Posted on Wednesday, 1 July, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
The Guardian is compiling a database of missing Iranians, those who have been either abducted or killed by the government. It’s a remarkable graphic display of what people who protest their governments can face and also another example of The Guardian’s great use of flash as an actual educational tool.
This format could be used for a number of other campaigns focusing on the disappeared or massacred.
Hundreds, probably thousands, have been arrested in Iran since the presidential election on 12 June. Human rights and campaign groups such as Human Rights Watch, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Reporters Without Borders have been collecting and publishing the names of those dead or detained.
We have brought those lists, and reports from trusted media sources, into a database that we are asking readers and those elsewhere on the internet to contribute too.
DATA: download the full spreadsheet of the dead and detained
• Can you do something with this data?
Flickr: Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on the Flickr group or email it to datastore@guardian.co.uk
— Iran election: faces of the dead and detained @ guardian.co.uk.
Posted on Friday, 26 June, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
According to TweetPsych, I often use twitter to tweet about my various senses, discuss positive sensations and feelings, talk about various cognitive processes like learning, thinking, knowing, etc., talk a lot about jobs and work, and often tweet about the future. My Social behavior rating is much higher than my moral imerative rating. Some people who think like me include drapetomaniac, werner, Phil_Adams, nickflare and renn.
Somewhat of an interesting web toy, but it analyzes your last 1,000 tweets, a number I’m no where close to yet. Still, the concept of analizing people based on their public content has potential. I doesn’t include a narcissism rating, which I guess must just be a given considering you have to be using Twitter in the first place in order for it to work, and thus think you can distill your Wisdom Tooth like insights into 140 characters to the eternal delight of your impending masses of followers.
According to it’s new site profiler, drew3000.net spends a lot of time talking in the present tense (case in point here) and often makes “references to physically upward movement, Like upstairs, climb, etc.” Hardly Freud, but it’s interesting that psychological analysis is entering the automated stage. Once the web really analizes what people are thinking about based on what we all put online, I think we’ll see a Skynet style response, which you could hardly consider unjustified.
Posted on Monday, 2 March, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Online sign generators are fun.
Posted on Sunday, 22 February, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
This is the view of my website according to Wordle.
Posted on Thursday, 12 February, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Most of this was posted over at Teacher Support Network as a resource of free online resources for educators on a tight budget. The post was to go with the usual boo-scary warnings to mark Safer Internet Day, with the idea that along with being careful online, there are all sorts of tools you can use or download and they all aren’t backdoor hacks to steal your ID or send your computer a virus.
While putting it together, it turned out to be more or less a collection of some of my favorite stuff to be found online, so I figured I’d share it here, minus the boiler plate teachersupport.info links to be found on the original. Still, it’s basically written with educators in mind and their potential needs.
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” ‘God’s plan’ is often a front for men’s plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.”