Comparing Approaches to Information Filtering for Relevance by @ScepticGeek Useful taxonomy of strategies to determine relevance within different search and serendipity structures. (tags: serendipity search… Read More »links for 2010-09-02
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space.… Read More »Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Note: two updates at the end of this post. I’m not very active in local politics. I follow international news more closely than the news… Read More »Media attention and dysfunction – a recipe for political cynicism?
This week featured ferocious clashes in Mogadishu between Somalia’s fledgling federal government and Al Shabab, an Islamist militia with ties to Al Qaeda. Al Shabab… Read More »Increased US engagement in Somalia – it’s a trap!
Trapped in the Anglosphere, we've lost sight of next door | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian Powerful essay on "the anglosphere"… Read More »links for 2010-08-25
YProductions Interesting mapping essay, with a good example on constrained urban environments by Chombart de Lauwe, who tracked the movements of a student in 19th… Read More »links for 2010-08-19