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Sorin Adam Matei

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Installing WordPress plugins and Buddy Press for beginners

The power of WordPress consists in its ability to be extended to perform any number of tricks. In this post I will introduce the notion of WordPress plugins for my WebProduction class and I will illustrate it with several examples, including Register…

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.

IThink 01/27/2009

eCommerce Automation Software, Stores, Shopping Cart, and Order Management Solutions by Vendio tags: ebay Digital Web Magazine – Web 2.0 for Designers tags: web2.0, webdesign, design, web, xml, webdev, social 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…

IThink 01/24/2009

2009 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch In the first adoption horizon we find mobiles and cloud computing, both of which are already well established on many campuses — and still more organizations have plans in place to make use of these…

IThink 01/22/2009

Universal Remote Control Codes tags: electronics, codes, reference, remote, tv Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

The future of Bamboo

An emerging consortium of partners dedicated to generic, not specific projects Bamboo, the Mellon Foundation supported project, has reached its third milestone at the Tucson, AZ workshop, when it announced that it will create a development consortium for digital humanities tools and…

IThink 01/17/2009

Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference 2009 tags: no_tag Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of…

IThink 01/16/2009

Beyond the Bombing: Colorado tags: bombing, militia, oklahoma StateMaster – US Statistics, State Comparisons Very comprehensive database tags: statistics, states, reference, research, demographics, data, geography, information Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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…

IThink 01/13/2009

The Fedora Project: An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System tags: fedora, repository, project, lor, library, learning, object, lol old bailey online – Google Search tags: no_tag Cirip.ro / manafu / Foloseste cineva shortText.com… tags: no_tag The Plagiarism Checker tags: plagiarism, writing,…

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 social entropy vision of wiki collaboration

Despite the fact that diverse and equal participation of members is considered to be the essence of true online communities, no compelling index has been proposed to measure the degree of diversity in terms of contributions of content to online social environments.…

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 10/20/2008

Amazon.com: The Elements of Typographic Style: Robert Bringhurst: Books tags: no_tag Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web tags: typography, webdesign, css, fonts, reference ???????? – post by jackysee ???????? ??????????? ? ???? – post by…

ITHINK 10/18/2008

Lord Kyl’s Medieval & Fantasy Fonts Initial fonts tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

ITHINK 10/11/2008

Notre Dames de Reims – Google Search tags: no_tag Cathédrale Notre Dame de Reims by kevin51340 – Google 3D Warehouse tags: no_tag World Heritage Centre – World Heritage Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what…

ITHINK 10/08/2008

Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ at RobotDials.com tags: no_tag Voice Broadcasting, Lead Generation, Customer Updates, Outbound Calling tags: no_tag Phone Trees, Phone Tree Software – Call-Em-All tags: call, phone, group, tree Kwikcall: Trial tags: phone, tree, group, call

ITHINK 10/05/2008

VITO Technology free trial Downloads for Pocket PC and Symbian copy paste blackjack tags: no_tag

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 09/28/2008

Extension:Inout – MediaWiki Something similar to what Chris Miller wants to do tags: no_tag IT Index | Academic Commons How sophisticated are your undergraduates? tags: no_tag

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…

Big Bang experiment has Purdue connection

Big Bang experiment has Purdue connection – News- msnbc.com West Lafayette – Physicists in Switzerland have officially started an experiment that scientists say could change the way we see the universe. It’s not rocket science. It’s bigger than that, and it’s got…

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,…

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.

My take on Android

The Exponent – Purdues Student Newspaper Most people are frustrated they are not getting enough from their cell phones and they want more, according to Sorin Matei, associate professor of communications. Enter Android, an open-source operating system for mobile phones recently unveiled…

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…

Books on online interaction

I am getting ready to put together the new syllabus for Online Interaction. For now, I am toying with the idea of adding one of the books in this Amazon wish list to the reading list. Any suggestions?

Expert: Wikipedia wont go away, so learn how to use it

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…

UNCTAD report on the global digital divide

The report is one of the most comprehensive to date, including information about ranking over time… Abstract and link There is an immense information and communication technology (ICT) gap, a “digital divide”, between developed and developing countries. A person in a high-income…

The off-the-shelf university (and why the future of online education is already past)

My 435 students came up with a number of ways of improving the Purdue website. The ideas run the gamut, from cloning YouTube to, well, to “Less is more”. Enjoy

Handbook

A very good reference work on the social aspects of Information Technology. The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies Danny Quah, Roger Silverstone, Robin Mansell and Chrisanthi Avgerou ISBN13: 9780199266234 ISBN10: 0199266239 Hardback, 752 pages Apr 2007, Not Yet Published due…

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…

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?…

Wienberger and Rheingold–similar?

One of the questions associated with the assigned readings was in reference to Weinberger and similarities associated with Rheingold or Seabrook. In the chapter entitled Togetherness by Weinberger differences are stated between the real world and web groups. I see thinking along…

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.

Tangible Intangibilities

Perhaps it is my return to a small town format – or perhaps my background in non-profits and volunteers – or a history of having suffered or thrived (sometimes both) at the hands of various communities, or simply wanting to be a…

Emerging technologies, spatial behavior and community belonging

New media and emerging technologies continue to change not only our communication (Gunn, 2006; Jones, 2006), but also our relationships, our work, and our communities (Contractor, 2006; Walther, 2006). At the same time, our societies and organizations – i.e. the bodies within…

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…

Jones Slide Show on the Web

Steve’s Powerpoint presentation can now be found on the web.

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…

Kicking-off 632

A warm “Welcome!” to Steve Jones, who gave us a wonderful intro the the big Whys? related to Communication Technology. I am looking forward to his talk tomorrow, on the impact of New New Communication technologies. As you start posting your stuff…