Changed my worldview

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Thanks to the Bunny Blogger for turning me on to TED and their talks. You can explore them yourself if you have time (ok, I'll sell it a little more, there's a talk by Ze Frank from 2004 there too), but whatever you do, please click the linky thing at the start of this, and watch the short video. It'll probaby change how you think about the world.

Our post viewing talk, we being... well... us, turned to open data, and the amount of knowledge lying around within organisations and corporations that just needs to be made available and then visualized skillfully for a more accurate picture of the world, people, and everything else we've paid attention to as a species to emerge.

If you're tickled by the idea of open data, here's an AULA talk on the subject. The internet was heralded as starting the Information Age - but all that's happened so far is we've digitized information we mostly had already, for accessibility - wikipedia for instance. Now we need to provide all the data we have, on all sorts of topics, so we can mix and mash them into new perspectives and understandings.

Make it so.

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