Steve Jobs’s Real Genius
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesMalcolm Gladwell (of Tipping Point and Blink fame) puts the dot on the i
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It’s Time to Discover America, Congress funds PR operation to promote America as tourist destination
From The New York Times – MEDIA DECODER BLOG An organization formed by Congress to market the United States to
Read MoreNYTimes: Pushing China’s Limits on Web, if Not
From The New York Times: CULTURE AND CONTROL: Pushing China’s Limits on Web, if Not on Paper “Murong Xuecun, a
Read MoreNYTimes: Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
Amazon’s investment in the new Kindle Fire, which includes almost free access to books that it bought on its own
Read MoreNYTimes: Online and by Paper Airplane, Donations Pour in to Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei, whose artistic vision partially inspired the iconic “bird’s nest” stadium, which changed the image of Beijing from a
Read MoreLost in Transylvania – FT.com
Via Scoop.it – Mapping current events I am sitting in a wooden hut in a forest clearing near Tusnad, aware
Read MoreHow Algorithms and Editors Can Work Together to Burst the “Filter Bubble”
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesReal problem are the homophily assumptions built in the selection filters (birds of a
Read MoreFree but not easy
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies MANY mocked, but the money rolled in.Via www.economist.com
Read MoreBacterian conspiracy? Superbugs are product of bacterian gene exchange
Via Scoop.it – Mapping current events“Researchers have discovered an underworld of genetic exchange among bacteria, one more vast than previously
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Principles, tips, advice, and ideas for designing, creating, growing, maintaining, or using online – virtual communities
A list of principles for designing on-line communities created by Dr. Sorin A. Matei and his students registered in various versions
Read MoreCould city lights could point to E.T.?
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and Society Astronomers suggest that artificial illumination creates a signature that
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Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for
Read MoreNYTimes: What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don’t
“It’s staggering to contemplate how much the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs understood about modern America that those who govern it
Read MoreAmazon’s Kindle Fire Ready to Order, Combines Device with EC2 Services seamlessly
At $199, the color Kindle Fire is less than half the price of the Apple iPad. It’s browser Silk, partly
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The Visible Past / Open Context Loosely Coupled Model for Digital Humanities Ubiquitous Collaboration and Publishing: Collaborating Across Print, Mobile, and Online Media
Authors: Sorin Adam Matei, Eric Kansa, Nicholas Rauh. Abstract: The paper presents a platform for supporting academic collaboration and publishing
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Purdue University Brian Lamb School of Communication hosts Marc Smith, NodeXL founder, social media and network analyis scholar
Marc Smith, cyber sociologist, product developer, Connected Action Chief Scientist, and leader of the Social Media foundation will visit the
Read MoreVirtual entertainment patent issued to Microsoft, Bill Gates in a step to extend Kinect to virtual dating
Image by wolfgang.wedenig via Flickr The patent claims that a belt connecting to a network device “creates a sensation for a
Read MoreOnline Interaction and Community Building | LinkedIn Group
Via Scoop.it – Foreign Affairs Let us talk about the best tools, books, tricks and ideas for building online communities
Read More28 percent Americans search for spatial information on their mobiles, 4 percent use location aware services, such as Gowalla or Foursquare – Pew Internet Research
Image by Joshua Kaufman via Flickr About 1/4 of Americans use some sort of mapping or location based information service
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Women Find More Value and Benefit from College Education
88 percent of women, versus 84 percent of men appreciate their college education… Apud Resource Shelf and Pew Internet. Half
Read MoreESRI online map of hurricane Irene impact with social media layer
ESRI has published a very nice map that shows Irene’s impact as captured in Flickr photos, Youtube clips, and tweets.
Read MoreThe extended mind – how Google affects our memories | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Via Scoop.it – Media convergence“[Our] results suggest that processes of human memory are adapting to the advent of new computing
Read MoreWhy Iceland’s new draft constitution was not written by crowdsourcing and why this is a good thing, too
Iceland surprised the world when it announced that it will include in the draft of its new constitution suggestions made
Read MoreMOMA Art Exhibit Turns 2d Codes into Art
QR codes, which are a type of barcodes that can call up multimedia on cell phones (see Around the World
Read MoreInternet of things innovations from Breakfast: Google voice search Verbalizer and a Last.fm – Pandora wall music appliances
Are you in front of an information booth, at the mall? Do you want to do a Google search without
Read MoreUbimark.info Collects Soundscapes Recordings for World Listening Day (Map)
Bryan Pijanowski, the head of the Soundscape Ecology Project at Purdue University, and Sorin Adam Matei, the author of this
Read MoreCBS launches Star Trek simulator of PADD for Ipad
The tablets used in the series Star Trek have come to life. CBS sells the PADD Ipad application on Itunes.
Read MoreVirtual World Study Reveals the Origin of Good and Bad Behavior Patterns – Technology Review
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesA Santa Fe Institute study looked at chains of social interactions online and it
Read MoreThe Information Society
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesThe Information Society is a multidisciplinary journal intended to answer questions about the Information
Read MoreApps Bring Past, Present and Future Into Focus
Via Scoop.it – Media convergence A new, interesting Iphone App and project, similar to another Flickr project A few new
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Eastern Europeans among strongest social networkers, less concerned about privacy.
According to a recent European Union study, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Cyprus lead social networking pack in Europe, with more
Read MoreArras Theme breaks WordPress 3.2 and generates a blank screen. Here is the solution.
If you are rushed, as I was, to upgrade to the3.2 version of WordPress and if you are using the
Read MoreApple: IOS 5 to Offer Improved Browsing, Notifications, Twitter Integration, 197 Other Features
Via Scoop.it – Media convergenceIO5 revolution via All things digital (Wall Street Journal)… Physical buttons to control the camera Location
Read MoreHand Gesture Remote Controlled Helicopter via Kinect
Swiss students at the The Flying Machine Arena at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control ETH Zurich re-purpose Xbox hand gesture controller Kinect for
Read MoreWhat is Google+? A collection of tools in search of an aim (apud Farhad Majoo)
Google+ is the search giant’s response to Facebook’s recent raise as the most visited site in the world. The tools
Read More» Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesWhat is really at stake in the Google+ project “But as I learned in
Read MoreReport: Apple is building two (!) iPhones for September release – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech
Via Scoop.it – Media convergenceAn analyst expects Apple to launch both an iPhone 5 and a mid-range iPhone 4S [caption
Read MoreIntifada Iphone App pulled off Itunes
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and SocietyThe Intifada is not televised, it is now spread via
Read More» Osama’s Diabolical Plan for Secure E-Mail: Thumb Drives
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and SocietyFor a long time I thought Al Qaeda uses donkey
Read MoreShareable: Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and Society An Internet for abandoned community. How long until the
Read MoreAnonymous takes down Tunisian government site in the name of AntiSec; Calls it fight against Internet censorship
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and SocietyAlbeit LulzSec calling it quits, the hacking saga continues. Hacker
Read MoreSpringfield, MA tornado which sucked water from a local river gets EF-3 rating on a scale of 5 (intensity map, kmz, pictures)
Via Scoop.it – Mapping current eventsSpringfield tornado is now officially rated as an EF-3 on a scale of 5. An
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Apple to start making TVs, report says
Via Scoop.it – Media convergence“Apple might want to sell you your next TV… Apple plans to “blow Netflix and all
Read MoreJ K Rowling to become her own publisher of ebooks and digital content at Pottermore
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies “J.K.Rowling presents Pottermore: a unique and free-to-use website which builds an exciting online
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Community management: The ‘essential’ capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 efforts | ZDNet
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesIt’s not a skill that’s been widely understood until quite recently, however community management
Read MoreWomen are putting more time into their jobs, research finds – Related Stories – SmartBrief on Workforce
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesThe average working woman is putting in more hours on the job, a Bureau
Read MoreA Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hrs of Forced Focus
Via Scoop.it – InfotentionWhat if you had to focus for at least 30 minutes on every single task that you
Read MoreMaria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship
Via Scoop.it – InfotentionThe point is that new tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy
Read MoreAbout | ScraperWiki
Via Scoop.it – InfotentionScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a
Read MoreSorin A. Matei’s Classes and Research on Current Affairs, Mass Media, Digital Maps, KML, KMZ, Collaborative processes, Wikipedia, Spatial Analysis and Communication Technology
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesA resource for social media and digital humanities scholars. Academic and professional papers on
Read MoreBtoB’s Leading Edge: Demand Generation in the Digital Age
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