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3 March 2010

1. Pew Internet Survey 4

This a regular survey by the highly respected Pew Institute

This year they asked a bunch of experts to comment on some questions - including responding to the challenge thrown out by Nicholas Carr in a cover story for the Atlantic Monthly magazine in the summer of 2008 Is Google Making us Stupid?

Experts mostly say no

2. Onya Awards

The NZ Internet Awards winners and runners up. rs want to over some of the winners - including of course, Radio NZ

Bits and Bobs
Te Ara - online encyclopedia is launching a new section on 11 March, 2010 - Economy and the City.

17 February 2010

1. Citizen Science
This was a big discussion point at Foo Camp this last weekend

"Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation.

The use of citizen-science networks often allows scientists to accomplish research objectives more feasibly than would otherwise be possible. In addition, these projects aim to promote public engagement with the research, as well as with science in general. .."

source - wikipedia

Examples

1.1. SETI - the original one - lend your computer to a huge global experiment to find intelligent life in the heavens
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
1.2. Galaxy Zoo - help map the heavens - much more centered on getting people involved in the experiment
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
1.3. Great Sunflower Project
http://www.greatsunflower.org/
1.4 UK Herberai at Home
http://herbariaunited.org

General links about Citizen Science

2. Royal Society in NZ - and the global big 350th birthday
http://royalsociety.org/
http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/

3. Creative Commons in NZ

3 February 2010

Webstock - 15-19 Feburary

Web conference recognised as the best conference in New Zealand for web – web design and web projects. They bring in 25 of the best speakers on web in the world. Hugely popular with the web digerati.

Onyas - Webstock also features the first year of the Onyas NZ Web Awards.

Buddy Press - New addition to WordPress - the open source blogging tool which also has a mile of independent developers and designers contributing new tools, designs and services to the common pool of *'plugins*' to the main build. Some of which you pay for.

Library Thing - Library Thing is a great place to share your library collection - like a virtual book shelf. Then you can see what other people have on their shelves.

Legacy Library - This week saw the first New Zealand contribution to this part of LibraryThing which lets people/institutions make a digital library of historical figures in it's I See Dead People's Books collection.

Books from the Library of Charles Brasch -  The University of Otago Library did a lovely exhibition last year featuring the library of Charles Brasch. It would be good to see Brasch's library become one of the legacy libraries on Library Thing See the original online exhibition

Britain Loves Wikipedia - A project that involves 20 UK Museums and Wikipedia. People go to the Museum - take photographs of their favourite thngs - or at least the ones which it is okay to photograph - and then post them to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Loves Art

Digital Literacy - NZCS report

Report from New Zealand Computer Society claims that "A computer-savvy New Zealand could increase workforce productivity by $1.7 billion per year "

APNK - Aotearoa Peoples Network Kaharoa

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