Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).
Adrants, snarky as usual, spins the Obama infomercial, this way and then that way. Hey, dude, now you can tell us, whose side are you on? MATEI.ORG :: Making the invisible, visible! Communication, GIS, spatial, wiki, mapping learning and discovery in real…
Amazon.com launches a sliding browser called Windowshop of its latest hand picked novelties. Looks cute. What do you think?
Wikipedia has more than 200 versions (including one in Klingon). Looking at the top 500 pages, can we find any similarities? Are there any differences? How can these differences be explained? Domas Mituzas has published some server log data provided by Wikipedia…
My attempts to reject Wikipedia have failed just as this clip from All That Jazz predicted. [youtube]HbLSGYd-Ohc[/youtube] Anger Denial Bargain Depression Acceptance The conclusion of my travails is summarized in this Wikiway document.
Circularity on defining truth and verifiability on Wikipedia discussed on Technology Review: So what is Truth? According to Wikipedia’s entry on the subject, “the term has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree.” But in practice,…
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Lord Kyl’s Medieval & Fantasy Fonts Initial fonts tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Notre Dames de Reims – Google Search tags: no_tag Cathédrale Notre Dame de Reims by kevin51340 – Google 3D Warehouse tags: no_tag World Heritage Centre – World Heritage Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what…
I seriously wonder if this is just an attempt to understand violence or if it is a way of spreading the nihilistic ideology of the two fiends… Serious games: Ars looks at games that tackle the big issues: Page 1 (From Ars…
Kayla Gregory, one of my graduate students sent me this link Springwise: Video dictionary with a wiki touch Launched two weeks ago, Wordia is a visual dictionary that encourages members of the public to contribute to a collective pool of video definitions.…
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Aptera on ABC After considering the Volt for my next car buying cycle (in about a year), I have decided to go Jetson. And no, our family does not have antennae.
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Another step in the right direction. You might be able to overlay schematics over any real life building…. Technology Review: TR10: Augmented Reality
The Stewart for Temporal Affairs at a Trappist Monastery in Massachusetts has found another way for salvation through hard work. Selling remanufactured toners: All I wanted was a little bit of black dust for one of our monastery printers. In my search…
Text Analysis Info Tools for text analysis tags: text, analysis SciGuy: 50 great books, two terrible sci-fi characters tags: scifi, top, best Reality in Quantum Mechanics After going through this circus, one may ask…is there anything out there that is real? Niels…
How do you convert a MediaWiki xml dump (using Special:Export) into a human readable file? First, I expected to find a simple, Microsoft Word import filter. What I initially found, namely Wandora, was interesting enough, but it only gave me repeated headaches,…
Extension:Inout – MediaWiki Something similar to what Chris Miller wants to do tags: no_tag IT Index | Academic Commons How sophisticated are your undergraduates? tags: no_tag
LibriVox » Links tags: no_tag Blog before you Think!: TiddlyWiki Mania tags: tiddlywiki, wiki, productivity, gtd, javascript, software, work List of TiddlyWiki adaptations – post by stumax Howard Rheingold’ Social Media Class This quarter Howard Rheingold teaches the Social Media class at…
Perception: 68% of Americans believe that “the rich” (top 1%) pay less than 40% of US taxes, while 30% believe that “the rich” pay less than 20% Reality: Top 1% richest Americans contribute 40% of US taxes Top 25% richest Americans contribute…
Slashdot has the full story on Sarah Palin’s email debacle/hacking incident… Slashdot | Palin Email Hacker Found mortonda writes to tell us that the person responsible for breaching Sarah Palin’s private email account has been found. We discussed the breach last Wednesday,…
A swarm of partisan busybodies has roiled over the Palin email hacking incident. A student, scion of a local democrat politico from Tennessee, broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account hoping to rake the muck and to hang for all to see…
One meme at a time
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…
Big Bang experiment has Purdue connection – News- msnbc.com West Lafayette – Physicists in Switzerland have officially started an experiment that scientists say could change the way we see the universe. It’s not rocket science. It’s bigger than that, and it’s got…
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…
This amazing robotic mule is more than I personally expected to see coming out of the much overhyped field of robotics and artificial intelligence. Also featured, a couple of quite scary automatic killing machines.
We’ve known for about half a decade, if not more, that the Internet allows deep and wide collaboration. We have tried to apply this new tool to academic research, open software development, creating business alliances, reinventing retail and, why not, sharing music…
The secret sauce found in several social media platforms is exposed by what appears to be a very well informed blogger… SEOmoz | Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed!
How to write for and read online content. Basic rule, chunkify. Second rule, paper is still better. We’ll do more and more reading on screens, but they won’t replace paper—never mind what your friend with a Kindle tells you. Rather, paper seems…
An excellent intro to creating mashups by Raymond Yee Mashup Guide :: Text of the Book (v 1.0a) Technorati Tags: mashup,guide,learn,tutorial
The Apple Iphone Jobs Video. Highlights: Microsoft Exchange and VPN support EBAY interface Loopt support – Location Aware Social Networks: We make serendipity happen Native TypePad support (blogging) Apple – QuickTime – WWDC 2008 Keynote And a list of things Apple…
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…
Steven Levy outlines the greater benefits of launching the Iphone 2.0. But though the low price will dominate iPhone chatter between now and July 11, there is actually a much bigger iPhone story to tell. Today marked the official transformation of Jobs’s…
Now any site can offer custom recommendations to everyone… Pluggable social networking… MyTrybe
A set of API standards straddling the world of social networks… OpenSocial – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zembly is he masu editor of mashups… Developing Web applications to be used within social networks and numerous other cloud-based structures is becoming more and more de rigueur for the entrepreneurial set. Both on the desktop and on the go, Web users…
Disney Goes All The Way Online If the thought of planning a trip to the happiest place on Earth on a flat map online (let alone on paper) seems too dull—Disney World now offers visitors a 3-D interactive map on Google Earth.…
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…
Technorati Tags: mobile,telecommunication,international,china The Economist wonders if China’s statist control of telecommunications can still deliver the kind of benefits free markets can: The reorganisation is the fourth since China first opened its telecoms industry to limited, state-orchestrated competition. Each time the government…
Following a story on the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog I’ve run into YouNoodle.com a social networking site for entrepreneurs and educators. Lots of mashups and some interesting applications. The site still needs some improvement and the communication tools improved,…
Technorati Tags: wordpress,web,organization,information,bookmark,social media A little introspective review of the best ways to post stuff to your WordPress Blogs. Ma.tt » Favorite Posting Bookmarklet
A $40 dollar Wii controller turned into a movement tracker that in the “wild” costs $$$$$$ shows that the building blocks of technological progress are simple functions and devices that can be combined into utilities. It also suggests that technological creativity at…
Boy, oh, boy. The aliens are coming… Alien Robot Love: Earths First Close Encounter of the Alien Kind Will Be More Toaster Than Number Six Forget little green men, Vulcans or super-sexy Number Sixs slinking about the verse in little red cocktail…
Sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 – Space- msnbc.com Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri…
A tantalizing image of a seamless web of content that transcends delivery methods. A brilliant move… Threatened by Apple. Could Amazon and Audible Rewrite the Rules of Publishing? – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog How about a service that…
See how Wikipedia stacks up against Yahoo and Google.
Norman’s dream of a world populated by information appliances became one byte more real with the launch of the Kodak electronic picture frame that synchronizes with a website via Wi-Fi. Kodak EasyShare EX1011 (10 inches, $250, Kodak.com). Now here’s a thought: add…
Legalese for dummies. One law at a time. Help:About this project – Readable Laws When was the last time you tried to read a law? The actual, raw text of a piece of legislation? If you dont know where to find such…
Displays on the go! Eyeing the Future at C.E.S., Part 2 – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog what if you didn’t have to strap on a pair of geeky goggles to watch video on your iPod, cell phone or…