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Very Important Effort From the Political Data Front
Very promising and important development in the political big data space: Meet the former Microsoft employee who wants to liberate liberal data.
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Here’s why the democratization of big data really, really should excite you....
Tim Chambers:Good read… Originally posted on Gigaom: If you aren’t thrilled about the ability to quickly query huge datasets about whatever questions strike your fancy, please listen to this podcast....
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Apple, Healthkit and Developers
Good this was very much the correct thing for Apple to do. Handled correctly and securely, this trove of health data could be of a huge benefit to both individuals and health care systems…
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I’ll never see (or use) the phrase “future proof” ever again…
…Without this image going through my head…
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“New Voter Guide Follows the Money”
Cool: very worthwhile effort here: “Can information about which candidates people give money to produce a better voter guide? One problem with voter guides, despite their worthy intentions and the...
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With Named Data Networking, a group of researchers promise a future without...
Tim Chambers:A fascinating idea: turning DNS into in essence a “bittortent” like serverless and IP-free network. Every device and computer on the Internet just peers, and nodes. Will be curious to see...
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New “Subatomic Unit” of News
This rings very true to me: “Wearables could make the ‘glance’ a new subatomic unit of news I misjudged — I didn’t think nearly radically enough. The quick-hit stream of Twitter or the Facebook News...
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Microsoft Launches Prediction Research Site
I’ve always been a fan of efforts at prediction markets, a space I’ve always thought had plenty of room for innovation. Here is a new project launched today experiments with non-probability polling and...
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Internet, You aren’t Helping: How Bad Data Spreads Faster than Good
Fascinating new tool that tracks how rumors and misinformation and unverified claims spread faster than solid, sourced data online…
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3.1 million people have already voted in the 2014 midterm election…
Amazing and heartening how quickly early voting is rolling out, and being used. Details on the vote so far here.
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NYC unveils its pay phone Wi-Fi plan, promising 10,000 hotspots
Tim Chambers:Love this. More please, Mayors and City Councils…. Originally posted on Gigaom: After two years of trials and planning, New York City is finally ready to move forward on its plan to turn...
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Good Summary of New Apple Watch Details
If you are looking for a quick readable summary of the latest developer information for building apps for the Apple Watch, here is a great one.
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Some great thoughts on how to surface more trustworthy news online…
Great thoughts by Craig Newmark, on some ways online platforms can encourage and reward trustworthy journalism. Especially worth noting his featuring the Trust Project, and Jeff Jarvis’s related...
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The Next Stage in the Digital “Identity Wars.”
I’ve been following what is been called the “Identity Wars” for a long time. Here is a post of mine from a few years back on this exact topic. In essence it’s the same space it was then, with Google...
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NY Times Open Sources “The Hive” a Platform for Crowdsourcing News and Info
Looks pretty cool, and props to the NY Times for open sourcing this platform, called “The Hive.” “We were intrigued by the idea of designing a service that defined the pieces of a crowdsourcing process...
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