Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
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…
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.
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…
How do you convert a MediaWiki xml dump (using Special:Export) into a human readable file? First, I expected to find a simple, Microsoft Word import filter. What I initially found, namely Wandora, was interesting enough, but it only gave me repeated headaches,…
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…
Perception: 68% of Americans believe that “the rich” (top 1%) pay less than 40% of US taxes, while 30% believe that “the rich” pay less than 20% Reality: Top 1% richest Americans contribute 40% of US taxes Top 25% richest Americans contribute…
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hopes crowds will spot next bestseller Founded by HarperCollins, Authonomy is a new community that invites unpublished and self-published authors to post at least 10,000 words of a fiction or non-fiction manuscript for visitors to read online.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…
Zembly is he masu editor of mashups… Developing Web applications to be used within social networks and numerous other cloud-based structures is becoming more and more de rigueur for the entrepreneurial set. Both on the desktop and on the go, Web users…
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…
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 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…
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…
While Google keeps marching on, danger looms. Google closed the week at $637.39, more than 50 times its earnings, giving it a market capitalization that nearly equals the total value of the three largest traditional media companies: Time Warner, Walt Disney and…
While it’s still a teaser at the moment, John Nack (Senior Product Manager for Photoshop) has confirmed the development of Photoshop Express. It’s a free online photo editor that’s not meant to replace Adobe’s current offerings, but “make Adobe imaging technology immediately…
A Content-Driven Reputation System for the Wikipedia We present a content-driven reputation system for Wikipedia authors. In our system, authors gain reputation when the edits they perform to Wikipedia articles are preserved by subsequent authors, and they lose reputation when their edits…
Turns out one of Wikipedia’s editors is a major fraud. So major that the New Yorker had to make a correction. Read all about it in the New York Times.
Expert: Wikipedia wont go away, so learn how to use it WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The popularity of Wikipedia makes it important that users learn to use the online collaborative encyclopedia as a starting point for their research rather than as the…
All 13 root servers, which act as the Internet’s ubergatekeeprs and traffic routing cops, have been attacked simultaneously yesterday. The news does not make any major newspaper frontpage today, at least not New York Times’, which regales us with a story about…
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,…
I had another “bolt out of the blue” yesterday. People really like to know that their votes are counted, and they like to know if anyone else votes the same way. We could include polls on the class site…about anything…from minor and…
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s confounder, is at it again. He decided to “fork” Wikipedia, that is to create another flavor, which includes more editorial control, of the famous online encyclopedia. I am part of the project, called Citizendium, and I hope to be…
In the media hubbub that seems to surround Wikipedia nowadays (have you see the Atlantic Monthly piece, yet?), the Onion chimes in…. Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of…
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…
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’…
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…
The social shaping of knowledge through collaborative authoring tools I grew up in a household with a set of encyclopedias prominently displayed in the family room and frequently used as a resource– for our education, to consult during family discussions about issues,…
For many, the democratic and liberatory promise of the internet lies in the potential to allow collaboration, interaction, and exchange of information, ideas, and resources at a scale not otherwise possible (or at least, not highly probable) in a simple offline world.…
Giant website gobbler Google is on a rampage. The latest member of the collective is Writely… Writely – The Web Word Processor The Web Word Processor …that’s now part of Google. · Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time. Pick exactly who can…