New Trend Map from What’s Next

Richard Watson from What's Next sent me his latest trend map before the holidays.What's What's Next? In there words:

What’s Next is a trends report offering clear, concise and non-sensationalist commentary on trends in society, business, science & technology, government and the environment. Each issue covers trends across twelve sectors and speculates about future risks and opportunities.

Per usual, it is insightful, well organized and chock full of controversy (is nuclear power really a red herring?). Check out more trend maps like this or read the current issue here....or get more information about Richard's new book, Future Files.

The feeds I read (OPML)

My Social Media Map

Waimarama House

Waimarama_House

Read: Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy

"This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Facebook offers a socially compelling platform that also facilitates peer-to-peer privacy violations: users harming each others’ privacy interests. These two facts are inextricably linked; people use Facebook with the goal of sharing some information about themselves. Policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, but they can help people use it safely.

The Article makes this case by presenting a rich, factually grounded description of the social dynamics of privacy on Facebook. It then uses that description to evaluate a dozen possible policy interventions. Unhelpful interventions—such as mandatory data portability and bans on underage use—fail because they also fail to engage with key aspects of how and why people use social network sites. The potentially helpful interventions, on the other hand—such as a strengthened public-disclosure tort and a right to opt out completely—succeed because they do engage with these social dynamics."

Charter for Compassion

YouTube - Charter for Compassion

"Join the world at www.charterforcompassion.org to write the Charter for Compassion.

The Charter brings together the voices of people from all religions. It seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same, they all share the core principle of compassion and the Golden Rule.

The Charter will change the tenor of the conversation around religion. It will be a clarion call to the world."

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Anticipating flu outbreaks through Google search data

Yesterday Google.org, led by 2007 TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant, announced a new web tool that uses search data as an early earning system for flu outbreaks: Google Flu Trends.  This tool will hopefully be able to detect regional outbreaks of the flu 10 days before they are reported by the CDC.

Google Flu Trends

K Street Capitalism

Web 2.0 Summit 2008 - Lawrence Lessig

Isabella Stools by Ryan Frank

From Matteriashop and Ryan Frank

This is where I will be voting…

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