Community Newsletter November 2008 - Community News

Posted on 2008/11/27

** Conferences **
Ninth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations
24-27 June 2009, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
See: http://www.ManagementConference.com

Living, Reinvented: The Technology of Abundance and Constraints
OReilly Emerging Technology Conference
9-12 March 2009, San Jose, California, USA
See: http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/content/home

2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference
26-28 April 2000, San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco, California, USA
See: http://www.nten.org/ntc

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Sixth International Conference On Natural Language Processing
20-22 December 2008, Pune, India
See: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:42:60

How Obama Really Did It (video)

Jascha Franklin-Hodge, co-founder and chief technology officer of Blue State Digital, describes how the company helped create and manage Barack Obama's highly successful online social network.
See:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/index.aspx?id=21222&brightcove=1668487184&iframe=infotech&autoplay=true

Digging a Smarter Crowd (video)
By Erica Naone - Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Digg's new recommendation system relies on the wisdom of crowds.
Video by Digg/Vimeo/Kevin Rose
Digg, a popular social bookmarking website, began rolling out a recommendation engine late last week.
See:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/index.aspx?id=21045&brightcove=1653611761&iframe=infotech&autoplay=true

An Anthropological Introduction To Youtube (video)
Presented at the Library of Congress
Michael Wesch/YouTube This video explores the use of YouTube from a cultural and anthropological standpoint, focusing on user communities, how the service affects the lives of amateur videographers, and even how YouTube "stardom" can propel an individual or group into notoriety in the "real world."
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

OECD policy guidance for digital content
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
Appropriate policies can increase the contribution of digital content to growth and welfare and spread the benefits more widely. The objective of the principles in this document is to help provide and inform the context for policy discussion, policy analysis, review and development.
See: http://www.creative.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=226062

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