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Sorin Adam Matei

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Category: Digital News

Topical news on social media, web culture, digital humanities

Another Way To Look At Terms Of Service Agreements: Wordle Visualizations

This is what you get when you use a slick tool like Wordle (try it!) to run all the words used to make up the Terms of Service agreements of seven notable internet companies: cool visualizations that somewhat capture the essence of…

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Google debunks Atlantis finding. What a story would’ve that been!

The Daily Telegraph put the world on fire with the announcement that a square grid-like pattern of structures was found in the middle of the Atlantic. Google reacted promptly, claiming that the pattern is a digital artifact, being the product of the…

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post 02/22/2009

Comparing 3D-Earth Viewers – November 2007, Volume 21, Issue 11 – Archive – GIM International, the global magazine for Geomatics A 3D-Earth viewer enables navigating through the virtual environment and can be easily downloaded from the internet. How might this rapid development…

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Visualizing the Past

University of Richmond has invited an extraordinary group of researchers and practitioners to brainstorm on the most likely path history related visualization will take in the future. The main goal is to map the road that will lead to the next platform…

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Visible Past

Slideshare presentation of Visible Past. Visible Past is a web-based knowledge creation and storage environment that is aware of a user's spatial location and which delivers information on the fly, to that location, based on the user needs connected to that location.…

post 02/20/2009

Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes – NYTimes.com – Annotated tags: student, expectation, grade inflation, entitlement “I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a…

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post 02/19/2009

Alterpode survey document This is a wiki page dedicated to building the survey for the Alterpode project tags: no_tag ViewletQuiz | Qarbon’s Flash Based Survey and Quiz Software tags: no_tag Smart Survey : Create unlimited Flash Surveys on a site which allows…

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Music and Twitter, together at last

Twisten.fm….a new mashup between Twitter and music service Grooveshark is just one more way to “fall in love” with web 2.0.   As if Twitter needed another way to show-off it’s coolness. 

post 02/17/2009

HowStuffWorks “What is an IP address?” – Annotated tags: ip, address Out of the almost 4.3 billion possible combinations 2 to the power of 32 – post by somatei HowStuffWorks “How Domain Name Servers Work” – Annotated tags: DNS If you are…

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