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Must Read Links for Week Ending July 15
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Here are some important links you may have missed:
- Although there is really nothing new in this product - most of the ideas were pioneered by the MIT Media Lab, spin-off Ambient Devices, Inc., and various artists and community wireless groups - the "Nabaztag"( lit. "rabbit", at right) was showcased at TED last week by Armenian entrepreneur Rafi Haladjian is an interesting networked device that dishes out content, provides wireless connectivity, and responds to remote SMS pings. An interesting precursor to future context-aware devices.
- There's been a tremendous amount of excitement in the blogging community about the speed and breadth of citizen-generated coverage of the London bombings. But in this piece in the Guardian, John Naughton explains why he has serious doubts about the capabilities and ethics of amateur journalists.
- On the theme of context-awareness, seems like our Pacific tsunami warning system isn't working as great as we thought.