Archive for the ‘Linked data’ Category

Aphorism 19

Posted on 19 March 2010, 4:24 pm, by Public Strategist, under Aphorisms, Linked data.

Data is the plankton of the new economy. It seems plentiful, tiny, and insignificant but whole ecosystems of companies, large and small, are emerging to feed off of it. David Eaves (h/t @martinsw)

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Privacy is social

Posted on 9 October 2009, 9:09 am, by Public Strategist, under Linked data, Social media.

As long as your personal information is secret, you don’t even have a privacy problem. It’s only when somebody else knows your personal information that you have a privacy problem Privacy is the problem you have after you share sensitive information. When you discover that you might have a socially awkward medical condition and you [...]

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Public Strategist revealed in his true colours

Posted on 27 August 2009, 8:50 pm, by Public Strategist, under Linked data.

Or so Personas would like to have you think: Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, [...]

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Raw data now

Posted on 11 June 2009, 8:54 am, by Public Strategist, under Innovation, Linked data.

You hug your data.  You don’t want to let it go until you have made a beautiful web site for it.  Well I want to suggest that, yes make a beautiful website, but first give us the unadulterated data, we want the unadulterated data, we have to ask for raw data now. Tim Berners-Lee’s impassioned [...]

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