François’s posterous

I love the pun of the title, the galactic representation, as well as the richness of the content, although quite small.
 

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Looking at the stats for his site, Thomas Baekdal comes up with a very interesting question ("Is Social Taking over Google?") and comes up with a germane observation:

The internet is more than simply good content. It has a become a communication platform, connecting people with content (reading), content with people (commenting), content with content (FriendFeed, RSS etc.), people with people (#followfriday), and most importantly, you with people (Twitter, Facebook), and people with you (@replies,delicious).

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The people at Baekdal Magazine have come up with a great story and graph tracing the history of media in the past two centuries.
 
http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Management/market-of-information/

(Via Philippe Gauthier: http://twitter.com/lpgauthier/status/1881377268)

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Typography, animation, creativity and music, what more can I ask for?

 (via Jonathan Boyer: http://twitter.com/jonathanboyer/status/1838625064)

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I got a good laugh from this picture taken from a New York Times article on concentration.

 http://bit.ly/tkOLa

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The AlloSphere is "a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries."
 

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Augmented reality will change the way we interact with our environment. The video below us a good idea of what it is (many thanks to Jacques Cool for pointing out the video). For more on augmented reality, look it up on YouTube.

 http://twitter.com/zecool/status/1544339461
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=augmented+reality&aq=f

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This is a must read, must see, must hear initiative: the YouTube Symphony Orchestra contest, mahsup and debut at Carnegie Hall.

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090415.wyoutube15art2242/BNStory/Entertainment/home
http://www.youtube.com/symphony

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This fascinating documentary "looks at network dynamics. The objective is to understand the common themes that different networks have both in the physical and social world. Some of the big hitters like Duncan Watts and Barabasi are featured here. Popular ideas like six degrees of separation is also investigated."
 
Source: GoldenSwamp
http://www.goldenswamp.com/2009/04/13/network-platform-integration-for-the-new-education/
 

 

 

 

(Many thanks to @profenhistoire for pointing this one out to me.)

http://twitter.com/profenhistoire/status/1636768463

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Technology, ironically, will certainly play a vital role in saving the planet. This is a promising approach by NASA and Cisco: "Planetary Skin proposes a unifying approach to monitoring, measuring, and managing rural environments, rural to urban interconnects, and urban environments."
 

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