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- 1. data and its discontents john’s hopkins university July 20, 2010
- 2. why globalization works for
- 4. and
- 6. and
- 8. but not for
- 10. and
- 12. and
- 15. winners losers things people brands ideas corporations ecosystems atoms bytes
- 16. disclaimer
- 17. this guy
- 18. @EthanZ, said all this with more elegance, better jokes, and richer data @ TED last week :-P http://www.ted.com/talks/ethan_zuckerman.html
- 19. unfortunately, the news is trending the wrong way Ethan Zuckerman 2010 TEDtalks
- 20. key ethanisms
- 23. an aside
- 24. Benjamin Franklin image from the portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis Ethan Zuckerman photo by Joi Ito (CC-BY)
- 25. ergo
- 26. 1. Ethanz is the Dalai Franklin 2. Birthing diverse, global idea/information networks is the modern equiv of Franklin’s defining modern nation state
- 27. July 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence
- 28. July 14, 2010 The Declaration of Interdependence
- 29. which gets us to the starting point of this talk
- 30. why isn’t the internet working, and how can geeks+translators help?
- 33. Meedan’s 2 interests 1. Translation 2. Context
- 34. 1. Translation the most obvious barrier to global information exchange
- 36. Meedan Translation + translation as dynamic + revisions are collaborative + show translation history + the consumer as editor + MT data feedback loop + community vets translations + translator given attribution
- 37. Showing two languages side by side counter to traditional UI/UX best practices +provenance +attribution +version control +visual cues +url translation +lots of human effort
- 38. Activity streams on two Meedan translator’s profile pages
- 39. Meedan Translation 2011 + Glossary Tools + Translation Memory Tools* + Entity Extraction + Mobile (SMS) + Urdu and Farsi Engines + Translation Marketplace
- 40. 2. Context (understanding) Increasingly, context is a digital artifact that can be curated
- 41. first a bit a theory
- 42. understanding in an two- person, monolingual exchange is non-trivial
- 43. Creative Commons - Mushon Zer-Aviv
- 44. Meaning outbound = speaker’s intention+the rules of my language+referents+use of the grammar+choice of words+sound of voice +movement of face+social grammars+political grammars+time of day+distance from the ice cream truck+temperature+every context in which the speaker has ever used/heard this word+++ Meaning inbound (a guess at the speakers intention) = pretty much all the above processed through my framework, with a nod to all the speaker’s referents of which I have knowledge.
- 45. very non-trivial
- 47. the meaning of a word is its use in the language Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
- 48. when we ‘use’ a ‘word’* we are also signifying our ‘place’** in the ‘language’ * url, hashtag, tag, phrase, entity ** network, location (geo), location (social), role
- 49. bringing it back
- 50. I think I can
- 51. If meaning is bound in use and use is bound in language, then this barrier is also a great filter. When we go looking outside our language community we will be more likely to find new ‘meanings’- we will have an understanding better able to withstand the harsh semantic climate swings that typify this lovely blue and green planet
- 53. nytimes
- 54. dar al hayat
- 56. data data data language, words, phrases, comments, tweets, people mentioned, entities men- tioned, entities affiliated, locations mentioned, publishing location, publish time, event time(s), last update time, comment/bookmark times, tags, strong tags, links, target language(s), publisher, author(s), people af- filiated (via twitter, face book, any available social graph)
- 57. understanding
- 59. the war on terror
- 63. semantic namespace problem good! bad!
- 66. discovery
- 67. Meedan Analytics 2011 + Media Database + Bi-lingual Search + Freebase/SwiftRiver Tagging + Maps + Network Tools
- 68. we need geeks
- 69. to work on
- 71. in closing
- 73. we might say, “We hold only one truth to be self-evident, namely the truth that truth itself is big, social, complex, global, multilingual, and evolving.
- 74. Our life is made richer and our understanding more durable to the extent that we absorb as many of the diverse and distributed truths that surround
- 75. any one person, country, corner store, url, folk singer, geo-political event, web application, concept, word, or powerpoint presentation.”
- 76. true thanks :) ebice@meedan.net @edbice
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- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
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- so the issue of what the war in Iraq means is very much a namespace issue- but when we understand the common referent and offer that a different signifier is used we can come a bit closer to understanding the complexity of the context for that referent.
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
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- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..
- A hugely beautiful piece of philosophy. Extend a word to be an idea or an action, like, say a war, and you can surmise that the meaning of that idea or war is equal to its use in the language. The problem is that we toss phrases like... clash of civilizations and..