Monthly Archives: December 2010

Map of Autocomplete Holland by Google

Minke Kampman | 17 December 2010, 10:34 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

I had a look at the United States of Autocomplete by Dorothy Gambrell (found through Erik Borra’s mood message on Skype, thanks!). I couldn’t resist trying it out with our own little country and this what you see below is the result of an hour well spent playing copycat, with courtesy to Google of course.


Data Visualisation: World’s Facebook Friendships

Philip Man | 14 December 2010, 4:29 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Wondering what a visualisation containing a few dozen million friendships on Facebook would look like?

Paul Butler thought of the same and took a shot. He says that visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. Local friendships was of…


Who In The Australian Department of Justice Edited Julian Assange’s Wikipedia Page?

Natalie Dixon | 14 December 2010, 2:53 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

According to Wikipedia’s edit history, on 23 September 2010 shortly before midnight, the entry for Julian Assange was edited by a user whose IP address belongs to the Australian Government’s Justice Department. The user attempted to make a seemingly innocuous change to the page by adding: “Assange is a supporter of the North Melbourne Football Club” under the Early Life section of the entry.


War 1.0: The Internets Fight Back. Pirate Bay Helps His Friend Wikileaks

Philip Man | 08 December 2010, 12:47 am | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

It may be clear that Wikileaks is under heavy attack. Established (governmental) institutions are doing everything they can to boycot Wikileaks by cutting every source they have such as internetservers and even money funds. Including is Paypal who has deleted the Wikileaks account in an attempt to silence and destroy the site.

The Internets fight…