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World's tiniest open source violin
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/05/worlds-tiniest-open.html
Go fly a kite: Mapping the oil spill the open source way
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| Since arriving, we've managed to mobilize
| small teams of Gulf Coast residents,
| working with local nonprofit Louisiana
| Bucket Brigade. Thanks to the fishermen
| and charter boat captains whose livelihood
| is at stake, we've been able to get teams
| out on boats almost every day. Taken from
| balloons at as high as 1500 feet, our
| photography is of higher resolution and
| greater coverage than much of what the
| press has, and we're now coordinating a
| nationwide effort to stitch the imagery
| into map overlays, which will be viewable
| in Google Earth as well as more
| traditional GIS tools. Most importantly,
| the data we are collecting is released
| into the public domain and is available
| for free here.
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http://opensource.com/life/10/6/mapping-oil-spill-open-source-way
Open Data:
Where's my bus? Open data enables real-time route info for Boston riders
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| Traditionally, transit agencies are the
| sole source of bus information for
| consumers. Agencies build their own
| countdown signs, launch their own
| websites, and build their own smartphone
| applications to get information to
| customers. Following in the footsteps of
| the NWS, MassDOT and the Massachusetts Bay
| Transit Authority (MBTA) decided to open
| data for software developers for the first
| time in September 2009. Within two months,
| six trip planning applications had been
| built by developers including websites, a
| desktop widget, and smartphone apps. In
| Robinâs words, âThese were as good or
| better than anything we would have built
| on our own.â
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http://opensource.com/government/10/6/wheres-my-bus-open-data-enables-real-time-route-info-boston-riders
Government spending details published
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| The government has published millions of
| public spending data as part of what
| David Cameron says are efforts to lift its
| "cloak of secrecy".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10233240.stm
Open pharmaceutical innovation
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| When it comes to infectious diseases,
| sharing is generally discouraged. But
| recently, pharmaceutical giant
| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) opened up the
| designs behind 13,500 chemical compounds,
| which the company narrowed down from over
| two million, that may be capable of
| fighting malaria.
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| The process of determing which compounds
| could yield a malaria drug is time
| consuming and complex, but GSK hopes to
| inspire other researchers to pool their
| intellectual property and work together to
| develop new and better medicines to fight
| the diseases that are rampant in the
| worldâs poorest countries.
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http://opensource.com/business/10/2/open-pharmaceutical-innovation
Books:
What is data science?
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/what-is-data-science.html
"Hackers" at 25
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| It's been 25 years since "Hackers" was
| published. Author Steven Levy reflects on
| the book and the movement.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/hackers-at-25.htm
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