Information+and+Society

=Information and Society=

This is a page of fun links realted to how we gather information about ourselves and our society.

Net Vibes
@http://www.netvibes.com/en Net vibes is, quite simply the most powerful tool I know of for organizing the information that we find most important in our lives. How does it work? When you log into Net vibes you are given an environment where you can create dashboard. These dashboards can be automatically created or created much like a wikki. What is powerful is that you can have multiple dashboards used for a number of purposes. For instance, if you were researching Guatemalan coffee, you could set up an automatic dashboard that scans blogs and tweets in the web for all things related to Guatemalan coffee. Netvibes will then create a handsome dashboard that collates this information. You can also customize your dahsboard so that it collects and takes care of your face-books, email, tweets, blogs and favorite websites! In one word Mash-awesome-able = = =The Wilderness Downtown= [] This is an example of where I believe the information surrounding web design, art and information will also come together. In this interactive web art/music experience you are asked to enter the address where you grew up. The artistry will envelope you in a world based off google map images of the place you grew up. Best viewed in Chrome! Also Check out this TED talk with Aaron Koblin who developed the technology for this project. media type="custom" key="9951167"

=Google Books= @http://books.google.com/ This is an amazing and expansive project undertaken by goole in collaboration with leading university libraries across the world. This projet works by taking books that are out of print and scanning them. After they are scanned, they are uploaded to google books and ready for consumption on your e-reader. Google is now working with publishers to get books available even sooner. Once again, technology is giving us new ways to deal consume information.