'the transparency movement'
Making Government Transparent and Accountable - SunlightFoundation.com [Disarranging Mine]exploring digital data
Network&Society[renascens.com]Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life...
'a step closer'
Toward the Semantic WebIf the current Web is like a giant text file - which you can search for instances of particular words – the Semantic Web would be like a database, where every item of information is categorized, and new queries can combine categories in any imaginable way. You could, for instance, search the Web for a restaurant within a mile of a railway station in a town with a theater that offers vegetarian lasagna and at least one lamb dish. And if you wanted the restaurant’s menu, you could pull up just the menu – not page after page of review sites that happened to use the word "menu."
live traffic cam datasets
TfL Live Traffic Cameras | London DataStore (see usage example) [Simon Willison]'free form data organization'
TreeSheets[Trivium]The ultimate replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases.
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Is your data safe? (2)
- Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.
- Official Google Enterprise Blog: Keeping your data safe
This attack may understandably raise some questions, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share some additional information and assure you that Google is introducing additional security measures to help ensure the safety of your data.
- Google's half-truths and a plea for perspective
Coordinated enough to get at GMail’s internal data store, if only the one with e-mail headers. If that doesn’t scare you, it should. What Google does with their .cn site is relatively minor news.
Is your data safe?
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable[Simon Willison's Weblog]Facebook and MySpace fixed this quickly after being notified...
'stretching the law'
Net firms start storing user dataDetails of user e-mails, website visits and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive...
UK government is watching you!
Social network sites 'monitored' – "It is part of a plan to store details of all phone calls, e-mails and websites visited on a central database..."'minimalist data visualization'
The Falling TimesBeware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.
company denies security breach
Monster attack steals user dataUS job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen...
