Sunday, 20 February 2011
Journeyfor. appreciation
The journeyfor. guys kindly accepted me into their creative nest and I am being fed like one of their own, albeit on a caffeine rich diet. I intend to absorb the atmosphere until I take off to Europe in a little while travelling. All ideas are welcome and an open door policy has already brought exciting new proposals and appreciative nods at the office itself. People come and leave with Creamola heads, I have seen it several times already.
Getting it together
I just found some amazing tools on the web. Daytum lets you record stuff you do everyday and generates statistical analysis of your habits, activities or feelings - there's even an app for it.
Then there's we feel fine (www.wefeelfine.org). This is an automated web trawler that looks for the phrases '... I feel ...' and '... I am feeling ...' on blogs, records the sentence the phrase appears in and then analyses the blogger for
But the best thing I came across is Ushahidi - meaning testimony in Swahili. Developed in Kenya during the disturbances after the 2008 elections, Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Anyone with a digital connection can upload information, photos and videos through sms, mms and email about a developing situation. A fantastic use of crowd sourcing. The information is then sorted and collated both digitally and by hand, and fed back into a graphical representation of the events in real time - commonly onto a map where contributors can see their information helping to make sense of often chaotic developments. I love it. You can download the software to apply to conditions in your own area. They encourage people to volunteer to help develop the idea. See http://www.ushahidi.com
Then there's we feel fine (www.wefeelfine.org). This is an automated web trawler that looks for the phrases '... I feel ...' and '... I am feeling ...' on blogs, records the sentence the phrase appears in and then analyses the blogger for
- Feeling (happy, sad, depressed, etc.)
- Age (in ten year increments - 20s, 30s, etc.)
- Gender (male or female)
- Weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, or snowy)
- Location (country, state, and/or city)
- Date (year, month, and/or day)
But the best thing I came across is Ushahidi - meaning testimony in Swahili. Developed in Kenya during the disturbances after the 2008 elections, Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Anyone with a digital connection can upload information, photos and videos through sms, mms and email about a developing situation. A fantastic use of crowd sourcing. The information is then sorted and collated both digitally and by hand, and fed back into a graphical representation of the events in real time - commonly onto a map where contributors can see their information helping to make sense of often chaotic developments. I love it. You can download the software to apply to conditions in your own area. They encourage people to volunteer to help develop the idea. See http://www.ushahidi.com
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
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