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Environmental Psychology
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Tag Archives: semantic web

Google the Gate Keeper

By gtdonovan | Published: 10.03.2009
A reminder that Google doesn’t really search “the web,” just a relatively narrow slice of it. From Threat Level: The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received a DMCA takedown notice targeting the site. The move is unexpected because, while the Pirate Bay is rife with pirated material, [...]
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Berners-Lee on the “insidious” quality of vertical integration

By gtdonovan | Published: 06.25.2009
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, on the “insidious” quality of vertical integration: The Web’s infrastructure can be thought of as composed of four horizontal layers; from bottom to top, they are the transmission medium, the computer hardware, the software, and the content. … I am more concerned about companies trying to take [...]
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outtake: governing the semantic web

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.14.2008
Another outtake from the article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state: In their pursuit of both national and homeland security as well as the creation of new markets, the state and corporations are engaging the free-flowing [...]
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(young) person of interest

By gtdonovan | Published: 04.07.2008
What would it look like if we were to situate young people in the growing semantic web? A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at some of the data mining programs currently underway at the Department of Homeland Security. In their report, GAO offer a “Typical Semantic Graph” which [...]
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