3RD PUREDATA
June 29th, 2009 — 2:16am
O Pd é uma linguagem de programação própria para o desenvolvimento de aplicativos interativos, permitindo a manipulação do fluxo de dados em tempo-real. Mais info.
Archive for June 2009
Mapping violations of human rights with Ushahidi
June 29th, 2009 — 12:09am
One of the points raised by Prof. Nelson Brissac this semester was about the need for appropriation of existing technologies to the collective, breaking with the purely private use. Since then I have thought of how achieving it. Today, Howard Rheingold published a Videocast on Ushahidi project which is an excellent example how to do this. Ushahidi uses Google Maps to map violations of human rights through the collaboration of citizens reporters.
“Ushahidi, which means ”testimony” in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi’s roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.”
Digital Media and Learning
June 28th, 2009 — 9:59pm
“The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect a person’s sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically.”
