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Republique by Camouflaj + Logan by Camouflaj :: Kicktraq
Statistics for Republique Kickstarter campaign (and other Kickstarter campaigns).
kickstarter  statistics  privacy  republique  crowd  funding  crowdfunding  metrics  from delicious
6 days ago
Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
2010 was a record-setting year on Kickstarter. Thousands of projects funded, hundreds of thousands of videos watched, and millions of dollars pledged. In 2010 alone the number of new projects per day quadrupled — every day the site was flooded with more amazing explorations of creativity, more great stories of people doing extraordinary things.

Kickstarter 2010 Statistics:

Total Successfully Funded Projects: 3,910
Total Dollars Pledged: $27,638,318
Total Pledges: 386,373
Total Rewards Selected: 322,526
Total Pageviews: 50,234,521
Total Visits: 15,766,248
Total Visitors: 8,294,183
kickstarter  crowd  crowdfunding  funding  statistics  metrics  from delicious
6 days ago
Happy Birthday Kickstarter! » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
To celebrate our second birthday we’ve decided to open up the vaults. We’ve dug deep into our dashboard to share pretty much every metric from Kickstarter’s first two years. The numbers and charts tell the story far better than we could. We hope you enjoy.
kickstarter  statistics  metrics  crowdfunding  crowd  funding  from delicious
6 days ago
2011: The Year in Kickstarter — Kickstarter
The Year in Kickstarter
The Trends • The Stats • The Moments • The Videos

So many exciting things happened on Kickstarter in 2011 that we had to celebrate. We scoured the site for the most fascinating stories of the year and we’re thrilled to share them with you here. Thanks!
statistics  metrics  kickstarter  crowdfunding  crowd  funding  from delicious
6 days ago
2011: The Stats » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
2011 was a year of milestones. In April we celebrated our second birthday by announcing $50 million in pledges. In July we reached 10,000 successfully funded projects. And in October we reached $100 million in pledges and had our one millionth backer. It was an eventful year.

Let’s look at some statistics for 2011:

Launched Projects: 27,086
Successful Projects: 11,836
Dollars Pledged: $99,344,382
Rewards Selected: 1,150,461
Total Visitors: 30,590,342
Project Success Rate: 46%

Here’s 2010:

Launched Projects: 11,130
Successful Projects: 3,910
Dollars Pledged: $27,638,318
Rewards Selected: 322,526
Total Visitors: 8,294,183
Project Success Rate: 43%
statistics  kickstarter  crowd  funding  crowdfunding  metrics  2011  from delicious
6 days ago
Twitter Is Tracking You On The Web, Here’s What You Can Do To Stop It | Lifehacker Australia
Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button, a “tweet this” button, or a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behaviour. It is transparently watching your movements and storing them somewhere for later use. Right now, that data will make better suggestions for accounts you might want to follow. But what other things can it be used for? The privacy implications of such behaviour by a company so large are sweeping and absolute.
If tracking your behaviour transparently is acceptable in the pursuit of a better user experience, why isn’t it also acceptable in the pursuit of monetization? Is it OK for Twitter to sell your web browsing history to advertisers? The company is playing with a very slippery slope.
media  social  twitter  tracking  privacy  from delicious
11 days ago
Supervision without Borders by Inger Mewburn on Prezi
Inger's analysis of Thesis Whisperer
reporting  thesis  whisperer  phd  blogging  from delicious
13 days ago
A wireframe kit for Google Drawings
5 reasons Google Drawings beats Viso and Omnigraffle

We know the cloud computing arguments, and they certainly apply to wireframes

It’s live. The entire team can work on the same document and see each other’s work instantly
The wireframes live in the cloud, no sending files around, no outdated documents
The risk of losing data is zero. It saves for every edit you make
It’s free
Most people already have a Google account, so no sign up required

We need stencils

One thing was missing though: Stencils. Omnigraffle has stencils coming out of its ears, and Fireworks has some excellent built-in ones. But Google Drawings in its current early and simple form simply doesn’t have it. So I made one.
interface  user  usability  design  mockup  drawing  tools  webdesign  wireframes  wireframe  google  from delicious
17 days ago
Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing
Most designers wireframe their designs in one way or another, even if it just involves them making quick sketches on the back of some scratch paper. Wireframing is an important part of the design process, especially for more complex projects.

Wireframes can come in handy when you’re communicating with clients, as it allows them to visualize your ideas more easily than when you just describe them verbally.

This guide covers what you need to know about website wireframes to get started.

It also provides links to online wireframing tools, to help you mock up your wireframes quickly and easily.
usability  web  prototyping  development  interface  wireframing  tools  design  webdesign  wireframe  wireframes  from delicious
17 days ago
itunes doesn't recognize my iphone! HELP! - MacRumors Forums
I had the same problem using Windows XP SP3. I successfully resolved it by updating the drivers for the iphone, but I had to do it using the following procedure.
1. Right-click on "My Computer" in the "Start" menu and choose "Manage"
2. Click on "Device Manager" and locate the iphone device. In the above example where the iphone is connecting as a camera, you'll probably find the iphone under "imaging devices". It may also be listed as a USB device.
3. Right-click on the iphone device and choose "Update Driver"
4. When the Updating Hardware wizard starts, choose "Update from a list or specific location" rather than the default "Install the software automatically" .
5. Choose to include the following location in your driver search "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers" - browse to the location to make sure it exists.
6. Let the update run... after restarting the PC and running itunes...there was my iphone.
iphone  synchronize  sync  windows  from delicious
24 days ago
STAR COMMAND: Sci-Fi meets GameDev Story for iOS and Android by Star Command » What the hell did you do with our money? — Kickstarter
In honor of tax day, we thought we would give some insight to our backers (as well as potential kickstarters) to how we spent the funds we were given at the end of September. Hopefully it sheds some light on why money disappears so quickly for game development.

Our kickstarter earned $36,967 after asking for $20,000 so that was incredible.

To begin with, we didn't get all of that. We lost about $2,000 to no-shows, just people that pledged and the funds did not transfer.

That got us down to $35k, and kickstarter and Amazon Payments take their portions, which got us down to right around $32,000.

Now, right off the top you had $10,000 for prize fulfillment. That includes printing the posters, the shirts and shipping everything (thanks Australia). If we had to do it again, we would have probably had the price point a bit higher for the t-shirts and posters, as those turned to be a very large expense. We also would have included the cost of a 3rd party fulfillment house...
game  development  kickstarter  2012  costs  planning  budget  funding  from delicious
5 weeks ago
Kickstarter Successfully Raises over $119 Million in its 3rd Year
Last year (2011), to celebrate the company’s second anniversary, Kickstarter posted some metrics to the company blog. Among the most impressive figures was $40M pledged to 7,496 successfully funded campaigns, or 85% of the total amount pledged on the site.
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In the year since Kickstarter reported its numbers (ie 2012), the company helped raise a total of $119.6M for successfully-funded projects. That’s almost three times as much as the amount raised during the company’s first two years. Taking into account Kickstarter’s 5% commission, we can estimate that the company took home just shy of $6M in commission revenue in its third year. And it’s not the only one cashing in: with Amazon’s commission of 2.9% plus 30¢ per transaction, the online retailer pulled at least $3.M in fees during the same period.
kickstarter  funding  art  games  development  fundraising  fund  raising  data  from delicious
5 weeks ago
The #SciFund Challenge: Science Funding Through Crowdsourcing
Scientists have started the #SciFund Challenge, a new type of crowdfunding that lets individuals support scientific research projects, organizations, and causes they believe in.
rockethub  crowdsourcing  2011  #scifund  scifund  research  funding  from delicious
february 2012
Tutorial: Exporting Zotero to Excel | Royce Kimmons
Zotero's a great tool for managing your citation library, but sometimes you need that data elsewhere, and though Zotero has some good export features, you may sometimes want something like a simple spreadsheet of citations to work with.Zotero runs on a SQLite database, which makes report generation and, thereby, conversion to a different format difficult for the lay user. To export Zotero, we will open the SQLite database, submit a query, and then copy the results to Excel, Calc, or another spreadsheet program.Let's get started!
zotero  csv  bibliography  citations  spreadsheet  conversion  from delicious
february 2012
Responding to the Forthcoming Demise of TwapperKeeper « UK Web Focus
On 8th December 2011 the following announcement was made on the Twapper Keeper Web site:

Transition update
Twapper Keeper’s archiving is now available in HootSuite! As a result, we will be shutting down Twapper Keeper. Existing archives will be kept running until Jan 6, 2012, after which you will not be able to access your archives anymore.

Twapper Keeper has been widely used within the UK’s higher education sector, especially for archiving tweets containing event hashtags at events aimed at the developer, researcher and library sectors.

The popularity in the service has helped to demonstrate the importance of Twitter archiving, something which was not necessarily widely appreciated a few years ago.
twitter  twapper  keeper  archives  social  media  2011  from delicious
january 2012
There's a Book For That: Ferret Fun
I love this book! When I first read it, I wasn't sure that the format/topic would be one that would interest kids. However, after reading it for a second time, I noticed the humor in the book that I think kids and adults would enjoy. Fudge and Einstein are two ferrets who are used to relaxing in their hammocks and eating raisins. When Marvel the cat comes to visit, their day is turned upside-down. Marvel thinks they look a lot like rats (and she likes to eat rats).
Einstein and Fudge have to stand up to Marvel and soon they are all getting along together. Karen Rostoker-Gruber has written Ferret Fun with an embedded message that is not overt but enhances the story.
ferret  book  humour  from delicious
january 2012
Google Search Operators - Google Guide
The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. This list includes operators that are not officially supported by Google and not listed in Google’s online help.

Note: Google may change how undocumented operators work or may eliminate them completely.

Each entry typically includes the syntax, the capabilities, and an example. Some of the search operators won’t work as intended if you put a space between the colon (:) and the subsequent query word. If you don’t care to check which search operators require no space after the colon, always place the keyword immediately next to the colon. Many search operators can appear anywhere in your query. In our examples, we place the search operator as far to the right as possible. We do this because the Advanced Search form writes queries in this way. Also, such a convention makes it clearer as to which operators are associated with which terms.
Google  search  operators  parameters  from delicious
december 2011
Google Websearch Parameters
Cheat sheet of Google search modifiers.
Google  search  from delicious
december 2011
Publications in your PhD « The Thesis Whisperer
In fact, if I had my time over, I would just compose my PhD out of published papers; the so called the ‘PhD by publication’ method. In some countries, such as Sweden, or in some disciplines, such as the sciences, doing a collection of papers instead of a ‘big book’ is a common way to get your PhD. I’m not sure about the UK, but in Australia many universities have a ‘PhD by publication’ stream – but people are usually warned not to enrol in it because it is not a ‘proper’ PhD.
phd  publication  articles  thesis  whisperer  doctorate  from delicious
december 2011
How it works: greenID
Our simplest verification process involves matching your existing customer information against up to five separate databases including:

* Sensis White Pages
* Australian Electoral Roll
* GDC National Telephone File
* GDC Citizen File
* The Transaction History Database

If two, three or four matches of name, address or phone records are all you require, greenID can provide verification against these files without requiring any effort or potentially sensitive input from your customers. It's a process that requires no additional information from your customer and will typically verify 30% of your customers.

For more comprehensive verification, we'll ask your customers to prove that they have relationships with various organisations both government and non government. This kind of search builds on the initial process to meet 85-95% of verification needs.
green  id  privacy  identity  deloitte  digital  verification  from delicious
december 2011
Deloitte Digital - Green ID
greenID™ combines a conventional entity driven verification lookup against secure databases (such as the telephone directory and electoral roll), with our unique Self Verification capability. This is where the individual person undergoing the identity verification confirms online with a second entity that identification and other information is being held by them, and then makes this confirmation known back to the verifying entity (e.g. the bank).
green  id  privacy  identity  deloitte  digital  verification  from delicious
december 2011
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Future of Privacy: Facial Recognition, Public Facts, and 300 Million Little Brothers
The power of the Internet is increasingly moving toward making sure that everybody knows what everybody does. Is this the right direction?

Talks about both widespread facial recognition, the disappearance of obscurity and privacy 2.0 issues.
privacy  from delicious
december 2011
Top 11 privacy trends for 2011 - 9. Privacy by Design - Ernst & Young - Global
Summary: Privacy by Design gained international recognition with the signing of the Privacy by Design Resolution at the 32nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Jerusalem. The resolution is intended to help preserve privacy into the future.
Protecting security and privacy

Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, has been championing the idea of Privacy by Design since the 1990s.

Rather than sacrificing one for the other, the concept of Privacy by Design suggests that organizations should design a system that protects both.

Instead of treating privacy as an afterthought, Privacy by Design offers a proactive and prescriptive response that is entrenched into the very fabric of the organization.
privacy  design  web  standards  development  security  2011  from delicious
december 2011
The Cult of Done Manifesto - Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog -
The Cult of Done Manifesto

I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.
procrastination  achievement  done  gtd  getting  stuff  manifesto  2009  from delicious
november 2011
Artful academics are new kids on the blog
He says academics research, write and talk — so what better platform for reaching an audience and sharing research than a blog? Universities obviously agree because increasing numbers are eager to have their staff blog, not only to inform other academics and outsiders of their research but also to use blogging as a new pedagogical teaching system.

Most Victorian universities have created blogging sites on their home webpages for their opinionated academics and students. Monash's site, blogs.monash.edu, lists more than 60 blogs that offer information, advice and commentaries, while RMIT University created a site last month called "blog central" as a space for academics to blog, with 15 categories ranging from arts and community to social science and sustainability.
blogging  rmit  2011  academic  from delicious
november 2011
Academic blogging at Catallaxy Files
Academics wondering whether they should venture into cyberspace should consider its reach, says Adrian Miles, a senior lecturer in media and communications at RMIT. Mr Miles has 1000 readers a week for his VLOG 4.0 blog. Although he describes it as “a very small blog”, he contrasts it with being published in a major international journal where, he says, “maybe 100 people would read my article”.
rmit  blogging  academics  university  from delicious
november 2011
Why academics should blog
People who are curious about the world around them and can jot down a few thoughts can be bloggers. Over and above anything else that academics do, they are observers. Academics observe the world around them and theorise. Why, what, when and how is our bread and butter.

It is unsurprising then that many bloggers are academics. Those people already active in the market for ideas are likely to explore different avenues for communicating with different parts of the market.

Universities are ideal forums for blogging. They are important and broadly respected social institutions that exist to propagate and disseminate knowledge.
blog  blogs  blogging  rmit  2011  from delicious
november 2011
Usability of open source software | First Monday
The Usability of Open Source Software by David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale
Open source communities have successfully developed a great deal of software although most computer users only use proprietary applications. The usability of open source software is often regarded as one reason for this limited distribution. In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open source development influence usability. We describe how existing human-computer interaction techniques can be used to leverage distributed networked communities, of developers and users, to address issues of usability.
Open  source  software  usability  2003  testing  from delicious
november 2011
The Code4Lib Journal – Infomaki: An Open Source, Lightweight Usability Testing Tool
Infomaki is an open source “lightweight” usability testing tool developed by the New York Public Library to evaluate new designs for the NYPL.org web site and uncover insights about our patrons. Designed from the ground up to be as respectful of the respondents’ time as possible, it presents respondents with a single question at a time from a pool of active questions. In just over seven months of use, it has fielded over 100,000 responses from over 10,000 respondents.
infomaki  open  source  testing  usability  library  new  york  public  2009  from delicious
november 2011
Filling the Open Source Usability Testing Gap
Could open source software benefit from more usability testing? It sure seems so, and usability labs are heavily emphasized at big proprietary software companies, especially Microsoft. In fact, early interface standards in Windows applications, such as common menu options, were largely driven by the experiences of usability testers. Here are some open source projects that are setting a good example when it comes to usability.
open  source  testing  usability  2008  software  from delicious
november 2011
Usability and Open Source Software
Open source communities have successfully developed many pieces of software although most computer users only use proprietary applications. The usability of open source software is often regarded as one reason for this limited distribution. In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open-source development influence usability. We describe how existing human-computer interaction techniques can be used to leverage distributed networked communities, of developers and users, to address issues of usability.
open  source  usability  testing  software  2003  from delicious
november 2011
Open Source Usability: The birth of a movement | Rashmi’s blog
The last few months have been an exciting time for open source usability. Here is a first hand story of what has been happening, some photographs and reflections.
Open  source  usability  testing  2005  from delicious
november 2011
OpenUsability
We are happy to finally start the Season of Usability 2011, and would like to invite all FLOSS projects to participate. You find all information at the season.openusability.org pages.
Open  source  usability  testing  software  from delicious
november 2011
Projects/Usability - KDE TechBase
The KDE Usability Project aims to improve KDE usability and user experience through:

* Educating developers about usability practices
* Conducting usability activities to help gather feedback from users
* Working with projects and help design usable user interfaces
KDE  open  source  usability  testing  software  from delicious
november 2011
m+mi works : blog : on interaction architecture
The guiding rails for the evaluation of the existing software and new designs were, as usual, the user scenarios. We constructed three. The first one embodied that simple things shall be simple: selecting a square of uniform color (rotated so that the rectangular selection tool would not work). This should be a no‑brainer with the redesigned selection tool(s).
gimp  usability  open  source  software  testing  from delicious
november 2011
Usability | groups.drupal.org
Welcome, how nice of you to drop by. Some quick pointers if you'd like to dive deeper into the ongoing ux design work for Drupal core & contrib:

Where the work is done:
- Core issues tagged 'usability'

Where documentation lives:
- User interface standards

Meetings get organised:
- UX open hours 1, 2, …

Talk & discuss:
Most of the above begins either in IRC in #drupal-contribute and #drupal-usability or right here in this usability group.
Drupal  open  source  software  usability  from delicious
november 2011
Funding Outcomes - Australian Research Council (ARC)
Selection Reports and Outcome Statistics give overviews of the selection process and statistics, including funding awarded to Organisations and by fields of research.

Information on Funded Grants includes Investors, Project Titles and Summaries, Funding and Organisations. To access information on funded grants, go to funding awarded to institutions or funding awarded by RFCD Codes.
australian  research  council  arc  funding  reports  from delicious
october 2011
RMIT - Art and Design Exhibitions
RMIT University’s Art and Design graduates will be putting on nearly 50 events throughout Melbourne. As a dual sector university RMIT has a multitude of art and design programs at TAFE, Bachelor, Master and PHD levels. Visit the exhibitions which showcase the creativity and energy of our students before they graduate.
art  design  exhibiton  rmit  Australia  2011  from delicious
october 2011
A Guide to Community Grants
A Guide to Community Grants

The following guide provides:

* Links to selected sources of Commonwealth, State and Territory financial assistance to community groups.

* A selection of links to non-government organisations which provide community grants.

* Links to commercial services providing grant information via subscription.

The guide does not include links to scholarships, fellowships or research grants.
funding  Australia  philanthrophy  from delicious
october 2011
Mobile phone technology in Australia turns 20 - Mobiles & Handhelds - smh.com.au
Mobile phones, as we know them, were introduced into Australia in 1987.

Before that most mobile phones were usually permanently installed in vehicles as car phones.

The new service replaced a limited mobile network, known as Mobile Telephone System 007 (or PAMPS), which was introduced in 1981.

Telstra said the first mobile phones in Australia were about the size of a briefcase, cost more than $4000 and had a battery life of little more than 20 minutes.

"Despite the first handsets being heavy, expensive and hardly what you would call 'mobile' they were hugely popular and soon became a must-have status symbol," Telstra spokesman Peter Taylor said.
from delicious
october 2011
Issues Paper 31 | ALRC
In Issues Paper 31, Review of Privacy (IP 31), the ALRC asked whether the definition of ‘personal information’ in the Privacy Act should be amended to include the personal information of deceased individuals.
privacy_australia_law_reform_commission_deceased_individuals_personal_next_of_kin_death_inheritance_  from delicious
october 2011
Privacy cause of action
A Commonwealth Statutory Cause of Action for Serious Invasion of Privacy

The Commonwealth Government has developed this issues paper, A Commonwealth Statutory Cause of Action for Serious Invasion of Privacy, to inform its response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s recommendations to introduce a statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy.

* Commonwealth Statutory Cause of Action for Serious Invasion of Privacy Issues Paper - MS Word 500KB | PDF 880KB

This paper invites comment upon whether Australia should introduce a statutory cause of action for privacy and, if so, what elements a statutory cause of action might include. It draws on the analysis of the Australian, Victorian and New South Wales Law Reform Commissions, and considers the policy context and current legal positions in Australia and comparable jurisdictions.
privacy_australia_2011_prime_minister_cabinet  from delicious
october 2011
Using Google Sync with iOS Calendar - Google Mobile Help
Google Sync can sync up to 25 Google Calendars with the Calendar app on your iOS device (your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch).

To select which calendars to sync to your Apple device, follow these steps:

1. Open the Safari browser on your device and go to http://m.google.com/sync
2. Sign in with your account and select your device from the list of devices you've set up for Google Sync.
3. Bookmark this page so you can return to it easily.

If you use Google Apps, follow these steps:

1. Open the Safari browser on your phone and go to http://m.google.com
2. Click on Google Apps user? at the bottom of the screen.
3. Enter your domain name (e.g., YourDomain.com).
4. Click the Sync icon in your domain area (this section has a green background).
5. Sign in if required.
6. Select your device to configure Calendars.
iphone_google_calendar_sync  from delicious
october 2011
10 Australian social media influencers in higher education | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
Thesis Whisperer, Research Whisperer & Teaching Tom Tom in Guardian Higher Education Supplement.
from delicious
september 2011
Say hello to Conan T Barbarian, Trinity's new doctor of tyrant slayings - The Irish Times - Fri, Sep 16, 2011
His full title and academic qualifications were given as: “Dr Conan T Barbarian, BA (Cimmeria) PhD. (UCD). FTCD (Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Hyborian Studies and Tyrant Slaying).” His profile indicated he had been “ripped from his mother’s womb on the corpse-strewn battlefields of his war-torn homeland, Cimmeria, and has been preparing for academic life ever since. “A firm believer in the dictum that ‘that which does not kill us makes us stronger’, he took time out to avenge the death of his parents following a sojourn pursuing his strong interest in post-colonial theory at the Sorbonne.” Dr Barbarian completed his PhD, entitled “To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature” at UCD and was appointed to the school of English in 2006, “after successfully decapitating his predecessor during a bloody battle which will long be remembered in legend and song”.
Ireland  university  satire  from delicious
september 2011
Mysterious paper sculptures - Central Station Blog post
Those of you who don't keep up with Edinburgh's literary world through Twitter may have missed the recent spate of mysterious paper sculptures appearing around the city. Guardian article, 3rd March 2011. One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive - the library's Twitter account - reading: It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… ... We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?) Next to the 'poetree' sat a paper egg lined with gold and a scatter of words which, when put together, make "A Trace of Wings" by Edwin Morgan.
art  inspiration  sculpture  literature  library  from delicious
september 2011
London Disorder - Operation Withern - a set on Flickr
Operation Withern's priority is to bring to justice those who have committed violent and criminal acts. As the detailed and thorough investigation progresses we will be issuing photographs of people we want to speak with.<br />
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If anyone recognises individuals in the photographs or has any information about the violence and disorder that has occurred they should contact the Major Investigation Team on 020 8345 4142. Alternatively anyone can report crime and provide information anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
privacy  surveillance  flickr  people  police  images  london  riots  2011  from delicious
august 2011
Policies on Unused JISCMail Lists « UK Web Focus
Following the subsequent discussions I decided on the policy for unused lists which I owned: I disabled postings to the lists and updated the list description accordingly. For example the DNER-TECH list now states:<br />
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List to discuss technical issues relating to the establishment of the Distributed National Electronic Resource. These issues should particularly relate to inter-operability matters. Other topics may be introduced later. THIS LIST IS NOW CLOSED.<br />
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I have decided not to delete the unused lists as the lists I own tend to have been used to discuss various aspects of early developments of digital library initiatives in the sector and I feel that the issues which were discussed could provide information which may have some value from an historical perspective.
management  mailing  lists  e-mail  discussion  archives  procedures  closing  down  from delicious
august 2011
# Li, Ninghui privacy - Google Scholar
2012  World  Wide  Web  conference  security  privacy  track  committee  from delicious
august 2011
Koved, Larry security - Google Scholar
2012  World  Wide  Web  Conference  security  privacy  track  committee  from delicious
august 2011
# Chen, Shuo privacy - Google Scholar
2012  World  Wide  Web  Conference  security  privacy  track  committee  from delicious
august 2011
Elisa Bertino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elisa Bertino is currently publishing about role based access control.<br />
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She recently published: Identity Management: Concepts, Technologies, and Systems
2012  world  wide  web  conference  security  privacy  track  committee  from delicious
august 2011
# Adida, Ben - Google Scholar
Ben works at:<br />
Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.<br />
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He is on the program for security and privacy at WWW2012
privacy  conference  world  wide  web  2012  from delicious
august 2011
www2012 » Security and privacy
Security, privacy, trust and abuse<br />
Today’s Web is about connecting people and amplifying the power of working together. The mixing of technology and social interaction is occurring in the context of a wave of technologies supporting rapid development of these interpersonal and business interactions. Â However, there are issues with respect to management of identities, reputation, privacy, anonymity, transient and long term relationships, and composition of function and content, both on the server side and at the client (web browser).<br />
We welcome original high-quality research submissions related to all aspects of Web security and privacy, including, but not limited to, the following topics :<br />
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* Legal and legislative approaches to issues of Web security and privacy
privacy  identity  world  wide  web  2012  conference  call  papers  from delicious
august 2011
Doc Searls Weblog · Beyond caveat emptor
So let’s say we can construct trusted relationships with sellers. By we I mean you and me, as individuals. How about if we have our own terms of engagement with sellers—ones that express our intentions, and not just theirs? What might we say? How about,<br />
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* You will put nothing on my computer or browser other than what we need for our relationship.<br />
* Any data you collect in the course of our relationship can be shared with me.<br />
* You can combine my data with other data and share it outside our relatinship, provided it is not PII (Personally Identifiable Information).<br />
* If we cease our relationship, you can keep my data but not associate any PII with that data.<br />
* You will also not follow my behavior or accumulate data about me for the purposes of promotion or advertising unless I opt into that. Nor will your affiliates or partners.
privacy  asymetrical  relationships  asymetary  advertising  tracking  simple  from delicious
august 2011
Research whisperer visibility metrics on HowSociable
A way to track how visible your brand is on social media. Links through to the people that have retweeted, liked, etc, your posts.
research  whisperer  social  medai  metrics  measurement  visability  from delicious
august 2011
Creating Mail Merge Documents From Text/CSV or Spreadsheets - OpenOffice.org Wiki
Creating Merge Documents From Text/CSV or Spreadsheets<br />
Step by step instructions to create a simple merge document in Open Office
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august 2011
You Are Not Alone – You Do Not Live In A Vacuum! « UK Web Focus
This provided an interesting visual way of presenting the ways in which creative work is not done in isolation – we are all influenced by others. In particular I feel that users of Twitter may be influenced by their engagement on the service
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july 2011
RMIT - Salary schedules
RMIT salary schedules and pay rates. Includes academic annual salaries, as well as hourly rates. Hourly rates are listed in the different increment pages.
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july 2011
Add weeks to a date (View topic) • OpenOffice.org Community Forum
If you want to add/subtract days, months or years to a given date (day number) then you should use DATE(#year;#month;#day). Each of the 3 numeric arguments can be positive or negative integer or even zero.<br />
For instance<br />
=DATE(2008;3;0) returns the last day of February 2008 (zeroth of March)<br />
=DATE(YEAR(A1)+1;MONTH(A1);DAY(A1)) adds one year to the date (day number) in A1.<br />
=DATE(YEAR(A1);MONTH(A1)+1;0) returns the last day of the month from the date (day number) in A1.
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june 2011
[Solved] Calculate date for second Tuesday of month (View topic) • OpenOffice.org Community Forum
I am looking to calculate the date for the second Tuesday (for example) of any given month. <br />
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The Kth Zday of MM in YYYY where Z:Sun=1 Mon=7 Tue=6 Wed=5 Thu=4 Fri=3 Sat=2 is =DATE(YYYY;MM;7*K)-WEEKDAY(DATE(YYYY;MM;Z);3). So the second Tuesday of this month is =DATE(2010;12;14)-WEEKDAY(DATE(2010;12;6);3).
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june 2011
Dropbox bug drops passwords, underscoring the cloud’s risks | VentureBeat
Cloud storage service Dropbox disclosed Monday that all of its users’ files were publicly accessible for nearly four hours on Sunday due a bug in the company’s authentication mechanism. From 1:54 p.m. to 5:41 p.m., anyone could access a Dropbox account without using the correct password. “This should never have happened,” Dropbox co-founder and CTO Arash Ferdowsi wrote on the company blog. “We are scrutinizing our controls and we will be implementing additional safeguards to prevent this from happening again.” With 25 million members, Dropbox has emerged as a leader in the growing niche of cloud-storage sites, but the privacy snafu could harm its reputation as a secure place to store files. It also underscores the security risks of cloud services: When all of your files are stored on another company’s servers, can you trust that company to keep your data safe? Many large enterprises have held off on moving documents and services to the cloud because of such concerns.
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june 2011
Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone - NYTimes.com
Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived.<br />
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Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies.<br />
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A commuter in the New York area who verbally tangled with a conductor last Tuesday — and defended herself by asking “Do you know what schools I’ve been to and how well-educated I am?” — was publicly identified after a fellow rider posted a cellphone video of the encounter on YouTube. The woman, who had gone to N.Y.U., was ridiculed by a cadre of bloggers, one of whom termed it the latest episode of “Name and Shame on the Web.”
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june 2011
Student Opinion | Do You Worry About the Lack of Anonymity in the Digital Age? - NYTimes.com
In several incidents recently, regular citizens have found themselves involved in news events – and then publicly identified, thanks to technology. What do you think about cases like this? How do you think it might feel if the world knew who you were after you were caught on camera? Do you ever worry about your ability to remain anonymous, if that is what you want?<br />
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In the article “Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone,” Brian Stelter notes that the Internet has shifted away from fostering anonymity and toward killing it, because of “pervasive social media services, cheap cellphone cameras, free photo and video Web hosts, and perhaps most important of all, a change in people’s views about what ought to be public and what ought to be private.”
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june 2011
Social Networking Sites and Our Lives - Pew Research Center
Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project decided to examine SNS in a survey that explored people's overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement.
facebook  pew  research  twitter  statistics  trust  community  myspace  social  media  networking  USA  from delicious
june 2011
Pennsylvania districts lose cases over MySpace parodies - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that two Pennsylvania school districts violated the First Amendment by punishing students who created offensive "parody" profiles on MySpace.<br />
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The ruling did not address the question of when districts can punish students for off-campus speech.<br />
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"It would be an unseemly and dangerous precedent to allow the state, in the guise of school authorities, to reach into a child's home and control his/her actions there to the same extent that it can control that child when he/she participates in school-sponsored activities," the 14 judges of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a unanimous decision upholding a lower court ruling in the lawsuit brought by a Mercer County student against Hermitage School District.
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june 2011
Facebook’s ‘Face Recognition’ Feature Draws Privacy Inquiries - NYTimes.com
European Union data protection regulators said on Wednesday that they would investigate Facebook over a feature that uses face-recognition software to suggest people’s names to tag in pictures without their permission, and a privacy group in the United States said that it planned to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the feature.<br />
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A group of privacy watchdogs drawn from the European bloc’s 27 nations will study the measure for possible rule violations, said Gérard Lommel, a Luxembourg member of the so-called Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Authorities in Britain and Ireland said they are also looking into the photo-tagging function on the world’s most popular social networking service.
facial  recognition  facebook  privacy  technology  online  EU  USA  public  social  network  2011  from delicious
june 2011
Online privacy: California Senate fails to pass online privacy bill - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Sacramento -- A push by law enforcement and consumer groups to allow parents to restrict their children's personal information on social networking sites and limit disclosure about adults has stalled in the Legislature amid aggressive lobbying by Facebook, Google, Twitter and other firms.<br />
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The businesses oppose legislation that would require them to promptly remove adults' personal information from sites upon request and allow parents to edit their kids' web postings to exclude information such as home addresses and phone numbers.
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june 2011
Taking the Mystery Out of Web Anonymity - NYTimes.com
Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation’s cyberczar, offered the Obama administration’s proposal to make the Web a safer place — a “voluntary trusted identity” system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled into one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential linked to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.<br />
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The idea is to create a federation of private online identity systems. Users could select which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems. The approach contrasts with one that would require a government-issued Internet driver’s license. (Civil liberties groups oppose a government system, fearful that it could lead to national identity cards.)
public  privacy  internet  security  trust  identity  identification  2010  obama  crime  anonymity  from delicious
june 2011
China’s Human Flesh Search Engine - Not what you might think it is… | China Supertrends
The types of group-forming he [Shirky] describes are sometimes called crowdsourcing and flash mobs. For those of us in China, we might better know crowdsourcing as the Human Flesh Search Engine, the increasingly frequent phenomenon of online crowds gathering via China’s bulletin board systems, chat rooms, and instant messaging to collaborate on a common task. The Human Flesh Search Engine shares many of the same characteristics of Shirky’s networked social collaboration: Enabled and made cost-effective by technology, channeling an existing motivation that was not possible to act upon as a group before.
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june 2011
Alice Xin Liu on the human flesh search engine | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
A good way to illustrate this kind of ignorance is a bizarre phenomenon that has recently struck China: the "human flesh search engine" ("Ren rou sou suo ying qing" in Chinese). It refers to an internet mob that hunts down real people online, then verbally abuses them and publishes the victim's private information. In 2007, when Jiang Yan, the wife of Wang Fei, a Beijing resident, jumped to her death from her flat's window after finding out that her husband was having an affair, she left behind her blog. The contents of this "death blog" were quickly posted online. Another website, "Migrating bird flying north", was set up by a relative and dedicated to Jiang Yan's "injustice". Many netizens vehemently abused Wang Fei after reading posts copied from that website. Then they traced Wang Fei's home address and other private information, and continued the harassment in real life. Wang subsequently sued the portals that disseminated posts about the "death blog".
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june 2011
Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing | Beyond The Beyond
Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath.<br />
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The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.<br />
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There is no portal specially designed for human-flesh searching; the practice takes place in Chinese Internet forums like Mop, where the term most likely originated.
public  private  privacy  human  flesh  search  engine  china  wired  sterling  from delicious
june 2011
The New “Publicness,” the New (Networked) Privacy, and Youth Expression | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Brian Stelter’s recent analysis in The New York Times of the lack of privacy in our new, networked world—“Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone”—is a measured account of the power of social networking and other online connections in our lives. It uses several recent examples of how apparently anonymous people—from a haughty New York commuter and rioters (and a kissing couple) caught on camera during the recent riots in Vancouver to the women who were tweeting with Anthony Weiner—were all quickly identified by the efforts of ordinary, if enterprising, web users who tracked their digital footprints
public  digital  education  literacy  media  online  privacy  from delicious
june 2011
Before and after: Japan rebuilds after tsunami | thetelegraph.com.au
JAPAN is slowly - slowly - rebuilding after March's devastating earthquake and tsunami.<br />
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Before and after images show progress is being made. But they also reveal just how far the crippled nation has to go.
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june 2011
Capture a Screen Shot with Mac OS X
# To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program.<br />
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# To capture a portion of the desktop, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop.<br />
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# To capture a specific application window, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
mac  osx  tips  how  to  apple  screen  capture  tools  from delicious
june 2011
What’s the electricity forecast for Tokyo today? | OurWorld 2.0
This practical online forecast system (which is still beta) lets you know the current percentage of available electricity that is being used and gives you a forecast for the next six hours. The data used to prepare the forecast is pulled directly from the website of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which is incidentally the same company responsible for the present nuclear predicament and the reason electricity supply is still short.<br />
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As we look at the forecast for today, the demand is wavering around the 74 to 79% level and all indicators are, positively, green. As electricity demand is predicted to go higher, the forecast changes colour to yellow. Then, as we get nearer to 100%, the indicators go red. If you have signed up to follow the predictions via Twitter and Mixi (Japan’s Facebook-like site) then you will get regular updates and you can take action if necessary.
energy  japan  forecast  2011  our  world  2.0  nautilus  electricity  from delicious
june 2011
Social networking sites and our lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people’s overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement.
social  research  internet  media  statistics  pew  USA  2011  from delicious
june 2011
thorfinn | iPhone 4 (and 3GS) Fu FAQ
Google Cloud Setup Details<br />
1. If you don't already have mail and calendar set up, do that at https://mail.google.com/ and https://calendar.google.com/ respectively.<br />
2. See GMail Managing Contacts Help for setting up GMail Contacts. Make sure you upload or enter all your existing contacts to there before you try and synchronise things.<br />
3. Follow this help page on Enabling IMAP in Gmail to turn on IMAP.<br />
4. Set up your iPhone using instructions from here Mail, Calendar, & Contacts: Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync Help<br />
5. Set up your computer to sync your email using IMAP too: GMail IMAP help<br />
6. And for syncing your Calendar to your computer too: Google Calendar Sync Help<br />
7. And if you're using a Mac, Apple Address Book Google Contacts Sync Help tells you how to synchronise your Address Book to Google Contacts. I'm not sure if there's anything available under Windows to synchronise the computer's address book directly to Google Contacts (someone let me know if there is).
iphone  tips  apple  google  cloud  setup  from delicious
june 2011
Archive Team
HISTORY IS OUR FUTURE<br />
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And we've been trashing our history<br />
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Archive Team is a loose collectives of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. Along the way, we've gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we've gotten the message out: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.<br />
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This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction.
archive  internet  backup  history  data  archives  web  preservation  from delicious
june 2011
The stegosaurus strategy « The Thesis Whisperer
The student was so angry he wanted this person could be kept off his review panel. He was somewhat taken aback when I suggested that such a person was actually ideal in that role. While I agreed that it was uncool for the person to be nasty in the way he gave the criticism, I saw no lasting harm if criticism was all it was. Yes, it would be difficult to have such a prickly, critical person as your primary supervisor, but having such people around does keep you on your toes and can be good for you.<br />
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The problem was that this student was used to collaborative, supportive workplaces where people worked towards common goals. He failed to understand that just about all of academia is in a state of endless, polite warfare. Arguing is the academic’s raison d’etre and spending time fighting this tendency is wasted energy.
criticism  toughen  up  research  thesis  whisperer  academic  from delicious
june 2011
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