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Ann Blair on The History of Information

The history professor and author of Too Much to Know tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information…

Amazing read and historical perspective about transmission. Knowledge and information are actually very different concept :

“This book doesn’t actually focus on the term information but it talks about the institutions that made knowledge possible. Its first volume runs “From Gutenberg to Diderot” – in other words, mid-15th to mid-18th century. A second volume stretches “From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia”, from the mid-18th century to the 21st century.

Peter Burke is a great cultural historian who has worked on many different aspects of the transmission of knowledge – including, for example, how historians worked, or how ideas about good behaviour at court were transmitted. In this synthetic pair of books he explores the question: What were the institutions that were collecting, classifying, sorting and disseminating information?”

In our world now where information is everywhere, how you make sure that knowledge is still accessible ?

Curation is now not only a great means to express yourself but also an obvious path to become a gatekeeper and a qualitative filter.

This article gives an awesome perspective on an universal and eternal inspiring mission : transmission.

Learning in a Virtual World: Population Dynamics

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER) offer courses to healthcare providers around the globe.  The 2012.05.03 event was held in Second Life and broadcast via Livestream.

Harvest Boon - Homes - Dwell

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In the eastern Netherlands, resourceful recyclers 2012Architects have built a house almost entirely out of locally sourced scrap, from old billboards to broken umbrellas.

Top Ten Green Projects of 2012 - Ideas - Dwell

See on Scoop.it - Tools.Jam - Keys to Virtual Worlds

On April 19th, AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) announced the COTE Top Ten Green Project Awards: their selection of the most sustainable buildings across the country.

It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

Building sustainable data centers is hard… — especially if you’re trying to do it in office space in Houston. This and a few less obvious lessons were the takeaways from a panel on sustainable data centers at the Open compute Summit on Wednesday.

Organic Growth Puts America’s Universities to the Test | Organic Food Tips

Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) Assesses How Universities Will Meet Economic Demand with Future Organic Farmers

A New Home for Google’s SketchUp at Trimble

Trimble is transforming the way work is done through the application of innovative positioning. SketchUp will Enhance its Office-to-Field Platform

Fluidinfo » Blog Archive » Next-generation tagging

The model of information in Fluidinfo takes tagging to a new level. Over the last three months we’ve been hard at work building a user interface (UI) to make this possible. The two main additional properties of tagging with Fluidinfo are:

-You can tag anything at all, not just URLs.
- Tags can optionally be given values.

Webcaster Demo, with Audio

Brief demo of the Open Wonderland webcaster module, currently in development at the University of Essex. (Thanks to Robin Heyden)