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He wants writing to be equal to the chaos and contradiction of the cultural wiki we all contribute and subscribe to, and to be equal as well to the nothingness of nonexistence to which we all are destined.
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World Bank Data
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsThe World Bank has just updated its World Development Indicators. Here’s an embedded data map from the site: Internet users (per 100 people) – 2008 google.load("visualization", "1", {packages: ["geomap"]}); function wb_data_visualization() { new google.visualization.Query("http://datafinder.worldbank.org/map_xml/IT.NET.USER.P2/2008").send(function(response) { var options = {}; options["width"] = 593; options["showLegend"] = true;... -
data visualisation from the Guardian
Posted on March 31, 2009 | No CommentsThe Guardian recently opened up its data for public ‘consumption’ i.e. mashing and visualising. With its own campaign free our data and the government’s urging of local councils to make data public, the initiative marks something of a flagship for open data protection, use and... -
Research ethics and social networking
Posted on May 18, 2008 | No CommentsScience of the Invisible: Research Ethics in the MySpace Era A better analogy for research on social networking Web sites would be research on newspaper personal ads. Similar to a MySpace profile, the information is intended to be available to the public and invites correspondence....