Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
Amazon.com’s eInk technology is here. It is a wireless (piggybacking the phone network) device that can store or access remote content (books, blogs, etc.). The device costs something as well as the service, but is a valliant leap forward after the several…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The jury is out. And it’s ugly…. ZDNet.com is downright nasty. The rest of humanity chimes in.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Spaceaware is a research project I started a couple of years ago, which looks at how people make sense of information delivery experiences similar to the “hailing billboard” scene in Minority Report. (Remember the scene in which Tom Cruise is greeted by…
What exactly does a blogger do, why, and more importantly, how can you make money out of it? The answer is in New York Magazine… Blogs to Riches – The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom — New York Magazine Blogs…
McCain takes a stance in USA TODAY on the Google-China story: We believe that American companies must develop and agree to abide by a code of conduct governing their interactions with repressive regimes, and we applaud the suggestion by some companies that…
Answering to criticisms related to its subservient behavior in China Yahoo! seems to be saying “I’ll do it, if Mickey does it first”. Microsoft, that is… » Yahoo Wants Collective Action Against Chinese Web Regulations : Search Engine Journal Yahoo’s basic dilemma…
The US Congress has started an investigation into the new Google, MSN, Yahoo policies in China. Interestingly enough, Microsoft and Yahoo! believe that the ball is in the government’s court: Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo! were yesterday roundly condemned for “collaborating with…
Microsoft figured out a way to avoid coming across as the bad guy… Microsoft says it is setting new policies on shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized squelching of a well-known Chinese blogger at the request of Chinese officials. The Redmond…
Slate in on the Google-China debacle. A treat! Great Firewall of China By Michael Weiss Posted Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, at 6:28 PM ET Bloggers are overwhelmingly horrified by Google’s decision to censor search queries in China. They’re also less than thrilled…
Since none of our guests specializes in policy issues, especially in an international context, I would like to suggest the following story as a subject of online (via this blog) debate. This is one of the several topics I will propose between…
In Steve Jones‘ presentation today on “New New Media”, he discussed emerging trends in Internet usage of students and faculty on University campuses, as well as some of the newest new media trends — including gaming, virtual reality, and immersive virtual environments…
I am listing here, for all to visit and for myself for future reference, a number of blogs who seem to be concerned with the same kinds of issues as the ones we will discuss on this blog… Briefhistory Discourse.net The End…