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#Wikileaks & internet freedom http://technosociology.org/?p=231 @techsoc draft #pdfleaks talk # Detroit's Urban Farms Could Provide a Majority of Produce for Local Residents http://bit.ly/dQ9Jjv # Detroit has 40% vacant land: map http://bit.ly/hxK0vP # Wikileaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax @techsoc in Atlantic http://bit.ly/gjVmtT #

12 days of Mozart on BBC R3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ # Hans Rosling's BBC programme The Joy of Stats available worldwide http://bit.ly/hlcL17 # EFF: 2010 Trend Watch Update: Web Browser Privacy http://bit.ly/ewKScD #

RT @infobeautiful New! Debtris – http://bit.ly/f2GjCb Our first #infographic #video / includes a UK version (via @deburca) # Glen Greenwald responds to Wired http://bit.ly/fcVM2x #wikileaks # Iraq Body Count 2010: how many died and who was responsible? http://gu.com/p/2m588/tf (via @datastore) # Wired response to Greenwald piece on Lamo-Manning http://bit.ly/hv2esV #wikileaks #

Wired has important evidence in the Wikileaks case http://jr.ly/ufn9 So why can't we see it? (via @jayrosen_nyu) # US: 50m without health insurance, mostly working families. The Uninsured: A Primer http://bit.ly/hJ4IOC (via @resourceshelf) # Scraping PDFs 26% less unpleasant with Scraperwicki http://bit.ly/gCYYPi (via @frabcus) # Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography – The Ruins of […]

"It’s a thing that you do, and the status of “journalist” is just something you get from doing enough of it." http://bit.ly/fzTpoc # John Naughton on Net Neutrality & FCC ruling http://bit.ly/hik8OG (via @jjn1) # Dotspotting from Stamen: visualising city data http://bit.ly/fdsGP3 # Year in Review 2010: Humanitarian Design http://www.good.is/post/humanitarian-design-the-2010-year-in-review/ # Sunday Times Rich List […]

free all #music #radio on #itunes or #shoutcast > http://bit.ly/hQP0fs > 1 in 10 plays indie – FIVE DAY no-repeat! (via @rootdownfm) # SF Film Commission Opens Data Trove to App Developers http://bit.ly/h2HE26 #opendata #opengov #movies (via @adrielhampton) #

US Federal Debt and Interest Costs http://bit.ly/gIJIxx 62% of GDP (via @resourceshelf) # Incognito is a Safari extension that prevents Google and Facebook from following you on the web http://bit.ly/cIYbBD # Tim Berners-Lee on difference between Wikileaks data and open govt data http://ow.ly/3tLDt #wikileaks #opendata (via @martinjemoore) # Opera extensions explain the #privacy of each […]

Visual data #journalism Get your topics mapped – thematicmapping.org: http://ht.ly/3tqfq #media (via @StKonrath) # A shift from raw data to information made available by API's like @scraperwiki says @jenny8lee http://bit.ly/gOBeOK (via @amcguire62) # "Americans now owe more on their student loans than they do on their credit cards": http://on.msnbc.com/hx5ZMQ (via @tom_watson) #

WSJ investigation: Your Apps Are Watching You http://on.wsj.com/e8PPLB # Good news: Proposed 'morality check' for access to French gov data not adopted into law http://bit.ly/gOZGpa (via @epsiplatform) # John Humphrys interviews Julian #Assange about sexual assault allegations and #Wikileaks listen http://bbc.in/gTXeJV (via @BBCRadio4) # Apple removes @wikileaksapp from app store http://tcrn.ch/dROKVq #wikileaks #

OpenCorporates: why we're crying out for this database of companies http://gu.com/p/2mxx5/tf (via @datastore) #opencorporates # Great tutorial on how to use @opencorporates to match companies in Google refine http://vimeo.com/17924204 #opendata # . @OpenCorporates now live. http://OpenCorporates.com #opendata Feedback & RTs welcome (via @CountCulture) # 'hacking education' conference at @bebettr during BETT week in London 14th […]