An academic ChatGPT needs a better schooling
Originally published in the Times Higher Education If you know how ChatGPT works, you won’t be surprised to learn that AI detection
Read More
Reviews
Reviews on social media, Internet affairs, and web 2.0 related books
Information as a core concept for explaining order and evolution
Cesar Hidalgo’s book, “Why information grows” is trying to untangle a very big issue by looking at a very simple problem
Read More
Less is not more: Larger open source projects do better if well organized
View image | gettyimages.com Spontaneous production groups are thought to be less effective at larger scales. Lacking formal organization,
Read MoreA pean to the disrupted – The end of coherent thought is neigh
If New York City never lacked for something, those are the immensely talented, greatly gifted writers, whose words flow from
Read More
Hemingway Style Writing Aid
This writing aid is AWESOME… Finally, a writing coach with a brain…. AI at its best (and simplest)… This writing
Read MoreThe perfect Christmas gift for your elderly parents: An great, simple LCD TV at great price (Samsung UN32EH4003 32-inch 720p 60Hz LED HDTV)
This is the modest, “it just works” Samsung TV the your mom always wanted in her bedroom. Crisp image, great
Read MoreEstimote aka “OS For The Physical World” delivers beacon for precise, close encounter location aware applications
The great weakness of location aware mobile apps is precision and location relevance. Mobile apps that are supposed to push
Read MoreCopyright Alert System Applies Nudge Theory to Prevent Naive Peer to Peer Network Users from Breaking the Copyright Law
A method of monitoring copyright infringing P2P traffic meant to notify users in real time that the content they are
Read More
The best “Autoselect all Facebook friends” tool / extension / code snippet you will ever need to send bulk invitations to your friends
For many moons Facebook has been denying its digital sharecroppers to access all at once the capital that they have
Read MoreHow to create and embed a Like Widget for a Facebook Fan Page
A simple tutorial on how to generate the code needed to embed a Facebook
Read More
io9 misses the point of Eastern European 80s and 70s Sci Fi Posters
io9 makes fun of some awesome, albeit non-standard, Eastern European Sci-Fi posters from the 1970s and 1980s. Some of them,
Read MoreWhat is NodeXL and how can it be used. A review of the NodeXL book by Hansen, Shneiderman, Smith
INTL. JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, 27(4), 405–408, 2011 http://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2011.544971 Book Review Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, and Marc A. Smith. Analyzing
Read MoreIs open, non anonymous peer review better at producing accurate reviewes?
What if we allowed the authors and the reviewers of academic papers to interact with each other and, horribile dictu,
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 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 More3d movies disappoint at the box office
The first surprise is that for the past two years 3D movies earned over half of box office revenues. Yet
Read MoreWhy Does Roger Ebert Hate 3D Movies?
Taking a page from McLuhan, who charged modern electronic media with not leaving anything to imagination, Roger Ebert lays it
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 More
How to export Google “My Maps” (aka “My Places”) markers as a KML or KMZ file
NOTE: Soon, my places will be replaced by a new map making tool, which can be previewed here https://mapsengine.google.com/map/ A
Read MoreJames Nelson and the Remains of Company D
A superbly written, on a par with Going After Cacciato, yet equally troubled account of small unit war action in
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 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 MoreState of the Art: A Laptop, Its Head in the Cloud
Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Arctic White) Google Chromebook, the minimal-OS, always on, wireless laptop is a major disappointment for
Read MoreNew Games and Software Announced at 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo – E3: Konami, Sony NGP, Windows 8, Star Wars for Kinect
A 2011 E3 Video news roundup E3 is the Electronic Entertainment Expo at which major video and PC game vendors
Read MoreThe future of the book finally here: a book that sings, talks, and takes you to the movies
Al Gore’s next book promises to start a publishing revolution. Keep your eyes on Push Pop Press. The 800-pound gorilla
Read MorePHP Tutorial for Beginners | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Very good stuff for absolute beginners… PHP is a powerful scripting language that fits gracefully into HTML and puts the
Read MoreCree.py takes ubiquitous computing to a new level of surveillance
All your digital breadcrumbs in one place… A program aggregates all your location based information and plots it on a
Read More
Online Interaction Graduate Seminar to be offered during the fall semester 2011 at Purdue University
Next fall I will teach the Online Interaction Seminar at Purdue University. The class is listed as 47566 – COM
Read MoreBook Review – Alone Together – By Sherry Turkle – NYTimes.com and other reviews
Sherry Turkle Image via Wikipedia Sherry Turkle’s latest book on identity shifts in the Internet age takes a more pessimistic
Read MoreReadWriteWeb Google ChromeOS review: it’s disposable
Worst gripe? It feels and works like it was made on the cheap. Engineers, navel gazing, fell in love with
Read MoreWalter Alvarez: Discoverer of astreroid that killed the dinosaurs at Microsoft Faculty Summit
Walter Alvarez teaches geology at Berkley and his main contribution to the history of science is the theory that the
Read MorePreece and Shneiderman about the pattern of collboration online using Wikipedia as a testing ground
This piece, which is available online, has become an instant classic… Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most
Read More
NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel
Marc Smith, cofounder of ConnectedAction and a former Microsoft Research employee, and a group of academics including Ben Shneiderman and
Read More6th International Digital Curation Conference | Digital Curation Centre
Of Interest… 6th International Digital Curation Conference “Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade” 6 December,
Read MoreRaw Data Now? How about better data or ontological translators now?
John Wilbanks Image via Wikipedia At the Microsoft Faculty Summit John Wilbanks from Creative Commons foundation advocated very, very, very
Read MoreHarvard Dataverse helps researchers publish their data and papers
Image via Wikipedia The Dataverse Network is an open-source web application supported by Harvard University, which offers a free and
Read More
Microsoft Faculty Summit 2010
I am in Seattle attending the Microsoft Faculty Summit 2010. It is an awesome gathering of leading researchers and scholars
Read MoreMason: Social Network Simulator
MASON is a fast discrete-event multiagent simulation library core in Java, designed to be the foundation for large custom-purpose Java
Read MoreGeocoding for Dummies – Map your spreadsheets…
Got a giant list of GPS coordinates, want to see them on a map? How about retrieving address data for
Read MoreI know how the series LOST will end
Image via Wikipedia Here are two hints about the most likely way in which the ABC series Lost will end
Read More
Is the iPAD the future of magazine publishing?
Viv Magazine believes it is, as this NYTIMES article suggests. According to its website, VIVmag offers insight, advice and authentic
Read MoreDoes Ken Auletta’s “Googled” reveal giant on clay feet?
Cover via Amazon Sequel to two successful media epics, “Googled” delivers some major insights–the search giant might not be as
Read MoreApple Tablet rumors spread. Device said to launch on January 26
Business Week announces as almost sure that Apple prepares a new consumer device. A 7-10 inch, ITouch like tablet. The
Read MoreTop 2008-2009 Social Media Strategy Books
A list of influential books on designing successful social media strategies. Gillin – Social Media Marketing and New Influencers Safko
Read More
Communication as social form: an autoecological perspective
Simmel – Image via Wikipedia by Sorin Adam Matei Professor, Purdue University citation: Matei, S A (2019). Communication as social
Read MoreApple iPhone closing in on BlackBerry market share
Image via CrunchBase Apple is catching up, although RIM still dominates the business market, especially that of secure email. Paul
Read MoreNew book by Ken Auletta “Googled” – Review – NYTimes.com
NOTE: Auletta’s Googled has been reviewed on this site, as well, by Sorin Adam Matei. Image via Wikipedia Michiko Kakutani
Read MoreBecta Emerging Technologies – Google developing new speedy web protocol
Is Google planning to bend the entire Internet around its new OS/browser? Will it succeed, where Microsoft failed (namely, to
Read MoreThe End Of The CrunchPad
Image via CrunchBase In major setback, CrunchPad, the touch-only computer tablet that wanted to be what the much rumored Apple
Read MoreIt’s crantastic!
Image via Wikipedia Welcome to crantastic, a community site for R packages where you can search for, review and tag
Read MoreShort Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work – Mlawiki
Image by lucykimbell via Flickr Modern Language Association provides this guide to evaluating digital work for promotion and tenure in
Read MoreIBM Cat Brain Simulation called a hoax
Henry Markram Image via Wikipedia Ridiculous pretense building upon pipedream smoke, this is the feeling a recent fight between computer
Read MoreNanowires key to future transistors, electronics
Graph illustrating Moore’s law Image via Wikipedia Purdue researchers set foundations for next generation CPUS. Without smaller wires and transistors
Read More