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Matti Keltanen explains why the big data hype may not help your business and gives four reasons for a lean approach Via Beth Kanter
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It's like a buffet vs a tasting menu - one gets you full but not any better off, the other is memorable and illuminating. 
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April 17, 11:33 PM
Big data can do most of the things your laptop does, the difference is simply industrial scale. By contrast, we can use the term 'lean data' to describe an Occam's razor approach to data capture and analysis: the lightest, simplest way to achieve your data analysis goals is the best one. Here are four reasons to prefer lean – rather than big – data. Starting with "big" puts the cart before the horse Dminishing returns still apply Hardest part is still done by humans Delete the scoop?
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Good counsel from Beth Kanter.
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Of course, nonprofits cannot hope to magically reap the potential of medium data without some hard work. Here's what nonprofit leaders need to keep in mind:
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For Americans, getting on the Internet or using a cellphone keeps getting more expensive. But for service providers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless, new technologies have made wireless data cheaper to deliver.
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Crawford beautifully makes the case for real competition in Internet availabillity, and the role policy plays (really really big) in addressing our failing telecom and communications systems. Funders take note - at the state or national level, this is a critical underlying issue for education, economic development, urban renwal, rural survivial, medicine, etc. This is not an "internet" issue - this is one of the most profound umbrella issues impacting every other concern. Delete the scoop?
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It’s been almost a month since hacker-activist Aaron Swartz took his own life at the age of 26, driven — according to those who knew him — by a combination of depression and the threat of jail time. The latter was a result of federal charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for an incident involving documents he downloaded from the JSTOR research archives. While proposals have been made for changes to the law as a result of his death, it’s important to think about all the other hackers who might be caught by the same net, even if they aren’t as appealing as Swartz.
In the wake of his suicide, Swartz’s case quickly became a cause celebre, and a group of legislators including Darrell Issa (R-Calif) — who was also instrumental in the fight against SOPA and PIPA — recently asked the Justice Department to look into the behavior of the U.S. attorney’s office in pressing for a severe penalty against the young hacker. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) has also proposed a number of changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that would prevent the state from going after others for what Swartz did.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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There's a lot we can learn from the Aaron Swartz tragedy - both from a policy change persepctive and from a fouondation / grantmaking perspective. More on the latter here: http://mediaimpactfunders.org/2013/01/15/what-funders-can-and-should-do-in-the-wake-of-aaron-swartzs-death/ Delete the scoop?
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Remove the incentive barriers to upgrading our connection speed
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This is a critical issue - for education, telehealth, economic recovery and innovation. Telecom policy must include real competition including an end to state-level laws banning broadband competition. Delete the scoop?
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After a city in North Carolina built a Fiber-to-the-Home network competing with Time Warner Cable, the cable giant successfully lobbied to take that decision away from other cities.
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How can you refuse to bring service AND lobby to prevent others from providing service? You can when you have lobbying clout. Delete the scoop?
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Udacity is to higher ed as Napster is to music - unleashing a totally different model. Delete the scoop?
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We've been covering how the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has been moving forward with its plans next month to consider a number of proposals to takeover aspects of internet regulation and governance. There are, of course, a number of different proposals being submitted by different countries.
The problem, of course, is that the setup of the ITU is not open to the public, and there are some special interests involved -- mainly by countries with oppressive governments looking to use this as a way to gain control over the internet for the sake of censorship, as well as local (often state-run or state-associated) telcos using the process to see if they can divert money from successful internet companies to their own bank accounts.
While the ITU likes to present itself as merely a neutral meeting place for all of these proposals, what's been clear for a while is that the ITU leadership has taken an active role in encouraging, cultivating and supporting some of the more egregious proposals.
Some of this is due to the way in which the ITU leadership views the internet. Some of it is due to an organization that realizes its own mandate is obsolete and it really serves little purpose anymore, so it's coping by pretending its mandate is much broader, but doing so in a way that shows it has little understanding of the internet other than "something we want a mandate over."
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According to reports, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is circulating an order at the FCC to lift the ban on one company owning daily newspapers and TV stations in the 20 largest media markets. Delete the scoop?
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From the digital divide to media consolidation to net neutrality, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, is on the front lines of media reform. In a discussion with Moyers & Company’s Michael Winship, Aaron says he’s hopeful for the future of the movement.
“I think our opponents have very deep pockets. I think they haven’t begun to try all of their dirty tricks. But ultimately, I believe that organized people can still beat organized money, and that’s what we’re trying to do,” he says.
The conversation* was recorded at the National Conference on Media Reform in Denver, organized by Free Press.
Click headline to read highlight of interview or listen to the audio-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Matter, formerly known as the Public Media Accelerator, aims to join "the values of public media" to "the mindsets of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship."
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Hear from Corey Ford of Matter VC at our Media Impact Forum at Standfor, Jan 2013 - video here (go to 1:16:00) http://www.livestream.com/bccconferencechannel/video?clipId=pla_d2eabf28-47a7-4aab-8bba-7e4812e4f374&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb Delete the scoop?
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A former FCC commissioner points out that the agency can simply enforce a campaign finance disclosure requirement that’s already on the books.
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Susan Crawford appears this weekend on Moyers & Company (check to see if it airs on a local public television station) to explain the real reason America has a digital divide with broadband have’s and have-not’s. The heart of the problem is America’s largest telecom companies, who are only interested in picking off the low hanging fruit — urban customers they can wire cheaply for service and demand monopoly or duopoly-style high prices. Rural America is being left behind, putting profit ahead of the public interest.
America has seen this before during the era of electrification, when power was denied to small towns and family farms. Then the country decided electric service was a utility and must be provided to all Americans. So it should be with broadband. Only the same ideology that argued rural Americans should pick up and move if they want electric service is back in force with broadband, where some argue companies should not have to spend money to provide universal service when they can sit back and reap enormous profits from the areas they choose to serve.
Click headline to view the video clip-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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If leaders really want economic growth, then broadband access - through fair competition - is key. State-wide bans on broadband providers is crippling rural economies and communities. Delete the scoop?
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Zero regulation for telcos could endanger neutrality, Internet co-creator says.
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The document could have changed the Internet -- but probably won't. Here's what went down.
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The big chill - tension raise on Internet regulation and governance. And critical rights issues and freedoms are on the line. Delete the scoop?
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In 2010, electronic privacy needed digital due process. In 2012, it's worth defending your vanishing rights online. This week, there's an important issue before Washington that affects everyone who... Delete the scoop?
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The European Parliament, one of the law-making bodies of the European Union, on Thursday adopted a political resolution vowing to uphold the freedom and openness of the Internet, and to repel any new regulations at an upcoming UN summit, the WCIT 12. Delete the scoop?
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In the past decade, motivated citizens initiating creative solutions to social problems have changed the humanitarian landscape. Delete the scoop?
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I believe AT&T’s announcement last week about its plans to upgrade its network and replace its rural copper lines with wireless is the single most important development in telecom since passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Delete the scoop?
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In a visit to the Nieman Foundation, the NPR boss discusses digital transformation, his earlier work at Sesame Workshop, and political perceptions of Big Bird. Delete the scoop?
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