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Simmel – Image via Wikipedia by Sorin Adam Matei Professor, Purdue University citation: Matei, S A (2019). Communication as social form. [Online]. Available at: https://matei.org/ithink/2009/12/13/communication-as-social-form-an-autoecological-perspective/. Introduction: What is communication for? What role does communication play in society? Although it is quite obvious…
Will search engines married to pay per click programs be the victim of their own success? And will they in the process drag the web down with them? According to these two articles, from Wired and Read Write Web, the Internet is…
Image via Wikipedia Publishers Weekly issued its 2009 best book list. The choices, made out of 50,000 volumes, are at times quirky and cute, but overall the list offers a solid image of who is who and what was (and still is)…
Digital Literacy: Index value in age groups Top 5 European countries ordered by digital literacy levels (2003) Denmark UK Finland Austria Spain Data is quite old, I was wondering what does it look like today? Sources: SIBIS GPS 2002, SIBIS GPS-NAS 2003…
Image via Wikipedia European Union has developed a number of socially conscious frameworks for spurring on adoption and implementation of information technologies in all fields of life. This is especially important as Europe is extremely diverse, covering IT landscapes as diverse as…
Google Chrome now supports an extension gallery, just like Firefox. For now only 18 extensions are available. We can’t wait to see what else is in store. via Chrome Extensions Gallery Officially Opens. Related articles by Zemanta Google Chrome for Mac and…
When we launched Visible Past a few years ago, there was very low interest in geographic wiki applications. Geo wikis are editable sites that interact with mapping services. (For details, see the Read Write Web covergage of our Visible Past Virtual Omaha…
Image via Wikipedia An interesting thought about applying Goffman to online phenomena. A student of mine, Christina Kalinowski, wrote an excellent master thesis on the same topic. Will follow up with more soon. Let me start by shining a light on an…
Image via Wikipedia To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to…
Hear, hear…. PRESIDENT OBAMA’S recent trip to China reflects a symbiotic relationship at the heart of the global economy: China uses American spending power to enlarge its private sector, while America uses Chinese lending power to expand its public sector. Yet this…
What is augmented reality? Diagram by Gary Hayes via Flickr One of the original augmented reality pioneers is Blair MacIntyre, whose work needs to be more widely known… He works at the Augmented Environments Lab (AEL), a research group in the GVU…
NYT makes “deletionst”–as in “someone who deletes Wikipedia article on a daily basis”-a notable phrase… In the Wall Street Journal, Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler reported on a dramatic decline in the number of Wikipedia editors (down by more than 49,000…
Touchgraph takes a look at your sites and the links between them and it generates a graph like this. What you see here are the sites connecting to this domain, starting from the main page (matei.org). Enjoy…
Taking a cue from and fearing the competition of the the recent Wolfram Alpha – Bing – Yahoo alliance Google has probably paid World Bank an arm and a leg to plug their search engine in the newly released WB data API.…
Image via Wikipedia P2P software used for sharing music is not only a huge problem for copyright holders, but also a gigantic privacy problem for its users. It is an even bigger information security for their employers. Did you know that some…
Image via Wikipedia Here we go again… It turns out the size of the average American’s social circle is smaller today than 20 years ago, as measured by the number of self-reported confidants in a person’s life. Yet contrary to popular opinion,…
Location Aware application from Loopt to change some things. How much, remains to be seen. “Everybody’s got an eye on the mobile space and location as a central part of the search experience, but I don’t think there is some definitive app,”…
Image via Wikipedia The One New York Times initiative aims to bring the power of quasi open source development to media company that sits on one of the most amazing piles of content in the world. In it’s own words ” You…
Image by luc legay via Flickr The shortest, sweetest summary of the lates Facebook upgrade… The Twitter-like filter-free home page everyone hated a few months back was gone, and the default feed everyone missed so much was back — sort of —…
Image by jurvetson via Flickr Intelligence in Wikipedia “Berners-Lee‘s vision of the Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method: creating enough structured data to motivate the development of applications. We believe that…
Image via Wikipedia A tongue in cheek Wired article pokes fun at Wikipedia‘s clumsy way of dealing with its most visible secret: the fact that being the product of many minds it will reflect most of them, sometimes in contradictory terms. I…
Social Media Revolution Did Facebook spread faster than any other medium? Is social media just a fad? Click to watch the video…
An idea launched by Lilly, in our own Indy, makes slow but sure headway and is noticed by The Economist. This is a marketplace of ideas, where any industrial problem will find its maker… InnoCentive: A market for ideas | The Economist:…
Wikipedia has “hardened” its social structure, a study conducted at Purdue University reveals. After 500 edits, Wikipedia articles become dominated by a small group of editors that control the knowledge production system. This explains why a few percent of Wikipedia users generate…
We like our media in small chunks and diverse, a sort of fruit salad, or so the common wisdom goes. But what adult with a job past 26 years old can handle a thousand loose threads of conversation bombarding him or her…
Just as the man says, how do you detect communities in networks that are asymetric… We consider the problem of finding communities or modules in directed networks. The most common approach to this problem in the previous literature has been simply to…
What is the best way to measure network complexity? Complexity can be defined as presence of a diversity of cliques that are hierarchically connected by a number of central nodes. Thus, the network should have both as many cliques as possible, as…
Google Docs Google Groups Catch the Real – Webmonkey Previously, sharing Google Docs and Calendars was limited to two basic options, the entire world (public docs) or individual e-mail addresses added by hand. But what about situations where you want to share…
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Lifehacker – HearPlanet is a Free Talking Tour Guide for Your iPhone – Travel iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application HearPlanet plays audio tracks of Wikipedia articles based on points of interest surrounding your current location, turning your iPhone or iPod touch into…
Wall Street Journal wants its journalists to be less promiscuous online. The reason is that “openly ‘friending’ sources is akin to publicly publishing your Rolodex”. WSJ is also nervous about leaks and lawsuits, advising its journalists not to “disparage the work of…
Google’s webdesigner Douglas Bowman left the company for Twitter because it found Google’s obsession for pretesting even the smallest design decisions onerous. Google says it will stay the course. Ping – Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? –…
NYT looks into the growing trend of pirated print books. Many of them seem to be rip-offs of existing e-books. Some of them are manually scanned, though. Among the most active sites, Scirbd and Wattpad. With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books…
The following is a series of reviews on web 2.0, web design, and social media books. It will be a 9 part series. Each review is structured to provide a brief summary of the books along with some application to current course…
iPhone Apps Developer, iPhone Apps Development, iPhone Apps programming Rent a coder for Iphone applications tags: apple, developer, iphone Social Mobile Web 2009 Deadline May 11 tags: mobile, application, web, paper, visible, past Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links…
2009 Big Mobile on Campus Challenge tags: news, resources, review, tools Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Guidelines for the Sloan-C conference Sloan C Conference call for proposals tags: online, learning Sloan-C International Conference We invite you to submit a proposal for the 15th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: “The Power of Online Learning: Opportunities for Tomorrow.” The…
Perly SMIL Home Page build smil files on the fly tags: no_tag WDVL: SMIL File smil format tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
(previously posted on consumermixx.com by adrienne hall) In honor of Earth Day, this post is dedicated to the social networking sites that are helping consumers examine their carbon footprints and start making healthy earth choices. 1. JustMeans (www.justmeans.com) This site encourages uses…
The web has not become the tool of choice for disseminating scientific research, despite the fact that Tim Berners Lee’s original hope was precisely that. The reason for this failure is not that the web is a trivial medium used to peddle…
David Spinks wrote a post on Mashable outlining 10 social networking sites college students should try. I found one of them to be very interesting, box.net, an online collaboration service.
At Purdue University we have been exploring the possibilities opened up by the 2D code revolution. My colleagues keep asking me about the digital matrix I affixed to the main office door. One of my classes has created a 2d code tour…
10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates The following are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates. These amazing updates have made the news, pushed the boundaries of what the status update can do, and have even fundamentally changed people’s…
GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality Very smart augmented reality simulation (or maybe more) tags: hologram, 3d, energy, ge, grid, graphics, flash, reality Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
I just saw this commercial on YouTube. Now, I’m not trying to promote Sprint, but the concept of the commercial is fantastic.
MobileExperiences.pdf (application/pdf Object) tags: no_tag Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, PhD, University Of Aarhus, Denmark – CrazyMotion! tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
ARCHAEOINFORMATICS rchaeoinformatics.org, is established as a collaborative organization to design, seek funding for, and direct a set of cyberinfrastructure initiatives for archaeology. Archaeoinformatics.org seeks to coordinate with and, develop interoperability of its own projects with other relevant data-sharing initiatives. It offers to…
Computational Legal Studies tags: no_tag Technology Review: Buzz Meter mainstream media sites drive coverage, converging on a story two and a half hours before blogs react. But mainstream sites are also quick to abandon stories, while blog interest can persist for days…
We have been reading about WordPress and Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s book, WordPress for Dummies, has given us one of the best overview of WordPress I’ve seen. I’ve been using the platform for a few years now. I think the first version I used…
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, last.fm (too name a few) – are we joining too many social networking communities? Do we reveal too much to our “friends” online? Has it all taken up too much energy in our lives? These are some…
PS535F Fully Rugged PDA Buy Page – GroupMobile.com tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
A dorky looking Steve Irwin, Matthew Hurst, of Microsoft Labs, intimates that the Blogosphere is on the wane. I picked this up from L Rainie’s Twitter feed. Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: Is Authority Migrating? There’s an interesting discussion…
The world renown Museum of Modern Art has embraced social networking! A new site has been launched as a part of their new site re-design that showcases how museum patrons and other interested parties to connect with MoMA via flickr, Twitter, YouTube,…