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Orange, the UK phone company, is sponsoring an Internet Balloon Race scheduled to kick off tomorrow at noon.  It’s a whole new take on website navigation, with a little adventure racing thrown in.  Every page of the course has two “exits” to choose from, and each site is the equivalent of one internet mile.  The [...]

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Al Gore is neither the first, nor the last unsuspecting citizen to have his inconvenient truths rendered public information.  Here’s some co-rendered embarrassment for your entertainment;

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

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Stranger things have probably happened, but McDonald’s, of all corporate entities, has actually elevated the status of the blogger in the professional hierarchy.  (In stark contrast to the AP’s best efforts to prevent bloggers from re-publishing excerpts from their articles).
While internal employee social network sites to promote “ownership” are nothing new, Station M made good [...]

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The electoral process is always contentious, and of late, so has the electoral system itself.  The Open Voting Consortium hopes to put all the talk of super-delegates named Chad to rest by applying the principles of Open Source to electoral software;
Though the United States has made a wholesale switch to electronic voting machines in the [...]

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It was a newsworthy event for ambitious developers everywhere when Apple opened up the iPhone API last fall. So maybe this equally ambitious “iWish” list from Portfolio stands a chance after all - if the open source model can defy the laws of physics that is.
Our favorite fantasy feature for the iPhone is probably the [...]

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Traditional print newspapers are basically a form of ad-supported content, suitable for lining birdcages. While many titles have tried to transition to the Web using this same model, they have done so unsuccessfully - the consensus apparently being that online advertisements aren’t worth the investment, because ads just aren’t as effective online. Whether [...]

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SpotCrime (beta) is the most comprehensive online source of crime information.  It is slightly unsettling that a glorified Google crime map is a better resource than say, the National Sex Offender Registry.  By the same token, such a state of affairs does speak to the effectiveness and efficiency of co-rendered crime watching and reporting, particularly [...]

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Social networks are largely feud-al societies, in the sense that they facilitate a good deal of communal fighting. BuzzMachine describes the eco-system which backs all this healthy debate as a feudal society of lords, vassals and fiefs;
“So Glam is a content network. But they don’t create all the content. They curate it. So [...]

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” The ever wonderful John Resig finally posted his totally awesome processing.js code to the web.”
To merit such total awesomeness, this latest instance of transparency for the greater good (via Christopher Blizzard) has done much more than merely reinforce the superiority of the open platform approach to innovation, and improvement. It has also [...]

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Since the end of the Cold War, high profile chess matches had seemingly gone the way of communism.  Democracy via checkmate has evolved to the next level with CrowdChess.  (The Wisdom of Crowds has now officially spawned more spin-offs than All in the Family).
TechCrunch provided some surprisingly critical commentary on how the CrowdChess collective will [...]

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