Sorin Adam Matei
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2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch In the first adoption horizon we find mobiles and cloud computing, both of which are already well established on many campuses — and still more organizations have plans in place to make use of these…
Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference 2009 tags: no_tag Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of…
Sakai Project : Home : About Sakai tags: no_tag Current List of Participants | Project Bamboo tags: bamboo, project, humanities, digital, initiative, purdue, matei WizFolio Web 2.0 tags: citation, management, zotero Zotero is not a sword-swinging hero « Computer Helpers from Boreham…
Submitted by Adrienne Hall on December 1, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the design…
Submitted by Christina Kalinowski on November 23rd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog Designing and maintaining a functional and fruitful online community can be a difficult endeavor. …
Submitted by Christina Kalinowski on October 22nd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog Abstract Individualism is highly valued in American culture, and its growing importance to American…
Submitted by "Adrienne Hall" on October 22, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog. Abstract This essay attempts to begin explaining how participation in online social interactions impacts…
Submitted by Brian Britt on October 22nd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract The internet has grown into one of the largest media of the…
Springwise: HarperCollins hopes crowds will spot next bestseller Founded by HarperCollins, Authonomy is a new community that invites unpublished and self-published authors to post at least 10,000 words of a fiction or non-fiction manuscript for visitors to read online. Visitors can review…
A sophisticated browser, which straddles the desktop/server divide has been launched by Google. It aims to create a better platform for its webapplications, which need to be faster and more secure to compete with the local desktop, currently dominated by Microsoft. The…
A mashup utility good for everything. For now, only in command line. Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
[youtube]nLu-Yb4EIsQ[/youtube] Norman, the psychologist of POET fame (Psychology of Everyday Things) who gave the world the concept of device affordance, shot one of its last shells across the bow in his “Invisible: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So…
An excellent intro to creating mashups by Raymond Yee Mashup Guide :: Text of the Book (v 1.0a) Technorati Tags: mashup,guide,learn,tutorial
Have condisered Django for your SOA strategy? Developed and used over two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote…
University of Chicago and UC Berkley have initiated a planning process codenamed Bamboo for developing a platform for digital humanities. The Bamboo initiative is quite broad, its manifesto starting with this statement of purpose: Bamboo is an multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort…
Submitted by Colleen E. Brown on November 26 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction The need for group membership, social support, and information gathering are part…
Submitted by Colleen E. Brown on October 15, 2006 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) The growth of computer mediated communication (CMC) has sparked much debate across…
One of the most interesting resources for virtual reality modeling and research in archeology. Specific link to archeology About Intute: Arts and Humanities What is Intute: Arts and Humanities? Artifact and Humbul, two of the hubs of the Resource Discovery Network RDN,…
As you can see, I have set up a new Amazon.com Store for I Think. I selected a number of books I am using in my classes and I have linked them to the main page. The store is quite primitive, but…
A very handy tool for creating neat, round corner, smooth background gradient colored boxes for your webpages. It generates both the CSS and the picture files. RoundedCornr: Rounded Corner and Gradient Generator
Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age Edited By: Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University, USA Chapter X: Cultural Cognitive Style and the Web: Toward a Theory and Practice of Web Design for International Users / Anthony Faiola and Sorin…
Image via Wikipedia The idea that cultures and societies stay the same is put again to rest by this little piece of news about the increase of the divorce rate in China. WP: Barriers to divorce fade in China – washingtonpost.com Highlights…
An educator’s perspective Students love Wikipedia. Convenience and deadlines remembered at the last minute conspire with immense success in making undergraduate students avid consumers of web content. Professors fight their pupils’ addiction with stern grading policies bolded, underlined or italicized in the…
Com 435, Emerging Communication Technologies (150 enrolled students), will organize in the last two weeks of April an eight team soccer tournament in Second Life. Students will play use avatars and very funny names and I will preside as Cyclops Argus. The…
The communist manifesto found its most appropriate medium: You Tube. A remixed cartoon collage brings out the best (and worst) in Marx’s little pamphlet. Personally I always found Marx’s prophetic vocation sinister and hilarious at the same time. Modernity’s most powerful man…
Second Life takes a toll on the campus administrator community. In an unmistakeable sign of linear project its members believe that the future will be 3D. Second Life, a increasigly unwielidy environment, victim of its own success, cannot be the solution to…
Google’s been strongly opposed to the whole pay-as-you-go revamping of the Internet (the equivalent of introducing toll-lanes ofn the Internet). You know, the whole net neutrality debate. At the same time, Google seems to suggest that its opposition is only pro forma.…
All 13 root servers, which act as the Internet’s ubergatekeeprs and traffic routing cops, have been attacked simultaneously yesterday. The news does not make any major newspaper frontpage today, at least not New York Times’, which regales us with a story about…
The idea of a wireless peer-to-peer backbone to replace the classic ISP has been announced and dennounced in the tech media for some time. Has its time arrived? An intriguingly inexpensive alternative has appeared: a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but…
From The Economist RESEARCHERS in the field of artificial intelligence have long been intrigued by games, and not just as a way of avoiding work. Games provide an ideal setting to explore important elements of the design of cleverer machines, such as…
Idea of paid entries roils Wikipedia – Tech News & Reviews – MSNBC.com BOSTON – When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online…
What do you do when bandidos steal 4000 of your just produced and very expensive suits? You move your machiladora back to the US… Globalization can be a two-way street. (NPR story)
Because the hippies invented it as a means of “doing their own thing” MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.350J The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004 | Readings Pfaffenberger, Bryan. “The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution…
ikbis | Capture your life, is a new user generated video service geared toward the Arabic world. A world just as modern and fascinating, if you know how to look at it, as our world…
A very interesting “blog of blogs” demonstrating the power of the Internet to decentralize and recreate the flows of information. A blog that centralizes the known source of local information from Iraq and the middle east. Mostly in English. Why the quotation…
The report is one of the most comprehensive to date, including information about ranking over time… Abstract and link There is an immense information and communication technology (ICT) gap, a “digital divideâ€, between developed and developing countries. A person in a high-income…
On 9/11 I bought the newspapers, today I will just clip this on this blog. Reports: Saddam Hussein executed – Conflict in Iraq – MSNBC.com BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three years after he was hauled from a hole in the ground by pursuing…
Last Christmas when I returned home to Little Rock to celebrate the holidays I had the opportunity to meet Robert Steinbuch, a central figure in a minor Washington sex scandal that may have far reaching implications for how individuals can conduct themselves…
I found your blog while tagging my blog with SC06. I noticed that you were interested in finding the slides to Kurzweil’s keynote at SC06. I too was looking for them and found a couple of his slides on wikipedia and I…
Front Porches and Public Spaces: Planned Communities Online Susan Huelsing Sarapin Comm. 632: Online Interaction Professor: Dr. Sorin Matei November 19, 2006 Introduction Where else today but in the cost-effective frontier of cyberspace can the average person construct a community?1 With widespread…
Much of the reading for Preece this week involved evaluating communities. Surveys are a fine example of a means of evaluating. Digital questionnaires are becoming more frequent within online communities partly because of the ease associated with their completion and return. Digital…
The readings for this week mentioned the use of IP addresses as a usual component of online communities for such things as being a means to spot or discourage grifters (and to help with moderation. A trail is left by someone when…
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html
I’m not sure if this website has been mentioned before, but I thought I would bring it to the class’ attention. Purdue Online has been in existence for a few years now. It currently consists of 4, 575 members. It already supports…
Powazek (2002) stated three key issues in his book Design for Community that should be initially considered when building a community; audience, content, and community. Likewise, Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder (2002) in their book entitled Cultivating Communities of Practice spoke of a…
The members of the COM 632 graduate seminar “On-line Interaction” at Purdue University propose the following list of practical principles for designing successful on-line communities. The list is compiled on the basis of these materials: 1. Preece, fill in the rest please…
The jury is out. And it’s ugly…. ZDNet.com is downright nasty. The rest of humanity chimes in.
The readings for this week are concerned with online community membership. Some focuses are why people join communities and how can contribution levels increase. I came across a 1993 blog passage from the Blog of Collective Intellegence that focuses on an interesting…
By Susan Huelsing Sarapin Submitted on October 22, 2006 to the On-Line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2006, Purdue University Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction Today, people all over the world are connected, or “tethered†(Turkle,…
It might be that someone’s password was compromised. We are getting a lot of spam comments on this blog, despite the fact that only registered users can comment and new registrations are not allowed. Existing registers, can you please change your passwords?…
Wikipedia posts this most amazing list of topics in order of their popularity. Notice the succession of topics (Wiki/Amish/Foley or Clitoris/September 11/Pokemon). There is a whole bunch of statistics here.
Here are some good ideas about how to become a better blogger. Enjoy.
I love elgg (and peopleagreggator). It’s exactly what we need. Now, it’s time to design the darn place. I really think that we need to focus on a name that is as clear to the world outside as it is for the…