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50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts from Around the World | The HostelBookers Blog
50 breakfasts from around the world:
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14 hours ago
Brompfication Products - Brompfication
21 hours ago
NASA - Sunset on Mars
Still one of my favourite images, this is sunset on Mars:
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22 hours ago
The Innovation City - July 18 & 19, 2012 - MaRS Discovery District, Toronto
Thanks! RT you might like these two conferences. www. &
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yesterday
The Data Effect |
Thanks! RT you might like these two conferences. www. &
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yesterday
Measuring Impact of Open Government Data – Open Data Research (South) Meeting Report Now Available – World Wide Web Foundation
yesterday
The Top 5 Ways to Access World Bank Data
RT : The Top 5 Ways to Access -
opendata  WorldBank  WBFinances  from twitter
yesterday
Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field: Scientific American
Are cows just magnets? RT When grazing or resting, cows tend to align themselves with Earth's magnetic field
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yesterday
Waterstones Oxford Street | Five Books About You - Stories Written in the Second-person
RT : Blog: Five Books About You - Stories Written in the Second-Person -
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yesterday
Unleash the power of open financial data – join the Development Data Challenge!
Aid, tech or transparency geek? Join the Development Data Challenge on June 1st in DC!
IATI  opendata  from twitter
yesterday
World History - YouTube
I can't recommend the "Crash Course in World History" enough: by informing, and entertaining at once.
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yesterday
Poverty & Equity
RT : : 95% of the Democratic Republic of Congo's population lives on less than $2 a day: 
DataoftheDay  from twitter
2 days ago
Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/text-mining-research-tool-forbidden#start-of-comments)
"What do academic publishers have against text mining?" on and cc
opendata  openaccess  from twitter
2 days ago
BBC News - Waterstones to sell Amazon's Kindle book reader
RT : As we're going to sell the Kindle soon (), we need a new, non-Amazon enemy. We'll be holding au ...
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2 days ago
White House launches new digital government strategy - O'Reilly Radar
2 days ago
GosTalk 1 - Ideas Are Worthless on Vimeo
2 days ago
(404) http://t.co/u0wX56
RT : How will International Aid Transparency Initiative impact development? Answer at next Technology Salon ...
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2 days ago
Untitled (http://api.worldbank.org/countries/all/indicators/SP.POP.TOTL?format=csv)
doh! you can already do it. Just add "?format=csv" to the end of the API call: Not "flat" though...
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2 days ago
Indicator Queries | Data
BTW: You can also get a JSON version via the API: Special reason for wanting CSV?
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2 days ago
The end of fish, in one chart - The Washington Post
Just. Damn. "The end of fish, in one chart"
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2 days ago
Population, total | Data | Table
OK, so CSV download option here? Bulk CSV download for those is also available:
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2 days ago
Data Catalog | Data
OK, so CSV download option here? Bulk CSV download for those is also available:
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2 days ago
Twitter / tkb: @african_minute @krmaher -
- you're famous! On the intranet!
opendta  from twitter
2 days ago
Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool? | Science | guardian.co.uk
2 days ago
U.S. Launches Digital Roadmap To Open Up Government Data And Court Developers | TechCrunch
2 days ago
Adulting
2 days ago
Erik Johansson Photo & Retouch – Personal work
"The impossible photography of Erik Johansson"
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2 days ago
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
"Slinky on a treadmill" is a surprisingly emotional video:
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2 days ago
EV'ing through Africa | MetaFilter
Frenchman Xavier Chevrin is driving an electric car 3,000 miles through Africa, from Nairobi to Johannesburg:
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2 days ago
Governance and Development: Tax Inspectors Without Borders: A Seriously Good Idea
RT : Tax Inspectors Without Borders - a seriously good idea
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3 days ago
BBC News - Wingsuit flyer dives through hole in Chinese mountain
Holy Shittake: "Wingsuit flyer dives through hole in Chinese mountain"
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3 days ago
Mapping for Results | Openness for Whom? and Openness for What? | The World Bank
"Openness for Whom? and Openness for What?" Soren from on open development: cc
opendev  opendata  from twitter
3 days ago
Presidential Innovation Fellows | The White House
RT : .: recruiting 15 "innovation fellows" to help :
opengov  gov20  tcdisrupt  from twitter
3 days ago
World Bank Search - Projects API
is this of any use?
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3 days ago
(404) http://t.co/sOZ
RT : 'Why gov should seriously consider & solutions' w quote from ...
opensource  openstandards  from twitter
3 days ago
Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social Scientists - NYTimes.com
RT : Good article in on in science: Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
opendata  from twitter
3 days ago
Top Bone-Luge and Cocktail Pairings Around The Country
Nice try Internet: you've trained me too well to be surprised. RT The latest odd food craze: the bone luge.
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3 days ago
Using Aid Data - MediaWiki
RT : Great to see . RHOK Soton in UK hoping to look at Aid Data so could feed i ...
ddc2012  from twitter
3 days ago
Native Americans Struggle With High Rate of Rape - NYTimes.com
RT : "One in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an attempted rape" | ...
ep  from twitter
3 days ago
Encourage Hitchhiking Again? | Brewster Kahle's Blog
RT : What if we Encouraged Hitchhiking Again?
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3 days ago
You Call That Innovation? - WSJ.com
My fave NASA quote: "What most call innovation, we call engineering" RT You Call That Innovation?
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3 days ago
Twitter hands your data to the highest bidder, but not to you - The Globe and Mail
RT : "Twitter hands your data to the highest bidder, but not to you." Great piece by Making me ...
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3 days ago
Delicacy: A Novel: David Foenkinos: 9780062004369: Amazon.com: Books
3 days ago
Google Public Data Explorer
Also: Google ingest our data into Public Data Explorer - it's translated into 34+ langs!
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3 days ago
How to Not Kill a Cyclist - The Morning News
3 days ago
Dude, This Diplomat's No Stiff | Fast Company
RT : Love the interview w/ the awesome on being a diplomat + (tech) savvy
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3 days ago
Obama campaign ads: How the Analyst Institute is helping him hone his message. - Slate Magazine
RT : How the Obama campaign is using empirical analysis, rather than guesswork, to decide which ads to run:
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3 days ago
Untitled (http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.50/2012/19_Eurostat.pdf)
Hearing Christiaan Laevaert of on collaborations with Google + Public Data Explorer:
opendata  msis2012  from twitter
3 days ago
Twitter / UNGlobalPulse: Working lunch session with
Yummy! RT Working lunch with to talk data in and brainstorm research areas.
globaldev  realtime  from twitter
4 days ago
Professor Nigel Shadbolt outlines plans for Open Data Institute (Wired UK)
RT : ODI launches today: global first for “: plans for Open Data Institute ”
uktransparency  from twitter
4 days ago
The Future Of Web Searching | The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Kinda badass :-) MT First up on : 's Kojo went *right* to the EU news.
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4 days ago
A Working Definition of “Open Government” | Nathaniel Heller
How would you define open government? has a go:
opengov  opengdata  gov20  from twitter
4 days ago
FAOSTAT
Hey - love the new FAOSTAT but persistent URLs for sharing views are a must these days, non?
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4 days ago
Enerdat
4 days ago
EIA - Eia.gov BETA
Persistent URLs! RT Impressive data browser built in 10 wks by w/ jQuery & FOSS libraries
msis2012  from twitter
4 days ago
gmap-pedometer.com
4 days ago
WABA
4 days ago
The Benefits of Being Bilingual | Wired Science | Wired.com
Beckett would later expand on these comments, noting that his use of French prevented him from slipping into his usual writerly habits, those crutches of style that snuck into his English prose. Instead of relying on the first word that leapt into consciousness – that most automatic of associations – he was forced by his second language to reflect on what he actually wanted to express. His diction became more intentional.
4 days ago
OECD – Your Better Life Index
Hey - congratulations on the new Better Life Index - - site seems very slow, heavy load?
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4 days ago
Better life: relaunching the happiness index | News | guardian.co.uk
The on launching the "Better Life Index" that let's YOU decide indicators to measure welfare.
opendata  from twitter
4 days ago
Untitled (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XzvLMLKWZ1Y/Tz0UR6WJe2I/AAAAAAAAA1g/9qzfKl2jBIY/s1600/capybara6.jpg)
Also HD Zen Edition: RT This is what a baby capybara looks like.
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4 days ago
Zen Capybara in Japanese Zoo | Geekosystem
Also HD Zen Edition: RT This is what a baby capybara looks like.
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4 days ago
Meeting on the Management of Statistical Information Systems - UNECE
Agenda & papers from IMF Statistics Systems Meeting is online at: - some nerdy but cool stuff there.
msis2012  from twitter
4 days ago
David R. MacIver
"A bug indicates a failure to understand something. Fix the bug AND fix the failure of understanding" by
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4 days ago
Why Open Data is all about Apps, and why it shouldn’t be! « DataMarket blog
"Why is all about apps and why it shouldn't be" by
opendata  from twitter
4 days ago
Untitled (http://twitter.com/aidinfo/status/204889617512669184/photo/1)
Waves! RT We were out in the sun this morning to watch the Olympic pass DI's office in Wells
torchrelay  from twitter
4 days ago
Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/may/22/amazon-newspaper-review-fiction?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
RT : Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review?
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4 days ago
Volunteer (Morogoro): Communications Coordinator - idealist.org
RT : APOPO is looking for a Communications Coordinator to join our team in Tanzania:
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4 days ago
IBM CEO Study 2012 infographic | Flickr: Intercambio de fotos
Nice! I'd give it a week for the remix to come out :-) RT Inside the brain of a CEO.
occupy  from twitter
4 days ago
Hans Rosling's Shortest Talk Ever - information aesthetics
Beautiful 50 second talk by :
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4 days ago
EBRD Raises the Bar for International Appointments | Owen Barder | Global Development: Views from the Center
RT : Blog post: raises the bar for international appointments.
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4 days ago
(404) http://t.co/6nc
RT : Unleash the power of financial - join the Development Data Challenge on June 1st ...
opendata  from twitter
4 days ago
Harvard Library: subscriptions too costly, faculty should go open access | Ars Technica
"Harvard: subscriptions too costly, faculty should go " Suber on spending > $9M on closed research:
wblive  openaccess  from twitter
5 days ago
What the World Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast | World Bank Live
RT : We're live! What does the policy mean for development? Join online: ...
wbli  openaccess  from twitter
5 days ago
Anthony Goldbloom: Big Data Requires Big Brains - Number Crunchers Get Competitive
5 days ago
Special Report: The algorithmic arms race | Reuters
RT : The algorithmic arms race
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5 days ago
Home | MINE: Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration
Relationship hunting in large datasets? You need maximal information-based nonparametric exploration (MINE) statistics
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5 days ago
Prince Charles's complementary medicine charity has been dissolved
RT : I see Prince Charles' charity promoting homeopathy has been dissolved. Presumably that will on ...
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5 days ago
Open Access India: Movement for Making Public Funded Research Open | Australian Science
Open Access India: A Movement for Making Public Funded Research Open
opendata  openaccess  from twitter
5 days ago
Official Statistic’s SWOT « Blog about Stats
A Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of the Official Statistics industry:
opendata  from twitter
5 days ago
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