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Sustainable development and prime directives
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The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development left billions of people disenchanted, disenfranchised, disappointed, and disgusted with a future no-one wants.Of particular importance is the fact…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Keith Hart Aug 1, 2012.
The next thing in internet search: cultural context?
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See the article online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1179784023 November 2010Last updated at 09:32 GMT. Why the future of search…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by John McCreery Dec 6, 2010.
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Milton Ponson posted a discussionSustainable development and prime directives
The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development left billions of people disenchanted, disenfranchised, disappointed, and disgusted with a future no-one wants.Of particular importance is the fact that indigenous peoples and other vulnerable groups around the world feel that the New Green Economy will rob them of their traditional lands, livelihood and rights, and in the process destroys entire cultures and constitutes a de facto genocide by subtle means.The land grabbing for utilization of…See More
John McCreery replied to Milton Ponson's discussion The next thing in internet search: cultural context?"Keith, I am totally with you on this. Cultural analysis detached from concrete social relations is missing a vital component. I learned that from Vic Turner. What is exciting about some of the new tools is that the output isn't categories.…"
"What is old is the idea that specialists generate the categories through which we, the punters, find what we want: librarians, marketing agencies, anonymous search algorithms. What is new is the possibility that we can find what we want more…"
John McCreery replied to Milton Ponson's discussion The next thing in internet search: cultural context?""but, as a concept it is not."
Hal Walsh, who taught philosophy at Michigan State back in the 1960s, asserted that there are, in the whole of Western thought, no more than 75 truly original ideas and most have been around for a long, long…"
M Izabel replied to Milton Ponson's discussion The next thing in internet search: cultural context?"I remember before one could make his own front or welcome page for AOL. The pesky marketing e-mails I got were related to what I put on my page. I agree semantic web, as a whole technology/system, is new, but as a concept, it is not. Also, there are…"
Francine Barone replied to Milton Ponson's discussion The next thing in internet search: cultural context?"There are certainly precursors to some of this in older web technologies and services, but I agree that, on the whole, this is new. Semantic web technologies, cultural profiling (including by less than accurate IP localization, like when I get UK…"
John McCreery replied to Milton Ponson's discussion The next thing in internet search: cultural context?"This is new. When AOL categorized cyber interactions in the 1990s, they didn't have much to work with besides existing stereotypes. Data mining and network analysis have come a long way since then. Instead of feeble categorization in terms of a…"
Milton Ponson replied to Mitchell Jones's discussion The roots of violence."If you want to answer this question completely you must ask yourself if violence is unique humans and if not then what type of violence can be distinguished?
The answer is violence is not unique to humans, primates like chimpanzees and bottle-nose…"
M Izabel replied to Milton Ponson's discussion The next thing in internet search: cultural context?"This is not new. Social Science did not do anything when AOL in the nineties categorized cyber interactions that resulted to real relationships according to color, size, ethnicity, belief, sexuality, fetish, etc."
Milton Ponson posted a discussionThe next thing in internet search: cultural context?
See the article online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-1179784023 November 2010Last updated at 09:32 GMT. Why the future of search is socialBy Mark WardTechnology correspondent, BBC News .Internet search so far has been based on content search,with little attention to context and no attention to user values.Social media and social networking sites feature functionality which is user defined and context based, and in some cases…See More
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