Chutzpah (play /ˈhʊtspə/) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad, but it is generally used positively. The Yiddish word derives from the Hebrew word ḥuṣpâ (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "audacity". The modern English usage of the word has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television. The word has also been able to be interpreted as meaning the amount of spunk or ability that an individual has.

Nokia Maps lijkt in grote lijnen erg op Google Maps: je kunt zoeken naar locaties, jezelf met GPS terugvinden en een route tussen twee plekken plannen met de auto of te voet. Het moet ook mogelijk zijn om een reis met het openbaar vervoer uit te stippelen, maar bij gebruik meldt Nokia Maps dat de functie niet beschikbaar is.

Maar Nokia Maps heeft ook een aantal dingen van zichzelf. Zo is er een favorietenlijst waar je locaties in kunt zetten, zodat je ze makkelijk terugvindt. Interessanter is de lokale opslagfunctie: ga je naar een plek met een slechte dataverbinding, dan kun je vooraf via Wi-Fi de kaart opslaan op je iPhone. Helemaal zonder limieten is deze functie alleen niet: je kunt hooguit een aantal MB aan kaartinformatie opslaan, genoeg om bijvoorbeeld de binnenstad van Leiden mee in kaart te brengen.

Om Nokia Maps te gebruiken ga je naar m.maps.nokia.com in je mobiele browser.

Bartsidee Repository houses a lot of apps that needs maintenance, also a boxee repository needs lots of bandwidth. (boxee downloads a single app, 1 to 3 mb, on regular interval to keep it up to date) I have noticed that regular donations do not seem to cover my costs and time I’ve spent into this. Because of this my personal repository (creative playground) is now blocked by default and it is required to make a donation before you can access it.

You can make a single donation, but as I do not want this commercialized in any way and keep it easy accessible for everybody, you can also make a symbolical donation on a monthly basis of $1. (actually $0.33 is paypal fee) This allows me to pay my hosting bills and buy me some soda while I give support to the apps in my spare time.

Back-Up
OpenPhoto is the digital equivalent of shoe-boxes filled with photos. Except they're backed up to make sure you never lose them.

Portability
Whatever you want to do or wherever you want to go, your photos are free to go with you.

Free and Open Source
OpenPhoto is an open source project and will always remain free. Find us on Github.

Managing windows on Mac OS X can be frustrating, requiring precision control of your mouse or trackpad for clicking, dragging, pushing and pulling your windows to the size and position you desire. Even with all this work, it’s very difficult to get windows exactly where you want them, so most of the time windows are left scattered all over the screen. The solution? Divvy.

Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently "divvy up" your screen into exact portions.

With Divvy, it’s as simple as a single click and drag in the Divvy interface and your window will be resized and moved to a relative portion of the screen. If that seems like too much work, you can go ahead and create as many different shortcuts as you'd like that resize and move your windows.

Divvy is designed to be quick, simple and elegant. We want it to stay out of your way as much as possible while providing the most powerful window management available today.

Take a look at the screencast over there to the right to get a better idea of what we're talking about, then go ahead and download the demo to try it out for yourself. Or you could buy it right away. That's fine too.

Who are you, what do you do, etc…?

I’m Duncan Davidson and I am a photographer, writer, and recovering software developer. Possibly my most recognizable affiliation is as the main stage photographer for TED. I’ve been exploring video and learning all I can, including bridging between stills and motion with a lot of time-lapse work, such as my recent Tribute in Light project. Finally, I’m a partner in Luma Labs which makes some awesome camera slings.

What is your current setup?

My desktop is an eight-core, early-2008 Mac Pro with 14GB of RAM, an upgraded ATI 4870 video card, an SSD boot drive in the bottom DVD drive bay, and 24TB of online storage across several arrays, both internal and external.

My primary display is a late-2008 24″ LED Cinema display. Tunes are pumped out through a set of old school USB Harman Kardon SoundSticks. Input is handed using an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and Magic Trackpad and a Wacom Intous 4 tablet. For voice input, I use an Audio Technica AT2050 microphone hooked up to an Apogee One, and I monitor on a pair of Audio Technica ATH-M40fs headphones.

Document scanning is handed with a Fujitsu SnapScan. Photographs are scanned with an Epson v500 flatbed scanner. Most of my print needs are handled by an Epson 3880 printer, but for bigger jobs I also have a 24″ HP Z3200.

My primary laptop unless I’m in the throes of heavy photo or video work is a mid-2011, 13″ MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. I went with the i5 instead of the i7 in the hope of getting the maximum battery life possible.

My secondary laptop which I pull out when I need to use FireWire drives on the road or when I know that the GPU will come in handy is a late-2008, 15″ MacBook Pro that I’ve upgraded to 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. This laptop is almost effectively retired, but not quite.

An iPhone 4 keeps me connected most of the time. A first generation iPad is what you’ll find me using on the couch or in seat 6A when I’m traveling.

Why this rig?

A desktop-plus-portable strategy is the only one that can satisfy my need for power, speed, and storage at home while also keeping things as light as possible for when I’m traveling fast. If I could go with a simpler setup, I would in a heartbeat. So far, however, the trend has been that my storage needs are ramping up quickly over time and dealing with over a TB a year of new data is the big challenge.

On the other hand, nothing beats being able to throw my MacBook Air and a Fuji X100 into a small bag and head out the door for a day or a weekend.

What software do you use and for what do you use it?

I manage my photographs using a combination of Aperture, Lightroom and Bridge. Aperture is taking over my primary catalog needs from Lightroom. I use Bridge when I need to scour through the archives of photographs that aren’t in my active catalog.

When I need more in the way of photo editing tools than I get from Aperture, I use Photoshop. When I need less, I use Acorn and sometimes even Preview.

For video, I use Final Cut Pro X and love it. I also use Compressor and After Effects for various tasks, including stitching together still frames into video clips.

When I’m in code mode, I use BBEdit or Xcode depending on the task at hand. For straight ahead writing—including all of my blog entries as well as the writing that currently isn’t seeing the light of day—I’ve become a huge fan of iA Writer.

To get things done, I use OmniFocus. At least I try. Sometimes I do better than others. Keeping all of my non-media data in sync between machines in handled by Dropbox. 1Password is essential for passwords. Mail, iCal, Safari, Numbers, and Pages are all open on my computer right now.

How does this setup help you do your best creative work?

For the most part, it lets me do what I need to do in the kinds of environments I like to be in.

At home, I’ve arranged my desk so that when I’m working on my desktop, I can look up across my living room and out my huge living room windows across downtown Portland. Watching the weather go by is therapeutic to me. The MacBook Air lets me work in cafés near home and as well as anywhere in the world. It’s even useful for the kinds of light photo editing I do on the road.

How would your ideal setup look and function?

I’m pretty close to my ideal right now. If I could change anything, I’d have a view of midtown Manhattan out my window from 25 floors up and I’d have a 15″ MacBook Pro that wasn’t much heavier than my current Air but which did have a GPU. The former is a pipe dream right now. The latter might happen any month now. Hopefully.

I used to use two screens on my desktop, and I might consider do so again. However, I’ve found that using one screen increases my ability to glance up and look outside my window. A second screen cuts that down quite a bit. As well, I’ve discovered that parking my laptop on one side lets me keep various websites or other reference material in easy view while I work on the desktop.

Finally, a closer-to-ideal setup would include a data solution for my media files that was a bit less maintenance intensive. I think the best I’ll be able to do in the near future is consolidate my various hard drive arrays into two Promise Thunderbolt R6 arrays when I upgrade my desktop machine. That jump will probably happen sometime in the next six months.

More Sweet Setups

Duncan’s setup is just one in a series of sweet Mac Setups.

Merlin Mann:

You can decide to throw birds at pigs. You can decide to check in on which strangers are pretending to like you today. You may even decide to see what you would look like if you were really fat.


Thing is, you could also decide to read.

If you can forgive the pure egomasturbatoriness of me linking to this, it’s a great article about choosing to spend your free time reading.

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Tijdens het surfen op een website met behulp van Safari wordt automatisch de hiërarchische structuur van de webpagina opgeslagen.

Wanneer je bijvoorbeeld start op de startpagina van een website en daarna enkele andere pagina’s op deze website bezoekt dan kun je heel eenvoudig terugkeren naar een bepaald niveau in de website structuur.

Dit doe je door de cmd⌘ toets ingedrukt te houden en op de titelbalk van safari te klikken. Na het klikken verschijnt de structuur van de website in een pulldown menu en kun je direct naar een bepaald punt gaan door erop te klikken. De structuur van de huidige pagina tot aan de startpagina wordt weergegeven.

Vele lezers vroegen me:

Ik beheer een forum/webstek waar leden foto’s kunnen plaatsen. Iedereen mag zelf kiezen wat hij of zij plaatst, maar als ik ongepaste foto’s zie (of een klacht krijg) dan grijp ik natuurlijk wel in. Nu had ik gehoord dat ik als beheerder toch aansprakelijk ben, en dat ik claims van partijen als Getty kan krijgen. Klopt dat? Hoe kan ik dit oplossen?

Een forumbeheerder neemt inderdaad een risico als hij gebruikers toestaat foto’s te plaatsen. Wanneer de fotograaf daar geen toestemming voor heeft gegeven, is de publicatie op het forum een inbreuk op het auteursrecht. De plaatser is daarvoor aansprakelijk, maar de beheerder kan zomaar óók aansprakelijk zijn.

De wet bevat sinds eind jaren negentig een uitzondering voor partijen die informatie van een ander opslaan en doorgeven, waar een forum zich op zou moeten kunnen beroepen. Dergelijke partijen zijn niet aansprakelijk voor die informatie, zo staat in de wet, mits ze de informatie maar niet selecteren of wijzigen. Maar diverse rechtszaken hebben deze uitzondering behoorlijk uitgekleed. Zodra je actief gaat modereren, of gaat meediscussiëren, vindt de rechter dat je niet meer zo’n passief doorgeefluik bent.

Fotosite ShowBizNewz was aansprakelijk voor foto’s die gebruikers uploadden, omdat zij gebruikers uitnodigde foto’s te uploaden en er bedacht op had moeten zijn dat op die foto’s vaak auteursrecht zou rusten (omdat het celebrityfoto’s waren). De rechtbank oordeelde daarbij:

Het is aan [ShowBizNewz] om haar bedrijf zodanig in te richten dat zij maatregelen treft ter voorkoming van inbreukmakende handelingen. Daarbij kan bijvoorbeeld gedacht worden aan de mogelijkheid degene die een foto als hier bedoeld op de site van [ShowBizNewz] plaatst na een toelichting vooraf te laten verklaren dat hij of zij de rechthebbende op die foto is. De in de voorwaarden van [ShowBizNewz] opgenomen disclaimer is daartoe in ieder geval niet voldoende.

Dat suggereert dat je een eind zou moeten kunnen komen met een aanvinkvakje “Ik verklaar deze foto zelf gemaakt te hebben” of tekst van gelijke strekking. Maar uiteindelijk gaat het nooit alléén om een tekstje, het gaat om de gehele indruk die een site maakt. En als evident is dat het aanvinkvakje er puur voor de vorm staat en iedereen donders goed weet dat de feitelijke situatie anders ligt, dan ga je als forum nog steeds nat.

Het forum Internetoplichting werd in eerste instantie aansprakelijk gehouden, maar dat werd later teruggedraaid. Daarentegen was de Pompengids weer niet aansprakelijk voor informatie geplaatst door haar leden (pompverkoopbedrijven). Zij mocht afgaan op de juistheid van wat die leden verklaarden, en er waren hier genoeg legitieme redenen denkbaar waarom een lid zou verklaren een bepaald type merkpomp te verkopen zonder toestemming van de merkhouder (met name parallelle import daarvan, wat legaal is maar merkhouders niet leuk vinden).

Soms is de foto om een andere reden legaal. In de Maroc-arrest bepaalde het Hof dat het overnemen van een nieuwsbericht met foto legaal kan zijn als citaat, wanneer het artikel de functie heeft van discussie-inleider en de foto daaraan bijdraagt. Wel moet dan natuurlijk de naam van de fotograaf genoemd zijn, want bronvermelding is verplicht bij beeldcitaatrecht.

De persexceptie wordt ook veel genoemd, maar die is effectief dood. En bovendien is een forum gewoonlijk geen “persmedium”. Een forum brengt geen nieuws maar laat mensen hooguit discussiëren over nieuws.

Veel fotografen sturen de beheerder gewoon de factuur in plaats van uit te zoeken of deze wellicht niet aansprakelijk is. Een voor beheerders vervelende maar wel legale manier van werken: de uploader/gebruiker is niet te identificeren, en bovendien moet de beheerder bewijzen dat hij zich kan beroepen op de beperking van aansprakelijkheid, anders is hij gewoon aansprakelijk voor foto’s van zijn leden. Tenzij natuurlijk een wettelijke uitzondering zoals citaatrecht geldt - maar ook dat moet de forumbeheerder stellen en bewijzen.

Arnoud

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Nanotechnologie heeft veel potentie, maar brengt ook risico’s met zich mee. Natuurkundige en filosofe Ineke Malsch boog zich over de vraag hoe we de toepassing van deze techniek in goede banen kunnen leiden, vóórdat het is geïntegreerd in de wereld. Dinsdag promoveerde ze aan de Radboud Universiteit.

Theorizing @Ushahidi: An Academic Treatise – really great read on one of the past decade's most important startups http://t.co/shuQbnBH

Andy Brockie from the Guardian's digital design team shares the key stages behind the design development of our new Guardian iPad app

WTF-momentje op de vrijdagmiddag dat ik het las: Facebook weigert inzage in persoonsgegevens van hun gebruikers omdat afgifte daarvan hun handelsgeheimen in gevaar zou brengen.

De groep Europe versus Facebook had een campagne opgezet waarbij alle Europese Facebookgebruikers opgeroepen werden om een inzageverzoek te doen onder de privacywet van alle persoonsgegevens die Facebook van ze had. Facebook is verplicht daaraan mee te werken, en biedt daarvoor dit formulier, maar beriep zich tegenover enkele Ierse verzoekers op een uitzondering in de Ierse privacywet die handelsgeheimen beschermt.

De basis van het inzageverzoek is het recht van inzage, bij ons artikel 35 Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens. Dit recht bepaalt dat iedereen het recht heeft te vragen “of hem betreffende persoonsgegevens worden verwerkt.” Als dat zo is, dan moet de verantwoordelijke daarvoor “een volledig overzicht daarvan in begrijpelijke vorm” verschaffen, met onder meer het doel van de verwerking, de soorten gegevens, de ontvangers (of soorten ontvangers) en alles dat hij heeft over de herkomst van de gegevens. Een flinke bult gegevens, volgens bronnen tot een gigabyte groot.

Lid 4 van dit artikel bepaalt dat men óók moet vertellen op welke manier men gegevens verwerkt:

Desgevraagd doet de verantwoordelijke mededelingen omtrent de logica die ten grondslag ligt aan de geautomatiseerde verwerking van hem betreffende gegevens.

De beheerder van het bestand mag een verzoek alleen weigeren als het disproportioneel grote lasten op zou leveren. Hij mag bovendien geen hoge administratiekosten rekenen – de wet noemt expliciet een bedrag van 5 euro als maximumvergoeding voor het afhandelen van een dergelijk verzoek. Dat er mogelijk een hoop moet worden gekopieerd of uitgetypt, maakt het verzoek nog niet meteen disproportioneel, zo besliste de Hoge Raad in de Dexia-zaak. Daar werd overigens ook bepaald dat het oproepen tot het massaal doen van verzoeken géén misbruik van het recht is. De Privacy Inzage Machine van Bits of Freedom is dus volstrekt legaal (en deze verkapte oproep om ‘m te gebruiken dus ook).

De Ierse wet bevat nog een specifieke uitzondering voor dat “logica”-lid:

Subsection (1) (a) (iv) of this section is not to be regarded as requiring the provision of information as to the logic involved in the taking of a decision if and to the extent only that such provision would adversely affect trade secrets or intellectual property (in particular any copyright protecting computer software).

Deze uitzondering staat bij ons niet in de wet, maar hij is terug te vinden in de privacyrichtlijn, overweging 41, dus in de praktijk mag de rechter deze uitzondering toch toepassen bij ons.

Men mag dus inzage weigeren in de logica als dat handelsgeheimen in gevaar zou brengen. Daar kan ik me nog wel iets bij voorstellen. Maar het moge duidelijk zijn dat inzage weigeren in persoonsgegevens zelf met een beroep op dit artikel niet kan. Je bent dan misschien het product van Facebook, maar dat product heeft wel het recht te weten wat er precies van hem wordt verkocht en aan wie.

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A new Site Specific Browser. Looks interesting...

In the spirit of The Setup, John August shares his writing routine, hardware, software, etc. Oh my nerd. (Via Garrett Murray.)

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A map of solar activity around the city of San Francisco.

Last month it became apparent that not all VPN providers live up to their marketing after an alleged member of Lulzsec was tracked down after using a supposedly anonymous service from HideMyAss. We wanted to know which VPN providers take privacy extremely seriously so we asked many of the leading providers two very straightforward questions. Their responses will be of interest to anyone concerned with anonymity issues.

AT the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November, Chinese companies startled some Americans by unveiling 25 different models of remotely controlled aircraft and showing video animation of a missile-armed drone taking out an armored vehicle and attacking a United States aircraft carrier.

The presentation appeared to be more marketing hype than military threat; the event is China’s biggest aviation market, drawing both Chinese and foreign military buyers. But it was stark evidence that the United States’ near monopoly on armed drones was coming to an end, with far-reaching consequences for American security, international law and the future of warfare.

Spanje staat model voor het failliet van het Europese visserijbeleid. Dat heeft geleid tot overbevissing, op kosten van de belastingbetaler. Gaat de EU er iets aan doen?
Er ligt een voorstel dat het Europese visserijbeleid ingrijpend moet hervormen. Maar één blik op Spanje - het land met de grootste vissector - en het is duidelijk een omslag lastig wordt.

"In God We Trust," tweeted New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg this month. "Everyone else, bring data."

Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of Bloomberg L.P., is now in his third term as mayor of the Big Apple. During his tenure, New York City has embraced a more data-driven approach to governing, even when the results of that data-driven transparency show a slump in city services.

This should be no surprise to anyone familiar with the mission statement of his financial data company:

Bloomberg started out with one core belief: that bringing transparency to capital markets through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of doing business.

To reshape that mission statement for New York City, one might reasonably suggest that Bloomberg's data-driven approach to government is founded upon that belief that bringing transparency to government through access to information could increase capital flows, produce economic growth and jobs, and significantly reduce the cost of the business of government.

As Gov 2.0 goes local, New York City has become the epicenter for many experiments in governance, from citizensourcing smarter government to participatory budgeting to embracing a broader future as a data platform.

One of the most prominent New Yorkers supporting architecting a city as a platform is the city's first chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne.

Sterne gave a keynote speech at this year's Strata NY conference that explained how data-driven innovation informs New York's aim to be the nation's premier digital city.

"I'm especially excited to be speaking with you because as a city, we need your help," said Sterne to the assembled Strata attendees. "As the data practitioners and data scientists who are at the forefront of this revolution, all of our efforts are for naught if you are not part of them and not helping us to expand them and helping to really take advantage of all of the resources that the city of New York is trying put at your disposal."

Video of Sterne's talk is embedded below.

New York City's digital strategy is focused on access to technology, open government, engagement and industry. "Industry is important because we need to make sure the private sector has all the supports it needs to grow and thrive and help to create these solutions that will help the government to ultimately better serve the public," said Sterne. "Open government is important because if our data and our internal structure and priorities aren't completely open, we're not going to be able to enable increased [open] services, that kind of [open] exchange of information, etc. Engagement is crucial because we need to be constantly gathering feedback from the public, informing and serving. And access is the foundation because everyone needs access to these technologies."

Big data in the Big Apple

What does data-driven innovation look like in New York City? Sterne focused on how data "evolves government," asserting that it leads to a more efficient allocation of resources, a more effective execution, and a better response to the real-time needs of citizens. Although she allowed that, "as everyone knows, data can be manipulated."

Sterne highlighted several data-driven initiatives across the city, including the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Bus Time Initiative. "Initially, it was scoped out to hundreds of millions of dollars. The MTA ended up working with a local open-source development shop, [which] did it for a fraction of that, below a million dollars, and now you can get real-time updates on your phone based on where the buses are located using very low-cost technologies."

New York City is also using data internally, explained Sterne — like applying predictive analytics to building code violations and housing data to try to understand where potential fire risks might exist. If that sounds familiar to Radar readers, it should: Chicago is also looking to use data, developers and citizens to become a smarter city. "This is as much about citizens talking to the infrastructure of the city as infrastructure talking to itself," said Chicago CTO John Tolva in an interview last March. "It's where urban informatics and smarter cities cross over to Gov 2.0."

Web 2.0 Summit, being held October 17-19 in San Francisco, will examine "The Data Frame" — focusing on the impact of data in today's networked economy.

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New York City, however, has a vastly greater "digital reach" than Chicago. It's bigger than many corporations and states, in fact, connecting to more than four million people through NYC.gov and social media channels that have expanded to include Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube and Foursquare. Sterne envisions the city's 200-plus social media platforms as a kind of "digital switchboard," where citizens ask questions and government workers direct them to the appropriate resources, much in the same way that California connects citizens to e-services with social media.

The web as the 21st century public square

"What we're really seeing that's interesting about all these things is that they're happening in public, so people are informing one another," said Sterne. "They're engaging one another, and it's not so much the city telling you what to do but creating a forum for that conversation to take place." If you visit NYC's custom bitly URL shortener, on.nyc.gov, you can see what content is popular within that community.

Back in May, when NYC's digital roadmap was released, Anil Dash highlighted something important: the roadmap captured New York City government thinking about the web as a public space. This has profound implications about how it should be regulated, treated or described. "The single biggest lesson I got from the
65-page, 11.8mb PDF is a simple one," Dash, a native New Yorker, blogger and entrepreneur, wrote. "The greatest city in the world can take shared public spaces online as seriously as it takes its public spaces in the physical world."

City as a platform

Sterne's description of a "city as a platform" is one of the purest articulations of Tim O'Reilly's "government as a platform" vision that I've heard any public servant articulate this year.

"The thing that's really exciting to me, better than internal data, of course, is open data," Sterne said during her Strata Conference talk. "This, I think, is where we really start to reach the potential of New York City becoming a platform like some of the bigger commercial platforms and open data platforms. How can New York City, with the enormous amount of data and resources we have, think of itself the same way Facebook has an API ecosystem or Twitter does? This can enable us to produce a more user-centric experience of government. It democratizes the exchange of information and services. If someone wants to do a better job than we are in communicating something, it's all out there. It empowers citizens to collaboratively create solutions. It's not just the consumption but the co-production of government services and democracy."

Sterne highlighted the most important open data initiative that the city has pursued to date, the NYC DataMine. Soon, she said, they will be introducing "NYC Platform," which she described as "the city's API." All of their work opening the data, however, "doesn't matter if we're not evangelizing it and making sure people are using it."

NYC has used an app competition to draw more attention to its open data. As I've written elsewhere, by tying specific citizen needs to development, NYC Bigs Apps 3.0 is part of the next-generation of government apps competitions that incorporate sustainability, community, and civic value.

"We've had about 150 apps developed," said Sterne. "There are apps that would be a significant cost to the city. Instead, they're at basically no cost because the prize money is all donated. We provide 350 datasets. Until now, they were not API-enabled. They were not dynamic, but we're going to be doing that because that's the overwhelming response that we're receiving from everyone."

That feedback is widespread in the open government data community, where studies show that developers prefer to explore and interact with data online, as opposed to downloading datasets. When it comes to developers working with public data, dynamic access can open up entire new horizons for potential applications, as the release of real-time transit data has demonstrated.

Sterne shared some useful examples of apps that have been created using NYC open government data, including Roadify, which allows you to find parking spots or transit information, and Don't Eat At, a Foursquare app that sends users a text message when they check into a NYC restaurant that is at risk of being closed for health code violations.

Sterne's message to data scientists was generally quite well received at Strata. "Pleased to see @RachelSterne's keynote today," tweeted Alistair Coote, a NYC Web developer at RecordSetter. "If done right, open govt will be far more important than anything announced at #f8 today," he observed, referring to Facebook's new look.

Why open government data matters to New Yorkers

The experience in NYC during Hurricane Irene "once again proved the utility and importance of open data and the NYC DataMine, as several organizations used OEM's Hurricane Evacuation Zone geographic data to build maps that served and informed the public," Sterne told me via email. "This data has been public for over a year. Parties developing tools built on city platforms included WNYC, NYTimes, Google, Mobile Commons and Crisis Commons. NYC Digital was also in regular contact with these parties to alert them of information changes."

The key insight coming out of that August weekend, with respect to the city acting as a platform during unprecedented demands for information, was that th[…]

It's from our favorite Giant Robot Dinosaur and it's about Minimal Viable Personality, something I have referred to as "voice" in pior posts. The Grimster is so right that this is critical to building a successful product.

1st in a series of video lessons, designed to teach even the most inexperienced guitar player the basics and eventually more advanced techniques.

Find color schemes for data visualization.

Color advice for photography.

I don't want to freak you out. OK, maybe a tiny bit. Being a little scared might get you to wash your hands more often. And that would be a good thing for everyone.

So just tool around this collection of interactive maps showing the march of drug-resistant germs across North America and Europe. The global health nonprofit Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy came up with the ResistanceMap. The project is called Extending the Cure, and in addition to mapping the problem, it also wants to find ways to keep antibiotics effective and develop new ones.

LR/Enfuse is a Lightroom plugin that allows you to blend multiple exposures together directly from within Lightroom by using the open source Enfuse application.

Je digitale schaduw is enorm. Je staat geregistreerd in vele honderden, zo niet duizenden, databanken, verspreid over bijna net zoveel organisaties. Weet jij wat ze van je weten?

Een aantal van die registraties weet je zonder twijfel wel te noemen, zoals je medisch dossier bij je huisarts en de gegevens over het abonnement van je mobiele telefoon. Misschien heb je wel een idee van wat je telefoonaanbieder vastgelegd heeft, maar je weet het zeker niet van de organisaties waar je niet eens bij stil staat.

En weet je ook precies wat in je medische dossier is vastgelegd? Waarschijnlijk niet. Toch is het meestal niet heel moeilijk om daar achter te komen: je kunt de organisaties er gewoon om vragen.

Je hebt het recht om inzage te krijgen in wat bedrijven over je hebben vastgelegd. Fouten mag je corrigeren en – als de registratie niet nodig is – ook gegevens weer verwijderen. Daar is een wet voor. Een wet die je het recht geeft om te controleren of de registratie van jouw gegevens juist, volledig, relevant en rechtmatig is.

Om het je makkelijker te maken hebben zo’n 15 vrijwilligers van Bits of Freedom de Privacy Inzage Machine (PIM) gebouwd. In drie simpele stappen stel je de brief op waarmee je inzage in jouw gegevens kan vragen. We hebben zo’n 200 bedrijven geselecteerd waar je uit kan kiezen. Nadat je je contactgegevens hebt opgegeven kun je de brief aan de bedrijven uitprinten. Samen met een kopie van je identiteitsbewijs is dat voldoende om inzage te krijgen.

A great thread of the improvements in Lion that really make it shine. There are more than a few that I hadn’t noticed/didn’t know about.
[via Daniel Jalkut]∞

Shower is a HTML/CSS presentation tenmplate for use in modern browsers.

Code available on Github.

An email client concept. Focus on people and attachments

I actually didn’t know a lot about tracking myself, so I whipped up a Firefox add-on called Collusion to help me visualize it better. The results were a little unsettling.

I’ve put a demonstration up at collusion.toolness.org, which takes you through five popular websites and visualizes the data collection companies that track you across them. From there, you can download the add-on if you want to see the tracking visualization of your own browsing behavior evolve in real-time.

Rotterdam 3D bestanden zijn per buurt te downloaden via de links.

De bestanden worden aangeboden in het City GML-format. Geography Markup Language (GML) is een door OGC opgestelde XML structuur dat vooral geschikt is voor geografische toepassingen. Het 3D bestand wordt onder andere via City GML ontsloten welke uit JPG bestanden is opgebouwd en via een XML bestand wordt aangestuurd. Meer informatie is te vinden op Geography Markup Language | OGC(R) en via Wikipedia .



De bestanden kun je bekijken via viewers. Een voorbeeld van een freeware viewer vind je bijvoorbeeld op 3D XLM Player. Er zijn veel meer (gratis) pakketten, viewers en tools te vinden door via je zoekmachine een zoekvraag uit te voeren met de volgende woorden: 3D XML bestanden, 3D bestanden, viewer 3D XML, software 3D XML. Of kijk eens op: IDelft CityGML. Wil je er echt mee gaan werken schaf dan een 3D CAD pakket aan.

nvALT 2 is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications, including MultiMarkdown functionality.

Phrozn is static site generator written in PHP.

Map of solar potential (and currently implemented solar installations) in New York.

PhotoSwipe is a FREE HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices.

In contrast to green technologies like solar power and biofuels, which take decades of research and massive funds to scale, big data tools offer a relatively capital-efficient way to use proven technology to better manage resources, fight climate change and get ready for the 9 billion people on the planet by 2050. If there’s no Moore’s Law delivering rapid and exponential progress for things like batteries, and solar panels, why not try to leverage Moore’s Law in a more indirect way for greentech via big data? Here are 5 companies that are leveraging big data to help the planet:

Sounds like Marco gets this question as much as I do; here's his reply. I wrote my response on Lifehacker in November 2009, and since then LH ran a whole "Night School" series about it. But as Marco said, the question isn't "How do I learn how to code?" The question is, "What do I want to make?" Once you've answered that question, figuring out languages and development tools is literally a matter of reading a beginner's book or watching video tutorials or taking a class. Then, you put in the work.

At a Boston ice cream shop, the cost of ice cream cone has risen 10% in the last four months. The Boston Globe investigated down the supply chain and detailed where the price increases are coming from.

Ice cream may be a deliciously simple combination of milk, butter, and sugar, but the true cost of an ice cream cone is no simple business calculation. Toscanini's price tag is part of complex and increasingly interconnected world economy, one that links a dairy farm in the tiny Western Massachusetts town of Colrain to the sprawling neighborhoods of Beijing.

Also of note: pistachio ice cream might be difficult to find this summer because the cost of pistachios has increased sharply in recent months. (via girlhacker)
Tags: economics   food

The Dutch budget for arts & culture is relatively small. The above average cuts will produce below average results.
In 2011 the budget is € 490 million. That sounds like a lot, but it is only a third of what we spend on holidays. It's 1,5% of the annual costs of the State Pension, and only 0,2% of the country's total Budget.
Feel free to use these infographics. Spread the word!

UC Berkeley’s Geospatial Innovation Facility and the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program offers new tools for researchers, policymakers and the general public to explore climate change

Call us crazy, but it looks as if the people at Great Harvest have managed to pull off what the rest of us only fantasize about. They've built an organization that practically runs itself

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

Litmus tests and tracks your email campaigns,
so you can always put your best design forward.

You'll find over 1,618,901 user-created color palettes to inspire your ideas.

Fetch is the easiest way to sell digital goods such as music, videos, photos, e-books, PDF's, or software from any website, blog, social network, Goodsie shop, or Shopify store.

"When I was at Victoria Falls last year, I thought about the billions of photographs that must have been taken there, and I almost decided to just visit the place without my camera. That was until I spoke with some of the local people, who told me that they had seen a bull elephant crossing the Zambezi river the day before. During my research I had not seen any images of the falls with an elephant in it, so I decided to stay a few extra days and try my luck."

This community is the home for everything about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Easily create mobile web app mocks you can share,
test on multiple platforms, and use in production.

Using Hype, you can create beautiful HTML5 web content. Animations and interactive content made with Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads.

An Introduction to Data Mining

Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API.

It is built from the ground up to work efficiently and smoothly on both platforms, utilizing cutting-edge technologies included in HTML5. Its top priorities are usability, performance, small size, A-grade browser support, flexibility and easy to use API. The OOP-based code of the library is designed to be modular, extensible and very easy to understand.

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.

Instead of using the built-in Google search of Safari, you can just search the web from Tip Toe, with a few advantages: the engine is based on Bing and Blekko, with a bit of artificial intelligence on top. It should remove all aggregated results of server farms, and the interface is free of ads. One more point: Tip Toe does NOT track your searches, and respects your privacy.

This month's column is devoted to an article called A Mathematician's Lament, written by Paul Lockhart in 2002. Paul is a mathematics teacher at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York. His article has been circulating through parts of the mathematics and math ed communities ever since, but he never published it. I came across it by accident a few months ago, and decided at once I wanted to give it wider exposure. I contacted Paul, and he agreed to have me publish his "lament" on MAA Online. It is, quite frankly, one of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen. Written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-!2 education.

UAR, de mobiele architectuurapplicatie van het NAi geeft aan de hand van tekst, beeld, archiefmateriaal en film, op een iPhone of een Google Android-toestel (in een later stadium ook Nokia-telefoons) informatie over de gebouwde omgeving. Door gebruik te maken van geavanceerde 3D-modellen laat UAR midden in de stad via je telefoon ook zien wat er niet is. De stad zoals zij was, bijvoorbeeld door gebouwen te tonen die er vroeger stonden. De stad zoals zij had kunnen zijn, door maquettes en ontwerptekeningen te tonen van alternatieve ontwerpen die nooit zijn gerealiseerd. En de stad zoals zij wordt, door artist-impressions te tonen van gebouwen in aanbouw, of gebouwen die in de planning staan.

An iOS like OS X application for quickly applying presets to photos. Nice feature: you can edit applied effects, and new presets are available for download from the Flare website.

Deze studie laat zien dat het toenemend gebruik van databases in onze gedigitaliseerde samenleving niet zonder risico’s is en dat we lessen moeten trekken uit de ervaringen die daarmee tot nu toe zijn opgedaan.

Databases worden in onze samenleving ingezet voor een groeiend aantal doeleinden. Ze lijken ongekende mogelijkheden te bieden om gegevens op te slaan, uit te wisselen, te bewerken en te analyseren.

Maar dit gebruik van databases is niet zonder risico’s. Hierbij spelen vragen als: voor welke doeleinden worden ze gebruikt, hoe staat het met de beveiliging van gegevens, hoe betrouwbaar zijn die gegevens, welke mogelijkheden hebben burgers om fouten in registraties te herstellen en dragen databases daadwerkelijk bij aan de doelstelling waarvoor ze in het leven zijn geroepen?

Deze studie gaat aan de hand van zes casestudies op deze vragen in. Daarvoor is gekozen voor de volgende actuele onderwerpen:

de OV-chipkaart en de kilometerheffing
het elektronisch patiëntendossier
het elektronisch kinddossier
klantenprofielen op internet
het Schengen Informatie Systeem
de gemeentelijke basisadministratie.

Kor reusable and designed water bottle

The Form of the Book, by Jan Tschichold, is the authority on book design and the best book I have ever read on typography (and I’ve read many, mind you). As a web designer this book taught me how to set readable, easy-to-digest blocks of type. As the lead designer on Unit Interactive’s recently launched Curations series, I found new relevance in these pages. The principles of setting type to be read and laying out a harmonious page transcend medium and materials. A solid understanding of the fundamentals detailed in this book will make any designer better. Instantly.

Op deze website geven we een zo compleet mogelijk overzicht van interessante (nieuwe) databronnen van de gemeente Amsterdam. Uiteraard staat het voor deelnemers open zelf nieuwe/andere databronnen te vinden en te gebruiken tijdens de wedstrijd bij het ontwikkelen van de applicatie. Wel dient er minimaal één databron van de gemeente Amsterdam gebruikt te worden.