Pretty neat:
"Iceland's parliament will vote on whether to replace its 68-year-old constitution with a version that takes into account suggestions from Twitter, Facebook and website comments". See podcast here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=iceland-crowdsources-its-constituti-12-11-15
In case you have not heard about this, perhaps good to know that there is an NSF funded program that seeks transformative concepts and approaches to create integrated data management infrastructures across the Geosciences. In a new partnership, the Geosciences Directorate (GEO) and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) recognize the multifaceted challenges of modern, data-intensive science and education and envision an environment where low adoption thresholds and new capabilities act together to greatly increase the productivity and capability of researchers and educators working at the frontiers of Earth system science. Perhaps relevant to what we are doing...
See http://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/ for more information.
Also check out
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=65c1c4ca27afad887db7021ab&id=c91b08709d&e=1bd6210df7
for their recent Newsletter.
Really liked this TED talk:
"By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.” (David McCandless)"
See
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html
for more quotes.
