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The Evolution of Trust
The Evolution of Trust
During World War I, peace broke out. It was Christmas 1914 on the Western Front. Despite strict orders not to chillax with the enemy, British and German soldiers left their trenches, crossed No Man's Land, and gathered to bury their dead, exchange gifts, and play games. Meanwhile: it's 2017, the West has been at peace for decades, and wow, we suck at trust. Surveys show that, over the past forty years, fewer and fewer people say they trust each other. So here's our puzzle: Why, even in peacetime, do friends become enemies? And why, even in wartime, do enemies become friends? I think game theory can help explain our epidemic of distrust – and how we can fix it!
#game#games#gametheory
·ncase.me·
The Evolution of Trust
The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet | HuffPost
The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet | HuffPost
Kubrick, the template that launched millions of beautiful blogs and helped transform the Internet, is expected to be retired mid-year as the default theme for the popular WordPress blogging platform. The half-life of any innovation in the virtual world, no matter how important, is short — though in Kubrick’s case, it’s been a happy life. It’s been the fallback theme on the rapidly growing WordPress since 2005, when young Danish technology whiz Michael Heilemann created the simple blue and white blog template at his family farmhouse north of Copenhagen.  
#history#wordpress
·huffingtonpost.com·
The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet | HuffPost
"An investigation into local government's ideal role in enhancing commu" by Susan Anne Savage
"An investigation into local government's ideal role in enhancing commu" by Susan Anne Savage
In many parts of the world, local government is grappling with a transition - from managing the development and maintenance of local infrastructure, delivery of essential services and economic governance - to responding to the cultural and social needs expressed by their community. Residents want the opportunity to discuss inspirational needs including living in a place that offers cultural engagement that is ‘liveable’ and is attractive/interactive offering public art and cultural amenity. So, while development and support of the creative industries has not featured highly in the work of local government in the past, it may now become desirable, to work together with creative industries to enable local government to deliver what the community want. In response to local government's addressing this need, this research seeks to answer the question: What is local government’s ideal role in enhancing community liveability via creative industries and how might its contributions be identified and made visible to both justify and maximise them? It was proposed that this research phenomena may be best understood through the lens of Social Capital Theory as it is assumed that it is “the social networks, trust and connections within communities that ultimately help to improve social, physical and economic conditions as well as the lives and life chances of those where it exists” Westwood (2011:691). At the ‘grassroots’ level of government it is understood that community relationships and social capital are critical to the success of local government engagement, decision making and service delivery. As such, the focus of the research from its question through to its data collection was on understanding the interconnections between the key stakeholders, the activities they undertake and the emergent outcomes for community.
#resnetsem
·ro.uow.edu.au·
"An investigation into local government's ideal role in enhancing commu" by Susan Anne Savage
Serial and how to tell a long story well. – Creative Business Leadership
Serial and how to tell a long story well. – Creative Business Leadership
Serial’s story is intricate, complicated and spans many years. It involves dozens of people and a dizzying array of data: dates, names, titles, legal jargon and procedural ephemera. How does Serial construct a any narrative out of this birds’ nest of input, let alone one which has kept listeners engaged, episode after episode? Part of the answer is structure. Telling a long and complicated story involves a set of decisions about what to tell first, next and last. In Serial’s long and winding case, the choice of what topics to cover in each episode is crucial. Early episodes concentrate on introducing the people involved and telling their stories, setting up the case’s unanswered questions. The middle episodes follow the narrator’s attempts at investigating the story, in a roughly chronological fashion. The final episodes provide us with expert opinions and nuances on information previously offered, leading us to a conclusion. The structure is not hidden from the listener. Instead it’s regularly referred to, most memorably at the start of the final episode when the man convicted of the murder, Adnan Syed, tells Koenig, “I’m worried you don’t have an ending.”
#Storytelling#resnetsem
·creativebusinessleadership.com·
Serial and how to tell a long story well. – Creative Business Leadership
What’s Next for Louise Delage, Instagram’s Most Fascinating Fraud – Adweek
What’s Next for Louise Delage, Instagram’s Most Fascinating Fraud – Adweek
Last summer, for an organization called Addict Aide, Paris agency BETC invented a character named Louise Delage. The fictional woman appeared on Instagram and cleaned up on followers in a handful of weeks. (She still has over 110,000 as of this writing.) Her life was glamorous and beautiful, and people ate it up. But a little over a month after her Instagram debut, a video appeared on her account that revealed the truth. Louise’s entire Insta universe was actually a campaign about alcohol addiction.
#socialmedia#instagram#dipp#identity
·adweek.com·
What’s Next for Louise Delage, Instagram’s Most Fascinating Fraud – Adweek
Fall on Vimeo
Fall on Vimeo
A falling man finds peace in his fate as a he learns to let go of emotion, sensation and his physical body. His impact on the city and people below is felt if only for a brief moment.
#video#film#animation#ds106
·vimeo.com·
Fall on Vimeo
Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently — Quartz
Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently — Quartz
Did you start at the top or bottom? Clockwise or counterclockwise? New data show that the way you draw a circle holds clues about where you come from. In November, Google released an online game called Quick, Draw!, in which users have 20 seconds to draw prompts like “camel” and “washing machine.” It’s fun, but the game’s real aim is to use those sketches to teach algorithms how humans draw. By May this year, the game had collected 50 million unique drawings. We used the public database from Quick, Draw! to compare how people draw basic shapes around the world. Our analysis suggests that the way you draw a simple circle is linked to geography and cultural upbringing, deep-rooted in hundreds of years of written language, and significant in developmental psychology and trends in education today.
#culture#language
·qz.com·
Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently — Quartz
Minimal Computing ·
Minimal Computing ·
We envision this web space as a place for thought pieces on minimal computing, examples and how-to pieces, listings of events and resources, and as a place to find collaborators. Please watch this space for further developments.
#computing#small
·go-dh.github.io·
Minimal Computing ·
Open Doors 2017
Open Doors 2017
A unique chance for you to see behind the scenes at major ‘live’ construction sites across England, Scotland and Wales.
#construction#issi
·opendoors.construction·
Open Doors 2017
Open Data - Libraries.io
Open Data - Libraries.io
Libraries.io gathers data from 33 package managers and 3 source code repositories. We track over 2.4m unique open source projects, 25m repositories and 85m interdependencies between them. This gives Libraries.io a unique understanding of open source software. An understanding that we want to share with you. This page contains information on how to download, use and redistribute data from Libraries.io.
#data#library#open
·libraries.io·
Open Data - Libraries.io
A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic | History | Smithsonian
A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic | History | Smithsonian
What do Barack Obama, the sloth from Zootopia, and a bear waving its paw have in common? All were named “most popular in 2016” for that most zeitgeist-y of Internet memes: animated GIFs. Since their creation 30 years ago, the looping clips have followed a rocky path to stardom, going from ubiquitous to repudiated and back again. Whether you love them or decry their infantilizing impact on language, it’s impossible to go long without seeing them on the news, social media, or even in office Slack rooms. Thanks to the humble GIF, no emotions are too big or small to capture in animated image form.
#gif#history
·smithsonianmag.com·
A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic | History | Smithsonian
Social Cooling
Social Cooling
If you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior.   Big Data is supercharging this effect.  This could limit your desire to take risks or exercise free speech.   Over the long term these 'chilling effects' could 'cool down' society.
#privacy#data#dipp#netnarr
·socialcooling.com·
Social Cooling
Plickers
Plickers
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices
#mobile#assessment
·plickers.com·
Plickers
Making A WordPress Plugin That Uses Service APIs — Smashing Magazine
Making A WordPress Plugin That Uses Service APIs — Smashing Magazine
We will walk through how I made GitHub Pipeline, a plugin that allows you to display data from the GitHub API on WordPress pages using shortcodes. I’ll give specific examples and code snippets, but consider the technique described here a blueprint for how to consume any service API with a plugin.
#php#plugin#wordpress#github
·smashingmagazine.com·
Making A WordPress Plugin That Uses Service APIs — Smashing Magazine
Mapbox
Mapbox
The location platform for developers and designers APIs for maps, geocoding, driving directions, and more
#apps#maps#tools
·mapbox.com·
Mapbox
Connect | Share | Adopt
Connect | Share | Adopt
The Online Learning Exchange has been setup to house a number of resources to support the scale up of the Online Learning Model. The site provides detailed information about the Online Learning Model itself and expands on the seven elements - Learning Communities, Interaction Between Students, Teacher Presence, Interaction with the Professions, Flexible & Adaptive Learning, Interactive Resources and E-Assessment.
#learning#online#eco#issi
·uimagine.edu.au·
Connect | Share | Adopt
A Child Who Survived | Book View Cafe Blog
A Child Who Survived | Book View Cafe Blog
The vapid statement “the creative adult is the child who survived” is currently being attributed to me by something called Aiga — https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design-quote-creative-adult-is-child-who-survived-ursula-le-guin/ which is “supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.” I wasn’t able to communicate with Aiga to ask them to take my name off their design. It probably wouldn’t do much good anyhow. A false attribution on the Internet is like box elder beetles, the miserable little things just keep breeding and tweeting and crawling out of the woodwork.
·bookviewcafe.com·
A Child Who Survived | Book View Cafe Blog
BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, The fun of work - really?
BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, The fun of work - really?
"I haven't been visiting schools and drowsing during headteachers' PowerPoint presentations for nothing this past quarter century", writes Will Self. "I know full-well that the purpose of both British education and British employment is the same: to keep us busy and purposive from cradle to grave". Will Self explores how the worlds of work and education have become seamlessly merged with each other.
#ideas#work#issi
·bbc.co.uk·
BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, The fun of work - really?