Author Archives: take21

"The disposable academic" http://t.co/23eGi9pV – Economist on PHDs (via @deburca) 'critics compare research doctorates to Ponzi schemes.' #

London Green Hackathon 28-29 Jan with @amee http://t.co/Vq167S5s #opendata # AMEE environmental data service is going Freemium from 1st Jan http://t.co/a9HyhDuQ (via @frabcus) # Magazine: Current #trends in #US #documentary #filmmaking http://t.co/lbtRXcLz (via @ejcnet) #

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. @Lessig's talk How money corrupts Congress. A must watch http://t.co/YbgIbhSc (via @ahndymac) # The Parliamentary Accounts Committee report on HMRC: the press release in full http://t.co/4lWFikh7 (via @RichardJMurphy) # Financial institutions check your social media profile to identify your credit risk http://t.co/VZW4W6v1 (via @Liberationtech) # Phone-Hacking Inquiry Eyes Science Journalism http://t.co/MYyXz45q by @CBrainard at […]

Exercise labels lower consumption of unhealthy foods. Neat hack. http://t.co/uO93uk58 (via @wilbanks) # MIT launches online learning initiative http://t.co/RllMmqxL 'MITx' (via @josiefraser) #

Favorite Neil Postman quote “What is the problem,” I asked, “to which electric windows are the answer?” http://t.co/Tdpdyxjv # Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" was helpful when I started teaching http://t.co/W4MUpma4 via @robreich @hrheingold <still is # US government admits Iraq and Afghan war logs could not have ever compromised key US sources http://t.co/sTnL9fid […]

Winter issue of @NiemanReports, exploring the future of books http://t.co/dtZoIwNX (via @NiemanLab) # Bookmarking: Guardian switches to @pinboard http://t.co/dLDWLLIf # Summary of the disputed Finnish open geodata release http://t.co/qLJXwvGM #opendata (via @DirDigEng @pe3) # The Freakonomics phenomenon is fun, popular — and full of avoidable errors, says @AmSciMag: http://t.co/OBcR6CQ0 (via @IfYouOnly) # . @nigel_shadbolt: time […]

Post-event material from the world's biggest #opendata event, #ogdcamp 2011, is now online: http://t.co/gtEhn8LT (via @jwyg) # War in Iraq: the cost in American lives and dollars http://t.co/15O4D1xz (via @datastore) < and http://t.co/0vkhHyIl # How can Charities benefit from using and providing Open Data? h/t @stevieflow http://t.co/x09Bdltw # Rare Getgood Guide post, Cardiff calling – […]

Bank of England paper 12 The future of international capital flows http://t.co/Zd9ubvwl # Larry Elliott on Eurozone crisis, Bretton Woods and reintroducing capital controls http://t.co/4fTrXW7Y # Europe’s blind march forward to depression http://t.co/RDubSldv # Le Monde diplomatique; Greece in chaos http://t.co/QfgJtNo9 # Data journalism talk from @propublica at the News World Summit http://t.co/YtSkZSNh via @ddjournalism […]

Guardian: Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister http://t.co/mooFNLzJ (via @arfon @alokjha) # Mozilla Foundation: Learning Freedom and the Web. Get the book http://t.co/9hEp1Z2D # Excellent! : @adrianshort has joined @OpenlyLocal team to help with @planningalert integration (via @philipjohn) # Blog: Government Digital Service is Open for Business http://t.co/jRnRVQO4 (via […]