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).
Thought you’d be interested in this article: http://on.msnbc.com/i11zoc BEIJING – There’s a new face keeping Chairman Mao company on Tiananmen Square. A mammoth sculpture of the ancient philosopher Confucius was unveiled this week off one side of the vast plaza. It’s a…
Have you thought about digital estate planning? Suppose that just after you finish reading this article, you keel over, dead. Perhaps you’re ready for such an eventuality, in that you have prepared a will or made some sort of arrangement for the…
Body Mass index by state. > 25% overweight, >30 obese. Image via Wikipedia It is not just that humans have become heavier in the last decades, but also some species of animals, including completely wild species. The problem of obesity isn’t confined…
From The New York Times: RED ROCK CANYON, Nev. — The jagged pink mountains here glitter, rare instances of natural beauty in a desolate landscape known more for its gleaming casinos. For years, hikers and rock climbers have flocked to Red Rock…
The New York Times 2010 Top of Tops, hot off the presses: The Year in Arts Take a look back at the best movies according to A.O. Scott, Manohla Dargis and Stephen Holden. Don’t miss Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood’s selection of…
Here are two interesting papers on Web 3.0 a new concept that aims to cover the gap between the digital world that we know (social media) and the one that is emerging under our own eyes. Don’t forget to check out our…
How to recycle your old cell phone or camera… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02pogue.html?_r=1&ref=global-europe.&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=globaleuab1
According to Hugh Pickens “Network World reports that Facebook has just released an analysis of the [1]word usage for about one million status updates from its US English speakers with the words in updates organized into 68 different word categories based on…
Image via Wikipedia And make money in the process. The Atlantic Monthly has succeeded in this arduous task by injecting itself with a good dose of start-up mentality. The Atlantic, the intellectual’s monthly that always seemed more comfortable as an academic exercise…
Image via Wikipedia Spot on. Leveraging the power of social media resides in our ability to check and funnel its output, not in hosing out content indiscriminately. In this respect Assange, who has decided to throttle the release of his stash of…
Worst gripe? It feels and works like it was made on the cheap. Engineers, navel gazing, fell in love with their own cloud-based dream, leaving the users behind. In a word, released too soon. Personally, I think the idea is great and…
Image via Wikipedia Worrying news, via Die Welt, from Venezuela. Copying a page from the book of his mentor, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez closes ranks with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards by allowing an Iranian manned missile base in South America. It is…
Image via CrunchBase Could this be a sign of the time? New York Time thinks social media so central to its effort that it insists that all of its editors and writers think “socially”… Earlier this week, New York Times Social Media…
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Apple’s first logo. Plus how much canyou sell your Apple I for? http://m.economist.com/babbage-tech-21013406.php
The Economist weighs in on the emergence of faster wireless networks “All of that, and more, is going to be needed when consumers start to “cut the television cable” in earnest. The cable TV companies are experiencing their biggest decline in revenue…
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From The New York Times: BASICS: Reptile’s Pet-Store Looks Belie Its Triassic Appeal A New Zealand reptile, the tuatara, is unlike any other vertebrate alive. http://nyti.ms/gPGVka Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting http://itunes.com/apps/nytimes
The day was replete with stories about North Korean sudden bombardment of a South Korean island. To my surprise, no new sites had maps, interactive or otherwise, indicating where the event took place. A quick search and here it is. Enjoy.
Pastor bans Facebook…. Lead Thee Not Into Temptation, Facebook – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Lead-Thee-Not-Into-Temptation-Facebook-2577 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
From The New York Times: Merck Drug for Cutting Cholesterol Is Promising Patients taking the drug anacetrapib had a 39.8 percent reduction in bad cholesterol and a 138.1 percent increase in good cholesterol. http://nyti.ms/a3AKGB Get The New York Times on your iPhone…
From The New York Times: Detainee Acquitted on Most Counts in ’98 Bombings The first former Guantánamo detainee tried in a civilian court was acquitted of all but one charge in the bombings of American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. http://nyti.ms/dwB1d8 Get…
Vanity Fair’s decision to feature Cher on its November 2010 cover shows how difficult is for traditional media to shed its old habits. Repackaging Cher (64) as a glamor girl, complete with fishnet hosiery is at least bizarre, if not sadly predictable…
Swedish hotel to give guests phones with near communication chips? Why not allow people touse own cell phones to call or text reception directly? Thought you’d be interested in th is article: http://bit.ly/9fboE1
I thought you would find this interesting: Keith Richards’s Revealing ‘Life’ – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Keith-Richardss-Revealing-Life-5583 Titillating’ The New Yorker editor David Remnick succinctly summarizes the memoir: It’s “a slurry romp through the life of a man who knew every pleasure, denied himself nothing, and…
Image by phauly via Flickr Cerias promises an awesome speaker series this semester. Among them, Lada Adamic‘s talk November 12, 2010 10:30-11:30 AM Lawson 3102 A Abstract Online rating and reputation systems have shown themselves to be essential for filtering content, building…
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I thought you would find this interesting: What Budget-Cutting Measures Reveal About National Character – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/What-Budget-Cutting-Measures-Reveal-About-National-Character-5505 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
How did world media report on the Wikileaks release of 400000 Pentagon documents? Thought you’d be interested in th is article: http://bit.ly/cs3krb
From The New York Times: BOOKS OF THE TIMES: The Readers Behind Bars Put Books to Many Uses A young, Harvard-educated prison librarian near Boston tells his story. http://nyti.ms/df8csi Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting http://itunes.com/apps/nytimes
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http://youtube.com/ubimark is right… From The New York Times: In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital offerings, college students weaned on technology appear to be holding fast to…
What did Greece in? It’s mediaeval guilds… From The New York Times: Cozy System for Professionals Slows Reform in Greece Interest groups oppose breaking down the barriers to entry in lucrative niches, but experts say they cost the economy billions of dollars…
The syfy channel blastr site reports “Morgan Freeman has been trying to get an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s first-contact classic Rendezvous With Rama made for almost 20 years—with David Fincher on board to direct—and the Oscar-winner says he’s closer than ever.…
From The New York Times: In a Takeout Container, a Trek to the Stratosphere A seven-minute edit of a handmade craft’s recorded trip 100,000 feet into the air, posted on a video-sharing site, becomes a viral success. http://nyti.ms/9uWwct Get The New York…
From The New York Times: In the Future, Already Behind As California companies begin mass production of a new solar cell, the industry has been changed — by China. http://nyti.ms/cydKEa Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting…
I thought you would find this interesting: “Adding another extracurricular to thechecklist, Google is investing in a “mammoth” offshore wind farm along the Atlantic seaboard. The search giant is taking a 37.6 percent equity stake in the project, which will have a…
I thought you would find this interesting “Here’s the nagging problem with online reading: “When you’re at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.” When perusing an interesting piece of writing “you can always click away to check email or…
David Winer Image via Wikipedia David Winer (inventor of RSS, weblogs, podcasting, outlining, Rex Longobardorum, Dux Austriae, et Imperator Romanorum) revives his older idea of turning big corporate news sites into news services of a different kind, which would focus on the…
I thought you would find this interesting: SCREED: Reading This Book ‘Is Like Being Waterboarded with Truffle Oil’ – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Reading-This-Book-Is-Like-Being-Waterboarded-with-Truffle-Oil-2248 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
Google box ready to deliver all the web vids that fit your TV What the New Set-Top Box Means for Google TV – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/What-the-New-Set-Top-Box-Means-for-Google-TV-5306 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
LA Times loses business to bloggers, strikes back… SPATWATCH: LA Times Sniffs at ‘Bloggers With an Axe to Grind’ – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/LA-Times-Sniffs-at-Bloggers-With-an-Axe-to-Grind-2258 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
Coincidentia opositorum…. I thought you would find this interesting: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Jon Stewart, Glenn Beck Have ‘Quite a Bit in Common’ – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Jon-Stewart-Glenn-Beck-Have-Quite-a-Bit-in-Common-2241 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
“Is art better when times are tough? Think of immortal painter Vincent van Gogh, “starving as he slaves over his masterpieces,” suggestsJon Kelly for the BBC. “The 1930s gave us Steinbeck and Picasso’s greatest work.” The impetus for the piece is a…
My bet is that the iPhone will win this fight… Back in March, I wrote about the increasingly personal fight between Steven P. Jobs, the Apple chief executive, and Eric E. Schmidt, his Google counterpart. In it, I quoted Mr. Jobs saying:…
School Library Journal mentions Ubimark Books, created by the author of this blog, as a digital innovator. QR codes are still somewhat novel in this country, but in Japan they’re already a tried- and-true method for sharing data. Widespread smartphone adoption in…
I thought you would find this interesting: Top Tweets: ‘The Flintstones’ Turns 50 Edition – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Top-Tweets-The-Flintstones-Turns-50-Edition-5233 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com
From The New York Times: STATE OF THE ART: A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You’re Paid The Square device snaps into an iPhone and allows you to become a credit card authorizing entrepreneur. No setup fees, no two-year contract —…
Dean Zhang Guoliang on media changes in China. Zhong Rhujiu…
Image via Wikipedia Gene Weingarten wrote a tongue in cheek article for WP about Facebook’s uselessness and the way in which it can become a gigantic time suck, especially for those of us that have other, better things to do. He used…
Image via CrunchBase Sept 23, 4 PM, EST: Facebook appears to be down. I have tried to access it several times in the last hour and it is beyond reach. The current message is that not even the DNS request can be…
I thought you would find this interesting: Quote of the Day: How Hot Peppers Make Us Human – http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Quote-of-the-Day-How-Hot-Peppers-Make-Us-Human-5110 Shared from AtlanticWire, an iPhone app made with www.AppMakr.com