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Video: Seizing the Means of Production. Brian Eno in conversation with Paul Morley http://bit.ly/mmOy9o # Digital Mappers Plot the Future of Maptivism, http://bit.ly/jfxXFJ (via @CrisisMappers) #OSM #ushahidi #geocommons # Where Did Groupon’s Billion Dollars Go? http://allthingsd.com/20110602/where-did-groupons-billion-dollars-go/ # Why Groupon "is a straight-up Ponzi scheme" http://j.mp/jwtYsF (via @newsycombinator) # NetNewsWire + Black Pixel: http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/netnewswire_black_pixel (via @brentsimmons) […]

Nick Carr on The wisdom of statistically manipulated crowds http://bit.ly/iFVXNl # Understanding statistics: "Behind the numbers: revealing a better story" http://t.co/9yQSOke event @eventbrite (via @paulbradshaw) # How many privacy injunctions are there? Table by @JTownend showing 2010/11 @inforrm http://bit.ly/lqvzZF More here>> http://bit.ly/iew9m4 #

New @opencorporates "Corporate Groupings", a way to link corporations to Wikipedia entries http://bit.ly/j5iWyg #opendata (via @DataGovUK) # CQC statement on Panorama’s investigation http://bit.ly/lnBfEy #CQC # ACTA is finalised and ready for signing, says Japan http://bit.ly/miWClJ (via @outlawnews) #ACTA # Write-up of #hackshackersbhx by @negredo: Open-web ideas for #MoJo News Innovation http://goo.gl/S4QLB (via @paulbradshaw) # FT: […]

Per capita donation to sub-Saharan Africa http://one.org/data/en/data/oda-global-pc/#2010 # Stamen labs data visualisation of G8 and EU spending commitments to Africa http://bit.ly/k3eDmu #visualisation # 180 images documenting the installation setup @V_and_A: http://v.gd/DysCIh #paper #lasercut #projection (via @toxi) <watch the slideshow #

In other news, worst ever carbon emissions leave climate on the brink http://bit.ly/iZ4VXl # Guardian: It's fight or flight for Twitter http://bit.ly/m5Q1HN by @charlesarthur # Richard Posner on the social-networking bubble http://bit.ly/k2iBkJ (via @evgenymorozov) # Twitter unmasks anonymous British user in landmark legal battle http://bit.ly/lHPqhL <libel action by South Tyneside council #

Monday Note: 'Twitter will increasingly be a one-to-a-few medium, with a small base of hard-core users' http://bit.ly/jVHt7f #

"Homelessness in the Age of Bloomberg." Steven Boone, @CapitalNewYork http://t.co/EWCA7Lt v. @gillianmae #longreads (via @longreads) # #Longreads is becoming more social. Sustainable? http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/05/making-longreads-more-social-on-the-web-and-in-the-store/ # 'Navigating the Challenges of Lay Involvement in Technically Complex Participatory Science Projects' http://bit.ly/mCDHOY a $41 read # Bobbie Johnson piece on open science http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/22/open-science-shared-research-internet #openscience # Survival Glossary for Digital Journalists […]

Ostrom's Nobel speech on governing the commons http://permaculture.tv/elinor-ostrom-delivers-her-nobel-prize-lecture/ (via @hrheingold) # NHS failing in basic care of some elderly patients, warns watchdog http://bit.ly/kHU7jt # Tweetdeck aquisition 'paying $40m for a zero-revenue feature that uses your own platform' http://bit.ly/j3vCLL #bubble # Welcome back @josswinn # OECD better life index has surface interaction, not much explanation. Text […]

Create your better life index. http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ OECD stats #visualisation # Los Angeles On Track for a Million Food Stamp Users http://bit.ly/mpC5K4 # Here's a link to a pdf of a data journalism handbook http://bit.ly/jPRmoF #newsrw (via @newsrewired) # Scidev: Local knowledge 'can corroborate climate data' http://www.scidev.net/en/news/local-knowledge-can-corroborate-climate-data–1.html #

ICO now consulting on new information rights strategy to replace #FOI and DP strategies http://bit.ly/7Blrt7 (via @CampaignFoI @ICOnews) #