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A social experiment by Austin Dodge where disposable cameras were left on pavements for passers by to use. There is the basis of an experiential campaign here.

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RSAnimate lecture by Steven Pinker.

Excellent.

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And there I was, talking about privacy (and the issues of Gmail and Facebook permanent retention of personal data) and the next thing I register on Eternos. Here, I can save my online life – this blog, websites,  Facebook (if I had a page, I don’t), Twitter (@metropolis), Picasa photos  and my Gmail emails. These can all be backed-up online, viewed and shared with future generations.

What interests me about this service is that it has been created by whilst it has been created by a ‘few technical professionals’ (including Marc Mauger CEO), they have had the ‘assistance of a Genealogy expert and a Sociologist’. This is not so much an online data backup service but a continual online repository of what we create and share.

And one thing you can do with Eternos, is that in addition of backing up your online information, you can add RSS feeds – from say the BBC News site, so as to add context to the the information stored. The site continuously backs-up and stores the the data, free of charge.

The site (which holds data in encrypted form which is also virus checked) allows Life Key Managers to be added also, so when we pass away as we will all do, they can access the account to maintain and share our online heritage to those who may be interested.

Launched in April this year, it may be the first step in capturing our online interactions and saving them for reference.  If people sign up that is – it was a first for me to be presented with three gender options during this process.

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Forbes have analysed the migration of people across the US – and created an interactive map to show where the more than 10 million Americans moved to – from one county to another during 2008.

Austin, Texas movement below – the interactive map is here.

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Dan Pink presents a paper on motivation – which is animated in this video.

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A rather simplistic view of how the third world crisis can be solved.

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A paper by Dan Ariely on how we try to interpret the value of money.

Fascinating.

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Professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University (and one for the most forward thinkers that I follow), presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.

This is the presentation and as always is highly thought provoking.

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