Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Social Media News
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and SocietyThe Intifada is not televised, it is now spread via Iphone apps… “US computer giant Apple has culled a Palestinian application from its iPhone offerings at the request of Israel, which said…
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and SocietyFor a long time I thought Al Qaeda uses donkey mail. Now we know that in fact it uses “thumb nail”… “Does al-Qaida really not have an IT department? The U.S. intelligence…
Via Scoop.it – Mad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and SocietyAlbeit LulzSec calling it quits, the hacking saga continues. Hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility of taking down Tunisian government’s official website moments ago.Show original
Via Scoop.it – Mapping current eventsSpringfield tornado is now officially rated as an EF-3 on a scale of 5. An EF-3 event can easily level strong frame homes.Show original
Via Scoop.it – Media convergenceNewsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. Another type of front page…Show original
Via Scoop.it – Media convergence“Apple might want to sell you your next TV… Apple plans to “blow Netflix and all those other guys away” with a console that would have Apple TV and iTunes built into it, the source reportedly told DailyTech.…
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies “J.K.Rowling presents Pottermore: a unique and free-to-use website which builds an exciting online experience around the reading of the Harry Potter books…” The site will combine reading with extra features, some embedded in a new…
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesIt’s not a skill that’s been widely understood until quite recently, however community management has begun to move to the forefront of di (RT @cflanagan: .@mor_trisha commenting on Dion’s Community Mgr as “jack of all trades”…
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesThe average working woman is putting in more hours on the job, a Bureau of Labor Statistics study found. Women are averaging about 10 more minutes a day on work compared with last year. Question: does…
Via Scoop.it – InfotentionWhat if you had to focus for at least 30 minutes on every single task that you did? Would it improve your productivity? Cal Newport takes hard focus for a test drive.Show original
Via Scoop.it – InfotentionThe point is that new tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away, distracted. Instead, these tools allow us to direct attention to destinations…
Via Scoop.it – InfotentionScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world. Because it’s a…
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesA resource for social media and digital humanities scholars. Academic and professional papers on mass media and social media research.Show original
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesInterested in Demand Generation Strategy?Show original
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesAmazon.co.jp? Evolution of American Urban Society: Howard P.Show original
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesResearch: Focus Groups Vs Social Media (Research: Focus Groups Vs Social Media http://tinyurl.com/6h4bm4y…)…Show original
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesHow do virtual communities come together? What makes them strong? What social theories can be used for explaining them? What rules and policies can be used to make virtual communities last?Show original
To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called “sociability”? In other words, do these exchanges amount to any meaningful type of social organization? Are they more than the mere froth of collective emotion discharging its energy with a…
[recreading]
Faceboo dethrones HI5, Orkut and other also ran networks in most countries of the world. Only significant exceptions, Russia and China. via Amazing maps that show how Facebook is taking over the world.
A 2011 E3 Video news roundup E3 is the Electronic Entertainment Expo at which major video and PC game vendors present their new products. This year’s event promises a number of long expected events and products. Here is a line up of…
Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time—the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy—while searching for her place in the world during a transformative time in her life.
For the same results, total television ads cost $50 billion more: Mohan noted a $50 billion disconnect between consumer attention given to digital, and consumer attention given to television. In other words, major brand advertisers are spending a lot more in TV…
Al Gore’s next book promises to start a publishing revolution. Keep your eyes on Push Pop Press. The 800-pound gorilla in this digital space is Adobe, whose tools are used to create some tablet periodicals (including the iPad version of WIRED magazine).…
A class of Mexican kindergarteners braved a drug cartel shootout right under the windows of their school by singing “When it will rain chocolate.” The teacher, maestra Martha Rivera Alanis, told them to lay down and put their little faces on the…
“No, you can’t!” A semi-funny non-verbal communication situation that might or might not convey the meaning of the situation. At the Pittsburgh Summit, 2009 President Obama introduces his wife to Dominique Strauss Kahn (DSK), who at the time was still the director…
After a great start, with great positive reactions on Twitter, President Obama’s Middle East speech has become only a few days later a more controversial proposition, both for social media audiences and for newsmakers. According to Social Mention, a social media monitoring…
NEW: Read latest update on social mention sentiment analysis of President Obama’s Middle East speech Textual analysis of the rhetoric and of the social media buzz created by President Obama’s speech on the future of the Middle East (see transcript of Middle…
Wired’s Dangerroom reports on the amazingly fast transformation of Osama’s last known lair into a recruiting and training ground for the US special forces: TAMPA, Florida — To passers-by, T.J., a fit 20-something, is running around a red felt carpet about half…
Little did @stefmara Twitter user and Neil Monday know that their pictures and videos of the space shuttle Discovery launch from Kennedy Space center, which they captured on their Iphones while flying from Orlando, will make world wide news. Here it’s one…
The hacktivist group Anonymous, which was recently in the news for its strong-armed support of Wikileaks, is in the middle of a mini civil war. A group of secessionist members has revealed the online identities and other details (Ip addresses) of some…
All your digital breadcrumbs in one place… A program aggregates all your location based information and plots it on a map. A new software tool created by Greek programmer Yiannis Kakavas goes much farther in the shock category. Called “Creepy,” Kakavas’ tool…
We are finally getting somewhere… Cloud computing, though, is more than a hyper-efficient means of distributing digital services. The cloud model is animated by a set of Internet technologies for juggling computing workloads in data centers far more efficiently than in the…
The power of WordPress consists in its ability to be extended to perform any number of tricks. In this post I will introduce the notion of WordPress plugins for my WebProduction class and I will illustrate it with several examples, including Register…
Ali Wylam, one of the students enrolled in my Com 435 class (Emerging Communication Technologies) found that teen sensation Justin Bieber has a gigantic stature in cyberspace. He is right up there with the big corporations. He garnered over 30 million monthly…
WordPress is indubitable the best content management system in the world. It is used by half of the top 1 million Alexa sites that run off-the-shelf content management systems. Also, there are 27 million WordPress publishers in the world, of which I…
News about “radioactive” foodstuff in Japan needs to be taken with a grain of salt: The Japanese government has found radiation levels “significantly above” acceptable levels in milk, spinach and kakina, another leafy vegetable, produced near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power…
The end of Moore’s law and it’s economic effects https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/20/0413224/Michio-Kakus-Dark-Prediction-For-the-End-of-Moores-Law?from=newsletter#commentlisting Links: 0. http://slashdot.org/my/journal 1. http://www.salon.com/technology/computers/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/03/19/moores_law_ends_excerpt How much radiation can your body absorb? https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/20/1422238/A-Handy-Radiation-Dose-Chart-From-XKCD?from=newsletter#commentlisting Links: 0. http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Which are the world’s premiere science cities? https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/20/1648254/Citation-Map-Shows-Top-Science-Cities?from=newsletter#commentlisting Links: 0. http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3216 1. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/81-web-general/2154-citation-map-shows-top-science-cities.html
Facebook does not seem to have a very large advertising footprint. In fact, it relies in great measure on two major partners, Zynga, the producer of Farmville, and Groupon. Gaming and group buying partners are responsible for 2/3rds of Facebook’s revenue. While…
A part, and an important one, of the “wise crowds” mystery seems to have been solved. All “smart mobs” need to meet two pre-requisites, which seem to be at odds with each other. While members need to be ignorant of the overall…
New York Times ponders on the merging of journalism and search engine optimization Search Engine Optimization to Lure Readers – NYTimes.com The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come…
New York Times ponders on the merging of journalism and search engine optimization Search Engine Optimization to Lure Readers – NYTimes.com The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come…
New York Times ponders on the merging of journalism and search engine optimization Search Engine Optimization to Lure Readers – NYTimes.com The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come…
Since none of the sites discussing this piece of news provided a map, here is one… (Marker indicates location of proposed store location) MSNBC: RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly 150 years after Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant fought in northern Virginia,…
Sherry Turkle Image via Wikipedia Sherry Turkle’s latest book on identity shifts in the Internet age takes a more pessimistic view on the role of technology in re-shaping our daily lives… In Turkle’s latest book, “Alone Together,” this optimism is long gone.…
The great story told by Slavomir Rawicz in the Longest Walk (although doubted by some) has been made into a movie, The Way Back, which got a so and so (rather good, really, but not spectacular) review in the New York Times…
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…
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…
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…
test
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…
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…
Dean Zhang Guoliang on media changes in China. Zhong Rhujiu…