Hemingway Style Writing Aid
This writing aid is AWESOME… Finally, a writing coach with a brain…. AI at its best (and simplest)… This writing
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Estimote 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
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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 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 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
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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 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 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 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
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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
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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 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 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 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“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” How can you find a page number for a direct citation if you do not have the print version of the book?
A grad student of mine and I were working on a paper when we realized that we have THAT citation
Read MoreAugmented reality invades media, Postal Service
Image via Wikipedia Some say it’s here, some say it’s not… Augmented reality is embraced by more and more media
Read MoreLocation aware and augmented reality applications need better gps accuracy
Image via Wikipedia Business Week takes a critical look at augmented reality applications, pointing the fact that they are as
Read MoreGoogle Chrome extensions to be launched soon
Image via Wikipedia Google Chrome extensions to come out soon. Watch out firefox. via 15+ great Google Chrome extensions. Related
Read MorePrivate and confidential information on House ethics committee staffer computer compromised by peer to peer (p2p) music sharing software
Image via Wikipedia P2P software used for sharing music is not only a huge problem for copyright holders, but also
Read MoreAdding a ‘SixthSense’ to Your Cellphone – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Image via Wikipedia Dispose of those keyboards and screens… Make the cell phone into a funnel for information…. Mr. Mistry,
Read MoreEpson unveils ridiculously high resolution E Ink display
Image via Wikipedia Engadget announced earlier in the year significant progress in e-ink technology, currently limited to ridiculously low resolutions
Read MoreExperimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself, might replace digital displays
Image by George L Smyth via Flickr Unsatisfied by e-ink technologies, which replace vibrant paper and wonderful type with murky,
Read MoreGoogle’s New Assessment Tool | Teaching Matters
Image by Shadi Hijazi via Flickr Google comes closer to proposing a new, improved, exciting charting tool… Google’s next big
Read MoreFighting viruses with ants
Image via Wikipedia A distributed system for fighting virus infections. Digital ants could soon be crawling through your computer’s hard
Read MoreRule no 1 when you create a Google Sitemap
Index only the last few posts… This is all Google needs to keep abreast with your blog…
Read MoreWordPress moving
How to Move a WordPress Blog From One Domain and Host to Another from wikiHow – The How to Manual
Read MoreWow: An Algorithm for calculating community structure
MEJ Newman seems to have not only cracked the tough nut of detecting community structure in large networks but has
Read MoreCAIDA : tools
Tools, software and a taxonomy of available research and visualization tools made available by The Cooperative Association for Internet Data
Read MoreInfoVis CyberInfrastructure- Software
A great tool resource repository for data visualization from our colleagues at Indiana University… This page provides pointers to commonly
Read MoreThe Inhibition of Geographical Information in Digital Humanities Scholarship
Why it takes a world weary European scholar to say it? Despite a lot of chi-chi verbiage about “space” and
Read MoreEditing images online – Top five applications
Some of the most popular online image editing software services. Photoshop beware! Five Best Online Image Editors – Image Editing
Read MoreWhat’s new in the world of citation Management?
A very useful list of citation management tools for the social sciences, humanities crowd. Citation management tools enable researchers to
Read MoreGet your data out the door!
APE (Ajax Push Engine) :: Real time data streaming APE is a Server for pushing real-time data to Rich Internet
Read MoreDigital Resources for Social Scientists and Humanities Scholars
digitalresearchtools / FrontPage This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and
Read MoreCommunication technologies at their funniest
The funniest communication technology related You Tube video clips. My favorite, when books were laptops. Hit the “>” button to
Read MoreWordPress IMG alignleft or alignright not working with regular CSS
Many WordPress users who have saluted the new media loading/management utility that came with the 2.7 version text editor are
Read MoreWordPress themes
WordPress, the popular blogging platform, has grown especially through its extraordinary and active support community. The WordPress theme developer community
Read MoreI believe. Its name is “LiveScribe Pulse Pencast”
My department head put me on the spot today. At the monthly faculty meeting this afternoon I took notes with
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