DNS to carry out censorship, and similar incursions of government…
What would you like policy makers to know about... →
Join an online organized read-through of "Gödel,... →
ZDNet's Ed Bott on how the Android business model... →
A transcript from a WTIA TechNW panel in which Valve co-founder Gabe Newell talks on modern economics of video games http://t.co/QcviI142
A transcript from a WTIA TechNW panel in which... →
Cory Doctorow's talk at the 28C3: "The coming... →
Twitter's open-source JavaScript templating... →
Under development: Esprima is an educational... →
Five things we learned about publishing in 2011... →
An open-source Linux filesystem that stores its... →
Terrier IR is an open-source text search engine... →
Strong sales of ereaders intensify the tug of war between libraries and publishers http://t.co/BZm6Ugxi
Strong sales of ereaders intensify the tug of war... →
Researchers with the ATLAS detector have announced... →
Open Question: Is it realistic for publishers to... →
"'Anonymous' Hackers Target US Security Think... →
Could Bezos step into Jobs' shoes? "Amazon isn’t... →
The year in big data and data science →
Big data and data science have both been with us for a while. According to McKinsey & Company’s May 2011 report on big data, back in 2009 “nearly all sectors in the U.S. economy had at least an…
Have writer's block? This iPad app forces you to... →
Playtomic game analytics APIs offer real-time tracking and analysis of player behavior http://t.co/gpX7pCkF
Playtomic game analytics APIs offer real-time... →
The year in big data and data science: Hadoop,... →
A toolkit for deployable probabilistic modeling,... →
An excellent web mining module for the Python... →
Publishing News: The 99-cent problem, geeks join the battle against SOPA, and the future of storytelling arrives http://t.co/cyBXHDzL
Publishing News: The 99-cent problem →
Here are a few stories that caught my eye in the publishing space this week. The concern of 99 cents Author Melissa Foster took a look this week at the 99-cent price debate,…
Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs - and it works with real-time data http://t.co/gKyGF71b
Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit for creating... →
As they promised, LinkedIn's IndexTank is now open... →
Publishing News: The 99-cent problem, geeks join... →
Waffles is a collection of command-line tools for... →
See images as a colorblind person would with this... →
"Is #HTML5 one of the keys to publishing's future?... →
The best data visualizations of 2011, as selected... →
"2012 will be the year of data"-@webbmedia at... →
Our Developer Year in Review is live:... →
Before you make that last-minute Kindle Fire or... →
SAVE 50% - Master Your New Device. Special #ebook... →
Our next @StrataConf, "Towards the Quantified... →
Isarithmic Maps http://t.co/hbVtBZYI " an... →