ducaties: February 2012

MARCH, baby March.

Current Music : Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift ft The Civil Wars (The Hunger Games OST)

Hello readers, or whoever is reading my blog.

Haven't been blogging for like a month? I think so. Stupid modem always giving me problems, as well as my laptop. Damn. First, my laptop screen blackout, fixed it, no problem. And now, the modem blew off, bought a new one, and the problem solved. I've been living without the internet for 24 days (Not that bad eh? I'm still alive xD)

I've been doing nothing after A-levels exam. Well, I did clean my room. My room was in a fucking mess due to water tank leaking. I clean all the rooms. It took me one week to clean my house, no, not yet, just the upper floor. I still haven't clean the down floor (downstairs, lower floor, ground floor whatever you name it) Seriously, I hate cleaning the house, it drives me crazy. WHY? Because...

1) My house is so fucking big, and just the 3 of us staying. What for? I also don't know. Stress, everytime I clean the house.

2) Too many dust, and lizard poop. It is so hard to clean it, especially the windows.

3) My dog. I hate it when I'm doing the cleaning and stuffs, and he's like messing up.

Anyway, I feel like an IRON LADY now, I clean the whole house by myself, ALL by myself. No one was there to help me. My brother went to school, and my grandfather goes to work. LOL, that IRON LADY name, was really an inspiration to me :D No joke.

Okay, this is serious, I've been doing nothing ever since A levels exam finish. All I do is clean the house everyday. I thought of working as a kindergarten teacher but my parents were like :" Oh no, you should do something that will relate to your course in the future." In short, it's called business, that they want me to do. I'm sorry but seriously, I'm not ready to involve myself in doing business, like my friends are doing right now.Life oh life, why me, WHY?! I have a feeling that 2012 will be a tough year for me. I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too much. This feeling sucks.

2012, please serve me well ya? I don't know, things in 2012 just started, will it be good OR will it be bad? I don't know. I try my best, for studies (No joke kay), relationships, my religion, and of course me, MYSELF. I did a mistake in my life, no one knows, only GOD knows what I'm doing right now.

Hah, Valentine's Day 2012. Celebrated this special day, my first time kay. That will be my upcoming posts.

You'll be safe and sound with me.

Dear love,

When you are in your tough times, you are not alone,
I'm here with you, to protect you, to feel what you feel and brave enough to face all the fears with you.
I will not leave you.

Don't be afraid when the sun is going down, cause I am here to protect you.
Just close your eyes, and sleep in my arms.
You'll be alright, cause no one can hurt you now.
Here comes the morning light, you and I will be safe and sound.

-Daulshin-

*I'm writing this and dedicating this song to my 2 besties, Min Yuan (aka Yuna) and Ee Ling (aka Leanne)*

F29 is a test for cyberactivism

Twityer is a buzz with talk of Occupy protest for 29th. Track on Twitter with hashtag #t29. It will be interesting to see what happens and if web based discourse can translate quickly in to real world activism.

Mapping tweets and checkins from Mobile World Conference 2012

Map for 2 hours of tweets and trending checkins for Barcelona made with the clima.me technology

Not surprising we are seeing a mass of mobile tweets and foursquare checkins at the Barcelona Mobile World Conference 2012. The image above shows how the conference is getting a mass cloud of tweets and checkins, The map below shows the location of tweets and trending venues in foursquare over a 2 hour period on Monday afternoon.

Tweets mapped at tragic Chardon , Ohio shooting

Two hours of geo-tagged tweets from Chardon Ohio, where a terrible school shooting has taken place. This map made with the clima.me tool shows students and staff tweeting from the street in front of the school.

The map above shows the location of tweets at Cardon's High School during a recent shooting. The map below shows how little tweeting is in the rest of the city, and how tweets are concentrated bear the school.

Hopefully the shooters has been captured or disarmed in some way, since the students are broadcasting their locations on twitter,

MySpace making a comeback?

MySpace comeback would be a strange story in the development of cloud living, but Apple came back from the edge. This industry is dynamic and fast, unless you are Yahoo.

Google Maps and Not Google Social

Okay this is trying to make web 3.0 seem cute but this video frankly does not explain what it is about Web 3.0 that makes it of value. Google's techie culture has consistently failed to understand social, and the youTube video above demonstrates that this is still the case. They can execute core technology which will enable the geo-social web, but they don't get it.

This video probably captures Google's comfort zone. Geeky music, geeky concept, geeky games. It is clear that Google sees the world as clever technical problems to be analyzed and solved in clever ways. This was an improvement on Microsoft's obsession with market share and is why Google has conquered areas like search and online advertising. But it lacks the social understanding.

Google is like the engineer that built the bridge that you and your wife had your first kiss on. The bridge helps support thousands of people every day doing things they want to do, but they don't make that much money from the doing of things.

Tracking real time tweeting intensity in Bahrain

So far we are only seeing moderate tweeting coming from Bahrain where demonstrations and police repression is said to be taking place. This tool will track twitter intensity in real time. Click around the map to check the twitter 'temperature' at any location.
We have been seeing some surges in tweeting around Burhama, which is just outside of town near Lulu, where we assume a large demonstration is taking place.

The day after tweets

Zambia tweets win

Zambia tweets mapped with the Clima.me tweet

Twitters global reach has been demonstrated with this map of tweets from Zambia, and locals tweet celebrations at their football triumph in the Africa's Cup.

Tweets from the Battle for Athens

This map shows the locations of tweets from mobile devices during riots in Athens on 12/02/12 mapped with the clima.me tool.

Athens Greece is not a large area for tweeting. These are some of the highest levels of tweets we have ever seen for Athens mapped over an evening of violent riots and mass protests.

MMGEISSLER instagram image from Athens after the protets

Notice a cluster of tweets to the north of parliament, this is where the Attikon theater is(was?) located and the tweets cluster is a classic gawkers cluster. A group of people are standing around photographing the fire and posting images with instagram to twitter.

Closer view shows tweets coming from both Parliament and streets, and a division between riots in the squares and side streets

The above map shows a distribution of tweets and foursqaure checkins. As one would anticipate there is almost not checkins, people are tweeting news events. But it is interesting that someone checkined during a riot.

This shows the tweeting for the next day. There is still continued heavy tweeting down the side streets, we assume these are people photographing sites of damage more than anything else.

Web 3.0 in Chicago

Clime.me tool showing web 3.0 activity in Chicago

Free Syria London Tweets

Tweets coming from Syria demonstrarion in London.

Anonymous Hacks CIA?

At about 11 pm GMT here in London the CIA.GOV website is still down.

UPDATE: Its 10am London time, 12 hours since we last noticed the cia site down and it is still down in the UK.

Anonymous, who whoever, seems to have launched a denial, or worse of service attack on the CIA's public web site, and been rather successful at it. https://www.cia.gov/

This recent video in the Anonymous genre would indicate that perhaps Israel will be a coming target over the Iran issue.

About the same time another Anonymous video was released, one of very different style.

Anonymous promotes diversity of networks. The drive is to get as many people as possible to post as Anonymous.

Greek Parliament Tweets

Holding down the fort, through today's heavy protests in Athens we have seen a constant flow of tweets coming not as much from the street where violent protests have started, but from inside Parliament. Map made with the clima.me tool.

Normally we study the use of twitter by protest movements to get around official censorship and to organise crowds in an agile way, but there is also the other side of twitter: a tool of political power. As the streets in front of the Greek Parliament explode in more traditional demonstrations inside of the Parliament itself we have seen a constant flow of tweeting. Probably either political leaders trying to contact their base of journalists. But in a world where celebrity has so much power we are seeing more and more state sponsored tweeting.

Future Hipsters

So is the whole point that we all know that much of the Internet is just hype? Are we finally growing up enough to see that culture is value from nothing, that we simply make value? What is the value of a song? What is the value of a joke or a smile?

Yet what would human life be without these? Doing things that make commodities for sale is an obsession of ours, but is it really that important? Is not social media just hype which most of us co

BBC on Groupon

Where it is hot in Istanbul

A map of real time twitter and foursquare activity showing where social is most hot in Istanbul

Last year we started a study of Istanbul's tourist scene as a case to establish a web based tourism tool. We found last year using clima.me tool that the North Europe side is the place to go for fun. Though all the major tourists sites are in old city in Sultanahmet at night this area is kind of dull. The places to go are almost all tourist joints with high prices and so so food. We found a lot of people complained about being bored in Istanbul at night.

We discovered, like countless tourists before us the Northern area via trial and error. Going there first to check it out as a historical curiosity we soon found that the area just north of Sultanament is lively place full of clubs, restaurants, art and fun. This is one of the most lively and enjoyable areas in Europe.

We conducted a series of tests on twitter density to see if we could see a distinct difference between twitter usage in the two areas, which we did.

Now with the full happnin.clima.me tool we have create a real time tool which shows Foursquare checkins and recent tweets to give you a picture of where web3.0 users are most engaged.

Mapping Super Bowl Tweets and Check-In

Maps created by our clima.me technology show the concentration of tweets and foursquare checkins around the site of the Super Bowl today.

Mapping tweets at Occupy DC eviction

We can see a tweet cloud clearly over the Occupy DC where an eviction is being carried out.

Tweets from 'Battle of Tahrir'

Distribution of tweets in downtown Cairo shows a mixture of protests in Tharir and running battles. Created with the clima.me mapping tool

Mobile tweets from the morning of the third shows the 'event' is ongoing. Created with the clima.me mapping tool

We are following mobile tweeting in Tahrir Square over the last 24 hours. There are clearly large protests over deaths in a recent football game in Egypt. But the crowd of active tweeps has moved out in to the narrow streets and high buildings behind Tahrir where protests with the police have become more confrontational.

Twitter is a powerful tool for recording and publishing news from events by citizen journalists and bloggers, it is also a power organization tool. Such heavy tweeting must be coming from a combination of protesters and onlookers. The combination of radical protesters and sympathetic onlookers is a powerful dynamic that mobile phones and twitter help to enable.

6.57pm: More and more tear gas fired, people running back. #Tahrir#Ahly #Egypt

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