Pipes Output http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:47:06 -0800 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://uk.asiancorrespondent.com/gavin-atkins-shadowlands/climate-science-the-quiz.htm #1120593115.txt -- Phil Jones: "What an idiot. The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." -- #933255789.txt: Adam Markham: "...[WWF Austrailia] would like to see the section on variability and extreme events beefed up if possible. They regard an increased likelihood of even 50% of drought or extreme weather as a significant risk. Drought is also a particularly importnat issue for Australia, as are tropical storms. I guess the bottom line is that if they are going to go with a big public splash on this they need something that will get good support from CSIRO scientists (who will certainly be asked to comment by the press)." -- #1237496573.txt: Ben Santer: "If the RMS is going to require authors to make ALL data available - raw data PLUS results from all intermediate calculations - I will not submit any further papers to RMS journals." Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_d3c236e946eeaeee3323f4aebaa6cc6f Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:02:32 -0800 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/22/cru-emails-may-be-open-to-interpretation-but-commented-code-by-the-programmer-tells-the-real-story/ <code> // Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures.</code> ... "corrected" ... 'You can claim an email you wrote years ago isn’t accurate saying it was “taken out of context”, but a programmer making notes in the code does so that he/she can document what the code is actually doing at that stage, so that anyone who looks at it later can figure out why this function doesn’t plot past 1960. In this case, it is not allowing all of the temperature data to be plotted. Growing season data (summer months when the new tree rings are formed) past 1960 is thrown out because “these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures”, which implies some post processing routine. Spin that...' -- So, how do you like living in a programmed pseudo-reality? Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_dc18d5c6147572f42e160e9769d74e40 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:08:12 -0800 http://www.thisisplot.com/ Jewellery shaped from market data -- 'This collection celebrates the humble data behind mighty economies: commodity prices. Gold, Silver, Lead & Oil prices are lifted from the financial pages and transformed into wearable art.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_e0a3d2541269e5e253e1ff6411adee78 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:08:18 -0800 http://marginal-utility.blogspot.com/2009/11/technologies-narratives-of-self.html '...digitalization makes the reproduction of the permanently insecure self more integral to the reproduction of consumerist social relations. The capacities and networks of the internet permit an archived self that becomes a subject's most important piece of property ... "reputational capital," the sum total of connections and actions produced within the social space online. This self subsists on postitive affirmation and metrics that establish the visiblity of its activities online. Being is transformed into "presence," which can be measured and ranked ...a self will need to be grounded in commercialized, corporatized discourse before we apprehend it ...narratives of subjectivity are even more impoverished by the restricted classifications of digital data possible within these platforms. The self we are compelled to produce online is smaller, with less potential for growth and less curiosity, the more we produce it and add to the archive that will dictate our future choices.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_ca7d611e46b54d97ed1cd9064f0cb779 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:57:55 -0800 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8327607.stm 'It follows some cases of members receiving updates about dead friends. If a user is reported as deceased, Facebook will remove sensitive information such as status updates and contacts. When reporting a death, users must offer "proof" by submitting either an obituary or news article. Memorialised accounts will have new privacy settings so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. "We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialised."' -- Proof. Is fb becoming a global Births, Marriages and Deaths database? Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_29f7d4f041cf87b07c9d333e9cef1ae9 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:06:05 -0700 http://www.tnr.com/print/article/books-and-arts/against-transparency 'This is the problem of attention-span. To understand something—an essay, an argument, a proof of innocence—requires a certain amount of attention. But on many issues, the average, or even rational, amount of attention given to understand many of these correlations, and their defamatory implications, is almost always less than the amount of time required. The result is a systemic misunderstanding—at least if the story is reported in a context, or in a manner, that does not neutralize such misunderstanding. The listing and correlating of data hardly qualifies as such a context. Understanding how and why some stories will be understood, or not understood, provides the key to grasping what is wrong with the tyranny of transparency. The public is too smart to waste its time focusing on matters that are not important for it to understand. The ignorance here is rational, not pathological.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_0af4f87a57fbb1a815e48ad46b1ed834 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:21:11 -0700 http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/the-kind-of-program-a-city-is-2/ 'In the networked city, the truly pressing need is for translators: people capable of opening these occult systems up, demystifying them, explaining their implications to the people whose neighborhoods and choices and very lives are increasingly conditioned by them. This will be a primary occupation for urbanists and technologists both, for the foreseeable future, as will ensuring that the public’s right to benefit from the data they themselves generate is recognized in law. If we’re reaching the point where it makes sense to consider the city as a fabric of addressable, queryable, even scriptable objects and surfaces – to reimagine its pavements, building façades and parking meters as network resources – this raises an order of questions never before confronted, ethical as much as practical: who has the right of access to these resources, or the ability to set their permissions?' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_6988daca3f27677c0cd32f4c063a4af3 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:29:17 -0700 http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=614 'When we deal with this condition of outformation, we concern ourselves with rates, flow, vector, flux, and its messaging types [unicast, multicast, broadcast, or anycast]. We deal with paths, closeness, link, connectivity, signaling, entropy, self-similarity, throughput, and latency. It doesn't matter what the content is. Rather, the critical standpoint deals with its entropy, its signaling, its rate, flux density and messaging type. -- The requirement for citizen-actors on reality television reflects not nearly the need for such vocations of entertainment, rather, it is the construct of computer networks and software algorithm attempting and stuggling to learn to mimic the bizarre banality of a society dwelling in the afterburn of failed capitalism. It is not staged idiocy, it is pre-school for the machine screens comprehensively looping the simulation of the western debt class.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_c2d23fddba62acf416dd8e5fa549a50c Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:38:58 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVhWqwnZ1eM 'Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world...' -- Health is wealth. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_654f8ffa473d0f4824390330ce49484e Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:26:02 -0700 http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24733 '“It’s about filling the pipe with meaning.” "The data becomes the hub for other experiences," he added. "The IP sits on the data model and the community a data hub for entertainment moving forward. The game becomes a tool set for creativity." Says Wright. So to Wright the challenge for the future is reaching and entertaining the new world, literally. To Wright, the world has not moved from hierarchical to flat, but from hierarchical to interconnected. "More and more I have to think of entertaining the hive mind," says Wright.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_e0d87f903f794c7b9850769f0cf6cae4 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:15:14 -0700 http://legacylocker.com/ 'Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your vital digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of loss, death, or disability. -- Legacy Locker helps you pass your precious accounts safely and easily to your spouse, children, friends, or other family. You can assign any digital asset to any beneficiary you want, and know that your content will end up in the right hands. Plus, Legacy Letters let you send a special, easily editable message to anyone you know and care about.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_c23f20bc5c3310e8b304d0ee830ac5f0 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:01:53 -0700 http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=4290 '... it will become more and more common to need to take care of someone’s online affairs when they pass. How do you close out their email accounts, their forum accounts, Facebook, MySpace, IM, etc etc? In short, what do you do will all this stuff? In some cases you can just abandon it - there’s certainly no shortage of that sort of behavior from the net users who are still alive - but I have a sense that it might be unwise to leave accounts floating around out there for years when the owner is gone, particularly if those accounts might contain personal information. The trouble is that there aren’t any customs or traditions for stuff like this yet. Below are some of my thoughts on handling someone’s online affairs.' -- How interesting. There needs to be a 'Upon my death I hereby bequeath my online content to the digital commons' thing as an extension to archive.org Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_240069dedc8903aced5e29e9608d62d3 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:55:41 -0700 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/evolution_revolution_visualizing_millions_iran_tweets.php '...how can a data stream be turned into real-time action, reaching the people who need it, when they need it, and in a form they can easily digest? At the most abstract level, history and computation are the same thing: the evolution of systems over time. Twitter has several remarkable properties that allow us to finally leverage this correspondence in tangible ways. The simplicity of its data, the openness of its system, and its extreme time resolution make it possible for us to detect atoms of history, those moments when something is triggered and society is reconfigured ever so slightly. Simply tracking the volume of various phrases gives us a sense of what is happening on the street, literally and figuratively. But that signal is but a shadow of a far more complex and intricate reality, an interwoven web of individuals and actions. -- Disruptive events lead to information elites.' Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_1f072ab99138e446a0f8894d20491081 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:09:18 -0700 http://no-mans-blog.com/2009/08/05/the-problems-with-social-media-monitoring-technologies/ 'They suck. #1. ...it will pick up any header, ad sense or footer mentions of your keywords even if it’s in the totally irrelevant context. If your brand name is pretty generic you are in deep sh*t. Hours of configuration and exclusions awaiting you. #5. Influence analysis is flawed. Well, the concept of influenced is flawed so of course technologies of measuring it are flawed as well. Similar to sentiment, the technology is just not as clever as they want you to believe. It is based either on bogus metrics or just irrelevant, obsolete ranks. -- In essence it’s like paying a market research firm for 10000 people’s survey results + 300 focus groups transcripts + 687 depth interviews and what you get is just the raw data with 30% of it irrelevant/spam you actually never asked for. Now you have to invest a lot of time in sorting out the data, analysing and interpreting everything you have.' -- Bugger. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_46bbe9407e829bd76f40af2bb3804370 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:48:53 -0700 http://www.scoutlabs.com/2009/02/26/how-does-sentiment-work-and-how-accurate-is-it-anyway/ 'The sentiment feature in the Scout Labs application is the ability for the machine to judge whether or not the author of a story is expressing a positive or negative attitude towards a specific word or phrase. -- #The Scout Labs sentiment feature sucks at detecting irony and sarcasm. Posts that are heavy on the irony often end up classed as “neutral” because the machine can’t even guess. Consider “Another winner from the almighty Microsoft.” That’s a tough one. -- We have heard over and over again from our users that an affordable, reliable way to assess sentiment, with user override built in, is critical to getting insight into social media, so we continue to work on this feature.' -- Tweakable Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_f9213390578776263e2ac707167230ec Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:56:08 -0700 http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/06/01/the-manhattan-project/ In Wave-ese, robots are Trackers. And in Track-ese, sharing those gestures is a monetization engine of unparalleled efficiency and value creation. Instead of thinking of your value as being generated by what you say or type, think of it as a stream of content, context, impressions, lack of gestures, and other high value information that those who’ve learned enough about you value access to that stream. Add the cumulative streams of the overlapping clouds emanating from your center — the ripples of those you follow and those that follow those you follow — and you have the next generation of discovery, a meta-search. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_73d32fcd71a7db5d0350e128ba60122e Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:49:52 -0700 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/17/jump-into-the-stream/ This isn’t an inbox we have to empty, or a page we have to get to the bottom of — its a flow of data that we can dip into at will but we can’t attempt to gain an all encompassing view of it. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_7f4ebb265702da02004d6469fd9f3839 Sun, 17 May 2009 08:28:47 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/10ping.html?_r=1 “Using data is fundamental to what we do,” Mr. Bowman said. “But we take all that with a grain of salt. Anytime you make design changes, the most vocal people are the ones who dislike what you’ve done. We don’t just throw the numbers in a spreadsheet.” Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_2d2145318c710f2d3125a58b83d63ec1 Mon, 11 May 2009 11:32:16 -0700 http://dataspora.com/blog/dataviz-sf-salon-no/ Moreover, a data visualization’s model is predictive: it presents a hypothesis about how observable data points were generated, and implies predictions about future, as-yet-unobserved data. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_5126abce7682c5eb2d5ccd62326a2621 Sat, 09 May 2009 15:19:22 -0700 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7985339.stm The data stored does not include the content of e-mails or a recording of a net phone call, but is used to determine connections between individuals. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_a0e86b6446893b67dad0c7edcc4736f6 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:21:58 -0700 http://www.mediacloud.org/ Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon. You can read more background on the project or just get started below. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_74491bebf33a5151a38064aa4b69f533 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:01:28 -0700 http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10201160-2.html Overall, however, I find Google's approach to design refreshing and radical in its own way. Choosing color shades and pixel widths on the basis of the behavior of millions of Web page users is a fascinating development to the form-follows-function school of design. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_df3bc834143638200ca2f7c47fc06a20 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:11:51 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform The Guardian today launched Open Platform, a service that will allow partners to reuse guardian.co.uk content and data for free and weave it "into the fabric of the internet". Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_862b8ea07e5f4de67fc2a7d7011c01e8 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:43:20 -0700 http://winningbysharing.typepad.com/oaxaca/2009/03/a-model-for-selffunding-health-care.html We propose that it is economically viable for the UK's National Health Service (NHS) to become a self-funding entity by selling patient healthcare data to a wide variety of industry actors. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_7a0225bf66a6c87a5e7230e42e3ec093 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:17:00 -0800 http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/12/the_open_stack.html The "Open Stack" refers to a set of technologies that work together to make it easier for web developers and users to manage access to user data across the Web. The Open Stack looks like this: Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_8be0ea47877f4b4f84de036bac0f549a Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:10:14 -0800 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37403547074&ref=nf War Games ... Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_4504f1a91f97146d059cd830040acef1 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:00:45 -0800 http://liako.biz/2008/11/you-dont-nor-need-to-own-your-data/ So who owns “your data”? Not you. Or the other guy. Or the government, and the MicroGooHoo corporate monolith. Actually, no one does. And if they do, it doesn’t matter. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_70bfceec32ed4ddbc81ceb330a756112 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:10:33 -0800 http://bitgain.com/blog/permlink/26-can-google-predict-the-future-by-measuring-emoticons-in-data-traffic- tracking emotional data Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_1bb0d680c7ff5cf4b7bd16b487f11b60 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:59:56 -0700 http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?action=vmi&id=1207507&authToken=CmJ1&authType=name&trk=ppro_viewmore&lnk=vw_pprofile I track 10,518 RSS feeds, 1,703 YouTube subscriptions, 683 Twitter profiles, 642 MySpace groups, 5,374 del.icio.us bookmarks, 299 Facebook groups, 1,429 MyBlogLog communities, 1,208 LiveJournal communities and many other sources. Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_da521a71cae2f76e1d6122a8c0a13416 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:58:57 -0700 http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS Sh8gP5993BGdcbBOzKky6g_c7e77a0481067090c24fb2d6ac12c3af Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:02:52 -0700