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Crowdsourcing with Django at EuroPython

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The Resource Expert Droid

In a nutshell, RED is a framework for testing HTTP resources; it fetches responses, analyses them, and then based upon the responses it may interact with the resource more to see how it behaves. In this manner, it’s very purposefully encouraging RESTfulness.

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Crowd publishing MPs’ expenses: Diane Abbott exposed

Crowd publishing MPs’ expenses: Diane Abbott exposed

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The web life of an article via zehnuhr

The web life of an article via zehnuhr

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“I’m not a scientist, I’m not a pinball wizard. I don’t see people as little pinballs on a computer, or theorise about space between people. Sometimes the scientists leave out the human factor and it’s because they’re afraid of human behaviour. Afraid of it because they can’t quantify it, they can’t control it, they can’t turn it into a little pinball on a computer and push it through a doorway. And that’s the failure of that side of the research. There is a need for the Keith Stills and so forth. But it can’t be at the expense of human behaviour.”

— Emma Brockes investigates the growing trend of the ‘crowd craze’

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“When we tally these incidents it creates a very frightening picture. In the last two or three years we’ve seen crowd craze incidents on a significant increase. It’s cheap, it’s free marketing, it makes newspaper headlines”

— Emma Brockes investigates the growing trend of the ‘crowd craze’ - Marketing companies are deliberately creating large crowds of people for store openings and the like, leading to deadly crowd control situation where people get injured.

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6 songs of seperation

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I want a shuffle on iTunes or Spotify that works like 6 degrees of seperation.

You pick a track and then the next one is linked, it might be from the same year, be written by the same person or recorded in the same studio. Each track would show the link and some more info, a bit like wiki or discdogs.

What a way to discover new music and have facts for pub quizzes!

You’d need a pretty large library for this to work well, so I guess Spotify or last.fm is the perfect playground oh and you’d need a huge database for all of that linking data. Bit beyond me at the moment tho, anyone fancy building it?

This sounds like the perfect challange for Music Hackday.

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UX London in review

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Zimbabwean newspaper campaign turns worthless banknotes into gold

Zimbabwean newspaper campaign turns worthless banknotes into gold

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Decode Spotify URIs

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Rethink defence, 'declining' UK urged

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The Mobile Challenge

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“It made me think of what Tom Taylor did with some NASA data on Near Earth Objects. He took this data and hooked it to a Twitter feed so that every time a rock passes near earth a Tweet is sent. Imagine if regular data was kept on meteorite Earth impacts? Every time a space rock knocks into the Earth a tweet would be sent with the location (longitude and latitude) and time of impact. You could plug that info into your GPS device and be the first on the scene when a giant robot emerges from a smoldering crater to annihilate the the world with his ray gun. Now wouldn’t that be the ultimate first?”

— A wonderous plan from @random

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Book Review - 'Shop Class as Soulcraft - An Inquiry Into the Value of Work,' by Matthew B. Crawford

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“While print is obviously challenged right now, it can still support a cost structure for things ranging from investigative journalism to high-end fashion photography that is totally out of reach for any online enterprise. And there is still demand: people don’t want to read anything long on the Internet, and photography doesn’t offer the same payoff on the screen as on the page. The Internet is for: immediacy, reference, and social interaction, but it cannot duplicate the user experience print provides.”

— Six Degrees of Peter Feld - Calling BS on this

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