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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…
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…
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…
Technology Review: Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth
Circularity on defining truth and verifiability on Wikipedia discussed on Technology Review: So what is Truth? According to Wikipedia’s entry on the subject, “the term has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree.” But in practice,…
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…
Sarah Palin, complete details
Slashdot has the full story on Sarah Palin’s email debacle/hacking incident… Slashdot | Palin Email Hacker Found mortonda writes to tell us that the person responsible for breaching Sarah Palin’s private email account has been found. We discussed the breach last Wednesday,…
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…
Google OS has arrived, and it is a browser (Chrome)
A sophisticated browser, which straddles the desktop/server divide has been launched by Google. It aims to create a better platform for its webapplications, which need to be faster and more secure to compete with the local desktop, currently dominated by Microsoft. The…
Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
A mashup utility good for everything. For now, only in command line. Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
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!
Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
Have condisered Django for your SOA strategy? Developed and used over two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote…
Steven Levy on the New Apple 3G iPhone | Newsweek The Technologist | Newsweek.com
Steven Levy outlines the greater benefits of launching the Iphone 2.0. But though the low price will dominate iPhone chatter between now and July 11, there is actually a much bigger iPhone story to tell. Today marked the official transformation of Jobs’s…
Sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 – Space- msnbc.com
Sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 – Space- msnbc.com Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri…
The Everywhere Book
A tantalizing image of a seamless web of content that transcends delivery methods. A brilliant move… Threatened by Apple. Could Amazon and Audible Rewrite the Rules of Publishing? – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog How about a service that…
How do they stack up?
See how Wikipedia stacks up against Yahoo and Google.
The triumph of information appliances
Norman’s dream of a world populated by information appliances became one byte more real with the launch of the Kodak electronic picture frame that synchronizes with a website via Wi-Fi. Kodak EasyShare EX1011 (10 inches, $250, Kodak.com). Now here’s a thought: add…
Readable Laws
Legalese for dummies. One law at a time. Help:About this project – Readable Laws When was the last time you tried to read a law? The actual, raw text of a piece of legislation? If you dont know where to find such…
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…
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…
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…
Google, up and then down?
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…
Google Receives 64 Percent Of All U.S. Searches In August 2007
Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. read more | digg story
BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators
Right, they’ll teach this old pony a new trick… BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators Online worlds such as Second Life will soon become training grounds for artificial intelligences. Researchers at US firm Novamente have created software…
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…
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…
Google’s tied in its own knot (or maybe not)
Google’s been strongly opposed to the whole pay-as-you-go revamping of the Internet (the equivalent of introducing toll-lanes ofn the Internet). You know, the whole net neutrality debate. At the same time, Google seems to suggest that its opposition is only pro forma.…
Major cyberattack goes unnoticed
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…
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…
Community Design: Salon vs. Slate
Content is king! You have to provide them with content that they want in order to get people to come to your site. However, you should be particularly careful in how you integrate it with the community features of your site. Content…
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,…
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…
Bill Joy’s Vision of the Future
We were talking in class today abou the future of embodied computing and its philosophical foundations. Bill Joy, taking the path of those who believe that life is software by other means, concludes that the future could be really bleak: Why the…
BoilerSpace.com? BoilerPlace.com?
I thought of two other possible domains for us to use that I feel would be more recognizable than www.peteslist.org. boilerspace.com and boilerplace.com are both available (as are purdoings.com, purdueings.com, and purduesnews.com). I really like so many of the ideas that have…
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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…
Silicon Valley Sleuth: Gates inducted into the Stalinist hall of fame
The man really is on the list… But so is Michael Gorbatchev, Henrik Ibsen, Albert Einstein or Michael Jordan… Silicon Valley Sleuth: Gates inducted into the Stalinist hall of fame Gates inducted into the Stalinist hall of fame Microsoft chairman Bill Gates…
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…
The SOCIAL affordances of the web
In the context of Larry Sanger’s meetings and talks at PURDUE this Newsweek issue points to the onging “we” revolution on the web. How did we get from the “Daily Me” to the “US” services such as delicious, flickr, etc.? This is…
U.S., Google Set to Face Off in Court – Yahoo! News
The US vs. Google lawsuit is looming. At first sight the issue at stake is the US government’s right to demand US media companies to provide data about the aggregated habits of US consumers. In the background, the issue seems to be…
Speed is good
I tried for a couple of weeks Yahoo’s new email interface. It promised to do a lot of things simple web interfaces could not. Dragging and dropping files and messages, complete listing of messages, faster searches, etc. Most of the functionalities resembled…
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…
Moira Gunn
Moira Gunn, the NPR technology correspondent, will start her visit at Purdue’s “Perspectives on Communication and Technology” graduate seminar later today. In addition to giving two lectures in our seminar she will give a public talk tomorrow, at 3 PM, titled “The…
Newspaper circulation on-line increases
**Top 10 U.S. newspapers by average weekday readership in millions.** *USA TODAY 7.1 *The Wall Street Journal: 5.1 *The New York Times: 5.0 *New York Daily News: 2.7 *Los Angeles Times: 2.4 *New York Post: 2.1 *Chicago Tribune:1.9 *The Washington Post: 1.8…
The Mouse will squeak 10001111001010100!
The Pixel that Jobs built got a pair of wiskers! FOXNews.com – Business News – Disney to Buy Pixar for $7.4B LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) said Tuesday it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. (PIXR) for…
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…
Modern Cartographers Vital in Digital Age – Yahoo! News
Mapping is becoming more and more a web-based killer app. Modern Cartographers Vital in Digital Age – Yahoo! News