Archipelago | URBAGRAM "The City as Social Archipelago is a visualisation & analysis of activity across three cities on the Foursquare social network." Taken from scraped foursquare data. Not particularly inspiring or useful visualisations but the process is interesting. (tags: data foursquare maps social urban visualisation geoweb [...]

Age/profession targeted Digital Identity workbooks A set of workbooks targeted at specific age groups and professions, excerpt: "Your Digital Identity is everything you create on the Web, but also what other people might say about you there. Photographs on social networking sites, logs of chatroom conversations, newspaper articles about your role in a play, [...]

We should all be using free software | Thomas Barfield | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk "Making source codes available would safeguard users from infringements on their freedoms and prevent monopolies" (tags: foss opensource software business computing) Bye-Bye Seymour: Like Any Sensible Narcissist, I'm Locking My Twitter … [...]

Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » When Not To Use Doorknobs "A familiar challenge is to translate the seemingly unyielding demand to put a specific technology into something because it is expected, or because the name of the technology is the new great thing. It doesn’t matter what it is in particular — [...]