Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
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…
This comedy blends the old-school talent of director Harold Ramis with the new millennium hit-making prowess of producer Judd Apatow. YEAR ONE stars Apatow collaborator Michael Cera and funnyman Jack Black as men who are banished from their ancient village, causing them…
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…
My attempts to reject Wikipedia have failed just as this clip from All That Jazz predicted. [youtube]HbLSGYd-Ohc[/youtube] Anger Denial Bargain Depression Acceptance The conclusion of my travails is summarized in this Wikiway document.
Aptera on ABC After considering the Volt for my next car buying cycle (in about a year), I have decided to go Jetson. And no, our family does not have antennae.
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…
[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…
This amazing robotic mule is more than I personally expected to see coming out of the much overhyped field of robotics and artificial intelligence. Also featured, a couple of quite scary automatic killing machines.
The department of communication at Purdue has launched this presentation video which highlights some of our main strengths. Speaking of which, have you heard of the latest news from the Chronicle of Higher Education? Our department has been ranked second in terms…
The communist manifesto found its most appropriate medium: You Tube. A remixed cartoon collage brings out the best (and worst) in Marx’s little pamphlet. Personally I always found Marx’s prophetic vocation sinister and hilarious at the same time. Modernity’s most powerful man…
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.…
Young dog trainer Zak George, posts a little starry-eyed manifesto about the role of You Tube in changing our future (and in the process the past gets changed, as well). Since its posting last week the clip has been seen by 350,000…
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