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Ubimark covered by major online sites: Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus
Over the last few days my project, Ubimark, which turns print books such as Around the Word in 80 Days into user interfaces for the web through the magic of 2d or QR codes, has been covered by a number of very…
WordPress blogging-on-the-go capabilities for Android
Android phone users are now offered a free downloadable application available in the Android Market. Similar to an application already available for the iPhone, this new (and official) WordPress app for Android allows users to write and edit posts for their blog. Once downloading…
Twitter has updated its spamming policies
So, what constitutes spamming on Twitter? Here is what Twitter posted on its corporate blog recently regarding the Twitter updated terms of service:
WordPress 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 mystified by the fact that the images refuse to align right or left when inserted by using the choices offered by the…
Blog Pecking Order Gets Pecked Down by Smaller and Smaller Peckers
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…
Visualizing the Past
University of Richmond has invited an extraordinary group of researchers and practitioners to brainstorm on the most likely path history related visualization will take in the future. The main goal is to map the road that will lead to the next platform…
Site starts virtual locations directory
New World Notes: Rezzable Launches Virtual Worlds Directory My enterprising colleagues at NWN partner Rezzable just launched a Virtual Worlds Directory, a user-run/user-rated guide to interesting and worthwhile Second Life locations (though ultimately it will include other worlds.)
IThink 02/14/2009
UCLA Digital Humanities & Media Studies tags: digital humanities, ucla, manifesto, education, web2.0, app, ideas, technology Queeky – Social drawing! – QUEEKY – Social drawing tags: web2.0, queeky, tools, community, draw, web, Graphics, design Personal Branding 102: How to Communicate & Maintain…
Read only the Google News you want to read
Just when you thought you that Google was everywhere, it shows up again someplace unexpected…or is it? Now you can get your “content specific” news from Google on your personal website. This is great for those who run news-based sites. It’s also…
post 02/03/2009
Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com Wikipedia gives more power to older users tags: wikipedia, edit, flag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
IThink 02/03/2009
Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com Wikipedia gives more power to older users tags: wikipedia, edit, flag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Evernote provides a brillant way to keep track of what you see on the web…
Have you ever wanted to capture a webpage in it’s entirety? More than just the link, but what you actually see on the page? Well you can! Services like Google notebook, Evernote, ubernote, Diigo, and Zoho (to name a few) can…
Change.gov will shits political focus to online universe
The Obama administration will govern supported by a strong infrastructure of Web 2.0 applications. One of them will be the new Change.gov site. This is a mega blog, powered by the millions of supporters and one can imagine at times enemies of…
IThink 01/03/2009
Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine tags: graphs, javascript, visualization, chart, css, webdesign, webdev, charts Add dynamic charts to your site | Zen-Dreams tags: zendreams ZdStatistics plugin for wordpress A very handy-dandy stats plugin for your blog…
A skill for future employees in the Web 2.0 organization
Ten leading platforms for creating online communities | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com That most of us are not fluent community facilitators is something that will almost certainly be addressed as a vital new workplace ability and one that we will have…
The theory of mob rule in academia (and cyberspace)
A perfectly random rump through the meadows of hyperspace lead me from this post on In Trade about volatility as a predictor of bias to this blog full of equations, to this note and then to this Chronicle article about mobbing in…
The building of community and self-expression in online groups
Submitted by "Adrienne Hall" on October 22, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog. Abstract This essay attempts to begin explaining how participation in online social interactions impacts…
ITHINK 09/29/2008
Text Analysis Info Tools for text analysis tags: text, analysis SciGuy: 50 great books, two terrible sci-fi characters tags: scifi, top, best Reality in Quantum Mechanics After going through this circus, one may ask…is there anything out there that is real? Niels…
ITHINK 09/27/2008
LibriVox » Links tags: no_tag Blog before you Think!: TiddlyWiki Mania tags: tiddlywiki, wiki, productivity, gtd, javascript, software, work List of TiddlyWiki adaptations – post by stumax Howard Rheingold’ Social Media Class This quarter Howard Rheingold teaches the Social Media class at…
It is incredible, but the DOJ has tied itself in a hundred knots
A swarm of partisan busybodies has roiled over the Palin email hacking incident. A student, scion of a local democrat politico from Tennessee, broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account hoping to rake the muck and to hang for all to see…
Algorithms Exposed!
The secret sauce found in several social media platforms is exposed by what appears to be a very well informed blogger… SEOmoz | Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed!
Mashup Guide
An excellent intro to creating mashups by Raymond Yee Mashup Guide :: Text of the Book (v 1.0a) Technorati Tags: mashup,guide,learn,tutorial
Apple – QuickTime – WWDC 2008 Keynote
The Apple Iphone Jobs Video. Highlights: Microsoft Exchange and VPN support EBAY interface Loopt support – Location Aware Social Networks: We make serendipity happen Native TypePad support (blogging) Apple – QuickTime – WWDC 2008 Keynote And a list of things Apple…
Sorin Matei’s Startups
Following a story on the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog I’ve run into YouNoodle.com a social networking site for entrepreneurs and educators. Lots of mashups and some interesting applications. The site still needs some improvement and the communication tools improved,…
Ma.tt » Favorite Posting Bookmarklet
Technorati Tags: wordpress,web,organization,information,bookmark,social media A little introspective review of the best ways to post stuff to your WordPress Blogs. Ma.tt » Favorite Posting Bookmarklet
Eyeing the Future at C.E.S., Part 2 – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
Displays on the go! Eyeing the Future at C.E.S., Part 2 – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog what if you didn’t have to strap on a pair of geeky goggles to watch video on your iPod, cell phone or…
Mercury’s Blog » A long review of prediction market software
Mercury’s Blog » A long review of prediction market software It seems that each month brings one or two new entrants to the prediction market software industry. I can’t bring myself to use the term “space.” There is now a lot of…
Theodore Nelson Camped out at IBM
J. Markoff, of NYT, tells the story: Theodore Holm Nelson, the sociologist and philosopher who coined the term “hypertext” and who is something of an Internet Don Quixote, has had a tremendous influence on the computing world. However, until last night it…
Visible Past in the Chronicle
Visible Past, the project I talked about on this blog a couple of times has caught the eye of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is a little videocast they released through their Wired Campus blog.
Creating Online Community: Critical Issues and Practical Guidelines
Submitted by Colleen E. Brown on November 26 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction The need for group membership, social support, and information gathering are part…
Online Community Development: Principles, Practices, and Issues
Submitted on November 26, 2007, to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract: The widespread expansion of communication technology over the past century has resulted in a marked…
Growing online communities
Submitted by Pamela Morris on November 26, 2007 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink). “An (online) host is like a host at a party. You don’t automatically…
Welcome to I-berspace: Media Gratifications in Successful Virtual Communities
Submitted by Robert N. Yale on October 15, 2007 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink). Abstract This essay posits that virtual communities are successful to the degree…
Don’t Contradict Yourself: Community and its Paradoxes in Cyberspace
Submitted by Colleen E. Brown on October 15, 2006 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) The growth of computer mediated communication (CMC) has sparked much debate across…
Glimpses of Community on the Web
Submitted by Pamela Morris on October 14, 2007 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink). Glimpses of Community on the Web The term “community” has been appropriated to…
Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
PC MAG list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed their attention this year. You’ll see a large collection of Web applications and tech sites, excellent blogs, offbeat social networks, and, as always, a handful of addictive Flash games…
Paid entries for Wikipedia
Idea of paid entries roils Wikipedia – Tech News & Reviews – MSNBC.com BOSTON – When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online…
Is this a civil war?
A very interesting “blog of blogs” demonstrating the power of the Internet to decentralize and recreate the flows of information. A blog that centralizes the known source of local information from Iraq and the middle east. Mostly in English. Why the quotation…
Reports: Saddam Hussein executed – Conflict in Iraq – MSNBC.com
On 9/11 I bought the newspapers, today I will just clip this on this blog. Reports: Saddam Hussein executed – Conflict in Iraq – MSNBC.com BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three years after he was hauled from a hole in the ground by pursuing…
Full Circle Online Interaction Blog
Nancy White, Rheingold’s succesor at the helm of Well’s Virtual Community conference keeps a blog. Worth taking a look at…Full Circle Online Interaction Blog
FW: SC06 Kurzweil’s Keynote
I found your blog while tagging my blog with SC06. I noticed that you were interested in finding the slides to Kurzweil’s keynote at SC06. I too was looking for them and found a couple of his slides on wikipedia and I…
Front Porches and Public Spaces: Planned Communities Online
Front Porches and Public Spaces: Planned Communities Online Susan Huelsing Sarapin Comm. 632: Online Interaction Professor: Dr. Sorin Matei November 19, 2006 Introduction Where else today but in the cost-effective frontier of cyberspace can the average person construct a community?1 With widespread…
Currants » MySpace For Baby Boomers
Sounds familiar? Currants » MySpace For Baby BoomersI was reading this article about Myspace for babyboomers. It is a website very similar to MySpace but it is for people over the age of 50. Part of the reason they are doing this…
Ms. Dewey: Taking cute too far
The jury is out. And it’s ugly…. ZDNet.com is downright nasty. The rest of humanity chimes in.
Community Straddlers
The readings for this week are concerned with online community membership. Some focuses are why people join communities and how can contribution levels increase. I came across a 1993 blog passage from the Blog of Collective Intellegence that focuses on an interesting…
I Link, Therefore, I Am: Connection and Identity in Computer-Mediated Communication
By Susan Huelsing Sarapin Submitted on October 22, 2006 to the On-Line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2006, Purdue University Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction Today, people all over the world are connected, or “tethered†(Turkle,…
Compromised passwords
It might be that someone’s password was compromised. We are getting a lot of spam comments on this blog, despite the fact that only registered users can comment and new registrations are not allowed. Existing registers, can you please change your passwords?…
FYI: Blog, Don’t Slog
Here are some good ideas about how to become a better blogger. Enjoy.
A “Learning Landscape” with Tagging
What is Elgg? (It’s being used at MIT.) Described by its founders as a ‘learning landscape’, Elgg provides each user with their own weblog, file repository (with podcasting capabilities), an online profile and an RSS reader. Additionally, all of a user’s content…
I’m a blogger afterall
Web logs, or rather blogs, are all over the internet as a means of doing something that was once thought lost; ordinary people publicly discussing various topics. A site called Change This was created in 2004 that supports open communication among regular…
Voices
Blogs are about having a voice – whether it be a political or civic voice (Wolf, 2004; Korblum, 2003) or a personal voice. We want to be heard in the political arena, in the news arena, and in the personal area. Why…
blog of note
David Weinberger has a blog…