In March 2011, I interviewed marine biologist Megan Lamson, who works for the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund and organizes beach cleanups at Kamilo Beach at Ka’alu’alu Bay. Some of these quotes were used in this German radio feature. Here are the snippets without German voice-over. (weiterlesen…)
Megan Lamson on Plastic Debris at Kamilo Beach, Hawai’i
Donnerstag, 01. Dezember 2011Data as yarn in the net
Dienstag, 07. Juni 2011
At DMY festival, Miriam Zink showed “the colours of music“, a witty data visualisation project (weiterlesen…)
Undersea Cable Maps
Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2011Check out these Undersea Cable Maps for Africa by Steve Song of the Shuttleworth Foundation. The latest one is an outlook of what cables could provide Africa with data by 2013, indicating the ones already active:
I’ve collected a couple of more links on undersea cable maps here on ICTD.de.
Map: Sub-saharan Undersea Cables in 2013 – maybe (version 29) by Steve Song on Flickr, CC-by.
Noha Atef on Tortureinegypt.net
Montag, 18. April 2011(Part 2 on netzdebatte)
Facilitating Wikimedia Chapters Meeting 2011
Freitag, 01. April 2011
Like 2010, this year’s Wikimedia Chapters Meeting took place in Berlin. Sabria David and I moderated and facilitated the sessions, while Anna Lena Schiller made visual sense of selected discussions. One of the main 2011 topics was a detailed study on decreasing editor retention. It takes an in-depth look at the fact that people today tend to stay less longer in the community than when Wikipedia was still young. One of the outcomes is that new editors get more quickly frustrated than in the early days. You can read (weiterlesen…)
