GIS met Google via Fusion Tables. Helaas alleen op wereld niveau.
Download van Worldbank aantal cell subcribers and internet user per 100. Dit is een van de twee kaarten:
Internet users
Link http://tables.googlelabs.com/DataSource?snapid=68220
Cell phones
link http://tables.googlelabs.com/DataSource?snapid=68219
Joikushop http://www.joikushop.com/ verbindt tablet HP TC1100 running Ubuntu via Nokia E71 met KPN internet.Screenshots E71 met http://www.antonypranata.com/screenshot/
The Dutch election campaigns were world news….on Twitter. Political leaders of various parties discussed on RTL, a commercial broadcaster, the political problems ranging from economic issues like the government deficit to the integration of minorities. The public responded to these debates on Twitter, using the hashtag #rtldebat.Twitterati were just commenting on the debates; expressing one liners, informing others about the debates, referring to news about the debates on other media etc. The number of tweets was so big that the topic became a trending topic, reaching at his peak more than 10.000 tweets per hour. That is 3 per second. In two hours (from 20.30-22.30) 7000 persons sent 30.000 tweets. (http://twittermania.nl/2010/05/twitter-de-ban-van-premiersdebat/) The response of the politicians in this debate on Twitter was small, none of the politicians answered the tweets.
Academic research about Twitter reveals some important characteristics of the topology of the social network. The impression that the tweets are sent from a closely connected network, representing a virtual community is wrong. Participants are sending there tweets to followers. These followers could respond, re-sent the message, or send their own. But the questions is whether this process of communication represents a debate within a structured community?
Beirut 29-30 January
Mediterranean Conference on Censorship in the Arab World
Let me start with two examples in order to get problem of internet and censorship clear.
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
Every year more than hundred graduated students in journalism enter the labor market looking for a job. These are bad times to find a job in newspaper journalism. Newspapers loose every year around 1-2% of their subscribers; advertising is going down, and finally they are giving away their content for free on their website. Why bother to buy an newspaper or subscribe? Published on Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2010/06/saving-journalism-by-paying-for-impressions-not-words/
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Twitter works for journalists as an alert system and becomes an interesting source in cases where the news develops so fast that the media are not able to cover it. But is there any wisdom in the Twitter cloud? Published in Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2010/05/searching-for-%ef%bb%bfwisdom-in-the-twitter-cloud/
