Category Archives: Soupmix

LSE: Poor Economics Global Poverty lecture on Mixcloud http://i.mixcloud.com/C34sE # Mixcloud iPhone Beta app http://www.mixcloud.com/iphone/ #

Health in the Headlines http://www.europeanhealthjournalism.com/ health #journalism conference at Coventry University 23-24 June # Mapnificent London http://www.mapnificent.net/london/ #tfl data, google or #OSM mapping, #okfn developer 🙂 # Mapnificent: a time based transit map for public transport http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/06/mapnificent #mapping #transit # I Paid a Bribe http://ipaidabribe.com/ on BBCR4 20.00 tonight # Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking […]

OpenStreetMap Video Competition: win a free trip to State of the Map in Denver http://bit.ly/mb11ry #OSM cc @mappamercia # "MIT's goal: Reach 1 billion with open courseware" http://zite.to/mvHws6 / 94% of MIT students have accessed OCW (via @deburca) #

Sowing Seeds aims to catalog the unique varieties of locally adapted veg grown in UK allotments http://t.co/jUJaZGp (via @LouiseDowne) # Video: PlayPhilly launches balloon in Philadelphia to observe public space usage patterns http://bit.ly/kPkRwV #mapping # Grassroots Mapping awarded Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica. Mapping with *balloons* http://grassrootsmapping.org/ #mapping #

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 #