10 coolest videos on how the latest digital and hardwired objects are made
An awesome collection of “technology demystified” videos from the digital living magazine, Wired… Emphasis on special effects…
Tag: computer
Nanowires 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 the triumphal march described by Moore’s law (computing power as measured by number of transistors per chip will double every 18 months)…
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…
post 02/19/2009
Alterpode survey document This is a wiki page dedicated to building the survey for the Alterpode project tags: no_tag ViewletQuiz | Qarbon’s Flash Based Survey and Quiz Software tags: no_tag Smart Survey : Create unlimited Flash Surveys on a site which allows…
IThink 02/19/2009
Alterpode survey document This is a wiki page dedicated to building the survey for the Alterpode project tags: no_tag ViewletQuiz | Qarbon’s Flash Based Survey and Quiz Software tags: no_tag Smart Survey : Create unlimited Flash Surveys on a site which allows…
Why won’t Obama have a personal computer in the White House
Will President Obama have a computer in the Oval Office? – By Nina Shen Rastogi – Slate Magazine Barack Obama completed his first full day as president on Wednesday. Pictures of the historic occasion showed Obama sitting at a gleaming Oval Office…
Cloud computing coming to a workstation near you
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to login to any computer and be able to access all your music, pictures, documents, and passwords to all your social networking services? Well, soon (hopefully) you’ll be able to. This is the whole idea…
IThink 01/15/2009
Sakai Project : Home : About Sakai tags: no_tag Current List of Participants | Project Bamboo tags: bamboo, project, humanities, digital, initiative, purdue, matei WizFolio Web 2.0 tags: citation, management, zotero Zotero is not a sword-swinging hero « Computer Helpers from Boreham…
Adrants comments on the Obama infomercial
Adrants, snarky as usual, spins the Obama infomercial, this way and then that way. Hey, dude, now you can tell us, whose side are you on? MATEI.ORG :: Making the invisible, visible! Communication, GIS, spatial, wiki, mapping learning and discovery in real…
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 09/27/2008
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…
Springwise: HarperCollins hopes crowds will spot next bestseller
Springwise: HarperCollins hopes crowds will spot next bestseller Founded by HarperCollins, Authonomy is a new community that invites unpublished and self-published authors to post at least 10,000 words of a fiction or non-fiction manuscript for visitors to read online. Visitors can review…
The invisible computer is called Chumby
[youtube]nLu-Yb4EIsQ[/youtube] Norman, the psychologist of POET fame (Psychology of Everyday Things) who gave the world the concept of device affordance, shot one of its last shells across the bow in his “Invisible: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So…
Google’s Xanadic Dreams
What is Googles cloud? Its a network made of hundreds of thousands, or by some estimates 1 million, cheap servers, each not much more powerful than the PCs we have in our homes. It stores staggering amounts of data, including numerous copies…
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…
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…
Explaining Quality in Internet Collective Goods: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the
One important innovation in information and communication technology developed over the past decade was organizational rather than merely technological. Open source production is remarkable because it converts a private commodity (typically software) into a public good. A number of studies examine the…
Is the game of Go humanity’s last, best hope?
From The Economist RESEARCHERS in the field of artificial intelligence have long been intrigued by games, and not just as a way of avoiding work. Games provide an ideal setting to explore important elements of the design of cleverer machines, such as…
Why is the personal computer “personal”
Because the hippies invented it as a means of “doing their own thing” MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.350J The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004 | Readings Pfaffenberger, Bryan. “The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution…
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…
A Simple Helpful Site…
Powazek (2002) stated three key issues in his book Design for Community that should be initially considered when building a community; audience, content, and community. Likewise, Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder (2002) in their book entitled Cultivating Communities of Practice spoke of a…
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,…
Calhoun
This is the article about the interaction between online and offline worlds that was mentioned in my paper. Calhoun, C. (1986). Computer technology, large-scale social integration, and the local community. Urban Affairs Quarterly, 22(2), 329-349.
Differences in online relating
[posted by Lorraine] Joe Walther’s visit to Purdue University introduced us to a wide variety of theoretical approaches to relationships in online environments. The focus of his lectures was how people relate in online environments, or “how does communication behavior affect how…
SIDE Theory, Small World Networks, and Smart Mob Formation: A Beginners Guide
Submitted by: Scott Sanders to the Online Interaction Seminar, COM 632Y, Spring 2006, Dr. Sorin A. Matei, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907. Summary: Social categorization, which is at the heart of SIDE theory, may often prove to be an incredibly powerful…
Network forms of organizing: A MTML perspective
The metaphor of organization-as-networks directs attention to the dynamic nature of the process of organization as an emergent, evolving, and dynamic. At a global level, theorists have engaged with different forms of interdependencies, whether social, political or economic, as exemplified by Castells’…
Layered, Emergent and Adaptive Communication Network Systems
Lorraine Kisselburgh This week, Noshir Contractor introduces a rich array of information in discussing communication networks, new grid infrastructures, and social networking tools that can be leveraged to strengthen our communities – whether social, work, virtual, or even “exoticâ€. What follows are…
Revisiting propinquity in interpersonal and intergroup dynamics
Drawing on the earlier notion of electronic propinquity as postulated by Korzenny (1978), the role of several factors like communication skills, bandwidth, information complexity, mutual directionality, to name a few, all play a part in determining the amount of propinquity achieved in…
Wired for Speech: a tool for reinforcing stereotypes?
Dr. Moira Gunn’s interview with Dr. Clifford Nass of Stanford University discusses a decade of research Nass has done on the role of the voice in human-computer relationships. In addition to work that recognizes the differential response our brain exhibits to sounds…
History of emerging technologies
Most of us commonly discuss the emergence of mainframe computers in the 60’s. It’s hard to believe that it was actually 60 years ago (Feb 1946) that the ENIAC computer was introduced, and that its development was tied to military needs of…
Steve Jones’ talk
I posted the talk on the web. For optimal viewing first download the file (preferrably through a campus computer). The file is very large (110MB), so be patient. Also, the quality of the slides is not very good. I asked Steve to…
A Culture of Connectivity: Control and Marginalization
The chapter “The Sad Irons†in Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power illustrates not only the interplay between culture and technology but also the consequences of lacking connection to a technological network (Caro, 1982). Due to geographical…
Ubuntu!
After my third attempt in the last three years and a day wasted on scouring the web forums, UBUNTU rules. I installed the latest addition to the Linux universe on my personal desktop. Despite a harebrained installation glitch (you are asked to…