Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
View image | gettyimages.com Spontaneous production groups are thought to be less effective at larger scales. Lacking formal organization, larger groups spend too much time on communication. Vital resources are spent on keeping the group together, rather than on production. This becomes…
A notable paper about Wikipedia versions and interactions across linguistic boundaries Wikipedia has become one of the primary encyclopaedic in- formation repositories on the World Wide Web. It started in 2001 with a single edition in the English language and has since…
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships“. The chapter is the product of my collaboration with my former PhD student, Robert Bruno, now Assistant Professor…
When we launched Visible Past a few years ago, there was very low interest in geographic wiki applications. Geo wikis are editable sites that interact with mapping services. (For details, see the Read Write Web covergage of our Visible Past Virtual Omaha…
Editing interface on Wikipedia via Wikipedia An interesting paper on the minimalist approach to editing interfaces on Wikipedia. Networked environments, such as wikis, are commonly used to support work, including the collaborative authoring of information and “fact-building.” In networked environments, the activity…
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…
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…
HowStuffWorks “What is an IP address?” – Annotated tags: ip, address Out of the almost 4.3 billion possible combinations 2 to the power of 32 – post by somatei HowStuffWorks “How Domain Name Servers Work” – Annotated tags: DNS If you are…
HowStuffWorks “What is an IP address?” – Annotated tags: ip, address HowStuffWorks “How Domain Name Servers Work” – Annotated tags: DNS User talk:Chanur – MediaWiki Iphone skin tags: iphone, skin The Internet Domain Name System Explained for Non-Experts – ISOC Member Briefing…
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…
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.
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, 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…
Wikipedia has more than 200 versions (including one in Klingon). Looking at the top 500 pages, can we find any similarities? Are there any differences? How can these differences be explained? Domas Mituzas has published some server log data provided by Wikipedia…
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.
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,…
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…
Kayla Gregory, one of my graduate students sent me this link Springwise: Video dictionary with a wiki touch Launched two weeks ago, Wordia is a visual dictionary that encourages members of the public to contribute to a collective pool of video definitions.…
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,…
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
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…
[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…
A set of API standards straddling the world of social networks… OpenSocial – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An apt summary of a good, although too descriptive book: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/business/16shelf.html
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.
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Investigations into Trust for Collaborative Information Repositories: A Wikipedia Case Study Investigations into Trust for Collaborative Information Repositories: A Wikipedia Case Study Authors: Deborah L. McGuinness, Honglei Zeng, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Li Ding, Dhyanesh Narayanan, and Mayukh Bhaowal Book Title: Proceedings…
This site, a little bit too baroque and eclectic to figure out at first sight, is trying to deal with the touchy issue of the social affordances of wiki sites. The issues are important, the answers pending. CommunityWiki: WikiAffordances
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…
An update to the most accessed pages on Wikipedia. Adolf Hitler is now running head to head with Lisa Nowak, the astronaut in dipers, and the eternal adolescent fascination with self-satisfaction… At the top dominates Anna Nicole Smith (aka Vicki Lynn Hogan),…
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…
I found your blog while tagging my blog with SC06. I noticed that you were interested in finding the slides to Kurzweil’s keynote at SC06. I too was looking for them and found a couple of his slides on wikipedia and I…
Wikipedia posts this most amazing list of topics in order of their popularity. Notice the succession of topics (Wiki/Amish/Foley or Clitoris/September 11/Pokemon). There is a whole bunch of statistics here.
What is Elgg? (It’s being used at MIT.) Described by its founders as a ‘learning landscape’, Elgg provides each user with their own weblog, file repository (with podcasting capabilities), an online profile and an RSS reader. Additionally, all of a user’s content…
Fleamarket, craigslist like environment-Robert Overlapping space, bring abstraction into the game-Zeynep and TJ Wiki-like site with tagging and mapping in a direct way-Scott Calendars and events–How do I locate what is available–Gabriel Process related information, class rating, travel board, electronic smalltown etc.–Brenda…
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…
Authority and expertise has changed. Weinberger’s chapter on “The Hyperlinked Organization†in The Cluetrain Manifesto (2004) and his chapter on “Knowledge†in Small Pieces Loosely Connected (2002) both talk about how authority no longer means what it used to mean. There are…
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…
Communitas is an online journal that is a part of the wikimedia foundation. This journal involves community development for wiki with the common goal of good will. Can the term communitas really be applied to this website/fundraising project?
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…
A surprising wake up call coming from the digerati camp. The “emergentist” party, which claimed that the best the net has to offer will come out of undirected, “random” interactions of the many (see wikipedia…) has gone too far. Now, according to…
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…
Aligning with this week’s discussion of the credibility of information on wikipedia and other online sources, I ran across this project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, on credibility and trust in Internet settings, called the “Credibility Commons“. Interestingly enough, this research project…
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.…
In regard to our recent Wikipedia conversations, wanted to share an interesting post on a listserv referencing Nature’s latest response to the Wikipedia v. Brittanica debate. To Britannica’s repartee there was an answer from Nature it
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…