{"id":5695,"date":"2014-02-02T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2014-02-02T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:03:26","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2014\/02\/02\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-208\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/bulletin\/google-patents-idea-for-free-taxi-rides-to-stores\/?tag=nl.e660&amp;s_cid=e660&amp;ttag=e660&amp;ftag=TRE4eb29b5\">Google dreams up free taxi rides to stores &#8211; SmartPlanet<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Wow&#8230; Interesting implications also (aside from data\/ algorithms) for online v. &#8220;irl&#8221; shopping\/ consumption\/ commerce.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\n&#8230;would it be worth it for businesses to subsidize the trips of individual customers? That&#8217;s exactly what Google has invented, an algorithm that determines &#8220;the cost of transportation and the potential profit from a completed transaction using a number of real-time calculations.&#8221; According to the patent, it would determine that using information like the customer&#8217;s location, the customer&#8217;s route to the store and most likely form of transportation needed to get there, and the price competitors are willing to pay to get customers in their stores.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/google\">google<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/big_data\">big_data<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/algorithm\">algorithm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/retail\">retail<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/commerce\">commerce<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/irl\">irl<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/170152\/gentrification-isnt-bad-for-the-poor\/\">Gentrification isn\u2019t bad for the poor \u2013 Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Well, debates about gentrification aside, it&#8217;s clear that SF certainly did NOT build enough housing to accommodate the influx of new residents. (Note: in the article, the paragraph below is studded with links to sources.)<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nGentrification, the term of art for an influx of new residents into an urban neighborhood that typically drives up rents, is controversial in many wealthy cities. It\u2019s often blamed for driving out poorer residents. But when researchers try to prove it, facts are hard to find. Any number of outlets have reported on studies by Columbia University\u2019s Lance Freeman and researchers at the University of Colorado and Duke University who find that gentrification doesn\u2019t drive out a rising neighborhood\u2019s former residents. It even stands to benefit them financially.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/gentrification\">gentrification<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/quartz\">quartz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/san_francisco\">san_francisco<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/rents\">rents<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/housing\">housing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/affordability\">affordability<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/feuilleton\/medien\/evgeny-morozov-s-response-to-sascha-lobo-more-political-interference-12752837.html?printPagedArticle=true\">Evgeny Morozov\u2019s response to Sascha Lobo : More political interference! &#8211; Medien &#8211; FAZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Excellent piece from Morozov.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\n&#8230;as everything becomes interconnected \u2013 with tiny sensors and modems \u2013 \u201cthe Internet\u201d will literally be everywhere. But if one accepts the thesis that the \u201cInternet\u201d is just a never-ending exercise in purification, whereby domains that were previously contentious and political are converted into uncontroversial technological domains that are supposed to behave in accordance with the out-of-control logic of the \u201cInternet\u201d&#8211; it\u2019s not so hard to see what awaits us: the end of politics altogether, as the only remaining reason for regulating this newly \u201cinterconnected world\u201d would be to promote \u201cinnovation\u201d (a nice euphemism for the business interests of Silicon Valley) rather than an ambitious social and political agenda. When \u201cthe Internet\u201d is everywhere, politics is nowhere.<br \/>\n(&#8230;)<br \/>\n&#8230;the only way to promote alternative uses of ebooks or search engines or social networks in ways that would not depend too heavily on the seemingly free services offered by Silicon Valley is by developing a new industrial policy that would inject billions of dollars into public information infrastructure. And we don&#8217;t want that infrastructure to be managed by the same oligopolies only with European names; it has to be run in a decentralized and civic manner, with citizens owning their own data from the start. It\u2019s not digital optimism that we must cultivate \u2013 rather, it\u2019s optimism in public institutions and a renewed faith in politics. Not exactly a very popular messages during the times of austerity.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/democracy\">democracy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/evgeny_morozov\">evgeny_morozov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/faz\">faz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google dreams up free taxi rides to stores &#8211; SmartPlanet Wow&#8230; Interesting implications also (aside from data\/ algorithms) for online v. &#8220;irl&#8221; shopping\/ consumption\/ commerce. 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