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Media Journal for this Wednesday
When we interact with individual sites on the Web, are we aware of what information we’re sharing? To an algorithm, the information we share on the Web might be reduced to any number of individual data points. To ourselves, this data may have a sense of meaning, in a number of different contexts of personal […]
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Java and Ruby: A Platform for Linked Data Analysis?
After an earlier blog post presenting a couple of short examples in queries about publicly sourced media ownership information, using SPARQL with DBpedia, I’ve been taking a closer look at options available for using SPARQL with the Ruby programming language. Not many of the options for RDF and SPARQL support in Ruby have been actively […]
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On Studying Net Neutrality: It’s a Whole Other Ball Game
“In a digital world, the number of channels is theoretically infinite, and no one can tell anyone what to consume. We are the ultimate deciders, fully in charge of our media destinies, choosing what to look at, actively seeking and clicking instead of having our consumption foisted upon us by a cabal of corporate executives.” […]
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Who Owns the Media? A Data-Oriented Glance at Media Ownership
An illustration of a query with DbPedia, showing four major cable service providers in the US: Cox Communications, Inc; Emery Telcom; FairPoint Communications, Inc; Vast Broadband.
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Weekend Read: Why Blog? by Sarah Pedersen
This weekend, I was searching for eBooks about media ethics at Safari Books Online. I’ve discovered a work about a more general topic, namely Blogging as a form of communication. Sarah Pedersen’s Why Blog? provides a wholly original and well researched perspective to the topic of the work’s title, in essence, Blogging. An excerpt from […]
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Personal Media Diary, 22 August, 2022
Personal Media Diary for Monday, 22 August, 2022. (Content available beneath the fold)
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Intoduction: The Oort Blog
Introduction to the Oort Blog. (Content available beneath the fold)
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Visuals at Thinkum.Space – An Overview
Overview of visual elements at thinkum.space. Content available beneath the fold
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Microblogging with WordPress
This is a test of the WordPress ‘Quick Draft’ feature and subsequent editor workflow.
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System Test 01 – Issues, Workarounds, Breadcrumbs
[Article Available Under the Fold]