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Digital student | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalstudent

for teaching? Blank electronic canva
interesting set of articles - maybe e-learning moving more mainstream?
PR on Websites: Press Area Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/pr.html
info from Nielsen report on web design to get better PR results
Flashbulb Interaction
http://www.flashbulbinteraction.com/index.html
Flashbulb Interaction, Inc. is a research, strategy, and design consultancy that works with clients to envision powerful and engaging user experiences for knowledge workers at the forefronts of their fields.
10 Online Learning Tools for Students | MakeUseOf.com
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/handy-tools-for-students/
tools for science, math, languages, English
Great tools online tools in various subjects.
Why we procrastinate and how to stop | Eureka! Science News
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/01/12/why.we.procrastinate.and.how.stop
It's a new year and many of us have started thinking about various resolutions: updating that resume, cleaning out the attic, starting that exercise routine. But the sad reality is that most of us will not follow through on these commitments, not because we're insincere, but because tomorrow is always a better time to get going. Procrastination is a curse, and a costly one. Putting things off leads not only to lost productivity but also to all sorts of hand wringing and regrets and damaged self-esteem. For all these reasons, psychologists would love to figure out what's going on in the mind that makes it so hard to actually do what we set out to do. Are we programmed for postponement and delay? Led by Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz in Germany, an international team of psychologists wanted to see if there might be a link between how we think of a task and our tendency to postpone it. In other words, are we more likely to see some tasks
merely thinking about the task in more concrete, specific terms makes it feel like it should be completed sooner and thus reducing procrastination
The authors note that "merely thinking about the task in more concrete, specific terms makes it feel like it should be completed sooner and thus reducing procrastination."
"Even though all of the students were being paid upon completion, those who thought about the questions abstractly were much more likely to procrastinate--and in fact some never got around to the assignment at all. By contrast, those who were focused on the how, when and where of doing the task e-mailed their responses much sooner, suggesting that they hopped right on the assignment rather than delaying it."
It's a new year and many of us have started thinking about various resolutions: updating that resume, cleaning out the attic, starting that exercise routine. But the sad reality is that most of us will not follow through on these commitments, not because we're insincere, but because tomorrow is always a better time to get going.
portant implic
SitePoint » 10 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/12/10/10-ways-to-spy-on-your-competitors/
Check out our list of 10 ways to watch your competitors below, and share other methods or tools that you use in the comments.
10 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors
Check out our list of 10 ways to watch your competitors below, and share other methods or tools that you use in the comments.
SitePoint.com - » 10 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Rom-coms 'spoil your love life'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7784366.stm
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"Marriage counsellors often see couples who believe that sex should always be perfect, and if someone is meant to be with you then they will know what you want without you needing to communicate it." Argh.
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Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.
"Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love." Aha! I knew there were plenty of good reasons NOT to watch this type of movies :-) They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner.
Romantic comedies are bad for relationships. I knew it. Also -- a David Lynch movie is used as a control for a romantic comedy? Hee!
Totally supporting my hypotheses that Twilight is bad for people. :)
Mark Roth's Proof of Reincarnation - Scientist Bringing Back the Dead - Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/bringing-back-the-dead-1208
WOW. WOW.
Social Media Statistics: Welcome to Social Media Statistics
http://socialmediastatistics.wikidot.com/
as it says!
Wiki-esque stats for major socnets, including demographic info
Wiki de estatísticas de mídias sociais
TakenOutOfContext.pdf (application/pdf Object)
http://www.danah.org/papers/TakenOutOfContext.pdf
Impact des réseaux sociaux sur les ados américains...
teens in networked social spaces. danah boyds dissertation.
"While teenagers primarily leverage social network sites to engage in common practices, the properties of these sites configured their practices and teens were forced to contend with the resultant dynamics. Often, in doing so, they reworked the technology for their purposes. As teenagers learned to navigate social network sites, they developed potent strategies for managing the complexities of and social awkwardness incurred by these sites. Their strategies reveal how new forms of social media are incorporated into everyday life, complicating some practices and reinforcing others. New technologies reshape public life, but teens’ engagement also reconfigures the technology itself."
Dr danah boyd's newly-minted PhD from UC Berkeley was awarded based on her fantastic thesis project, "Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics." danah's ground-breaking research on how kids (especially marginal kids) use the Internet has been featured here a lot -- she was one of the contributors to Mimi Ito's gigantic Digital Youth Project, and the attorneys general's report on the relative absence of pedophiles online.
2009 Horizon Report
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/
This is always a good reference source for latest info on technology in higher education.
Hive Five: Five Best People-Search Engines
http://lifehacker.com/5138427/five-best-people+search-engines
Why people procrastinate | Motivating minds | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12971028
"To some there is nothing so urgent that it cannot be postponed in favour of a cup of tea. Such procrastination is a mystery to psychologists, who wonder why people would sabotage themselves in this way. A team of researchers led by Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz, in Germany, reckon they have found a piece of the puzzle. People act in a timely way when given concrete tasks but dawdle when they view them in abstract terms."
People act in a timely way when given concrete tasks but dawdle when they view them in abstract terms.
ComScore: Internet Population Passes One Billion; Top 15 Countries
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/23/comscore-internet-population-passes-one-billion-top-15-countries/
interesting stats ... need to learn chinise soon if u wana reach majority ....
Social Network User Demographics - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006882
Social Network User Demographics JANUARY 27, 2009 Adults constitute the bulk of social networkers, but use still skews young. The share of adult Internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled since 2005, from 8% to 35%, according to a November–December 2008 Pew Internet & American Life Project survey.
Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/index.html.html
Book as PDF on neural networks.
smarthistory
http://smarthistory.org/
online art history resource (with podcasts/videos)
'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4357829/Immortal-jellyfish-swarming-across-the-world.html
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature. Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die. Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."
if the word swarming were 'taking over'; I'd be worshipping my new tentacle overlords.
ok, this is curious: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4357829/Immortal-jellyfish-swarming-across-the-world.html
So uh... time to figure out how they do that and sequence it into humans. Right?
PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy
http://philpapers.org/
Huge repository of papers in academic philosophy
PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies. Some features require that you sign in first, but creating an account is easy and free.
An index of current research in philosophy. Also offers forums, discussion groups, and advanced bibliographic tools for philosophers.
Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128092341.htm
816 discussion
ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2009) —
The Top 20 Social Networks of 2008
http://mashable.com/2009/01/23/most-popular-social-networks-2008/
Now, we’ve finally got the final numbers from 2008, and with them, a look at the rankings and trends within the top 20 social networks, according to Nielsen Online. Here are the highlights: - Facebook nearly caught MySpace in traffic. MySpace had 58.4 million unique visitors in December, Facebook had 55.2 million. - Facebook passed MySpace in time per person: 2 hours, 7 minutes to 1 hour, 40 minutes. - The fastest growing sites were Twitter (664%), Tagged (421%), and Ning (303%) - Of the sites in the top 20, three saw traffic declines in 2008: Meetup (-7%), Flixster (-6%), and MySpace (-3%) - Time spent on social networks decreased for 14 of the 20 sites on the list.
ユーザーインサイト : どんな読者が、どうサイトを見たかが分かる Web マーケティングツール
http://ui.userlocal.jp/
「どんなユーザーが」「どう見ているか」を低コストに調べることができる、まったく新しい Web アクセス解析ツール
「なかのひと」企業版。
15 Websites to Trace People Online | MakeUseOf.com
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/15-websites-to-trace-people-online/
There are many websites that search standard social networks like MySpace or Facebook, but Piple is one resource that conducts a “deep web” dig for the name you’re looking for on “non-typical sites.” The search results from Piple are pretty impressive. Y
the private world of yesterday is now an online world with open access to social networks, government databases, and public records.
pentru tine cu drag
Our unconscious brain makes the best decisions possible
http://www.physorg.com/news149345120.html
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that the human brain—once thought to be a seriously flawed decision maker—is actually hard-wired to allow us to make the best decisions possible with the information we are given.
Probability
KidRex - Kid Safe Search
http://www.kidrex.org/
filtered for kids. Used google on backend
KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages and are powered by Google Custom Search and use Google SafeSearch technology. Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your child’s search results. Google's filter uses advanced technology to check keywords, phrases, and URLs. No filter is 100 percent accurate, but SafeSearch should eliminate most inappropriate material. In addition to Google SafeSearch, KidRex maintains its own database of inappropriate websites and keywords. KidRex researchers test KidRex daily, to insure that you and your child have the best web experience possible. We do our best to keep KidRex as up-to-date and comprehensive as possible, but inappropriate sites will sometimes slip through the cracks. If you find websites containing offensive content in your results, please visit our webpage removal request tool to tell us about the site you found.
Official Site. Fun and Safe Search for Kids, by Kids!
interested in this
Safe search for kids, by kids!
Networking site cashes in on friends - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4413483/Networking-site-cashes-in-on-friends.html
At the conference, Facebook asked a range of questions to its users around the world, before feeding the answers back to delegates within minutes. It selectively-targeted users in Palestine and then Israel with the same question about global peace, before debating the results at a discussion forum. It also asked 120,000 US members whether US President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package would be enough to save the US economy. Almost 60pc said it would not.
Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases. In an attempt to finally monetise the social networking site... it will soon allow multinational companies to selectively target its members in order to research the appeal of new products. Companies will be able to pose questions to specially selected members based on such intimate details as whether they are single or married and even whether they are gay or straight.
Market research company eMarketer recently cut its estimate of advertising spending on the social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, this year by £351m to £912m. It said US advertising spending on Facebook will fall by 20pc to £147m
...und bitte warum regt sich darüber keiner auf?
WebAIM: Screen Reader Survey Results
http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users.
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader user
Pesquisa recente feita pela WebAIM com usuários de leitores de tela
Facebook Demographic Statistics
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-demographic-statistics/
Facebook News, Facebook Games and analysis of Facebook.
k and have developed the following tool to make it easier for you to find interesting demographic data and sh
Package Design Research | Patterns | R.BIRD
http://www.rbird.com/movabletype/patterns/
A series of professional observations about package design practices within specific product categories
Consumer product/placement/positioning patterns via http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1546-patterns-great-self-promotion
Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20.html
The lesson, Marissa said, is that speed matters. People do not like to wait. Do not make them.
On the web, speed matters. I see it with campaigns all the time.
This conclusion may be surprising -- people notice a half second delay? -- but we had a similar experience at Amazon.com. In A/B tests, we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue.
Singularity University
http://singularity-university.org/
Preparing Humanity for Accelerating Technological Changes
La Universidad de la Singularidad:Silicon Valley, la cuna mundial de la alta tecnología, abrirá este verano la Universidad de la Singularidad, un centro académico único que, financiado entre otros por Google y la NASA, formará a los futuros líderes "para que identifiquen los grandes retos de la humanidad"
Preparing Humanity for accelerating technological change - Nasa & Google
"Singularity University, based on the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley, is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, AI, etc.), and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges."
DomainTyper - Fast Domain Search
http://domaintyper.com/
Search for your Domain as fast as you can type. Domain Finder with Domain Hacks, and Domain Name Generator.
WOW! handig!
5 Problems of Recommender Systems - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_problems_of_recommender_systems.php
Earlier this week we posted a Guide to Recommender Systems, as part of our series on recommendation technologies. In this post we look at some of the challenges ...
Earlier this week we posted a Guide to Recommender Systems, as part of our series on recommendation technologies. In this post we look at some of the challenges in building or deploying a recommender system. And yes, Napoleon Dynamite is one of them.
5 punkter som er kritiske succesfaktorer for anbefalingssystemer
TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense -- Video | Epicenter from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-digital-six.html
In the tactile world, we use our five senses to take in information about our environment and respond to it, Maes explained. But a lot of the information that helps us understand and respond to the world doesn't come from these senses. Instead, it comes from computers and the internet. Maes' goal is to harness computers to feed us information in an organic fashion, like our existing senses. The prototype was built from an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, with an attached mirror -- all connected to an internet-enabled mobile phone. The setup, which costs less than $350, allows the user to project information from the phone onto any surface -- walls, the body of another person or even your hand.
Holy crap.
dude honestly insane
Official Google Blog: Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/eye-tracking-studies-more-than-meets.html
googleblog
An eye tracking study from Google. However, please note that none of the searches are overly commercial in nature (no top position ads). In almost all G heatmap studies, they only show mostly information searches. Interesting data, but don't assume your ad will not get nice visibility for more commercial based searches.
A Guide to Recommender Systems - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/recommender_systems.php
Various methods for doing user recommendations.
fully understand recommendation engines is there any brand application?
Le RWW inaugure une série de billets sur les systèmes de recommandations, leurs fonctionnements, les différents types de systèmes existants dans différents domaines.
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: More on The 100 Best Archives
http://100bestbiz.com/more-on-the-100-best/
100 business books.
Bill Gates unplugged | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html
bill gates talks about world probems and how we can solve them
Via Timgo
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece
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THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield manipulated patients’ data, which triggered fears that the MMR triple vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella was linked to the condition.
What a surprise...
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: About Us
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
Tracking Twitter Links: Twitter Analytics Tools & More | Get Elastic
http://www.getelastic.com/ecommerce-twitter-tools/
twitter
Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/276/report_display.asp
As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. The use of Twitter is highly intertwined with the use of other social media; both blogging and social network use increase the likelihood than an individual also uses Twitter. Twitter users and status updaters are also a mobile bunch; as a group they are much more likely to be using wireless technologies -- laptops, handhelds and cell phones -- for internet access, or cell phones for text messaging.
Look who is Twittering now...
In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications for sending out short messages to networks of friends like Twitter, Yammer and others.
50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for e-Learning & Researching | The .Edu Toolbox
http://bestcollegerankings.org/2009/50-must-have-firefox-extensions-for-e-learning-researching/
Change you can download: a billion in secret Congressional reports - Wikileaks
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Change_you_can_download:_a_billion_in_secret_Congressional_reports
Congressional reports made public...
The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from the U.S. relationship with Israel to the financial collapse. Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest report goes back to 1990. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices. The CRS is Congress's analytical agency and has a budget in excess of $100M per year.
Evolution and Facebook's "25 Random Things About Me" craze. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2211068/
an outline, with graphs, about the 25 random things that spread across facebook
It's all evolution...
25 Things, Analyzed as an Infectious Disease
Seth's Blog: Five tips for better online surveys
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/five-tips-for-better-online-surveys.html
The Science of ReTweets
http://mashable.com/2009/02/17/twitter-retweets/
Scout Labs
http://www.scoutlabs.com/
Listen Better. Innovate Faster.A powerful, web-based application that tracks social media and finds signals in the noise to help your team build better products and stronger customer relationships.
Six ways to make Web 2.0 work - The McKinsey Quarterly - Six ways Web 2.0 work - Business Technology - Application Management
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/Application_Management/Six_ways_to_make_Web_20_work_2294
Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them.
Six ways to make Web 2.0 work
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Six_ways_to_make_Web_20_work_2294
#web2.0work
An article about "web 2.0"
Six ways to make Web 2.0 work. A Application Management Feature Article about Six ways Web 2.0 work by The McKinsey Quarterly. Free registration for most Business Technology Application Management articles. Web 2.0 tools opportunities, and how to use web 2.0. Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them.
How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_reach_baby_boomers_with_social_media.php
baby boomers and social media
Baby Boomers and Social Networking stats
apparently Baby Boomers aren't exactly the technology Luddites that people think they are.
We're not as active as the Millennials in creating content, especially blog writing, but neither are we Luddites.
Welcome to the official 1911 Census website
http://www.1911census.co.uk/
The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. It provides a unique snapshot of the lives of your ancestors. 1911census.co.uk brings this vast resource to you online, so that you can search the census simply and quickly to discover how your family lived in the past.
Welcome to the official 1911 Census website
The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. It provides a unique snapshot of the lives of your ancestors. 1911census.co.uk brings this vast resource to you online, so that you can search the census simply and quickly to discover how your family lived in the past. Search through the census index to find an ancestor, or to find out who lived in your house.
1901 census
Are Our Brains Becoming “Googlized?”
http://searchengineland.com/are-our-brains-becoming-googlized-15421.php
In a nutshell, the findings were that “emerging computerized technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle aged and older adults,” and that “internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function.” This is a long way of saying that being online helps keep those little gray cells busy. The level of brain activity was compared to that of reading a book. With internet usage, a significantly bigger piece of neural real estate lit up on the fMRI indicating that more parts of the brain were engaged.
Are our brains being rewired by using the Internet? The evidence tends to be pointing that way.
Tech Central - Times Online - WBLG: Top 25 days in computing history
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/11/top-25-days-in.html
Top 25 days in computing history
DeepPeep: discover the hidden web
http://www.deeppeep.org/index.jsp
DeepPeep is a search engine specialized in Web forms. The current beta version currently tracks 13,000 forms across 7 domains. DeepPeep helps you discover the entry points to content in Deep Web (aka Hidden Web) sites, including online databases and Web services.
Moteur de recherche pour le web invisible
New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/technology/internet/23search.html
"Now a new breed of technologies is taking shape that will extend the reach of search engines into the Web’s hidden corners. When that happens, it will do more than just improve the quality of search results — it may ultimately reshape the way many companies do business online."
Google now indexes a trillion web pages - but that's just a fraction of what's out there. So, what does it miss?
...google is built for a static web...................
PyBrain
http://pybrain.org/
PyBrain
PyBrain is a modular Machine Learning Library for Python. It's goal is to offer flexible, easy-to-use yet still powerful algorithms for Machine Learning Tasks and a variety of predefined environments to test and compare your algorithms.
Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/27/facebooks-in-house-sociologist-shares-stats-on-users-social-behavior/
How much do we colloborate or manage our weak and strong ties? This report suggests not as much as is often touted.
’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior
Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behaviorhttp://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/02/27/facebooks-in-house-sociologist-shares-stats-on-users-socia
Facebook users comment on stuff from only about 5-7% of their Facebook friends. And as has been shown by many other studies, women communicate with more people in all cases than men. “People who are members of online social networks are not so much ‘networking’ as they are ‘broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle,’” Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says. - Tac Anderson
"...Facebook users comment on stuff from only about 5-10% of their Facebook friends."
Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/011800hth-behavior-incompetents.html
Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college
U.S. News has collected data from more than 1,400 colleges to bring you this year's rankings
check out the best places to attend college!
US News and World Report ranks colleges
Becta Emerging Technologies
http://emergingtechnologies.becta.org.uk/
Emerging Technologies for Learning is an initiative from Becta that draws together news, research, analysis and views around technology developments and trends relevant to education and their use within schools and colleges. It aims to provide an environment for debate on technology futures within the education community and those serving it, encouraging dialogue and building shared understandings about the future. It includes sections on the latest technology research, software / Internet news, plus hardware, multimedia and network / wireless sections. Articles include research reports with references, from Becta and elsewhere, news updates on conferences and events, plus discussion areas for topics including information management and personalised learning. Users can interact with the site in a number of ways including leaving comments on articles and proposing new articles.
Intute abstract: Emerging Technologies for Learning is an initiative from Becta that draws together news, research, analysis and views around technology developments and trends relevant to education and their use within schools and colleges. It aims to provide an environment for debate on technology futures within the education community and those serving it, encouraging dialogue and building shared understandings about the future. It includes sections on the latest technology research, software / Internet news, plus hardware, multimedia and network / wireless sections. Articles include research reports with references, from Becta and elsewhere, news updates on conferences and events, plus discussion areas for topics including information management and personalised learning. Users can interact with the site in a number of ways including leaving comments on articles and proposing new articles.
Web sites about educational technologies and emerging trends.
Take Note: Doodling Can Help Memory on Yahoo! Health
http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/takenotedoodlingcanhelpmemory.html
doodle away folks!
from Tracey Isidro
Index of /transputer/finengineer
http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/finengineer/
Crazy collection of financial PDF's
Huge list of articles on finance-related topics
Twitter: Top 20 tools - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/4807126/Twitter-Top-20-tools.html
Twitter, the microblogging service used by everyone from Barack Obama to Stephen Fry, can be a hugely useful tool for both home and business use. But how do you make the best of it? How do you separate noise from genuinely interesting messages, and how do you know who you should be following? Here, we present our guide to the 20 best Twitter tools and applications to make life easier.
Twitter, the microblogging service used by everyone from Barack Obama to Stephen Fry, can be a hugely useful tool for both home and business use. But how do you make the best of it? How do you separate noise from genuinely interesting messages, and how do you know who you should be following? Here, we present our guide to the 20 best Twitter tools and applications to make life easier.
How do you make the best of Twittert? How do you separate noise from genuinely interesting messages, and how do you know who you should be following? 20 best Twitter tools and applications to make life easier.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: If It Doesn't Spread, It's Dead (Part One): Media Viruses and Memes
http://henryjenkins.org/2009/02/if_it_doesnt_spread_its_dead_p.html
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: If It Doesn't Spread, It's Dead (Part One): Media Viruses and Memes virus virusvirus
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: If It Doesn't Spread, It's Dead (Part One):
The Serious Need for Play: Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-serious-need-for-play
play children psychology parenting science ; Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed. ; KEY CONCEPTS: Childhood play is crucial for social, emotional and cognitive development. Imaginative and rambunctious “free play,” as opposed to games or structured activities, is the most essential type. Kids and animals that do not play when they are young may grow into anxious, socially maladjusted adults.
Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed By Melinda Wenner
Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed.
PLAY
"Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed."
Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers - science-in-society - 27 February 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html
Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
Are bad sleeping habits driving us mad? - health - 18 February 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126962.100-are-bad-sleeping-habits-driving-us-mad.html?full=true
As if I needed another reason to get 14 hours of sleep every night.
In the sleep-deprived, gruesome images produced 60 per cent more activity in the amygdala - a primitive, emotionally reactive part of the brain - than in well-rested people. // Evidence is growing that sleep - and dreaming, REM sleep, in particular - helps the brain to process memories. Disrupt this mechanism, and you could end up with psychological problems such as PTSD.
Google's New Search Engine Rankings Place Heavy Emphasis on Branding : SEO Book.com
http://www.seobook.com/google-branding
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning: Contents
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/
Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Williams MIT Press, 2006. ISBN-10 0-262-18253-X, ISBN-13 978-0-262-18253-9. This book is © Copyright 2006 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The MIT Press have kindly agreed to allow us to make the book available on the web. The web version of the book corresponds to the 2nd printing. You can buy the book for a list price of 36.00 US$ or 23.95 UK£. The whole book as a single pdf file.
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
IBM to build brain-like computers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called "cognitive computing", the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists. As a first step in its research the project has been granted $4.9m (£3.27m) from US defence agency Darpa.
"The key idea of cognitive computing is to engineer mind-like intelligent machines by reverse engineering the structure, dynamics, function and behaviour of the brain."
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called "cognitive computing", the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists. As a first step in its research the project has been granted $4.9m (£3.27m) from US defence agency Darpa.
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.
IBM will join five US universities in an ambitious effort to integrate what is known from real biological systems with the results of supercomputer simulations of neurons. The team will then aim to produce for the first time an electronic system that behaves as the simulations do. The longer-term goal is to create a system with the level of complexity of a cat's brain.
Game/AI: AAAI Library online
http://www.ai-blog.net/archives/000158.html
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Black hole confirmed in Milky Way
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7774287.stm
They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile. The black hole, said to be 27,000 light years from Earth, is four million times bigger than the Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal. Black holes are objects whose gravity is so great that nothing - including light - can escape them.
There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a 16-year study by German astronomers has confirmed. They tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using two telescopes in Chile.
We're being sucked into a black hole! Oh noes! Or radiating out from one. ;^)
New research: B2B buyers have very high social participation
http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2009/02/new-research-b2.html
Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies
Social media usage for B2B
Twitter Reading List
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/socialmedia/twitterrl.html
Source pour apprivoiser, qualifier et exploiter Twitter comme outil et environnement de communication, de réseautage, de veille et de promotion.
Online Data
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm
Online Data
The data collection effort about investor attitudes that I have been conducting since 1989 has now resulted in a group of Stock Market Confidence Indexes produced by the Yale School of Management. These data are collected in collaboration with Fumiko Kon-Ya and Yoshiro Tsutsui of Japan. Some of our earlier results are also noteworthy.
Robert Shiller's database
PIP_Generations_2009.pdf (application/pdf Object)
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Generations_2009.pdf
Statistiques 2009 très intéressantes sur le comportement des gens sur Internet selon les groupes d'âge. Vous pourriez être surpris! À lire et conserver (PDF).
gpeerreview - Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/gpeerreview/
Peer Review für "Jedermann"
We intend for the peer-review web to do for scientific publishing what the world wide web has done for media publishing. As it becomes increasingly practical to evaluate researchers based on the reviews of their peers, the need for centralized big-name journals begins to diminish. The power is returned to those most qualified to give meaningful reviews: the peers.
GPeerReview attempts to makes it easy for authors to seek post-publication endorsements of their works. We provide the following tools: * A command-line tool to digitally sign endorsements (done and available). * A web-based version of the signing tool (about 70% done). * Client tools for analyzing endorsement graphs to establish credibility (in planning stages). * Additional tools to facilitate the running of endorsement organizations (in the brain-storming stages). * Tools for analyzing citation graphs (in the brain-storming stages).
Google Power Searching Tips for Students and Universities
http://diplomaguide.com/articles/Google_Power_Searching_Tips_for_Students_and_Universities.html
How to research more efficiently in Google
has links to several tutorials on google search, how to use it more effectively as wells as scholarly searches
Who's Online and What Are They Doing There? - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whos_online_and_what_are_they_doing_there.php
Para Atenas
Generation Y, aka the "Net Generation," does not dominate every aspect of online life. That revealing statistic and many others like it come from Pew Internet and American Life's recent "Generations Online" report which takes a look at how the different generations of users - from Millennials to the G.I. Generation - use the internet.
Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Superb article on Space
article from New Scientist about the world being a hologram
According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. (..) If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
A noise floor found in very small measurements means that our entire universe could be holographic. If true, this could have wide-ranging applications in space exploration, physics, computer science, philosophy, and other fields.
"The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level."
Landon Fuller
http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/security/DNS_Dead_Drop.20060128201048.26517.luxo.html
The DNS Dead Drop Storing Arbitrary Messages in Remote DNS Caches A few months ago, I read Dan Kaminsky's presentation slides, Attacking Distributed Systems: The DNS Case Study. In the presentation, Kaminsky documents a method of implementing single bit data transfer with nothing more than: * A recursive, caching name server * A wildcard zone After a particularly stressful week, I decided I needed to work on something fun -- an implementation of a DNS-based dead drop messaging system, utilizing Kaminsky's ideas.
DNS Dropzone Storing Arbitrary Messages in Remote DNS Caches A few months ago, I read Dan Kaminsky's presentation slides, Attacking Distributed Systems: The DNS Case Study. In the presentation, Kaminsky documents a method of implementing single bit data transfer with nothing more than:
DNS Dead Drop
The DNS Dead Drop
Amazon Web Services Blog: New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/new-aws-public-data-sets-economics-dbpedia-freebase-and-wikipedia.html
We have just released four additional AWS public data sets, and have updated another one. In the Economics category, we have added a set of transportation databases from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Data and statistics are provided for aviation, maritime, highway, transit, rail, pipeline, bike & pedestrian, and other modes of transportation, all in CSV format. I was able to locate employment data for our hometown airline and found out that they employed 9,322 full-time and 1,122 part-time employees as of the end of 2007. In the Encyclopedic category, we have added access to the DBpedia Knowledge Base, the Freebase Data Dump, and the Wikipedia Extraction, or WEX.
amazon
The ROI of being social at work | The AppGap
http://www.theappgap.com/roi-of-being-social-at-work.html
Decades of psycho-social research on team work suggests that effective teams have both strong task-based behaviour as well as good social cohesion.
Decades of psycho-social research on team work suggests that effective teams have both strong task-based behaviour as well as good social cohesion. “A high-performance team works together to achieve mutual goals, recognizes that each member is accountable and committed to achieving team goals, communicates effectively with each other, shares the joy of achievement and the pain of not meeting goals, shares information, helps each other, and recognizes that the success of the group is dependent upon each individual”
Academics invent a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3660232/Academics-invent-a-mathematical-equation-for-why-people-procrastinate.html
It might seem an idle pastime but academics have come up with a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.
The psychologist, from the University of Calgary, has subsequently formed an equation for why people procrastinate, which began by studying 250 college students. The equation is U=EV/ID. The 'U' stands for utility, or the desire to complete a given task. It is equal to the product of E, the expectation of success, and V the value of completion, divided by the product of I, the immediacy of the task, and D, the personal sensitivity to delay. Prof Steel says procrastination is becoming a bigger issue because many more jobs are "self-structured", with people setting their own schedules. This means that people tend to postpone things with delayed rewards in favour of activities that offer immediate rewards. "Procastinators tend to live fro today rather than tomorrow. for short term gain for long term pain" he writes. Until now, psychologists have generally linked procrastination to perfectionists who avoid tasks rather than produce less than perfect products.
U=EV/ID
The equation is U=EV/ID.
Prof Piers Steel, a Canadian academic who has spent more than 10 years studying why people put off until tomorrow what they could do today, believes that the notion that procrastinators are either perfectionists or just lazy is wrong. Prof Steel, who admits to becoming distracted by computer games himself, argues in a new book that those prone to putting things off suffer from a vice of their own - impulsiveness.
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Cool demo of sixth sense device at TED.
TED Talks This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/MSRTechFest2009.html
save
Good piece on network effects and history of social network sites by Danah Boyd.
Social media is not new. Media has been leveraged for sociable purposes since the caveman's walls. Even in the realm of the Internet, some of the first applications were framed around communication and sharing. For decades, we've watched the development of new genres of social media - MUDs/MOOs, instant messaging, chatrooms, bulletin boards, etc.
Feb. 28, 2009 paper on Social Media to Microsoft.
Great overview (sampling plate) about 'social media'
Media Cloud
http://www.mediacloud.org/
Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon. You can read more background on the project or just get started below.
Harvard's Berkman Center announces Media Could: "Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data. The system is still in early development, but we invite you to explore our current data and suggest research ideas. This is an open-source project, and we will be releasing all of the code soon. You can read more background on the project or just get started below."
Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.
Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter
http://www.twitip.com/welcome-to-the-hive-mind-learn-how-to-search-twitter/
searching twitter
Wolfram Blog : Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!
http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/
via Nova Spivack: It doesn't simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn't just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn't simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example. Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions -- like questions that have factual answers such as "What is the location of Timbuktu?" or "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?," "What was the average rainfall in Boston last year?," "What is the 307th digit of Pi?," or "what would 80/20 vision look like?"
Wolfram Research introduces a search engine
Web Apps - index of web applications and online tools - Go2web20
http://beta.go2web20.net/
Internet Business Search by BizShark
http://www.bizshark.com/
Internet Business Search
CAT COMMUNICATION
http://www.messybeast.com/cat_talk2.htm
contentment
StatCounter Global Stats
http://gs.statcounter.com/
Statistiken Browser, Search Engines, Mobile, ...
Academic Hacker News
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/
Newssift.com
http://www.newssift.com/index.jsp
Financial Times has developed a business search engine which searches news, magazine, television, radio, and expert commentary and allows users to focus their search on clusters
A business news search engine that provides semantic web features. For example, breaks the results into categories.
uche nach wirtschaftsartikeln
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009
http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2009/index.htm
The State of the News Media 2009, An Annual Report on American Journalism - Presented by Journalism.org
popular site
A fascinating, exhaustive look at the various media and where they are/where they're going. "The State of the News Media 2009 is the sixth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism."
Insane amount of info
Despite Recession, More Than 50% of Marketers Increase Spending on Social Media - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_recession_more_than_50_of_marketers_increase_spending_on_social_media.php
Important: worldwide scope.
Interesting take on social media marketing spend in downturn
Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated
http://overstated.net/2009/03/09/maintained-relationships-on-facebook
info relationship on facebook
Size of friend networks maintained on Facebook
Yet another datapoint proving the Dunbar number?
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Foverstated.net%2F2009%2F03%2F09%2Fmaintained-relationships-on-facebook
Academic Reference and Research Index, accessing selected reference sites
http://www.academicindex.net/
Social Media Marketing Industry Report
http://www.whitepapersource.com/socialmediamarketing/report/
Marketers Moving to Social Media - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006989
Crowdsourcing Examples / FrontPage
http://crowdsourcingexamples.pbwiki.com/
usage of crowdsourcing wiki
Micro Persuasion: Social Networking Demographics: Boomers Jump In, Gen Y Plateaus
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/03/social-networking-demographics.html
According to the study, baby boomers... * Increased reading blogs and listening to podcasts by 67 percent year over year; nearly 80 times faster than Gen Y (1 percent) * Posted a 59 percent increase in using social networking sites—more than 30 times faster than Gen Y (2 percent) * Increased watching/posting videos on the Internet by 35 percent—while Gen Y usage decreased slightly (-2 percent) * Accelerated playing video games on the go via mobile devices by 52 percent— 20 times faster than Gen Y (2 percent) * Increased listening to music on an iPod or other portable music player by 49 percent—more than four times faster than Gen Y (12 percent)
Social Media for Social Causes Study: The Results
http://mashable.com/2009/03/26/social-media-nonprofit-study/
Will help in analysing the use of social media in social causes.
Twitter’s Tweet Smell Of Success | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success/
about grow twitter
about twitter
Twitter’s Tweet Smell Of Success
Music That Makes You Dumb? | BeatCrave - Music Blog, MP3 Downloads, Videos, News, Giveaways
http://beatcrave.com/2009-03-03/music-that-makes-you-dumb/
Eh
interesting though probably incorrect in many ways. relationship from sat scores to music taste
Follow the Mobile User
http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/03/29/follow-the-mobile-user/
Focus on the mobile user, and all else will follow Simpler data, better browsers, and a smoother experience
This guest post is written by Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google's mobile and developer products. (Prior to Google, he spent ...
in 2009, for the first time 50% of all new internet connections will come from a PHONE!
TEDTalks as of 03.30.09 - Google Docs
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg
tedliste
nice list
URL Speakers Name Short Summary
Digital Outlook Report 2009
http://digitaloutlook.razorfish.com/publication/?i=13617
very thorough cutting edge report, all 170+ pages...
analysis and future of digital marketing applications including tv, mobile, and social
Onderzoek met vooruitzichten ontwikkeling media en internet in 2009 van Razorfish (US)
Razorfish outlook on the digital space - version 09
Whole Health Source: Reversing Tooth Decay
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/reversing-tooth-decay.html
Teeth are able to heal themselves. That's how traditional cultures such as the Inuit can wear their teeth down to the pulp due to chewing leather and sand-covered dried fish, yet still have an exceptionally low rate of tooth decay.
Nutrition has a profound effect on tooth structure, and well-formed teeth are inherently resistant to decay. But is there anything you can do if your teeth are already formed?
teeth
Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My Homework - News Features & Releases
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/blog/news_features_releases/2009/01/thanks-for-the-add-now-help-me-with-my-homework.html
A Study showing potential learning benefits of social networking site like myspace and facebook
Article from Harvard about positives to teens using social networking today.
A new study by Harvard alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.
I just co-wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation about the use of new technologies in the classroom. We're only on the cusp of this, and we need to harness the energy and interest that kids currently have for these things.
Harvard Graduate School of Education article on social networking as an educational tool
Kids.Net.Au - Search engine for kids, children, parents, educators and teachers - Searching sites designed for kids that are child safe. Includes a Thesaurus, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Toy Store.
http://www.kids.net.au/
Search engine for kids, children, parents, educators and teachers - Searching sites designed for kids that are child safe. Includes a Thesaurus, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Toy Store.
Kid sites and info good for kids and educators
100 Amazing Flickr Collections for Architecture Buffs | Graduate Degree
http://www.graduatedegree.org/blog/2009/03/100-amazing-flickr-collections-for-architecture-buffs/
Now you don't need to travel across the world to experience some of the world's greatest architectural treasures because here you'll find 100 excellent collections of buildings, details, and more.
100 Amazing Flickr Collections for Architecture Buffs
100 Best Blogs for Those Who Want to Change the World | Best Universities
http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/100-best-blogs-for-those-who-want-to-change-the-world/
» The Hierarchy Of Tweets - Analysing The Psychology of Twitter
http://www.theinnovationdiaries.com/2009/03/24/the-hierarchy-of-tweets-analysing-the-psychology-of-twitter/
Analisis de los mensajes que circulan en Twitter.
Smart People Really Do Think Faster : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102169531
DTI is a variant of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that can measure the structural integrity of the brain's white matter, which is made up of cells that carry nerve impulses from one part of the brain to another. The greater the structural integrity, the faster nerve impulses travel. >Personal Note: I worked with DTI during my internship at the MRRC (Magnetic Resonance Research Center) at Yale University. Our signals looked more similar to the second image except that we didn't have a 3d model extracted from the raw signal (the second one shows a raw DTI signal with an overlay of its 3d model representation).
The smarter the person, the faster information zips around the brain, a UCLA study finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, looked at the brains and intelligence of 92 people. All the participants took standard IQ tests. Then the researchers studied their brains using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI. Capturing Mental Speed DTI is a variant of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that can measure the structural integrity of the brain's white matter, which is made up of cells that carry nerve impulses from one part of the brain to another. The greater the structural integrity, the faster nerve impulses travel. "These images really give you a picture of the mental speed of the brain," says Paul Thompson, Ph.D., a professor of neurology at UCLA School of Medicine. They're also "the most beautiful images of the brain you could imagine," Thompson says. "My daughter, who's 5, says they look like
Smart People Really Do Think Faster http://bit.ly/ey8Db So...that means all us twitter users are wicked smart [from http://twitter.com/AdamPieniazek/statuses/1375120864]
Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics | Wired Science from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html
Inductive reasoning at it's finest.
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry. The research is being heralded as a potential breakthrough for science in the Petabyte Age, where computers try to find regularities in massive datasets that are too big and complex for the human mind. (See Wired magazine's July 2008 cover story on "The End of Science.") "One of the biggest problems in science today is moving forward and finding the underlying principles in areas where there is lots and lots of data, but there's a theoretical gap. We don't know how things work," said Hod Lipson, the Cornell University computational researcher who co-wrote the program. "I think this is going to be an important tool." Condensing rules from raw data has long been considered the province of hu
“In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings…”
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell
The DaVinci Institute - The Future of Education by Thomas Frey
http://www.davinciinstitute.com/page.php?ID=170
The pace of change is mandating that we produce a faster, smarter, better grade of human being. Current systems are preventing that from happening. Future education system will be unleashed with the advent of a standardized rapid courseware-builder and a single point global distribution system.
First 2 Words: A Signal for the Scanning Eye (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/nanocontent.html
A link's first 11 characters are the most important, their impact should not be squandered with bland, generic words.
... shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.
This kind of information is useful to me as background to my understanding of digital literacy. Soon I can note it via Diigo, but not yet.
»Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.«
Twitter Analytics for "Analytics": Juice Analytics
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/twitter-analytics-analytics/
Excellent discussion on what is interesting in analytics.
Twitter’s wild popularity hasn’t obscured the fact that the service needs to eventually make money. The concept of “Twitter analytics” as a revenue stream has come up often enough to make my ears itch and my nose burn.
TwitThis'); //--> Twitter’s wild popularity hasn’t obscured the fact that the service needs to eventually make money. The concept of “Twitter analytics” as a revenue stream has come up often ...
Despite all the activity, I haven’t yet seen a solution that offers the kind of valuable analytics that a company could use to understand the Twitter conversation relevant to their business. The applications above are either focused on the measurement of individual Twitter users or offer a high-level tracking of words and phases in the general conversation. They treat tweets as transactions — How many? How valuable? Who’s listening? Who’s responding?
B.L. Ochman's blog: Top 10 Reasons Your Company Should Not Tweet
http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archives/2009/04/top_10_reasons_your_company_should_not_tweet.asp
1. every Tweet has to be approved by legal - CLASSIC 9. you plan to track Twitter with Google Analytics - OMFG ;)
Mainstream media is in an orgiastic frenzy of coverage about Twitter. Everyone's Tweeting, from celebrities to CEOs according to CNN, The View, Today, the NY Times, the Wall St Journal and just about everyone else. Each of them covers Twitter like it's an overnight phenomenon that came out of nowhere, although Twitter has been gaining traction for three years and now has 9 14 million members. Should your company be on Twitter? Not necessarily. Top 10 reasons not to join Twitter: 1. every Tweet has to be approved by legal. Twitter is a social network where conversation is fast and interconnected. If you have to wait a day, or even a few hours for your 140 character Tweet to gain legal approval, Twitter will be the wrong platform for you. 2. you plan to use Twitter like a giant RSS feed, broadcasting nothing but headlines, deals. People follow people they find interesting. If all your Tweets are a one-way street: Block! 3. you think using Twitter is a social media strategy
"It's a tactic, a tool, not a strategy. It works if you already have an online following who'll view your Tweets as a way to interact with your company on a human level."
Amazon Elastic MapReduceを使ってみた - moratorium
http://kzk9.net/blog/2009/04/reviewing_amazon_elastic_map_reduce.html
Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! (comScore Voices)
http://www.comscore.com/blog/2009/04/twitter_traffic_explodes.html
Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend. More specifically, 45-54 year olds are 36 percent more likely than average to visit Twitter, making them the highest indexing age group, followed by 25-34 year olds, who are 30 percent more likely.
Older than thought, but 25-54 is a MASSIVE audience.
With so many businesses using Twitter, along with the first generations of Internet users “growing up” and comfortable with technology, this is a sign that the traditional early adopter model might need to be revisited.
10 papers you need to read | Science for SEO
http://www.scienceforseo.com/information-retrieval/10-papers-you-need-to-read/
This is a list of my top 10 freely available papers on the topic of information retrieval. You will notice that they are rather old, but the techniques used described and the findings are not always dated. Those that dated are important nonetheless because they provide a good foundation to understanding why things are as they are in information retrieval these days.
Introduction
http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2008/
Findings from the A LIST APART Survey, 2008
As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going?
Findings from one of the best non-profit web think-tanks - Stats on working in the web industry.
As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going? In 2008, 30,055 readers took part in the A List Apart Survey. Once more, data analysts Alan Brickman and Larry Yu crunched numbers this way and that. With a global recession in full swing as of December 2007, we were particularly interested to find out how financially and professionally secure web people felt, and whether there were discernible differences in the way people responded to questions about satisfaction and security in 2008, compared with 2007. This year we also improved our fact-finding on freelance and part-time web personnel. The more things change For 2008, instead of a downloadable (PDF) white paper, we decided to present our findings on the web. Which meant, in addition to compiling and analyzing data and
nice html + css version of graphs.
Some people care about the actual survey, me? I stare at how the tables were structured.
As we did in 2007, A List Apart and you teamed up to shed light on precisely who creates websites. Where do we live? What kind of work do we do? What are our job titles? How well or how poorly are we paid? How satisfied are we, and where do we see ourselves going? In 2008, 30,055 readers took part in the A List Apart Survey. Once more, data analysts Alan Brickman and Larry Yu crunched numbers this way and that. With a global recession in full swing as of December 2007, we were particularly interested to find out how financially and professionally secure web people felt, and whether there were discernible differences in the way people responded to questions about satisfaction and security in 2008, compared with 2007. This year we also improved our fact-finding on freelance and part-time web personnel.
Singular Value Decomposition
http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/will/svd/index.html
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Clinical Evidence: The international source of the best available ...
http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/index.jsp
Social Media at Work » Social Media Statistics
http://socialmediaatwork.com/social-media-statistics/
A collection of social media research facts and stats, organized by date in which they were published. If you have a better idea for how to organize this, let us know.
Twitter Statistics
A collection of social media research facts and stats, organized by date in which they were published.
De-anonymizing Social Networks
http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/index.html
De-anonymizing Social Networks
[CSS]外部スタイルシートの指定は@importとlinkでどちらがいいか | コリス
http://coliss.com/articles/build-websites/operation/css/css-2-ways-to-include-a-stylesheet.html
外部スタイルシートの指定は@importとlinkでどちらがいいかと、書籍「ハイパフォーマンスWebサイト
そうやねんけど@import以外でやるとメンドイしなぁ管理
twazzup
http://www.twazzup.com/
powerful twitter search engine. ROCKS! FriendFeed better run out and drink some of this juice!
A powerful twitter search engine with a nice interface
Super Cool Twitter Search & It Rocks!_Twazzup
The Running Man, Revisited § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_running_man_revisited/
"A handful of scientists think that these ultra-marathoners are using their bodies just as our hominid forbears once did, a theory known as the endurance running hypothesis (ER)."
running animals to death
In tests where 15 subjects ran and walked on pressure-sensitive treadmills, Lieberman and Rolian found that toe length had no effect on walking. Yet when the subjects were running, an increase in toe length of just 20 percent doubled the amount of mechanical work, meaning that the longer-toed subjects required more metabolic energy, and each footfall produced more shock.
Running deer to death ...
The endurance running hypothesis, the idea that humans evolved as long-distance runners, may have legs thanks to a new study on toes.
But a handful of scientists think that these ultra-marathoners are using their bodies just as our hominid forbears once did, a theory known as the endurance running hypothesis (ER). ER proponents believe that being able to run for extended lengths of time is an adapted trait, most likely for obtaining food, and was the catalyst that forced Homo erectus to evolve from its apelike ancestors. Over time, the survival of the swift-footed shaped the anatomy of modern humans, giving us a body that is difficult to explain absent a marathoning past.
Endurance running hypothesis
Trip Planner – Personalized Travel Itinerary – NileGuide
http://www.nileguide.com/
13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?full=true
via kottke.org
from New Scientist
Free Social Media Monitoring Tools | Take Me To Your Leader: Blog focusing on trend watching in marketing, consumer behaviors, technology, and social media.
http://takemetoyourleader.com/2009/03/24/free-social-media-monitoring-tools/
Digital Marketing: Using Social Media to Listen to Consumers - Advertising Age - Digital
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=135605
"at what point does the echo chamber of social media drown out the real opinions of the people who buy your brand?"
If the social-media sphere attacks your brand, do "real people" hear the screams? Not likely, according to surveys that indicate marketers shouldn't rush to quiet every micro-outrage that sweeps across the web.
Motrin offended twittering moms-so what?
Reading: Using Social Media to Listen to Consumers http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=135605
The painful truth about trainers: Are expensive running shoes a waste of money? | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-painful-truth-trainers-Are-expensive-running-shoes-waste-money.html
Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips...the $20 billion running - shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we've been told about running shoes is wrong - and that it might even be better to go barefoot...
An interesting article that (almost) concludes: running shoes (Nikes, Reeboks, etc) are a self-sustaining industry that don't improve performance or prevent injuries, and running shoes could actually be hurting. Now I know why I suck at my Saturday morning runs - I need to go barefoot :-)
HOW TO: Use Social Media for Travel Research
http://mashable.com/2009/03/22/social-media-travel/
Whether you’re traveling to another city,.
Lessons In Survival | Print Article | Newsweek.com
http://www.newsweek.com/id/184156/output/print
this is an awesome article.
Sailors are given 30 seconds to answer or they're kicked out of the program. If they say they want to keep going, they're given another 30 seconds to recover and then they're thrown back into the pool. It may sound sadistic, but the Navy is simply trying to identify who will survive the most dangerous missions and who won't. Through this grueling test, it finds soldiers and sailors who refuse to give up, who can suppress the need to breathe, who trust that they'll be rescued if something goes wrong and who are prepared to lose consciousness—or even die—following orders.
5 Ways to Get Your Questions Answered on Twitter
http://mashable.com/2009/04/21/twitter-questions-answers/
A use for twitter... twttrstrm is brilliant, using Squidoo to create sort of "answer pages"
Welcome to the Tricki | Tricki
http://www.tricki.org/
dfggggggggggggggggggdysyeeydysdysdydsydsydydsdddddddddddd
Wiki-style site that is intended to develop into a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving techniques.
Welcome to Essential Evidence Plus
http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com/
【kotobank】時事問題、ニュースもわかるネット百科事典コトバンク
http://kotobank.jp/
44辞書、43万語。RSSや検索プラグインとか対応しててなかなか今風。期待。
百科事典
朝日新聞、講談社、小学館などが参加する、信頼性の高い用語解説が特徴のサービスです。朝日新聞社とECナビが運営しています。(無料)
10 Twitter Tips for the Workplace - Business Center - PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162943/10_twitter_tips_for_the_workplace.html
Business Center - PC World
Pioneers in Workplace Tweets suggest the most effective use of the microblogging technology.
Having trouble convincing your boss that Twitter isn't a waste of time? Then you might find it interesting to learn that social media evangelists across the U.S. federal government are blasting out Tweets several times a day to their constituents. Here are their suggestions for how to integrate new media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr into a large, old-fashioned bureaucracy:
KOCE
http://www.koce.org/classroom/copyright.htm
"Copyright for Educators," is designed to help educators learn about Fair Use and what they can and can't do within the category of, "Teaching" in the Copyright Act.
A site with streaming videos and downloadable checklists for copyright and Fair Use
Under the Copyright Act, there is nothing more intriguing and exciting for educators than Fair Use. Fair Use is the concept that if you are doing something for the greater good of society, like teaching, then your needs supersede the ownership rights of the copyright holder under the Copyright Act. Teachers, and by association, students, can legally use music, websites, video, print, images, and the whole realm of copyrighted materials for the purposes of teaching.
The Top Fifty Librarian Blogs
http://www.getdegrees.com/articles/career-resources/the-top-fifty-librarian-blogs/
The top places to see what librarians are doing. I chose this I saw Sarah Houghton at TLA and really liked what she had to say.
The Top Fifty Librarian Blogs
great resource for those looking to build out their rss collection
40 bloggers and 10 twitterers
Being a librarian these days is about a lot more than getting lost among stacks of books. It’s a career of technology and of the transmittance of knowledge, and as such many librarians have taken to the web, sharing their thoughts and musings all across the blogosphere. Here, we bring you what we think are some of the best library-related blogs that the internet has to offer.
American Civil Liberties Union : Office of Legal Counsel Memos : Bush Administration Torture Memos : Bradbury Memos, Bybee Memo
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/olc_memos.html
read the actual torture memos
Torture memos 1
Top secret documents released by ACLU proving the US torutred
The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/04/27/future-of-the-social-web/
Loop11 - Home
http://www.loop11.com/
On-line UI testing tool
完了すべきタスクを設定したテストをユーザーに試してもらい達成率を統計するユーザーテストのウェブサービス。Yahooが使ってるらしい。
Twitter Tally - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007059
Twitter
Celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs, business leaders and everyday users are flocking to the service en masse, generating a frenzy of activity and attention. Everybody is talking about Twitter, but what do the numbers say? eMarketer estimates there were r
Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitter-quitters-post-roadblock-to-long-term-growth
comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2752
comScore, Inc. reports that the number of people using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. Among the audience of 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices in January 2009, 22.4 million (35 percent) did so daily; more than double the size of the audience last year.
5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools
http://mashable.com/2009/05/03/twitter-research-tools/
awesome reference article around Twitter
How Big is Facebook?
http://mashable.com/2009/04/04/how-big-is-facebook/
Facebook give the chance to make someone go-a broad
What started as a place for students to socialize is now a cross-generational, location-agnostic meeting place that at once keeps us in touch with our second grade buddies, distant relatives and closest friends. But just how prominent is Facebook in our culture? We’ve gathered together a number of metrics that illustrate the growth and cultural saturation Facebook currently enjoys.
numbers on how often Facebook is mentioned online and how fast it's membership is growing
The Rapid Growth Of Twitter With The Stats To Prove It | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/the-rapid-growth-of-twitter-with-the-stats-to-prove-it/
There were some fascinating statistics released recently from Nielsen Online about the growth of Twitter. These stats will blow you away
There were some fascinating statistics released recently from Nielsen Online about the growth of Twitter. These stats will blow you away: 1,382% year-over-year growth in February 2009. Total unique visitors grew from 475,000 in February 2008 to seven million last month. Twitter is the fastest growing member community site for...
Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal | blog.bioethics.net
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/
It's a safe guess that somewhere at Merck today someone is going through the meeting minutes of the day that the hair-brained scheme for the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine was launched, and that everyone who was in the room is now going to be fired.
Ditch Google For A Day: 10 Amazing Search Engines To Try out - Dumb Little Man
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/03/ditch-google-for-day-10-amazing-search.html
Search engine alternatives to Google.
search engines galore
Click through for the links to the search engines
Gartner Highlights Four Ways in Which Enterprises Are Using Twitter
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=920813
As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms such as Twitter in the workplace, Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the four ways in which organizations are using Twitter.
As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms such as Twitter in the workplace, Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the four ways in which organizations are using Twitter. "Despite the fact that Twitter is primarily aimed at individual users in the consumer market, many of those individuals work for companies and 'tweet' about business issues, leading businesses to explore how they could best use it," said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner.
Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive » Deconstructing Analysis Techniques
http://johnnyholland.org/magazine/2009/02/deconstructing-analysis-techniques/
Analysis is that oft-glossed over, but extremely important step in the research process that sits between observation (data gathering) and our design insights or recommendations. In many respects, analysis is crucial to realizing the value of our research since good analysis can salvage something from bad research, but the converse is not so true. This is where the literature tends to fall a little silent, jumping over the analysis techniques straight to a discussion of how best to document and communicate the findings from analysis. This article seeks to begin to redress that imbalance by breaking down the analysis black box into its major sub-techniques.
Great overview of analysis techniques for any type of data
50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Researchers | Online College Degree
http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/04/27/50-useful-twitter-tools-for-writers-and-researchers/
Twitter is a wonderful social tool, but did you know that it's also a goldmine of information?
Twitter tools for getting local or topical information, setting up alerts for updates on particular topics, search, trends, distributing and organizing information. (BTW, I really like the design of this paricular site)
Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend - Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com
http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/research-the-travelers-best-friend/?em
Saving $ on travels
travel
online and print sources - how to use them well when jetting
100TWT.COM
http://100twt.com/
100 people to follow on Twitter
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/24/iphone-now-50-percent-of-smartphone-web-traffic-in-the-us/
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent
Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketers (Part 4/4)
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/01/09/forrester-wave-community-platforms-2009/
Using the Open Stream API - Facebook Developers Wiki
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Using_the_Open_Stream_API
using personal streams on facebook on other web mobile and desktop apps
Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data | blprnt.blg
http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/just-landed-processing-twitter-metacarta-hidden-data
Guy parses the Twitter stream with MetaCarta data services to create a Processing visualization of people's flights around the world.
drool :) "The idea is simple: Find tweets that contain this phrase, parse out the location they’d just landed in, along with the home location they list on their Twitter profile, and use this to map out travel in the Twittersphere"
Looking for ‘Just landed in…’ in public twitter streams, »BOOM!« Arcs on map!
Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World : JISC
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/heweb2.aspx
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jisc.ac.uk%2Fpublications%2Fdocuments%2Fheweb2.aspx
Find the Date When a Web Page was First Published on the Internet
http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/find-publishing-date-of-web-pages/8410
Teste
There are basically three different dates associated with any "public" web page that’s available on the Internet: 1. The publication date - this is the date when a web page or a website is first uploaded on to a public web server so that human beings and search spiders can find and read that page. 2. The discovery date - this is the date when search engine spiders first discover a web page on the Internet. Given the fact that Google has become so good at crawling fresh content, the date of first-crawl can be the same as the actual publication date (#1). 3. The cache date - this is the date when a web page was last crawled by the search bot. While webmasters can use XML sitemaps to hint search engines that a page on the site has changed, search bots are free to ignore that advice and therefore the cache date may or may not be the same as the last modified date. To give you an example, the publication date of this article is February 25, 2008 (it’s mentioned on the web-page)
inurl:http://www.labnol.org/websites
New search engines aspire to supplement Google - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/12/future.search.engine/index.html
Interesting - we'll see how this all pans out.
13 Essential Social-Media 'Listening Tools' : MarketingProfs Articles
http://www.marketingprofs.com/9/essential-social-media-listening-tools-mcdaniel.asp?sp=1
1
"If you have customers, chances are they're talking about you to their friends, to their coworkers, and to anyone else who will listen. Here are some of the top tools for listening to and monitoring the online chatter about your brand:"
You're a marketer who's hip to the idea of social media: You have a blog for your company or client, you know Facebook inside and out, and you can Tweet with the best of them. So you've got the communicating part down pat.
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains?
http://searchengineland.com/dr-teena-moody-chatting-about-our-brains-on-google-16728
interesting title
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? http://is.gd/m748 [from http://twitter.com/msdaibert/statuses/1881375194]
Is Google Rewiring Our Brains, very interesting, http://bit.ly/lsRAr [from http://twitter.com/gregbond/statuses/1288562619]
Gord Hotchkiss: Are Our Brains Becoming “Googlized?” http://is.gd/m9nr / Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? http://is.gd/m748 searchengineland [from http://twitter.com/bibliothekarin/statuses/1289466114]
Social Media Marketing Budgets on the Rise
http://mashable.com/2009/03/23/social-media-marketing-budgets/
Mashable social media marketing budgets
sweet for a slide
this bookmark brought from the different place.
"According to a new study released by Aberdeen Group (published today by eMarketer), 63 percent of companies plan to increase their social media marketing budgets in 2009, despite the current weakness in the economy. Digging deeper into the numbers, 21 percent of those surveyed plan to increase social media spending by 25 percent or more, while a mere 3 percent plan to shrink their budgets (34 percent responded “no change”)."
Nice blog post about social media marketing budgets - ups and downs
social media marketing budgets rise
"According to a new study released by Aberdeen Group, 63 percent of companies plan to increase their social media marketing budgets in 2009,"
The Faces of Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org
http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/
The human face of "slave" labor? in any event an amazing idea. http://adjix.com/4g2q [from http://twitter.com/DrIanFenwick/statuses/1215164589]
Actual users of Amazon's Mechanical Turk service revealed. Seems to contradict (though in a non-scientific way) the myth of the MT sweatshop. These are not third-world workers.
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2009/index.htm
The State of the News Media 2009, An Annual Report on American Journalism - Presented by Journalism.org
The State of the News Media 2009 is the sixth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism.
Le dernier rapport sur la presse américaine est disponible. A quand de tels rapports disponibles pour la presse française ?
What Companies Should Know About Digital Natives « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/05/14/what-companies-should-know-about-digital-natives
blog Jeremiah Owyang, digitální domorodci vs digitální imigranti
web-strategist.com strategist estrategia
destinationCRM.com: Social Media: The Five-Year Forecast
http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Social-Media-The-Five-Year-Forecast-53635.aspx
Social Media: The Five-Year Forecast
The distinction between traditional and innovative marketing will become significantly more pronounced as the socially driven online communities continue to gain momentum, according to a Forrester Research report released today. "The Future of the Social Web," by Jeremiah Owyang, a Forrester senior analyst, examines the monumental changes that have shaped -- and will continue to impact -- how consumers engage with each other. That engagement, Owyang writes, will affect the way each company reaches its customers -- and more important, their influencers. "The community will take charge," Owyang tells CRM magazine in a one-on-one interview, "and that's going to happen whether or not marketers or brands participate." Social networking, he adds, will only continue to facilitate the power shift toward the consumer.
digitalresearchtools / FrontPage
http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/
tools to help scholars do research more effectively
Great resource for finding digital research tools.
from N. Cook
Digital Research tools for students to use
Electronic resources, search
Digital Research Tools (DiRT) This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.
Geospatial Revolution Project | A Public Media Project
http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/
nging the way we think, behave, and interact.
Something I learned about at the WPSU luncheon yesterday
mapping
The Reason Project: A Non-Profit Dedicated to Reason
http://www.reasonproject.org/
finally, someone seems to be working toward secularism in a quiet, reasonable and unsensationalist way
The Reason Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. The foundation draws on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers in a wide range of disciplines to encourage critical thinking and erode the influence of dogmatism, superstition, and bigotry in our world.
A Non-Profit Dedicated to Reason. Created by Sam Harris.
Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html
In 2001, Portugal officially abolished all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, replacing punishment for therapy. Did it work? How many people reading this article have served jail time for drug use? How many know someone who has? It's an arbitrary system, and people don't seem to respond well to systems that rely on harsh but infrequently carried out punishments to regulate behavior--as anyone who has ever spent more than two hours with a toddler has probably already figured out.
In 2001, Portugal officially abolished all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, replacing punishment for therapy. Did it work?
I'd like to see verification of this from someone other than the Cato Institute, and it's important to remember that the US =/= Portugal, but still... interesting. April 2009.
The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
"Living and Learning with Social Media"
http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/PennState2009.html
Interesante estudio
"Living and Learning with Social Media" danah boyd Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology Penn State: State College, PA 18 April 2009 [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. "Living and Learning with Social Media." Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. State College, PA: April 18.
Unedited crib of talk from Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. State College, PA: April 18.
danah boyd
USGovXML.com: Home
http://usgovxml.com/
Government Data in XML (web services etc)
More datasets courtesy of uncle Sam.
Listado de direcciones del gobierno de EEUU con WebServices que permiten acceder a informacion publica
Wichowski
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2447/2175
a First Monday article on the creation and evolution of folksonomies
Folksonomies have emerged as a means to create order in a rapidly expanding information environment whose existing means to organize content have been strained. This paper examines folksonomies from an evolutionary perspective, viewing the changing conditions of the information environment as having given rise to organization adaptations in order to ensure information “survival” — remaining findable. This essay traces historical information organization mechanisms, the conditions that gave rise to folksonomies, and the scholarly response, review, and recommendations for the future of folksonomies.
First Monday, 4 may 2009, Alexis Wichowski
Wichowski
Research Paper - Real or Imaginary: The effectiveness of using personas in product design - Frontend - User Experience Design Consultancy
http://www.frontend.com/products-digital-devices/real-or-imaginary-the-effectiveness-of-using-personas-in-product-design.html
Discussed by Jared Spool, others on IxDA site
plagium (beta)::: plagiarism tracker & checker ::: home
http://www.plagium.com/
Identificador de plágio.
Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_22/b4133032573293.htm
Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendships
Practically every hand we shake and every business card we exchange can lead to an invitation, sometimes within minutes, for a "friendship" on LinkedIn or Facebook. What do these relationships say about us and the people in our networks? Companies armed with rich new data and powerful computers are beginning to explore these questions. They're finding that digital friendships speak volumes about us as consumers and workers, and decoding the data can lead to profitable insights.
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/06/new_twitter_research_men_follo.html
new Twitter research
Great stuff on Twitter stats. Raises a lot of questions and possible lines of research.
very different than other social networks... the top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. an average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman.
TRUECAR - The Authority on New Car Pricing
http://www.truecar.com/
Nice way to display recent prices on sold cars.
Find the price people are paying for cars.
The Problem with Social Media in the Office - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007109
Great commentary on why social media is a double-edged sword for businesses.
Excellent survey information re: social media and business
Online conduct
Socrata | Making Data Social
http://www.socrata.com/
"Opening government to new audiences and constituencies is the 21st century battle cry in societies everywhere. At the heart of this movement is open government data, readily accessible over the internet, in a form that maximizes comprehension, interactivity, participation, and sharing, delivered at a fraction of the cost of today's data download sites."
This used to be the site called blist.
AWESOME source of data sets, .csv
Poll: Business People Say Twitter More Important Than LinkedIn
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_business_people_say_twitter_more_important_th.php
ReadWriteWeb: Poll: Business People Say Twitter More Important Than LinkedIn. Poll conducted by LinkedIn. http://bit.ly/sMQbG [from http://twitter.com/dcouturepdx/statuses/1993300652]
Qu'est-ce qui a de l'importance dans les médias sociaux?
A LinkedIn poll of more than 3,000 business people showed that Twitter was deemed "more important" than LinkedIn.
Google Squared
http://www.google.com/squared/
Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.
SimilarSites - Find Similar Sites
http://www.similarsites.com/
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live -- Printout -- TIME
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1902604,00.html
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
Fantastic article by Steven Johnson on Time.com
6/05/09
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/landmark-study-drm-truly-does-make-pirates-out-of-us-all.ars
DRM has affected how people use their content beyond simply protecting IP; restricts what would otherwise be considered fair use.
[ars technica]
A UK researcher has spent years interviewing people about whether DRM has affected their ability to use content in ways ordinarily protected by the law. Surprise! It has, even leading one sight-impaired woman to piracy.
End users are allowed to time-shift programs, but Jill Johnstone of the National Consumer Council notes that "the way DRM is being used is causing serious problems for consumers, including unreasonable limitations on the use of digital products and infringement of consumer rights. "
The 100 most mentioned brands on Twitter - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
http://www.brandrepublic.com/Digital/News/904325/top-100-mentioned-brands-Twitter/?DCMP=EMC-Digital-Bulletin
Twitter
BBC NEWS | Technology | Twitter hype punctured by study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8089508.stm
people do not get the power of twitter. its early days folks.
bbc quoting Harvard study shows most Twitterers tweet less than once every 74 days
Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friends
Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.
Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/guesses-data.html
unread
Wherein we are told—or reminded—that the smallest amount of empirical data from real users quadruples the probability of being right.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
BBC NEWS | Technology | Twitter hype punctured by study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8089508.stm
"Micro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it."
"Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friends." - Bill Heil Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found. "This implies that Twitter's resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network..." Nielsen Online figures show that visitors to the site increased by 1,382%, from 475,000 to seven million, between February 2008 and February 2009. It is thought to have grown beyond 10 million in the past 4 months. By comparison, Facebook - one of the most popular social networking sites by number of visitors - has 200 million active users and grew by 228% during the same period. Nielsen firm found that more than 60% of US Twitter users failed to return the following month. Conclusions: - Twitter is an open micro-blogging platform - It's growing fast but not sticky - RTS does not revolve around Twitter
study claims twitter is really more of a broadcast medium
stats from the nielsen og harvard studies show median post per person 1 and less than 10% active users...
On a typical online social network, he said, the top 10% of users accounted for 30% of all production.
Gizmodo - Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month - Stem Cells
http://gizmodo.com/5277456/stem-cell-contact-lenses-cure-blindness-in-less-than-a-month
A cure for blindness using stem cells ?
Impressive results
"[T]hree patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells." Holy shit.
Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month http://bit.ly/KBWEw #feedly [from http://twitter.com/jjjunk/statuses/2038716228]
EYESIGHT HEALED WITH STEMCELLS
TextRunner Search
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/textrunner/
TextRunner extracts information from billions of lines of text by analyzing basic relationships between words.
Sysomos | In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World
http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/
I am in the minority on practically everything.
"We wanted to take an extensive snapshot of Twitter that goes far beyond anything done to document Twitter's use, growth and demographics," said Nick Koudas, Sysomos' co-founder and chief executive. "While Twitter's growth has been well documented, we wanted to put the spotlight on how people use Twitter, as well as identify many of the key trends in their backgrounds, demographics and activity. Our study, based on the most comprehensive dataset of Twitter users, provides a wealth of information for anyone interested in getting in-depth details about Twitter."
Estudio sobre Twitter
Dual Perspectives Article
http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_social_wired
by forcing users to commit their thinking to the bite-size form of the public tweet, Twitter may be giving a powerfully productive new life to a hitherto underexploited quantum of thought: The random, fleeting observation.
perspectives on twitter
For those of you increasingly convinced that you're the last human alive who doesn't get the point of Twitter, I have comforting news: Nobody does. Not really.
Dual Perspectives article by Julian Dibbell: ... Sure, it's easy to dismiss Twitter because of the content — the endless stream of latte orders, flight delays, mood swings. Who cares? But that would be a mistake. Early critics of the television also wrote it off as a time waster with few redeeming social or cultural values: the boob tube. But TV became a powerful change agent regardless of, or even in spite of, the programming. The medium was the message. ...
Read in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture at Wired.com.
Why Twitter from Wired Magazine
For those of you increasingly convinced that you're the last human alive who doesn't get the point of Twitter, I have comforting news: Nobody does. Not really. Sure, the twittering masses (17 million registered U.S. users, by latest count) have some idea what their habit is good for. For many, Twitter's steady stream of one-line updates — "microblogging," as the form is known — is a low-maintenance way to feel connected to family, friends, celebrities. For others, it's a marketing tool, a public diary, a communal news feed, or even, simply, a sort of brain game — a text-message Sudoku, where the daily challenge is to fit the maximum amount of cleverness into the minimal space of a 140-character limit. But knowing how people use Twitter isn't the same thing as knowing why they use it. And that turns out to be a puzzle even seasoned Twitter watchers have found difficult to crack.
Study Tips for Students
http://www.google.com/landing/studytips.html
The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_technology_generation_gap_at_work_is_oh_so_wide.php
Liked:The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide.. http://bit.ly/W0RnM [from http://twitter.com/rohitharsh/statuses/1606758184]
Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace. The focus of the study was ...
The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide
Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom
http://www.nmsa.org/Publications/WebExclusive/Assessment/tabid/1120/Default.aspx
Background, philosophy, ideas
Article defining formative assessment -- some examples as well
Assessment information
National Middle School Association (NMSA); Web publication by Catherine Garrison and Michael Ehringhaus.
Good explaination of both types
Official Google Research Blog: Google Fusion Tables
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tables.html
Database systems are notorious for being hard to use. It is even more difficult to integrate data from multiple sources and collaborate on large data sets with people outside your organization. Without an easy way to offer all the collaborators access to the same server, data sets get copied, emailed and ftp'd--resulting in multiple versions that get out of sync very quickly. Today we're introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. It draws on the expertise of folks within Google Research who have been studying collaboration, data integration, and user requirements from a variety of domains. Fusion Tables is not a traditional database system focusing on complicated SQL queries and transaction processing. Instead, the focus is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we
Spezify
http://spezify.com/
Novel search engine that depicts search results as blocks of text and images.
enter your search term ...get a page of quotes and photos and links...visually appealing
A new visual search engine is making the rounds...
When too cool becomes useless. Results are returned in the form of a collage. The cool factor gets in the way of trying to review the results.
LIS Publications Wiki - LIS Publications
http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/wikis/faculty/putnam/index.php/LIS_Publications_Wiki
publishing
This wiki gathers information about publications that LIS professionals might want to write for -- whether they want to reach their colleagues or their communities. All editors, publishers, and LIS professionals are welcome to contribute to the publication profiles. T
This wiki gathers information about publications that LIS professionals might want to write for -- whether they want to reach their colleagues or their communities. All editors, publishers, and LIS professionals are welcome to contribute to the publication profiles.
SLIS developed featrues in ALA Direct
Yury Lifshits | Algorithmic Problems Around the Web
http://yury.name/algoweb/
Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=202
From Michael Wesch's Digital Ethnography blog My student-researchers and I tried something a little different to kick off our semester. Instead of the standard syllabus that requires everybody to read a few articles to discuss, we decided instead to organize ourselves into a Smart Mob that would try to read a good hunk of the literature on a single topic in one go. Each student was required to find 5 articles, read them, and summarize them; uploading their summaries (or the author’s own abstract) into a ZohoCreator form. ZohoCreator is a free service that allows you to create database input forms.
ZohoCreator
Dr. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University talks about how his undergraduate students created a database of articles around a single topic
User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models :: UXmatters
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/04/user-research-for-personas-and-other-audience-models.php
“We always use a real person—someone we know personally—as the example user for each persona. It’ll be a friend or a friend of a friend, but it’s someone we can call and ask questions. That detail really helps make each persona more real and approachable to everyone on the team.”—Todd Zaki Warfel
Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007050
Want to get Internet users to visit your Website or follow your brand? The best way to accomplish those tasks, according to ARAnet, based on polling by Opinion Research Corporation, may not be advertising. Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information were most likely to lead US Internet users to read—and act.
Content rules.
People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return. - By John Swansburg and Jeremy Singer-Vine - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2219995
- By John Swansburg and Jeremy Singer-Vine - Slate Magazine
hat 10 percent of the service's users account for more than 90 percent of tweets. The study dove
Unresolvable
At their best they resemble found art, an index of first lines of poems that have yet to be written: mundial marching backwards toward the source of the four winds 9:45 AM Jul 17, 2007 stonelove27 I am standing behind my nose... 11:59 AM Sep 5, 2007 ladydrea Marcus Aurelius! You are loved! (I'm typing now...) 10:53 AM Jun 7, 2008 newdayrising sold your soul to Jesus for a carton of yoghurt. He doesn't even like yoghurt that much. 12:48 PM Mar 31, 2008 boustanyn Getting ready for the third phase of life on this earth.... 12:51 PM Nov 17, 2008 bkennedy weeping gently 2:47 PM Mar 30, 2007 In at least one instance, two orphan tweets appear to have been in conversation. marcbresseel getting ready for cannes - printing latest briefing - I hate folding my shirts 8:36 AM Jun 14, 2008 Kolcott @Marcbresseel You fold your shirts? 9:13 AM Jul 10, 2008 A lone call followed by a lone response; a social network of two.
Which got us to thinking—there must be a legion of Twitterers out there who sign up, tweet once, and never return. In the spirit of the great blog One Post Wonder, "a collection of blogs that have one post," we set out to find these orphaned tweets. Different people obviously have different tweet metabolisms, but we decided that any account that's been dormant for at least six months is fair game. We found several thousand of them.
globeandmail.com: Want to get ahead? Sleep in
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090423.wsleep0423/BNStory/Science/
RT @diannagraf: RT @drtiki Want to get ahead? Sleep in http://bit.ly/Op41P @JonathanStrahan don't get up before me in Tas, that's just wrong [from http://twitter.com/meika/statuses/1665793930]
"Smug early birds take note: Night owls actually have more mental stamina than those who awaken at the crack of dawn, according to new research."
RT @jontybrook: Finally! Science confirms that late sleepers are more productive: http://ping.fm/KqtBS (via @tferriss) <- YAY! [from http://twitter.com/danphilpott/statuses/1715473753]
This is an interesting article, but it leaves way too many gaps. Does it measure productivity by hours awake?
Please Enjoy - The Work of Ji Lee
http://pleaseenjoy.com/project.php?cat=4&subcat=&pid=131&navpoint=0
from Please Enjoy - The Work of Ji Lee
what is a browser ? - street survey
50 random people in NY don't know the difference between a browser and Google.
read it
The vast majority of people have no clue what a web browser is. (Ergo, the vast majority of people are quite stupid? I'm tempted to say yes.)
Chronicling America - The Library of Congress
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
1880-1922
Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922.
100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research | Select Courses
http://www.selectcourses.com/blog/2009/100-tips-tools-and-resources-for-twitter-research/
100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research
Research Online
http://ro.uow.edu.au/newtech/
recommended
mobile learning in higher ed; U of Wollongong, Australia; ebook
This online book describes a study, funded by Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), that involved teachers in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong implementing innovative teaching approaches to support mobile learning. Palm Smartphone and Apple iPod technologies were used by undergraduate and postgraduate students to assist their learning across a range of curriculum areas. The book outlines authentic activities, assessment strategies, and professional learning approaches that teachers across the higher education sector can easily adapt and implement within their own discipline areas. It is fully downloadable from this site either as individual chapters or as the whole book in pdf form.
KSIĄżka i mlearningu
mobile learning
New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education
Michael Geist - Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4062/125/
17 jun 09 / Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have just released a new Harvard Business School working paper called File Sharing and Copyright that raises some important points about file sharing, copyright, and the net benefits to society.
Via James Graham
Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have just released a new Harvard Business School working paper called File Sharing and Copyright that raises some important points about file sharing, copyright, and the net benefits to society. The paper, which includes a helpful survey of the prior economic studies on the impact of file sharing, includes the following:
Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest | Webware - CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10272370-2.html
When you want to know what's happening on the Web right now, Google won't cut it. These sites will.
Outils de recherhe sur Twitter
DocMazy - The Future of Document Search
http://www.docmazy.com/index.php
Finding documents
Number of US Facebook Users Over 35 Nearly Doubles in Last 60 Days
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/03/25/number-of-us-facebook-users-over-35-nearly-doubles-in-last-60-days/
Don’t look now, but the number of Americans over 35, 45, and 55 on Facebook is growing fast. In the last 60 days alone, the number of people over 35 has nearly doubled.
Don’t look now, but the number of Americans over 35, 45, and 55 on Facebook is growing fast. In the last 60 days alone, the number of people over 35 has nearly doubled. Developers and marketers may want to think about how to serve this group of new users.
Looking at Facebook US audience growth over the last 180 days, it’s clear that Facebook is seeing massive increases in adoption amongst users 35-65. The fastest growing demographic on Facebook is still women over 55 - there are now nearly 1.5 million of them active on Facebook each month.
Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend - Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com
http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/research-the-travelers-best-friend/
Foller.me - before you follow...
http://foller.me/
Gibt einen Überblick zu einem beliebigen Twitter-Account
Google For Educators - Web Search
http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html
Searching for educators. From LD.
Some ideas which can be a guide or include
Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions.
Google Search tips - lesson plans for teachers
Sputnik Observatory For the Study of Contemporary Culture
http://sptnk.org/
hm...
May be the ultimate weekend killer.
http://sptnk.org/ ContemporaryCulture
prettymuch anything jonathan harris touches is pretty interesting.
OECD Factbook eXplorer for analysing country statistics
http://stats.oecd.org/oecdfactbook/
Interesting site which allows manipulation and animation of set data. Bears further investigation.
Happiness: 3 amazing tips from the world's oldest case study - Healthy Living on Shine
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/happiness-3-amazing-tips-from-the-worlds-oldest-case-study-479340/
3. Happiness Must be Shared The other night I was watching the movie adaptation of Into the Wild, the true story of Chris McCandless (see above photo which is a self-portrait found undeveloped in McCandless's camera after his death). Fed up with the rat race, McCandless graduated college in the early 1990's, left his worried parents in the dust, sold all his belongings, and ventured deep into the Alaskan wilderness. Before dying of starvation, he seemed to regre
3. Happiness Must be Shared The other night I was watching the movie adaptation of Into the Wild, the true story of Chris McCandless (see above photo which is a self-portrait found undeveloped in McCandless's camera after his death). Fed up with the rat race, McCandless graduated college in the early 1990's, left his worried parents in the dust, sold all his belongings, and ventured deep into the Alaskan wilderness. Before dying of starvation, he seemed to regret his isolationist ways and wrote these last words in his journal, “Happiness only real when shared.”
We’ve all heard countless studies, articles and TV interviews on happiness. But the other day I stumbled upon something that is just now being revealed to the media for the first time.* It's a 72 year old study that began all the way back in 1937 when 268 Harvard University sophomores were asked to participate in a study measuring “a formula-some mix of love, work, and adaptation-for a good life.” And while many of those who were college sophomores in 1937 are now dying or in their fading twilight, this study continues to be diligently maintained to this very day.
twoquick :: simple google + twitter search
http://www.twoquick.com/
Simple Google and Twitter Search
search google + twitter at once
Simple Google + Twitter search. Find stuff on Google and see what people are saying on Twitter.
MILEPOST
http://www.milepost.eu/
read PLDI paper
Wolfram|Alpha
http://www94.wolframalpha.com/
The math people catalog EVERYTHING.
HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter
http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/how-to-get-retweeted/
This week viral marketing scientist Dan Zarrella dug into the data on retweets and published some interesting stats about retweet behavior. These help us understand why people retweet things, and might help you too.
News: The Evidence on Online Education - Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/29/online
Timely information for our group! The learning time issue in particular is an important finding that points to a cost effective way to increase student learning time without tackling the issue of a longer school day head on. We know that more time on meaningful tasks is crucial, but the physical cost of attending a bricks and mortar classrooms is prohibitive.
It is superior in student learning to face-to-face instruction, says new meta-analysis from Education Department. And
WASHINGTON -- Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education
online learning success research
Influential Marketing Blog: 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter
http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2009/07/10-stunning-and-useful-stats-about-twitter.html
Twitter
Interesting Stats about Twitter!
Social Media: Anderson Analytics Reveals Users' Habits - Advertising Age - Digital
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=137792
Today 110 million Americans, or 60% of the online population, use social networks, and that number is fairly conservative, because instead of counting unique users or everyone who has an account, as many estimates do, the Anderson study counted only people who have used a social network at least once in the past month.
what does the social networking site you use say about you?
io9 - A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory - Memory-enhancing drugs
http://io9.com/5306489/a-drug-that-could-give-you-perfect-visual-memory
"A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer. The group was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 (pictured) in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals' ability to remember objects they had seen. Mice with the RGS-14 boost could remember objects they had seen for up to two months. Ordinarily the same mice would only be able to remember these objects for about an hour. The researchers concluded that this region of the visual cortex, known as layer six of region V2, is responsible for creating visual memories. When the region is removed, mice can no longer remember any object they see."
Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
nifty!
10 Rules That Govern Groups « PsyBlog
http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/07/10-rules-that-govern-groups.php
Here are 10 insightful studies that give a flavour of what has been discovered about the dynamics of group psychology.
Good tools for learning groups/management techniques.
The Brain: Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER Magazine
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/15-brain-stop-paying-attention-zoning-out-crucial-mental-state
I'm not staring into space, I'm trying to live a balanced life
Everyone who knows me needs to read this article
Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 1)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/who_uses_social_networks_and_what_are_they_like_part_1.php
For example, Facebook users tend to be old, white, and rich. MySpace users are young...and fleeing. Other info is new: Twitterers are more likely to have a part-time job, LinkedIn users like to exercise and own more gadgets.
A new study by Anderson Analytics looks into the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn with a goal of providing marketers with information about users' interests and buying habits as related to their network of choice. The end result is a detailed look at the profiles and habits of social networking users on the web today.
God is Imaginary - 50 simple proofs
http://www.yourgodisimaginary.com/index.htm
God is Imaginary
NCBI ROFL
http://www.ncbirofl.com/
Real articles. Funny subjects.
Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure : News : The University of Melbourne
http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/news/5750/
News: The University of Melbourne
Surfing the net at work for pleasure actually increases our concentration levels and helps make a more productive workforce, according to a new University of Melbourne study. Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t. “People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t,” he says.
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.it/
Motore di ricerca google Scholar
google
ricerca bibliografica
minori
Twit Truth - Who's really using twitter
http://twittruth.com/
The table below shows the top 500 twitter users and various statistics about their accounts and the people that engage with them. Hover over the column headers for more information. Click on the column headers to sort, click the name for more detailed information about the user.
Official Google Research Blog: Large-scale graph computing at Google
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/large-scale-graph-computing-at-google.html
I want one of these! "We have created scalable infrastructure, named Pregel, to mine a wide range of graphs. In Pregel, programs are expressed as a sequence of iterations. In each iteration, a vertex can, independently of other vertices, receive messages sent to it in the previous iteration, send messages to other vertices, modify its own and its outgoing edges' states, and mutate the graph's topology (experts in parallel processing will recognize that the Bulk Synchronous Parallel Model inspired Pregel). Currently, Pregel scales to billions of vertices and edges, but this limit will keep expanding. Pregel's applicability is harder to quantify, but so far we haven't come across a type of graph or a practical graph computing problem which is not solvable with Pregel. It computes over large graphs much faster than alternatives, and the application programming interface is easy to use. Implementing PageRank, for example, takes only about 15 lines of code. "
Kernel
So many things to learn and apply in business deals.
http://spinn3r.com/rank
IT系でも活用しなければ損。論文を読んで広がる知見 - @IT
http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/fjava/column/andoh/andoh47.html
リンク/まとめ
読者の皆さんの中には、「論文」と聞くと身構えてしまう方も多いのではないでしょうか? 論文というと、書くのも読むのも大変で何だか小難しいことが書いてあるもののように思えるものです。それどころか、「論文とは縁がない」「プログラムがすべてだ」と思う方もいるかもしれません。しかし、ある特定分野の技術や研究を詳しく知るためには、論文は手軽で確実な情報源です。
"興味のある論文でも、なかなか読みにくいものは、電車などの移動中に読むのも発想が広がる良い方法です。便利な睡眠薬になるかもしれませんが……。"
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Why Incompetence Spreads through Big Organizations
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23800/
Promoting the people most competent at one job does not mean that they'll be better at another, according to a new simulation of hierarchical organizations.
But is there a better way of choosing individuals for promotion? It turns out that there is, say Pluchino and co. Their model shows that two other strategies outperform the conventional method of promotion. The first is to alternately promote first the most competent and then the least competent individuals. And the second is to promote individuals at random. Both of these methods improve, or at least do not diminish, the efficiency of an organization.
"All new members in a hierarchical organization climb the hierarchy until they reach their level of maximum incompetence."
Person is good at job, person is promoted. Repeat until person ends up in job they're not good at.
Agent-based simulation of the Peter Principle
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/barefoot/
Cool! ditch the shoes
OK this is funny! If you wear flipflops it's less likely you will injure your foot!
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City | Business | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/13/teenage-media-habits-morgan-stanley
student reported use of media
Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert | Business | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/13/twitter-teenage-media-habits
adolescentes sobre consumo de mídia
The US investment bank's European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, an intern from a London school, to write a report on teenagers' likes and dislikes, which made the Financial Times' front page today. His report, that dismissed Twitter and described online advertising as pointless, proved to be "one of the clearest and most thought-provoking insights we have seen – so we published it", said Edward Hill-Wood, executive director of Morgan Stanley's European media team.
Fluent: The Razorfish Social Influence Marketing Report Fluent: The Razorfish Social Influence Marketing Report
http://fluent.razorfish.com/publication/?m=6540&l=1
Social Influence Marketing is about employing social media and social influencers to achieve the marketing and business needs of an organization.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Cats 'exploit' humans by purring
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8147566.stm
Cat purrs train humans
I suspected this all along posted July 13 2009
Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home - Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
Classic lectures on physics. Bill Gates funded. Now available for free with captions, notes, etc.
Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-we-swear
The neurological assessment of the benefits of swearing. Also, researchers found that when we swear too much, the words lose the power of emotion.
Collapse in illegal sharing and boom in streaming brings music to executives' ears | Music | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/music-industry-illegal-downloading-streaming
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fmusic%2F2009%2Fjul%2F12%2Fmusic-industry-illegal-downloading-streaming
Teenagers switching to streaming sites – survey • Spotify and YouTube lead the way as habits change
Collapse in illegal sharing and boom in streaming brings music to executives' ears
"Music fan Dominique Wakefield, 24, said she had stopped downloading music because of concern that it would infect her computer. "I didn't even realise it was illegal for a long time, until I heard that the government were trying to stop it. That did put me off, but one of the big reasons I stopped doing it was because I would get viruses, more pop ups on my computer."
• Teenagers switching to streaming sites – survey • Spotify and YouTube lead the way as habits change
"Teenagers switching to streaming sites – survey • Spotify and YouTube lead the way as habits change" Shows that Morgan Stanley intern was a bit wrong. about filesharing Not as wrong as the dullards elsewhere at Morgan Stanley who are apparently amazed by his ability to write down common knowledge.
Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/does-social-networking-breed-social-division/
Studies suggest that users of Facebook and MySpace are breaking down along class and racial lines.
"Is the social media revolution bringing us together? Or is it perpetuating divisions by race and class?" (NYT)
Alimentan las redes sociales las divisiones del mundo real? Articulo en el Nwe York Times, basado en la investigacion de Danah Boyd, investigadora del Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society
(2009, NYTimes) Article about recent research suggesting there is classism in the use of social media. The quality of the reporting is very weak - hard to say if I agree with the conclusions.
Global Advertising: Consumers Trust Real Friends and Virtual Strangers the Most | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/global-advertising-consumers-trust-real-friends-and-virtual-strangers-the-most/
The Nielsen Company, News, Press Releases, Nielsen Media Research, Nielsen Online, Nielsen Mobile
Online reviews -- here we come.
International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr
The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues. Topics covered include copyright, licence implementation, licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and statutory changes.
Open source law journal
Christopher M. Park - Blog: Designing Emergent AI, Part 1: An Introduction
http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2009/06/designing-emergent-ai-part-1.html
SEOmoz | 10 Steps to Advanced Keyword Research
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-steps-to-advanced-keyword-research
Some keyword research is surface-level, fire and forget type stuff. If you just need to see relative volume levels, then a basic keyword research tool is all you need. If, however, you want to really dive deep and get the full skinny on your keywords, I'd recommend having each of these data points.
Hi Rand, Great article very informative, I will work through and some times try www.norden44.de Jürgen
The Most Engaged Brands On The Web
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/20/the-most-engaged-brands-on-the-web/
What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ...
What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. You can find the report embedded below or on ENGAGEMENTdb, which was presumably created with Wetpaint’s site-creation software.
Ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement - claims level is tied to revenue growth (correlation does not mean causation?)
A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. Contains report
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http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2988/27062201.jpg
Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6681923.ece
Times Online
Social Media Brand Engagement Database - ENGAGEMENTdb
http://www.engagementdb.com/
Want to know not just what companies are doing on the social web but how well they're doing it? We have brought you just the tool to measure and monitor brand engagement: for the first time ever, ENGAGEMENTdb ranks the world's most valuable brands based on how they leverage social media to interact with customers.
Social Media Brand Engagement Report - ENGAGEMENTdb
http://www.engagementdb.com/Report
World's first report ranking the top brands' use of and engagment with social media tools.
Social media database showing customer engagement by brand.
interesting chart might have more info
New Study Finds Correlation Between Social Media and Financial Success
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_study_finds_correlation_between_social_media_and_financial_success.php
A new study released by enterprise wiki provider Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group shows that the brands most engaged in social media are also experiencing higher financial success rates than those of their non-engaged peers. To determine this relationship, the study focused on 100 companies from the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands survey and the various social media platforms they used like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, wikis, and forums. Although it's difficult to prove for certain that the companies' involvement in social media has led to their increased revenues, the implication behind the new data is that it has.
La première étude qui montre qu'il y a un lien entre l'utilisation des social medias et les résultats financiers des entreprises. A montrer aux marques pour les motiver à s'impliquer dans la plateforme
10 Ways to Use Social Media to Pick a College
http://mashable.com/2009/07/20/social-media-colleges/
Here are 10 social media resources for high school students (and their parents) to use in order to find out more about what college life is really like at the school they plan to attend.
The Soldier in Later Medieval England
http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/index.php
Database of soldiers who fought in wars during the Medieval era, including the Hundred Years War. Not sure how to use this just yet...
A team led by Dr. Adrian Bell and Prof. Anne Curry, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, have put up a stunning new database of military service records of medieval soldiers serving from 1369 and 1453: While the database’s primary purpose seems to be exploring the lives of individual soldiers of note, There are great many potential applications for large observation (large-n) quantitative studies of conflict and health. Variables in the database include: First Name, Last Name, Status, Rank, Captain’s Name, Commander’s Name, Year of Service, Nature of Activity, Reference Number, and Membrane. Read the project details for more information.
DBMS Musings: Announcing release of HadoopDB (longer version)
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/announcing-release-of-hadoopdb-longer.html
my students Azza Abouzeid and Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski developed HadoopDB. It's an open source stack that includes PostgreSQL, Hadoop, and Hive, along with some glue between PostgreSQL and Hadoop, a catalog, a data loader, and an interface that accepts queries in MapReduce or SQL and generates query plans that are processed partly in Hadoop and partly in different PostgreSQL instances spread across many nodes in a shared-nothing cluster of machines. In essence it is a hybrid of MapReduce and parallel DBMS technologies. But unlike Aster Data, Greenplum, Pig, and Hive, it is not a hybrid simply at the language/interface level. It is a hybrid at a deeper, systems implementation level. Also unlike Aster Data and Greenplum, it is free and open source.
City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Crap Detection 101
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?entry_id=42805
Excellent advice on thinking critically abt media & how to teach your children to do so from @hrheingold http://bit.ly/14XysI #homeschool [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/2439925187]
legitimate websites
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fblogs%2Frheingold%2Fdetail%3Fentry_id%3D42805
"The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, a technical term I use for information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception. Learning to be a critical consumer of Webinfo is not rocket science. It's not even algebra. Becoming acquainted with the fundamentals of web credibility testing is easier than learning the multiplication tables. The hard part, as always, is the exercise of flabby think-for-yourself muscles."
MediaPost Publications Study: Social Media Pays 07/21/2009
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=110120
Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 2)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/who_uses_social_networks_and_what_are_they_like_part_2.php
In a recent study by Anderson Analytics, the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn were revealed. The ultimate goal was to provide marketers with information about users' interests and buying habits as related to their network of choice. The end result is a detailed look at the profiles and habits of social networking users on the web today. Here we'll delve into the details about the specific networks studied.
In a recent study by Anderson Analytics, the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn were revealed. The ultimate goal was to provide marketers with information about users' interests and buying habits as related to their network of choice. The end result is a detailed look at the profiles and habits of social networking users on the web today.
As we've heard before, Facebookers are older and better off. They are more likely to be married (40%), white (80%) and retired (6%) than users of the other social networks. They have the second-highest average income ($61,000) and an average of 121 connections. In general, there is no one area of interest for this group of social networkers. Out of 45 categories, national news, sports, exercise, travel, and home and garden skewed only slightly higher than the rest. This is likely because this network has the most users and contains a high number of users within each demographic. Facebookers are also extremely loyal: 75% say Facebook is their favorite site and 59% say they've increased their use in the past 6 months. - via Paula Sanchez
Study Search Australia
http://www.studysearch.com.au/
search engine ; lessons
google filtered ; lesson plans ; resources ; age aapropriate
awesomegooglygoodness
google serach for kids
primary schools search engine
google custom search only for educational purposes
Carsonified » How to do A/B Testing in WordPress
http://carsonified.com/blog/business/how-to-do-ab-testing-in-wordpress/
Setting up an A/B testing environment using Google's Website Optimizer and Wordpress
Twitter is for old people, work experience whiz-kid tells bankers - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6703399.ece
very cool story
Very relevant to sourcing and creating any type of media for YP. It gives me insight into what my (and other) children are on.
Why People Use Twitter - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007193
An interesting research on Twitter users. It would worth to know the findings while we add ourselves into the big number.
Twitter
According to the “Consumer Internet Barometer” from TNS and The Conference Board, 41.6% percent of Internet users who used Twitter did so to keep in touch with their friends. In addition, 29.1% used it to update their status, 25.8% to find news and stay updated, 21.7% for work purposes and 9.4% for research.
Template Twitter Strategy for Government Departments
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17313280/Template-Twitter-Strategy-for-Government-Departments
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=an-easy-way-to-increase-c
"abstract thinking makes it easier for people to form surprising connections between seemingly unrelated concepts"
blah blah
Social Media Best Practices - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007200
Social Media Best Practices - eMarketer
"In late 2008, MarketingSherpa surveyed social media marketers about the effectiveness of their practices. Large majorities rated social media marketing effective at influencing brand reputation, increasing awareness and improving search rankings and site traffic."
Advertising Will Change Forever - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=138023
the discoursenotebook
http://www.discoursenotebook.com/
The discourse notebook is an effort (in conjunction with 'The Bernstein Tapes'*) to make available lectures in contemporary continental philosophy. For questions, comments, or to share a lecture, send an email to: Todd.Kesselman@gmail.com
The discourse notebook is an effort (in conjunction with 'The Bernstein Tapes'*) to make available lectures in contemporary continental philosophy.
A collection of lectures on philosophy.
Twitterumfrage
http://twitterumfrage.de/
So sieht sie aus, die deutsche Twittergemeinde… Jung (32 Jahre), männlich (74%) und gebildet (78% haben Abitur). Zwei von drei betreiben einen eigenen Blog und schreiben über Technik, web2.0-Themen oder Privates. Jeder zweite stammt aus der Medien- oder Marketingbranche und jeder Vierte ist Führungskraft oder Unternehmer/in. Und die meisten (83%) schreiben hauptsächlich auf deutsch. Frauen, so könnte man sagen, verstecken sich eher und wählen Fantasienamen. Bemerkenswert: Deutsche Twitternde haben mehr Follower als sie selber followen, klingt komisch, ist aber so.
So sieht sie aus, die deutsche Twittergemeinde… Jung (32 Jahre), männlich (74%) und gebildet (78% haben Abitur). Zwei von drei betreiben einen eigenen Blog und schreiben über Technik, web2.0-Themen oder Privates. Jeder zweite stammt aus der Medien- oder Marketingbranche und jeder Vierte ist Führungskraft oder Unternehmer/in. Und die meisten (83%) schreiben hauptsächlich auf deutsch. Frauen, so könnte man sagen, verstecken sich eher und wählen Fantasienamen. Bemerkenswert: Deutsche Twitternde haben mehr Follower als sie selber followen, klingt komisch, ist aber so.
Analyse der Twitter-Nutzer
was sind das für Leute, die deutschen Twitternden? Ich habe 2.800 Twitternde im März 2009 danach gefragt, wie, wo und warum sie Twitter nutzen. Hier das Ergebnis.
Hier sind die Ergebnisse der Twitterumfrage vom März 2009. Zusammengefasst: Die Nutzer sind im Schnitt 32 Jahre, männlich (74%) und gebildet (78% haben Abitur). Zwei von drei betreiben einen eigenen Blog und schreiben über Technik, web2.0-Themen oder Privates. Jeder zweite stammt aus der Medien- oder Marketingbranche." (N=2.800)
http://mythryl.org/
http://mythryl.org/index.html
geiles intro. allein deshalb schon lesenswert :)
New programming language
How To Sniff Out A Liar - Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/13/lie-detector-madoff-entrepreneurs-sales-marketing-liar.html
useful.
While there is no surefire on-the-spot way to sniff out dissemblers, there are some helpful tactics for uncovering untruths. Liars often give short or one-word responses to questions, while truth tellers are more likely to flesh out their answers. A liar provides fewer details & uses fewer words than an honest person, and talks for a smaller percentage of the conversation. Liars are often reluctant to admit ordinary storytelling mistakes. When honest people tell stories, they may realize partway through that they left out some details and would unselfconsciously backtrack to fill in holes. They also may realize a previous statement wasn't quite right, and go back and explain further. Liars, on the other hand, "are worried that someone might catch them in a lie and are reluctant to admit to such ordinary imperfections,"
Reid Technique
Liars often give short or one-word responses to questions, while truth tellers are more likely to flesh out their answers. According to a 2003 study by DePaulo, a liar provides fewer details and uses fewer words t
Everyone stretches the truth a little. Here's what to look for (and how not to get found out).
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/teen-decomposes/
Amazing!
Presentation Zen: Who says technical presentations can't be engaging?
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2009/06/dsklhjkdjlksjdlsa-----------------sakjaskldjalkdja.html
interesting, useful tips on presenting
Sharing: Who says technical presentations can't be engaging?: People often ask if technical or scien.. http://tinyurl.com/my7trw [from http://twitter.com/mfubib/statuses/2450508055]
People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics.
"Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium."
Light and matter united
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/02.08/99-hau.html
Light can be stopped and restarted?
i don't understand how cooling Na helps stop light - or what the "signature" encoded in the light is ...
Harvard brainiac Lene Hau uses Bose-Einstein condensates to "freeze" light, stopping it and effectively storing it as matter.
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.harvard.edu%2Fgazette%2F2007%2F02.08%2F99-hau.html
How the Old, the Young and Everyone in Between Uses Social Networks - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007202
social networks
Yebol.com
http://www.yebol.com/
Knowledge Based (Semantic) Search
Report: Social Networks Growing while Other Social Media Sites Stagnate and Decline
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_networks_growing_while_other_social_media_sites_stagnate_and_decline.php
After four surveys of active internet users, a group whose total estimated global audience is now 625 million (or one in thirteen of people worldwide!), UM found that the usage of social networks is on the rise.
Universal McCann has released a new report that looks at the state of social media today. Apparently, this trend is showing no sign of slowing down. In fact, it's still growing.
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readwriteweb.com%2Farchives%2Fsocial_networks_growing_while_other_social_media_sites_stagnate_and_decline.php
apophenia: Would the real social network please stand up?
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/28/would_the_real.html
looks like an interesting categorization
danah maps three models of social networks: 1. Sociological "personal" networks 2. Behavioral social networks 3. Publicly articulated social networks
Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet
http://mashable.com/2009/08/05/teens-dont-tweet/
Teens may not be tweeting, but there is some evidence here of other generations taking to it
One of the hardest dems to reach
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com//interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html?ref=business
e New York Ti
How Different Groups Spend Their Day. very nicely made infographic.
Why Teens Don’t Tweet
http://mashable.com/2009/08/05/why-teens-dont-tweet/
Twitter’s different than Facebook (Facebook) or MySpace (MySpace) because Twitter is not about your friends. As I highlighted in my analysis of Twitter’s new homepage, Twitter is quickly becoming the epicenter of world events. Yes, you can update your status, but you can do that just as easily on Facebook. What you can’t do on other social media sites is learn about the #IranElection crisis in real-time. But does this really interest teenagers? Teenagers are notorious for being terrible at social engagement, voting, and keeping up with the news. While I don’t want to typecast an entire age demographic, I can say this with confidence: Teens, more than any other age group, care about their friends.
We struck a nerve with a lot of people this morning with our article Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet. In it, we explained how a recent Nielsen report shows
deographic breakdown
Twitter Bird ImageWe struck a nerve with a lot of people this morning with our article Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet. In it, we explained how a recent Nielsen report shows that only 16 percent of Twitter (Twitter) users are under 25. The response was overwhelming – especially from teenagers who currently use Twitter.
The Definitive Guide to iPhone App Market Sizing | Back of the Envelope | Jonathan Wegener's Technology/Marketing Blog
http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/08/03/million-dollar-iphone-app-market-sizing/
Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network
http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/twitter-users-dont-tweet
@maedelmaedel: "Twitter is more like Wikipedia than a social network - 10% of the user create 90% of the content http://bit.ly/r6dT5" (from http://twitter.com/maedelmaedel/status/3145407508)
Reading: "Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network" ( http://bit.ly/qq96k ) [from http://twitter.com/markivey/statuses/2036292159]
"Twitter is not so much about connecting with your friends, it’s about broadcasting information." http://is.gd/MqDp [from http://twitter.com/doktordab/statuses/2005864086]
"25% of Twitter users don’t tweet at all, while 50% of users tweet less than once every 74 hours... witter really is more like Wikipedia than, say, Facebook."
90% tweets from 10% of users
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition - Brand New
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/coca-cola_vs_pepsi_revised_edition.php
Saw this in a tweet the other day, subsequently brought it up in a conversation last night. Coca-cola is alien good.
An interesting historical look at the branding for competing brands - coke and pepsi.
Teens Don’t Tweet; Twitter’s Growth Not Fueled By Youth | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/teens-dont-tweet-twitters-growth-not-fueled-by-youth/
"Perhaps even more impressively, [twitters] growth has come despite a lack of adoption by teens and young adults". http://bit.ly/Bi77X [from http://twitter.com/iacob/statuses/3092997185]
My theory -- the "mainstreaming" (i.e., more people besides early adopters and younger users) of social media means opportunity for more mainstream-type tactics...ala, overtly capitalistic intentions of participants. Just as we all watch and talk about entertaining TV commercials, we will also accept brand participation in the social landscape. As long as you're adding to the conversation, it will become absolutely acceptable and even expected that you "sell something." This is counter to 20-something experts' "rules" for social media. But I think it's an inevitable evolution of the media as the rest of us join the fray.
Twitter has anyway grown to be a major online presence and is being driven forward by significant buzz
Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based Interaction from a Distance
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ankit/bokode/
Could it be the next RFID+AR mashup? I can see it in pointer apps, tag a space etc.
"Current optical tags, such as barcodes, must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable physical space on products. We present a new low-cost optical design so that the tags can be shrunk to 3mm visible diameter, and unmodified ordinary cameras several meters away can be set up to decode the identity plus the relative distance and angle. The design exploits the bokeh effect of ordinary cameras lenses, which maps rays exiting from an out of focus scene point into a disk like blur on the camera sensor. This bokeh-code or Bokode is a barcode design with a simple lenslet over the pattern. We show that an off-the-shelf camera can capture Bokode features of 2.5 microns from a distance of over 4 meters." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fweb.media.mit.edu%2F%7Eankit%2Fbokode
Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/04/facebook-is-now-the-fourth-largest-site-in-the-world/
The global rise of Facebook is nothing less than astounding. In the month of June alone it gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide, compared to the month before, for a total of 340 million unique visitors worldwide. It is now the fourth largest site in the world, trailing only Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo sites, according to comScore (see table below). Facebook itself only officially acknowledges 250 million active registered users (but you don’t have to be a registered user to visit some Facebook pages).
Next Big Sound
http://nextbigsound.com/
Track how millions of fans interact with online music everyday.
mostra quando as bandas são mais ouvidas no last.fm, myspace e iLike
私はこうやってマーケティングデータを集めています。 - livedoor ディレクターブログ
http://blog.livedoor.jp/ld_directors/archives/51248663.html
Gartner Hype Cycle 2009: Web 2.0 Trending Up, Twitter Down
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gartner_hype_cycle_2009.php
Trends and twitter decline
Gartner is a key authority on technology in industy. I actually disagree with their evaluation
Web 2.0 Trending Up, Twitter Down
Here we go again with Web 2.0
Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research - Bokardo
http://bokardo.com/archives/steve-jobs-on-why-apple-doesnt-do-market-research/
Social Web Design by Joshua Porter
Make the very best products. Business will follow.
apophenia: Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/06/teens_dont_twee.html
Yesterday, Mashable reported Nielsen's latest Twitter numbers with the headline Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet. This gained traction on Twitter turning into the trending topic "teens don't tweet" which was primarily kept in play all day yesterday with teens responding to the TT by saying "I'm a teen" or the equivalent of "you're all idiots... what am I, mashed potatoes?" I want to unpack some of what played out because I'm astonished by the misinterpretations in every which direction. We have a methodology and interpretation problem. As Fred Stutzman has pointed out, there are reasons to question Nielsen's methodology and, thus, their findings. Furthermore, the way that they present the data is misleading. If we were to assume an even distribution of Twitter use over the entire U.S. population, it would be completely normal to expect that 16% of Twitter users are young adults. So, really, what Nielsen is saying is, "Everyone expects social media to be used primarily by the young
Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?
"Everyone expects social media to be used primarily by the young but OMG OMG
analysis of neilsen article
Managing beyond Web 2.0 - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/BT_Strategy/Managing_beyond_Web_20_2389
Companies should prepare now for the day when Web 2.0 morphs into Web 3.0.
New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance « Altimeter Group : Digital Strategy by Charlene Li, co-author of “Groundswell”
http://www.altimetergroup.com/2009/07/engagementdb.html
New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance
Social Media Marketing Spend to Hit $3.1 Billion by 2014
http://mashable.com/2009/07/08/social-media-marketing-growth/
Social Media is not going away anytime soon!
social media marketing to grow at an annual rate of 34 percent – faster than any other form of online marketing and double the average growth rate of 17 percent for all online mediums.
Forrester estimates that $716 million will be spent on social media marketing in 2009, growing to $3.1 billion in 2014.
foresight into advertising revenue for online venturess
Social Media Marketing Spend to Hit $3.1 Billion by 2014
Wikipedia enters a new chapter | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/12/wikipedia-deletionist-inclusionist
The online encyclopedia is about to hit 3m articles in English – but growth is stalling as 'inclusionists' and 'deletionists' fight for control
more on Wikipedia
The online encyclopedia is about to hit 3m articles in English ... Even when compressed, the files stretched to an enormous 8 terabytes ... when the group fed the data into their 60-machine computing cluster, they got some surprising results ... Chi's team discovered that the way the site operated had changed significantly from the early days, when it ran an open-door policy that allowed in anyone ... Today a stable group of high-level editors has become increasingly responsible for controlling the encyclopedia, while casual contributors and editors are falling away
Everything You Never Knew About Facebook | PR2.0
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/08/everything-you-never-knew-about-facebook/
While I’m currently in the midst of writing my next book, I stumbled across some very interesting and useful statistics that offer a glimpse into Facebook behavior and activity as well as the state of the Facebook platform. I believe that they reinforce many of our hunches and assumptions and also introduce facts that may alter the ingredients of your next Social Media initiative.
Shot at SXSW While I'm currently in the midst of writing my next book, I stumbled across some very interesting and useful statistics that offer a glimpse
Everything You Never Knew About Facebook
Quite an interesting list of facts. "30 million users update their statuses at least once each day" Some of these users say they would never Twitter.
Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter: It Doesn’t Feel Safe
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/why-teens-arent-using-twitter/
왜 십대들은 트위터를 안쓸까? 트위터는 열린 네트워크... 십대들은 그게 싫다??? 페이스북은 닫힌 네트워크..나를 친구맺는 사람이 누구인지 알고 승인을 받아야 한다.
RT @thecleversheep: Twitter to a 16 year old. RT @Educator:"Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter: It Doesn’t Feel Safe" http://ow.ly/hbig [from http://twitter.com/teachernz/statuses/2625404256]
Sputnik Observatory For the Study of Contemporary Culture
http://sptnk.org/#/home/
Sputnik Observatory is a New York not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the study of contemporary culture. We fulfill this mission by documenting, archiving, and disseminating ideas that are shaping modern thought by interviewing leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology from around the world. Our philosophy is that ideas are NOT selfish, ideas are NOT viruses. Ideas survive because they fit in with the rest of life. Our position is that ideas are energy, and should interconnect and re-connect continuously because by linking ideas together we learn, and new ideas emerge.
Nuovo progetto per parlare di cultura contemporanea
Glendix - Bringing the beauty of Plan 9 to Linux
http://glendix.org/
This is the website of the Glendix project, an attempt at porting ideas from the Plan 9 operating system to Linux. Our ultimate goal is to create a minimalist Linux distribution that contains a Plan 9 userspace, instead of the GNU software that is usually provided by most distributions. We are currently restricting our work to the x86 platform only.
"Bringing the beauty of Plan 9 to Linux -- This is the website of the Glendix project, an attempt at porting ideas from the Plan 9 operating system to Linux. Our ultimate goal is to create a minimalist Linux distribution that contains a Plan 9 userspace, instead of the GNU software that is usually provided by most distributions. We are currently restricting our work to the x86 platform only."
An attempt at porting ideas from the Plan 9 operating system to Linux.
Nice!
I switched back to Linux because I'm so addicted to some ALSA-apps. This might become the best of both worlds.
Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think « Socialnomics – Social Media Blog
http://socialnomics.net/2009/08/11/statistics-show-social-media-is-bigger-than-you-think/
see numbers below the video
Mathematical Model for Surviving a Zombie Attack | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/
Hee hee hee
It is possible to successfully fend off a zombie attack, according to Canadian mathematicians. The key is to hit hard and hit often.
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman
http://personas.media.mit.edu/
Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
DataSF - DataSF - Liberating City Data
http://www.datasf.org/
Why can't every city have this?
City of SF opens site containing datasets
"DataSF is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. While there is plenty of room for improvement, our goal in releasing this site is: 1) improve access to data, 2) help our community create innovative apps, 3) understand what datasets you'd like to see, 4) get feedback on the quality of our datasets."
"DataSF is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. While there is plenty of room for improvement, our goal in releasing this site is: (1) improve access to data (2) help our community create innovative apps (3) understand what datasets you'd like to see (4) get feedback on the quality of our datasets."
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/study-finds-that-online-education-beats-the-classroom/
A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
Provocative article
Une étude montre que des élèves de 12 ans obtiennent de meilleures performance avec l'apprentissage en ligne qu'en classe.
What Click-Through Rate Can You Expect From Twitter?
http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/twitter-clickthrough-rate/
r, when a URL gets retweeted, you’re adding the retweeting user’s followers to the mix. So the ret
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For social media marketers, an important question has remained unanswered, what sort of click-through rate can you expect on Twitter?
From Mashable.com - As much as anything, we use Twitter to share links. Most active Twitter users, from those that just joined to seasoned vets with thousands of followers, use Twitter to share the things they come across during the day. In fact, Twitter has become such a popular link sharing medium, that over the past year, my firm has seen Twitter climb the rankings of referral traffic for a number of client sites. Particularly in the tech space, we frequently see Twitter among the top ten traffic sources in Google Analytics. But for social media marketers, an important question has remained unanswered, what sort of click-through rate can you expect on Twitter?
Official Google Research Blog: On the predictability of Search Trends
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-predictability-of-search-trends.html
a must read. useful tool. includes link to paper
Since launching Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, we've been providing daily insight into what the world is searching for. An understanding of search trends can be useful for advertisers, marketers, economists, scholars, and anyone else interested in knowing more about their world and what's currently top-of-mind.
An interesting look at the predictability of google searches. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleresearch.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fon-predictability-of-search-trends.html
Social Media ROI: Dell's $3m on Twitter and Four Better Examples
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_media_roi_dells_3m_on_twitter_and_four_bett.php
Dell revenues from Twitter surpass $3m Ebay found in 2006 that participants in online communities spend 54% more than non-community users.
Telling your reluctant boss that social media is worth using because Dell made $3 million on Twitter, however, runs the risk of encouraging e-commerce broadcast as the model for engagement in conversation. Other, more conversational, examples of ROI make important additions to conversations about Dell and social media. (They also concern a lot more money.)
GReader share: Social Media ROI: Dell's $3m on Twitter and Four Better Examples http://ow.ly/dMKH [from http://twitter.com/webbstrategi/statuses/2136446718]
More on Dell's Twitter profitability
30+ Impressive Social Media Stats Visualized [Video]
http://mashable.com/2009/08/14/social-media-stats-visualized/
This a post on the Mashable: The Social Media Guide blog
5 Ways Sentiment Analysis is Ramping Up in 2009
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sentiment_analysis_is_ramping_up_in_2009.php
Eine Übersicht über Sentiment-Analyse-Anbieter (mit Link auf einen NYT-Artikel mit noch mehr Anbietern).
The New York Times has an article today about sentiment analysis, a trend which has been accelerating on the back of the Real-time Web - and Twitter in ...
5 Social Media Lessons Learned from Whole Foods
http://mashable.com/2009/08/25/whole-foods/
For future classes as a case study on social media and twitter.
Sosiaalisen median koodit ks. linkit
Some basic insights into how big corporates can and are using social media...
This is an excellent article with a lot of resonance to our work.
Social technology growth marches on in 2009, led by social network sites
http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2009/08/social-technology-growth-marches-on-in-2009-led-by-social-network-sites.html
"In the US, social technology Creators and Collectors grew slowly, and Critics didn't grow at all. ... Why? Probably because much of this activity has been sucked into social network sites like Facebook. At the same time, Joiner activity exploded and Spectators became nearly universal."
Consumers' participation in social technologies
13 Best Sites to Get Your Questions Answered! – The Next Web
http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/25/sites-people-opinions-questions-answered/
sites to answer questions. Some from experts, some driven by users.
The Internet is a huge resource of knowledge and information where you can find virtually anything. But, very often there are situations where you aren’t able to find the answers to your questions. Your question may require local knowledge or particular expertise.
You can find answers to various questions from different categories on Answerbag You may ask questions on any topic but will need to register to do so. You can also browse through questions in selected categories of your choice and read all the questions and answers posted by other people.
solving query
Paginas para hacer preguntas
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson
deploy
interesting study on how tech effects reading
Bases on a Stanford study there is evidence students are writing more than ever and they want to have an audience and purpose. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Ftechbiz%2Fpeople%2Fmagazine%2F17-09%2Fst_thompson
fascinating take on the ongoing trends in literacy. Study by Stanford concludes that today's youth are MORE proficient in writing because they've lived a life of writing for an audience. "We think of writing as either good or bad. What today's young people know is that knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all."
<<I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization"...For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—& pushing our literacy in bold new directions...The fact that students today almost always write for an audience gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading & organizing & debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade. As for those texting short-forms & smileys defiling serious academic writing? Another myth. When Lunsford examined the work of first-year students, she didn't find a single example of texting speak in an academic paper.>>
Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/multitasking/
In several benchmark tests of focus, college students who routinely juggle many flows of information, bouncing from e-mail to web text to video to chat to phone calls, fared significantly worse than their low-multitasking peers.
Some people suspect that a multitasking lifestyle has changed how they think, leaving them easily distracted and unable to concentrate even when separated from computers and phones. Their uneasiness may be justified. In several benchmark tests of focus, college students who routinely juggle many flows of information, bouncing from e-mail to web text to video to chat to phone calls, fared significantly worse than their low-multitasking peers.
Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions-evolutionary
Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages
"Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages"
Stanford study: Media multitaskers pay mental price
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-research-study-082409.html
[Multitaskers are] "suckers for irrelevancy. Everything distracts them." "They couldn't help thinking about the task they weren't doing," Ophir said. "The high multitaskers are always drawing from all the information in front of them. They can't keep things separate in their minds."
You might think a lot gets done when you multitask, but a study conducted by Stanford researchers Eyal Ophir, Clifford Nass and Anthony Wagner says it isn't so.
People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time, a group of Stanford researchers has found.
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
Interesting, LONG article about the placebo effect. I always liked the thought that your mind has the power to heal you. Or if you are in a negative mood, sometimes just saying positive things can alter your feelings.
Placebos have long been used to control for the effects of taking *any* medicine. However, now those effects seem to be getting stronger... Fascinating.
"It's not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It's as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger."
Mida Beecher avastas, miks see tähtis on ja kuidas edasi, kui platseeboefekt ise näib tugevamaks muutuvat?
apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/16/twitter_pointle.html
This pov (Twitter as social grooming) makes a lot of sense to me. But I would also dispute the term "pointless babble" itself: the two examples of "phatic" (non-information-conveying) expressions given here, "hi", and "thank you", actually can convey quite a lot of information, depending on context.
Spirited and spot on defence of the cod analysis of Twitter that some commentators engage in as a form of denial...
Now, turn all of your utterances over to an analytics firm so that they can code everything that you've said. I think that you'll be lucky if only 40% of what you say constitutes "pointless babble" to a third party ear.
Refreshing perspective on twitter. Makes me want to tweet. (Aside: this shines some light on things I've been trying to figure out about IM lately too. It might as well be re-titled "why IM should never be logged".)
Who Said a Yacht has to Look Like a boat? - Design Magazine - Baekdal.com
http://www.baekdal.com/design/architecture/yacht-concept-design/
Who
This is such an awesome concept. Now I just need to get rich.
Baekdal.com Magazine...
عکس های یک کشتی تفریحی زیبا
too bizarre for me
The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~mrankin/usweb/twitterconclusions.htm
informal summary by Monica Rankin of her use of Twitter in the classroom
Do You Know Who’s on Twitter? - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007250
Contains facts and numbers on Twitter users; demographics, followers, average number of tweets, and other interesting notes. However, I feel that this study if focused on asia, will have a different result.
Twitter has experienced explosive growth in 2009. According to “An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World,” from Sysomos, 72.5% of all Twitter users joined the service in the first five months of this year. Who are they? More than one-half of all Twitter users (53%) are women, and the majority are young. Among users who disclose their age, 66% are under 25, and another 15% are ages 25 to 29.
More women than men. A few loudmouths and a lot of wallflowers. And some very busy marketers
twiiter stats as of August 2009
Quantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking
http://www.physorg.com/news158928941.html
Humans don’t always make the most rational decisions. As studies have shown, even when logic and reasoning point in one direction, sometimes we chose the opposite route, motivated by personal bias or simply "wishful thinking." This paradoxical human behavior has resisted explanation by classical decision theory for over a decade. But now, scientists have shown that a quantum probability model can provide a simple explanation for human decision-making - and may eventually help explain the success of human cognition overall.
Need to read more carefully; till then, count me as skeptical
LOL. The first few sentences made me think of Busemeyer, even before he was mentioned.
Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/why-dont-teens-tweet-we-asked-over-10000-of-them/
Most teens don’t use Twitter because it doesn’t enable them to do anything they can’t already do elsewhere, which is the same reason most adults don’t use Twitter. It has nothing to do with any teen-specific concerns like texting plans or safety. It comes down to something more simple: delivering value beyond Facebook and MySpace...
Aug 30, 2009 article
Teen responses about why they don't use Twitter probably mirrors adult population views
If we break down those top reasons one by one, a clearer picture emerges of why Twitter is not more popular among teens. * Teens already update their status religiously on other sites like Facebook, MySpace, and myYearbook. * Teens use MySpace to keep up with musicians and celebrities, which MySpace differentiates on. * As a group, teens are not major consumers of news from any outlet, making “staying current” a poor driver of mainstream adoption — though of course there are exceptions. * Teens use both MySpace and Facebook to keep up with friends they know.
good data on teens and twitter. it skews more teen than facebook. but most teens think "it's lame" and a passing fab. they are so wrong
only 11% of Twitter is teen as evidence of Twitter’s unpopularity to that group.
A Look At Facebook’s Reach Worldwide
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/27/a-look-at-facebooks-reach-worldwide/
Everyone knows that Facebook has become absolutely massive, but it’s easy to lose sight of just how big a number like 250 million is. Buzzpoint, a social media marketing firm based out of Los Angeles, has put together an impressive visualization that shows off just how large Facebook has grown. The company has estimated the current and past Facebook usage statistics using available data and plotted a number of graphs tracking its progress over the last three years. I’ve broken the image (which is quite massive on its own) into a few chunks below, and you can download the whole thing here.
Everyone knows that Facebook has become absolutely massive, but it's easy to lose sight of just how big a number like 250 million ...
Facebook Stats
Datos sobre Facebook.
Buzzpoint, a social media marketing firm based out of Los Angeles, has put together an impressive visualization that shows off just how large Facebook has grown.
Social Network Marketing Expands Sphere - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007252
Though social network advertising gets a lot of attention, it is only one of many ways marketers can reach customers on social networks. Social networks can be used for branding, improving customer lo
May 2009 survey—52% of social network users had become a fan or follower of a company or brand, while 46% had said something good about a brand or company on a social networking Website—double the percentage who had said something negative (23%).
Though social network advertising gets a lot of attention, it is only one of many ways marketers can reach customers on social networks. Social networks can be used for branding, improving customer loyalty, lead generation, direct marketing and e-commerce. 52% of social network users had become a fan or follower of a company or brand, while 46% had said something good about a brand or company on a social networking Website—double the percentage who had said something negative (23%).
How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0 - McKinsey Quarterly - Business Technology - Strategy
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/BT_Strategy/How_companies_are_benefiting_from_Web_20_McKinsey_Global_Survey_Results_2432
Muy completo
The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business.
"The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business."
heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business.
Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/
- The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Geoffrey Nunberg
also check out the link to google's mis-scannings..
August 31, 2009 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that points out some endemic errors with the digitized book quality including grossly erroneous dates. Also points out the problem of monopoly.
Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5014/Study-Shows-Small-Businesses-That-Blog-Get-55-More-Website-Visitors.aspx
Information about how blogging can affect your business
Companies that blog have far better marketing results. Specifically, the average company that blogs has: * 55% more visitors * 97% more inbound links * 434% more indexed pages
The data was crystal clear: Companies that blog have far better marketing results. Specifically, the average company that blogs has: 55% more visitors 97% more inbound links 434% more indexed pages
If you blog, you know that it's good for your business. But how -- and how much? To answer to those questions, I looked at data from 1,531 HubSpot customers (mostly small- and medium-sized businesses). 795 of the businesses in my sample blogged, 736 didn't.
blogging increases visitors.. write about this for VAnetworking. say it on John Jantzch's blog.
"Companies that blog have far better marketing results."
Companies that blog have far better marketing results
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect
Gullibility on the rise? Count me in!
2009-08-24
Open-source camera could revolutionize photography
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august31/levoy-opensource-camera-090109.html
Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.
Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6132718/Men-lose-their-minds-speaking-to-pretty-women.html
Saturday 05 September 2009 | Health News feed | All feeds
reMap
http://bestiario.org/research/remap/
An interactive semantic view of visualcomplexity.com
stunning compendium of work from visualcomplexity.com via @bbhlabs
reMap: a project by Bestiario based on visualcomplexity.com
Visual Complexity reMapped
Interface to VisualComplexity.com
SHARED USING: http://www.tagle.it
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Science ponders 'zombie attack'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8206280.stm
Science ponders 'zombie attack'
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada. They say only frequent counter-attacks with increasing force would eradicate the fictional creatures. The scientific paper is published in a book - Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress. In books, films, video games and folklore, zombies are undead creatures, able to turn the living into other zombies with a bite. But there is a serious side to the work. In some respects, a zombie "plague" resembles a lethal, rapidly spreading infection. The researchers say the exercise could help scientists model the spread of unfamiliar diseases through human populations.
my favorite part is when they have to explain that the one prof put a '?' in his legal name.
The Influentials : Web Ecology Project
http://www.webecologyproject.org/2009/09/analyzing-influence-on-twitter/
New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter
ents on the Web. Especially compared to other social networks, Twitter simplifies most of the e
Software Carpentry: Index
http://software-carpentry.org/
Software Carpentry is an intensive introduction to basic software development practices for scientists and engineers
Some notes on software carpentry
Google Domestic Trends - Google Finance
http://www.google.com/finance/domestic_trends
Google Domestic Trends track Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. Changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide unique economic insight. You can access individual trend indexes by clicking on the left-hand navigation.
Google Domestic Trends track Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy.
http://media.ft.com/cms/c3852b2e-6f9a-11de-bfc5-00144feabdc0.pdf
http://media.ft.com/cms/c3852b2e-6f9a-11de-bfc5-00144feabdc0.pdf
views of one teenager on how he uses media. not statistically valid, but useful
Morgan Stanley Europe Resaerch on how teenagers consume media. There are several issues that immediately jump out from the piece. Teenagers are consuming more media, but in entirely different ways and are almost certainly not prepared to pay for it. They resent intrusive advertising on billboards, TV and the Internet. They are happy to chase content and music across platforms and devices (iPods, mobiles, streaming sites). Print media (newspapers, directories) are viewed as irrelevant but events (cinema, concerts etc.) remain popular and one of the few beneficiaries of payment. The convergence of gaming, TV, mobile and Internet is accelerating with huge implications for pay-TV.
Machine learning classifier gallery
http://home.comcast.net/~tom.fawcett/public_html/ML-gallery/pages/index.html
Interesting comparative performance of various algorithms on different data
A highly informative visualization of the biases of different ML classifiers. Really useful, especially for talks to non-experts.
Google - Internet Stats
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/
This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place. These have been collected from a number of third party vendors covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
13 more things that don't make sense - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things
null - Fullscreen
http://www.scribd.com/full/13323544?access_key=key-fw173ftgydzkxca9fmv
We write papers and have talks mainly to impress others, gain respect, and get promoted.
How to write a research paper
Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Is This Your Brain On God? : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997741
Is it you pachamama?
I'm not actually sure what this is -- links to a bunch of related NPR stories, I guess. But it looks interesting.
More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. Hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.
More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual &mdash; from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. Hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.
Prof. Hacker | Tips & Tutorials for higher ed: productivity & pedagogy in a digital age.
http://www.profhacker.com/
" ProfHacker delivers tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education, Monday through Friday.
TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are Pointless Babble
http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/twitter-analysis/
40% of #Tweets Are #Pointless Babble http://ow.ly/k2NH [from http://twitter.com/schulezweinull/statuses/3310688918]
@cuketka it is still not so bad.. RT @adent: 40% příspěvků na Twitteru jsou nesmyslné bláboly: http://jdem.cz/bwpn5 [from http://twitter.com/matushiq/statuses/3287194711]
TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are Pointless Babble http://ow.ly/jZtU [from http://twitter.com/10minuteexpert/statuses/3294127451]
Oh, The Temptation on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/5239013
2 câmeras escondidas. Várias crianças. 1 marshmallow para cada uma. O resultado...
I'm pretty sure the geneva convention defines this as "cruel and unusual". And funny as hell.
The Dirty Little Secret About the "Wisdom of the Crowds" - There is No Crowd
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_dirty_little_secret_about_the_wisdom_of_the_crowds.php
Small Groups, Big Impact Attempts to Address the Issue
A small crowd is still a crowd.
The findings showed that a small group of users accounted for a large number of ratings. In other words, as many have already begun to suspect, small but powerful groups can easily distort what the "crowd" really thinks, leading online reviews to often end up appearing extremely positive or extremely negative.
Futurity.org
http://futurity.org/
Noticias de última generación.
news from research universities
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Facial expressions 'not global'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8199951.stm
Unresolvable
A new study suggests that people from different cultures might read facial expressions differently.
A new study suggests that people from different cultures read facial expressions differently. East Asian participants in the study focused mostly on the eyes, but those from the West scanned the whole face. In the research carried out by a team from Glasgow University, East Asian observers found it more difficult to distinguish some facial expressions.
HMS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, EMOTIONS As I was reading Lewis, et al., I remembered this recent study report on facial expressions. This study directly refutes the claims of Ekman reported on pp 39-40 and points up a bias in the Lewis text against cultural explanations. Obviously as an anthropologist, I am not sympathetic to a pure biology approach to love, but I still find Lewis et al. compelling. Does it matter than one small piece of their evidence has been proven empirically to be false?
东方人和西方人表达感情时候都差别──西方人用整张脸。而东方人都眼神更为精妙
Official Google Blog: Let's make the web faster
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/lets-make-web-faster.html
Includes links on initiatives, techniques, and development (opening up by the FCC of the white spectrum) that can make the web faster
Very interesting possibilities with this HTML5 feature. I'm intrigued to see the capabilities it can show in future web apps - if it lives up to expectations.
MICDS Library | Home
http://www.micdslibrary.com/
libary
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/?page=full
At MIT, an experiment that identifies which students are gay is raising new questions about online privacy. Using data from Facebook, two students in an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. The project, given the name 'Gaydar' by the students, is part of the fast-moving field of social network analysis, which examines what the connections between people can tell us, from predicting who might be a terrorist to the likelihood a person is happy, fat, liberal, or conservative." MIT professor Hal Abelson, who co-taught the course, is quoted: "That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information — because you don't have control over your information."
Using data from Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction. People may be effectively “outing” themselves just by the virtual company they keep. If our friends reveal who we are, that challenges a conception of privacy built on the notion that there are things we tell, and things we don’t. Even if you don’t affirmatively post revealing information, simply publishing your friends’ list may reveal sensitive information about you, or it may lead people to make assumptions about you that are incorrect.
'guessing' whether someone is gay via FB
Deux étudiants du MIT ont imaginé un outil capable de repérer sur la toile les personnes homosexuelles. Leur outil parcours les sites sociaux à la recherche d'indices comme les goûts musicaux, les choix politiques, les types d'amis, les réactions à l'information... afin de déterminer si les personnes ont une forte proportion de chance ou pas d'être homosexuelles. Leur propos, montrer comment on peut détourner le traitement de l'information que les internautes déversent sur le net.
Article covering some projects analysing how revealing your Facebook friend list can be
Instructify » Blog Archive » Top 5 citation applications
http://instructify.com/2009/07/16/top-5-citation-applications/
Article by Bill Ferris about the top 5 citation applications
Report: Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter | Popwise | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/report-nine-scientifically-proven-ways-get-re-tweeted-twitter
RT @featureBlend: Report: Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter http://j.mp/6E0oj [from http://twitter.com/cyberdad/statuses/4173172887]
Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define 'Hits' and 'Niches' - Knowledge@Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2338
Using data on movie-rating patterns, new Wharton research challenges current thinking on the Long Tail effect
Using data on movie-rating patterns, new Wharton research challenges current thinking on the Long Tail effect ...
unread
Controversy about the long tail theory
Knowledge@Wharton
One side effect of $1mil Netflix prize was the treasure of data that was made public. Researches at Wharton use it to find out how valid is the Long Tail theory.
15 Valuable Usability PDFs You Never Heard Of | Useful Usability
http://www.usefulusability.com/15-valuable-usability-pdfs-you-never-heard-of/
Here's a list of 15 valuable Usability Papers in PDF form that you might not have heard of, but should know and can use:I thought I'd list a few helpful papers I use from time to time when going about my usability work. Some of these you may have he
I have to check these.
Free Trademark Search Online | Protect Business Name | Interesting Name Ideas | Trademarkia
http://www.trademarkia.com/
Automates the trademark registration process.
Free Trademark Search Online | Protect Business Name | Interesting Name Ideas | Trademarkia
HOW TO: Gather Feedback With Social Media
http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/social-media-feedback/
tracking comment
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in
When Money Buys Happiness - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/when-money-buys-happiness/
happiness most often comes from experiences...
Cars that make you happy: BMW 325, 535, M3, and X3, Audi A4, Jaguar, Mazda Miata, Subaru WRX, Toyota Matrix, Prius, and Corolla, Honda Civic.
How Do Innovators Think? - HBR Editors' Blog - Harvard Business Review
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hbreditors/2009/09/how_do_innovators_think.html
out being sustained by people who cared about experimentation and exploration. Sometimes these people were relatives, but sometimes they were neighbors, teachers or other influential adults. A number of the innovative entrepreneurs also went to Montessori schools, where they learned to follow their curiosity. To paraphrase the famous Apple ad campaign, innovators not only learned early on to think different, they act different (and even talk different).
How Do Innovators Think? 5:21 PM Monday September 28, 2009 by Bronwyn Fryer Tags:Creativity, Innovation, Leadership What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Ebay's Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G's A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how the "Innovators' DNA" works.This post is part of HarvardBusiness.org's Creativity at Work special package. Fryer: You conducted a six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews. During this study you found five "discovery skills" that distinguish them. What are these skills? Dyer: The first skill is what we call "associating." It's a cognitive skill that allows creative people to make connections across seemingly unrelated questions, problems, or ideas. The second skill is questioning - an abilit
Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/30/internet-biggest-uk-advertising-sector
Hat tip Michael. "Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV, says IAB"
Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV
Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV, says IAB
STUDY: 80% of Twitter Users Are All About Me
http://mashable.com/2009/09/29/meformers/
Mashable covers our research. Is nice!
Rutgers University Professors Mor Naaman and Jeffrey Boase set out to analyze the content and characteristics of social media activity. They dubbed communications systems like Facebook and Twitter, “social awareness streams,” and then took to examining user behavior.
80% of users are “meformers,” or “Me Now” status updaters. Meformers are “people who use the platform to post updates on their everyday activities, social lives, feelings, thoughts, and emotions.” The rest (20%) are informers who use the channels to share informational updates like links news articles. #Based on the categories and complex cluster analysis, the professors were able to lump Twitterers into one of two categories: meformers or informers. The former makes up 80% of the user base, while the latter a meager 20%. Interesting enough, though, the study also showed that the informers have significantly more friends and followers than their meformer counterparts. The median informer has 131 friends and 112 followers, while the median meformer has just 61 friends and 43 followers. # Informers have a higher proportion of mentions of other users in their messages (that is they @reply to more Twitterers) - 25% of messages come from mobile phones
100 Best Blogs for New Media Students | Associate Degree - Facts and Information
http://associatedegree.org/2009/08/24/100-best-blogs-for-new-media-students/
New Media students are on the verge of an exciting and evolving field of study. With topics ranging from social networking to innovative art forms to gaming to Internet policy and politics falling under this umbrella, there is plenty for students to learn about and stay connected with. Adding these blogs to your favorite reader will help you keep current on all that is happening in the world of New Media.
Here is a list blogs that cover new literacies and how they relate to a variety of topics including education, business, politics, and culture. I ended up here looking for a link to post, but I couldn't decide which one I liked best, so I'm posting the list instead.
New Media students are on the verge of an exciting and evolving field of study.
Lots of great people to follow and keep track of.
Infiltrating a Botnet - Cisco Systems
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/bots.html
Artikel über einen Botnet Master, Der via MSN von einem Cisco Experten Interviewt wurde. Bsonders interessant sind die Motive, warum Er keinen "normalen" Job annimmt.
GR: Infiltrating a Botnet - Cisco Systems http://bit.ly/1jHXy6 [from http://twitter.com/robinhowlett/statuses/3516971966]
Technical, but interesting read.
30 Resources to Find the Data You Need | FlowingData
http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/01/30-resources-to-find-the-data-you-need/
Let's say you have this idea for a visualization or application, or you're just curious about some trend. But you have a problem. You can't find the data, and without the data, you can't even start. This is a guide and a list of sources for where you can find that data you're looking for. There's a lot out there. Universities Being a graduate student, I always look to the library for books and resources. Many libraries are amping up their technology and have some expansive data archives. Many statistics departments also tend to keep a list of data somewhere.
How Google Wave could transform journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/google-wave-collaborative-journalism.html
"here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave."
For the last two months, while we've been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves about how this thing could change (or add to) what we do. So, here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave."
senior project
http://sites.google.com/site/bhlseniorprojectsite/
Senior Project
ms.koval's research & reference site =) - home
http://mskovalsresearchsite.weebly.com/index.html
古本の買取価格はどこが一番高いのか? | 古本買取価格比較レポート
http://bookget.net/bookoff
500~3000円、←大差ない/タダ同然、ブックオフ
よく調べたな・・・。
「 買取サイトの平均買取価格1,262円に対して、 ブックオフ店舗(ブックマーケットを除く)の平均は2,176円でした。 この結果だけみれば店舗のほうが買取価格が高いですが、 近所のブックオフ店が高価買取か分からないし自分で持ち込む必要があります。 一方の古本買取サイトならネット申し込みでカンタンですが、 買取価格が安い場合でも返送料が高いのであきらめるしかありません。 どちらも一長一短がありますが、 もし近所に複数のブックオフ店があるなら比較してみるといいかもしれません。 持ち込むのがタイヘンだったり近所に店舗がないときは、 今回の調査でもっとも高価買取だった livedoorリサイクル が良さそうです。 」
The Linguistics of ReTweets | Dan Zarrella
http://danzarrella.com/retweet-linguistics.html
Research in to link occurrence, average syllables per word and readability grade levels of retweets vs. regular tweets.
Interesting. Linguistic analysis of tweets and retweets: http://tr.im/qsxn (via @NiemanLab) [from http://twitter.com/mkeagle/statuses/2420004728]
After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/After-Losing-Users-in/48588/
About damn time, too; catalog search results have been crappy for years.
Good article about college usage of innovative catalogs and search overlays (like Aquabrowser) that make searching catalogs more effective and attractive for users.
After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software Chronicle of Higher Education 9/28/09
TED University: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use - TED Talks
http://tedtalks.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2035433:BlogPost:910
The Web is constantly turning out new and extraordinary services many of us are unfamiliar with. During TED University at this spring's TED2007 in Monterey, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, offered an ultra-fast-moving ride through sites in many different areas, from art, design and illustration, to daily news, blogs and curiosity. Now, by popular demand, here's his list of 100 websites you should know and use.
research.philips.com
Forrester Predicts Huge Growth for Social Media Marketing
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/forrester-social-media-growth.html
Forrester Research is holding its own conference down in Orlando and has just revealed its predictions for the growth of online advertising. The bottom line is that social media and mobile will be the hottest, but just about everything will see an upward trend.
Future forecast is pretty positive for social media
Graphs on marketing spending projections for social media
Forrester Research is holding its own conference down in Orlando and has just revealed its predictions for the growth of ...
Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html
Women Rule the Social Web
http://mashable.com/2009/10/03/women-rule-the-social-web/
When it comes to sites like Flickr (Flickr), Facebook (Facebook), Twitter (Twitter), FriendFeed (FriendFeed), MySpace (MySpace) and Bebo (Bebo), however, women outnumber men. In fact, there’s only one major holdout for men on the social web: social news site Digg (Digg), where 64% of users are male.
When it comes to sites like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace and Bebo, however, women outnumber men. In fact, there’s only one major holdout for men on the social web: social news site Digg, where 64% of users are male.
…at least according to an infographic by Information is Beautiful. The stats, compiled by Brian Solis from Google Ad Planner data, show that equal numbers of men and women use sites like LinkedIn, DeviantArt and YouTube. When it comes to sites like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace and Bebo, however, women outnumber men.
Social Network Statistics | Brian Solis - PR 2.0
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/10/revealing-the-people-defining-social-networks/
Some great data on the demographics of who is using social media. 75% of Facebookers and 81% of Twitterers are 25 and older. These are not "youth" tools.
perfil dos usuários de cada rede social
Data from August 2009
PhotoSketch
http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm
We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.
follow up on this
We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels.
PhotoSketch "tillverkar" bilder utifrån vad användaren vill ha med för objekt i fotot.
wow
Generator
Google Product Ideas
http://productideas.appspot.com/
Interesting way to collect user feedback
Vote for new features to Google products
You decide what's important for Google products: Tell us what you think about your favorite Google products. Big ideas or small thoughts, we want to know! # Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. # See what others are saying Look at the "What's Hot" and "Recent Ideas" at the top of each topic to see what other users are saying and voting on right now. Agree with these ideas? Vote them up. Disagree? Vote them down.
Tú decides como evolucionan los productos de Google "Google Product Ideas" http://j.mp/17hGx0
Dê sugestões de novos produtos, e vote no seu favorito.
Photoshop CS5なんて目じゃなくね?落書きからそれっぽい写真を合成する『Photosketch』がやばすぎる件・・・ - IDEA*IDEA ~ 百式管理人のライフハックブログ
http://www.ideaxidea.com/archives/2009/10/photosketch.html
これはスゴイ!
これはすごい。。。
シンガポールの大学で研究されている技術のようですが、実現したらラブプラスどころの騒ぎじゃなくなるような
おぉ・・・っ!
ALA | marsbestfree2009
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/mars/marspubs/marsbestfreewebsites/marsbestfree2009.cfm
2009 Eleventh Annual List RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing | cxpartners
http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/thoughts/the_myth_of_the_page_fold_evidence_from_user_testing.htm
People tell us that they don’t mind scrolling and the behaviour we see in user testing backs that up. We see that people are more than comfortable scrolling long, long pages to find what they are looking for. A quick snoop around the web will show you successful brands that are not worrying about the fold either:
Euroblog 2007 - Survey and Conference - Weblogs in Communication Management
http://www.euroblog2007.org/
Implications and Challenges for Communication Management and PR
Blog en inglés sobre asuntos sociales
informacion de blogs
manual de euroblog
Euroblog2007: Social Software-A Revolution for Communication
imlpications and Challenges for Communication Management
Informe anual de 2007 que habla de la sociedad de la informacion
Es un blog acerca de asuntos sociales
Esta pagina presenta a 400 expertos sobre la comunicacion
Implicaciones y cambios dentro de la comunicación
Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic [Stats]
http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/study-traffic-sources/
Between search engines and social media, there are a lot of different ways that people can get to your website. But which of these sources provides loyal users that come back to your site multiple times? That’s the subject of a new study by ad network Chitika, who analyzed the browsing habits of 33 million unique users over the course of September. According to their findings, FacebookFacebookFacebook provides the most loyal visitors, with 20% of those that originate from the social network in turn visiting the site they landed upon four or more times in a week. Among other social media sites, Digg traffic produced loyal users 16% of the time, while Twitter traffic was only good for 11% loyalty. In the realm of search engines, YahooYahoo!Yahoo! provides the most loyal visitors at 15%, followed by GoogleGoogleGoogle and BingBingBing with around 12% each.
bing, digg, facebook, Google, statistics, twitter, Yahoo
Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic [Stats]: Between search engines and social media, there are a l.. http://bit.ly/2lr3ER [from http://twitter.com/GoodMillwork/statuses/4659544733]
Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html?em
this is good to hear.
When things don’t add up, the mind goes into high gear.
Studie: Absurditäten rütteln die Sinne wach.
This is really interesting.
Losing To The Social Web: Visualized | Digital Buzz Blog
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/loosing-to-the-social-web-visualized/
Off-Site Content Distribution is rapidly growing, I’m talking RSS Feeds, Twitter, YouTube Channels, Facebook Fan pages and so on… All the best brands and websites now actively push their content (the same stuff you use to get from their website and still want to access) to as many various “off-site” sources and platforms as possible.So naturally this removes unique visitors from their main sites, channeling them into a maze of various networks, feeds and tweets…Oh, and ofcourse, widgets/apps – we’ve only just seen the start of these.
charts - are microsites dead
A brands website has been the single biggest "online" focus for 99% of businesses over the last 10 years apart from banner campaigns and microsites here and there, but with the evolution of social media growing at unheard of rates (Twitter is up
Brand specific sites losing traffic, social sites gaining.
I don’t think websites & microsites are dead yet. There are still years and years of usefulness ahead for them, we’ll just need to come up with better ways to connect them and their content into the social lives of customers online…
Exploding Software-Engineering Myths - Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx
Usability Study: Men Need Speed - web usability criteria show gender differences
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/usability-criteria/
The importance of download speed, for most Web users, has long been established (King 2008). Fast response times foster higher flow states (Skadberg
In a recent usability survey, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. The researchers hypothesize that these different usability criteria are due to differences in how men and women use the Web
vitesse accès conditionne utilisation services
In a survey of 301 undergraduates on the importance of different web usability criteria, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed over easy navigation (Pearson & Pearson 2008). Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. Figure 1 shows the differences among genders for the most important factors in assessing web usability.
"In a recent usability survey, researchers from Southern Illinois University found that after ease of use, men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. The researchers hypothesize that these different usability criteria are due to differences in how men and women use the Web." (via Zeldman.com)
Hand Book : Educating the Net Generation : The University of Melbourne
http://www.netgen.unimelb.edu.au/outcomes/handBook.html
The publication Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy is now available to download. The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings.
The publication Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy is now available to download. The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings.
The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings. # Cover, acknowledgments, table of contents # Executive Summary # Section 1: Brief Project Outline # Section 2: Background Literature # Section 3: Investigating the Net Generation # Section 4: Implementing Emerging Technologies # Section 5: Guidelines for Practice # Section 6: Guidelines for Policy
The Handbook is the main outcome of the Educating the Net Generation project. It provides a set of practice and policy guidelines developed from the project findings. A PDF version of the entire Handbook or individual sections can be downloaded
Plagiarism Checkers: 5 Free Websites To Catch The Copycats
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/article-checkers-5-free-websites-to-catch-the-copycats/
Rausfinden, wo die Kopien sind.
Social Media Measurement Lags Adoption - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007286
ROI
Despite widespread adoption of social media, measurement still lags. Only 16% of those polled said they currently measured ROI for their social media programs. More than four in 10 respondents did not even know whether the social tools they were using had ROI measurement capabilities.
Measuring the success of social media marketing can be difficult, but using a variety of hard and soft ROI metrics is one solution. For example, distributing a coupon via a social network and monitoring its redemption can put a concrete number on social success. And marketers can also assign a dollar value to soft metrics, such as number of fans or followers, to measure ROI.
"Despite widespread adoption of social media, measurement still lags. Only 16% of those polled said they currently measured ROI for their social media programs. More than four in 10 respondents did not even know whether the social tools they were using had ROI measurement capabilities."
Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky---its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ftechnology%2F3304496%2FBe-lucky---its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html
My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
[A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.] haha! coincidentally I was talking with Frank M about this just today..
Very interesting. I tend to dismiss "luck" as a silly non entity but would definitely file myself under "lucky" rather than "unlucky" if you made me choose. I agree entirely that being positive and dealing with what you actually have rather than what you'd like to have are useful attributes. On the intuition front I don't think most decisions matter that much - making them one way or another and getting on with it is more important than what the decision is. I guess thinking you can make things work out either way is a "lucky" kind of a thing.
Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social Networks and RSS (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/streams-feeds.html
AlertBox gives insight to how users interact with corporate streams. like Facebook, Twitter, and RSS.
According to a study of social networking postings, users like the simplicity of messages that pass into oblivion over time, but were frequently frustrated by unscannable writing, overly frequent postings, and their inability to locate companies on social networks.
Summary: Users like the simplicity of messages that pass into oblivion over time, but were frequently frustrated by unscannable writing, overly frequent postings, and their inability to locate companies on social networks.
Does your social class determine your online social network? - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/13/social.networking.class/index.html
This article questions whether social networks may maintain some of the same cultural divides as regular networks.
Does it have less to do with class and more to do with age or maturity?
Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference, and prediction. 2nd Edition.
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (2008). Springer-Verlag. Full-text PDF is free.
free online book
@dataspora: "The Elements of Statistical Learning, the authoritative text on the subject, now free at authors' site http://bit.ly/2J8WNK (ht @johndcook)" (from http://twitter.com/dataspora/status/4847621837)
Top 100 Leadership Blogs | Best Universities
http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/top-100-leadership-blogs/
분야나 상활별로 리더십에 필요한것? 을 설명하고 있다 영어 해독- _ -;
Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/
Why crazy clouds form the way they do.
Nubes extrañas y sus principios físicos subyacentes
got your head in the clouds http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/clouds/ [from http://twitter.com/wild_gift/statuses/4502481301]
Top 8 Online Tools To Identify The Owner Of A Phone Number
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-8-online-tools-to-identify-the-owner-of-a-phone-number/
From Andragogy to Heutagogy
http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec00/hase2.htm
This paper suggests there is benefit in moving from andragogy towards truly self-determined learning. The concept of truly self-determined learning, called heutagogy, builds on humanistic theory and approaches to learning described in the 1950s. It is suggested that heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability.
In something of a landmark for education Knowles (1970) suggested an important change in the way in which educational experiences for adults should be designed. The approach, known as andragogy, contrasts quite sharply with pedagogy which is the teaching of children. This paper suggests there is benefit in moving from andragogy towards truly self-determined learning. The concept of truly self-determined learning, called heutagogy, builds on humanistic theory and approaches to learning described in the 1950s. It is suggested that heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability. A number of implications of heutagogy for higher education and vocational education are discussed
Know Privacy
http://knowprivacy.org/
A comparison of users' expectations of privacy online and the data collection practices of website operators.
Approach: A comparison of users' expectations of privacy online and the data collection practices of website operators. Goal: To identify specific practices that may be harmful or deceptive and attract the attention of government regulators. Result: Recommendations for policymakers to protect consumers and for website operators to avoid stricter regulation.
research site for ghostery
The Current State of Web Privacy, Data Collection, and Information Sharing
evil!
Know Privacy: research by Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, and Ashkan Soltani, UC Berkeley School of Information, class of 2009
Lessons by Grade Level
http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/lessonsbygrade/
Social Networking Online Behavior Safety
27+ Beautiful Examples of Infographics | Dzine Blog
http://dzineblog.com/2009/10/27-beautiful-examples-of-infographics.html
5 Must-Read Social Media Marketing Studies | Social Media Examiner
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/5-must-read-social-media-marketing-studies/
Papers in Computer Science
http://papersincomputerscience.org/
Discussion of computer science publications. Embedded image coding using zerotrees of wavelet coefficients Posted by dcoetzee on July 8, 2009
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-it-wrong
"People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information."
People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.
"People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning. It’s an idea that has obvious applications for education, but could be useful for anyone who is trying to learn new material of any kind."
Reminded me that asking questions BEFORE reading the chapter is a better way to prepare students for learning.
Business Information and News: Track, Connect and Share - Tracked.com
http://www.tracked.com/
Today, we are proud to launch Tracked.com, a new kind of business service. Tracked.com is the only website in the world where business information, communications and connections come together to enhance your business life.
By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious
Top 100 Graphic Design Blogs
http://graphicdesigndegrees.org/top-100-graphic-design-blogs/
How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/how-the-iphone-is-blowing-everyone-else-away-in-charts/
Utvalg grafer som viser hvordan iPhone har fungert som lokomotiv for mobilt internett. Grafene er hentet fra Morgen Stanley analytiker Mary Meekers årlige internettanalyse
The chart overlays the first 20 quarters of user growth for each product. Only eight quarters after launch, the iPhone and iPod Touch has more than twice as many users (57 million) as imode (25 million), five times as many as Netscape (11 million), and eight times as many as AOL (7 million) at a comparable points in their histories.
t AT&Ts monthly fees. Taken together, the adoption of the iPhone and iPod Touch is outstripping the early adoption the desktop Internet, as represented by AOL and Netscape in Meekers chart below. It is also outstripping the early growth of NTT Docomos imode, which was the most successful example of the first generation of mobile Web adoption in Japan.
The first one above shows the growth of data traffic on AT&T’s mobile network. It is 50 times higher than it was just three years ago. I added two arrows to show when the first iPhone launched in June, 2007 and the iPhone 3G in July 2008. AT&T saw massive pops in data usage following those two launches as consumers discovered the unadulterated mobile Web for the first time. And it is not just the iPhone. With the ubiquity of WiFi, the iPod Touch offers pretty much the same experience without AT&T’s monthly fees. Taken together, the adoption of the iPhone and iPod Touch is outstripping the early adoption the desktop Internet, as represented by AOL and Netscape in Meeker’s chart below. It is also outstripping the early growth of NTT Docomo’s imode, which was the most successful example of the first generation of mobile Web adoption in Japan.
delicious blog » How SPEAR Identifies Domain Experts within Delicious
http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2009/08/how-spear-identifies-domain-experts-within-delicious.html
analyzing user behavior to find experts
SPEAR (Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) is a new technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their public activities on platforms like Delicious.
"A major problem of the Internet today is that finding high quality information is not easy nor fast. The steady increase of spam and junk content on the Web further complicates this challenge. Another related issue is that finding knowledgeable and trustworthy users on social platforms like Delicious is much more difficult than it should be. Wouldn’t it be nice if Delicious recommended “good” users with similar interests? Or wouldn’t it be helpful if you could get a selection of great websites on jewelry or mortgage without being overwhelmed by spam? To tackle this problem, we created the SPEAR algorithm. SPEAR (Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) is a new technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their public activities on platforms like Delicious. A great benefit of SPEAR is that it returns two very useful sets of results: first, a list of users ranked by their expertise; and second, a list of websites ranked by their quality."
good, but missing essential parts for recommendations for educational system.
SPEAR (Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) is a new technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their public activities on platforms like Delicious
Who Uses Social Networks? - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007210
Everyone knows that social networking sites are growing in popularity. Millions of individuals visit daily—or even more often. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emarketer.com%2FArticle.aspx%3FR%3D1007210
Quite a jump in the last year for the 55+ demographic
Everyone knows that social networking sites are growing in popularity. Millions of individuals visit daily&mdash;or even more often. According to the “Consumer Internet Barometer” report from TNS and
Everyone knows that social networking sites are growing in popularity. Millions of individuals visit daily—or even more often.
20 Free Keyword Research Tools – Comprehensive Insight | Graphic and Web Design Blog - Inspiration, Resources and Tools
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/20-free-keyword-research-tools-comprehensive-insight/
Note, at the end of article you’ll find also several non-SEO tools, but still which can be used seriously to optimize your site, help to choose right keywords and understand niche you are optimizing your site to! I suggest you at least visit all of these sites, so you pick your favorite tool because really all tools differentiate a little bit from each other. Enjoy this article and remember there are several more series to come soon, where I will try to explain how I do my SEO as well as link you to several more useful resources and articles you really should read!
Discount Usability: 20 Years (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/discount-usability.html
e the fight
Simple user testing with 5 participants, paper prototyping, and heuristic evaluation offer a cheap, fast, and early focus on usability, as well as many rounds of iterative design.
8 Analytics apps for Twitter
http://www.goldenblogging.com/8-analytics-apps-for-twitter/
For those who'd like to delve a little deeper in to Twitter's statistics, there are a number of handy apps you can use to analyize data. Some uses for these apps would be to track your brand name, see the data behind trending topics.
1. Twitter Stats – keywords 2. Tweetronics – Showing negative and positive tweets.3. Twitter Digest – Ranked by popularity within a 24-hour period 4. Twittas – To find out statistics about your twitter account when you will reach 1 million followers 5. Twitter Analyzer – Statistics 6. Twitter Top Twenty 7. Tweet Buzzer – Realtime statistics on brands being mentioned on twitter 8. Klout – Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph
tootls around twitter
Sysomos | In-Depth Look at the 5% of Most Active Twitter
http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter/mostactiveusers
When Sysomos published its initial "Inside Twitter" report last month that looked at the people on Twitter and how it was being used, we discovered that 5% of users accounted for 75% of all activity. This finding was based on indexing 11.5 million accounts, and then looking at the top 5% users who accounted for most number of Tweets.
We found that 32% of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots that posted more than 150 tweets/day. The actual percentage of machine-generated tweets among the most active users is probably higher than 32% because there many bots that update less than 150 times/day. Based on our previous "Inside Twitter" report and this report on the most active users, 24% or one-quarter of all tweets overall, are generated by these very active bots. Many of these bots, however, are not spam, with some examples being @diggupdates, @deliciousrecent, @imdb, @twitseeker, @rosehose, @ladyreporter, @nieuwslijstnl, @dogbook, @ combatsi. The last three on the list - news updates from Netherlands (@nieuwslijstnl), real-time updates on what pets are doing (@dogbook), and updates from Second Life game (@combatsi) - each generate more than 2,000 tweets/day and rank as the most active bots.
Machine bots ≠ SPAM. Sysomos study says 32% of tweets by most active users are by robot but includes useful services! http://bit.ly/6i2t3 [from http://twitter.com/JMaultasch/statuses/3166705193]
5% most active twitter users
The 10 best educational websites - Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6887649.ece
Times Online from the UK suggests 10 great educational web sites.
グーグルは“異形”のメーカー。ここが違う10個のポイント:ITpro
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20091015/338899/
"次期GFSが実装するマルチマスター構成は、Amazon DynamoやWindows Azureのキー・バリュー型データストア「Azure Storage」が採用済み。Amazon Dynamoはコンシステントハッシングというマルチマスター構成を採用し、Azure Storageはピア・ツー・ピア技術の基盤である「分散ハッシュテーブル」というマルチマスター構成を採用する。  Amazon DynamoやAzure Storageは、データの主たる保存先をサーバーの物理メモリーとすることで、システムの応答性を向上するというアプローチを採用している。これまで、「データの永続化」とはハードディスクにデータを保存することを指していた。しかし十分な数の複製を複数のサーバーに作成すれば、保存先がメモリーでもデータの永続化が図れるというのが、Amazon DynamoやAzure Storageの発想だ。"
Googleのすごさ
やっぱりGoogleすげーや。
The evolving face of networks | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/07/facebook-social-networks-evolutionary-graph-theory
What we do know is that more measurements need to be made, spread out over the next two to five years. According to Lieberman, the only way to predict how a social network will evolve is to construct an artificial one and track the flow of ideas within it. What is the likelihood of people forwarding on items that they receive in a social network such as Facebook (news items, links, video clips)? What is the likelihood of people responding to messages, or re-tweeting other people's tweets on Twitter? "The idea we need to explore is this: what is the likelihood that a particular stimulus within a social network leads to a particular response?" says Lieberman. "In my opinion, as we get better at measuring what happens within social networks, I predict a lot more organised marketing efforts on social networks as well as systematic influence campaigns."
What we do know is that more measurements need to be made, spread out over the next two to five years. According to Lieberman, the only way to predict how a social network will evolve is to construct an artificial one and track the flow of ideas within it. What is the likelihood of people forwarding on items that they receive in a social network such as Facebook (news items, links, video clips)? What is the likelihood of people responding to messages, or re-tweeting other people's tweets on Twitter? "The idea we need to explore is this: what is the likelihood that a particular stimulus within a social network leads to a particular response?" says Lieberman. "In my opinion, as we get better at measuring what happens within social networks, I predict a lot more organised marketing efforts on social networks as well as systematic influence campaigns."
"Laura Parker: What can evolutionary graph theory teach us about the spread of ideas on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter?"
The evolving face of social networks Laura Parker: What can evolutionary graph theory teach us about the spread of ideas on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter?
from the site: Article about Harvard graduate student Erez Lieberman, whose evolutionary graph theory is encouraging people to think about social networks in a different way: as an evolving population.
network developing and graph theory
Bits of Evidence
http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367
What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true.
Several useful statistics on what drives programmer performance and causes software projects to fail.
The Science of Retweets on Twitter | Brian Solis - PR 2.0
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/10/the-science-of-retweets-on-twitter/
retweet science
Post shows the best subjects, words, punctuation, days and times to maximize retweets.
interesting take. About Dan Zarella's report. http://twitter.com/danzarrella http://danzarrella.com/
OpenSecrets | OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData - Capital Eye
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/04/opensecretsorg-goes-opendata.html
Portal que intenta hacer pública información sobre los secretos de Washington DC
RT @cshirky: RT THIS is a big deal. OpenSecrets.org releases 200 million [gov't] data records. Today. http://bit.ly/fdXS [from http://twitter.com/danielgillval/statuses/1512025784]
Measuring Link-Bait of Articles I have flagged in the past.
OpenSecrets.org opens up its data -- feel free to mashup information on campaign finacnce, lobbying, personal finances and much more
data.australia.gov.au – beta
http://data.australia.gov.au/
data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting! Make sure you pay attention to the licence attached to the datasets you are interested in using.
data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. Like Data.gov, it has a wide variety of downloadable government data on topics such as crime, weather, and public lands--as well as some very Australian topics, such as the location and attributes of barbecues on public lands.
the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting! Make sure you pay attention to the licence attached to the datasets you are interested in using. Each licence should make clear what you can and can’t do with the data. If you’re unsure, please contact the contributing agency.
data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting! Make sure you pay attention to the licence attached to the datasets you are interested in using. Each licence should make clear what you can and can’t do with the data. If you’re unsure, please contact the contributing agency.
Why People Go Online - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007184
Home
Learning and fun top the list.
Users Place More Weight on Design
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/users-place-more-weight-on-design/
good web design keeps users
Qu'est-ce qui fait principalement fuir les visiteurs d'un site web en 2009 ? Pour 51% c'est le temps de chargement, pour 25% c'est un contenu de mauvaise qualité, et pour 24% c'est la mocheté du site. Concernant le design, c'était moins de 7% des personnes interrogées en 2007 qui fuyaient pour cause d'interface ratée.
The demand for good web design is increasing, revealed a recent Webcopyplus online poll. Almost 25% of web users indicated "poor visual presentation" as the number one element that drives them away from websites. Only 6.6% of web users who participated in a similar 2007 online poll indicated "poor visual presentation" as the main reason to abandon a website. That equates to a 267% increase during the two-year period.
web design
New evidence that bullet-points don’t work : Speaking about Presenting
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/design/new-evidence-bullet-points/
TweetedBrands
http://www.tweetedbrands.com/
50 Most mentioned brands on twitter
TweetedBrands - The most mentioned brands on Twitter
50 Most mentioned brands on twitter.
Web Ecology Project
http://webecologyproject.org/
Code Release: Language Detection and Translation
The Web Ecology Project is an interdisciplinary research group based in Boston, Massachusetts focusing on using large scale data mining to analyze the system-wide flows of culture and community online. In addition to the task of understanding culture on the web through quantitative research and rigorous experimentation, we are attempting to build a science around community management and social media. To that end, we are building tools and conducting research that enable planners to launch data-driven campaigns backed by network science. twitter archive.
Researching Quantized Social Interaction
Free Technology for Teachers: Beyond Google - Improve Your Search Results
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/10/beyond-google-improve-your-search.html
this short guide to 15 tools and strategies for helping your students (and your colleagues) improve their Internet search results
Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009
http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/professionalization-in-academy
Louis Menand outlines the changes afoot with regard to graduate education (and education in general?) and notes the danger of losing academia's contributions to social criticism and reflection.
The following excerpts, from the third and fourth chapters and his conclusion, probe the professionalization of a research-oriented professoriate and the practice and consequences of contemporary doctoral education, and the resulting implications for liberal-arts colleges, universities, and the wider society.
Quote: "A college student who has some interest in further education, but who is unsure whether she wants a career as a professor, is not going to risk investing eight or more years finding out"
Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll - Crime, UK - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/illegal-downloaders-spend-the-most-on-music-says-poll-1812776.html
People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average of £77 a year on music – £33 more than those who claim that they never download music dishonestly. The findings suggest that plans by the Secretary of State for Business, Peter Mandelson, to crack down on illegal downloaders by threatening to cut their internet connections with a "three strikes and you're out" rule could harm the music industry by punishing its core customers.
Agile User Experience Projects (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-user-experience.html
Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-methods.html Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves. # Separate design and development, and have the user interface team progress one step ahead of the implementation team. That way, when it comes time to build something, it's already been designed and tested. (And yes, you can do both in a week or two by using paper prototypes and discount user testing.) # Maintain a coherent vision of the user interface architecture. Create the initial vision during a "sprint zero" period — before any implementation has started — and maintain it through annual (or semi-annual) design vision sprints. You can't just design individual features; they have to fit together into a coherent whole — a whole that must be designed as well. Bottom-up user interface design equals a confused total user experience (the Linux syndrome).
Distributing your UX personnel doesn't mean you have to abandon all the benefits of having a centralized, specialized group. Often, a matrix structure provides a good compromise, making UX professionals part of individual projects on a day-to-day basis, but still offering some company-wide coordination.
Nothing new, but fun to throw at the suits - "Clearly, Agile is considerably better than the old Waterfall method. Good riddance to that one. However, the professionals in our new study still felt that Iterative Design was marginally better than Agile"
Social Isolation and New Technology | Pew Internet & American Life Project
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/18--Social-Isolation-and-New-Technology.aspx
This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People’s use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people’s full personal network – their strong and weak ties – internet use in general and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular are associated with more diverse social networks.
his report adds new insights to an ongoing debate about the extent of social isolation in America. A widely-reported 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated, the size of their discussion networks has declined, and the diversity of those people with whom they discuss important matters has decreased. In particular, the study found that Americans have fewer close ties to those from their neighborhoods and from voluntary associations. Sociologists Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears suggest that new technologies, such as the internet and mobile phone, may play a role in advancing this trend. Specifically, they argue that the type of social ties supported by these technologies are relatively weak and geographically dispersed, not the strong, often
An interesting report on the changing landscape of social connections.
Can we get on Pew's press release list so we don't have to read about their studies in NY times?
Free Technology for Teachers: 9 Resources for Website Evaluation Lessons
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/11/9-resources-for-website-evaluation.html
Here are nine resources that teachers can use as part of lesson plan about evaluating the quality and reliability of a website.
cybersmart very good for specific grade levels and Bary library for hints for middle school kids #2
BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8339647.stm
@tommorris: "Oh my, justification at last: http://is.gd/4Pdl0" (from http://twitter.com/tommorris/status/5493288033)
I like this
'A grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies".'
In a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you.
n "promotes information processing strategies". Negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world Professor Joe Forgas He asked volunteers to watch different films and dwell on positive or negative events
MediaPost Publications 8% of Internet Users Account for 85% of all Clicks 10/13/2009
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=115210&lfe=1
I've long given up on page-views as a major metric. Now I have back-up for cutting clicks down to size. Upshot: Be careful what you measure.
Startups.com | Your Business. Your Questions.
http://startups.com/
Stop wasting your time trying to find the right answer for your business questions. You’re not alone. We know you have business questions that need to be answered right now. That’s why we’ve put together a great team of Hosts composed of successful entrepreneurs, seasoned businesspeople, academics, advisors, and many more willing to give you a hand. Not only that, our community of users will be available to give you their best answer to any question you might have. With all these people ready to answer all your questions, it would be difficult to not find the answer to the business question that’s eating your brain. Don’t forget to give those that need help an answer, there’re plenty to go around, and more than likely you know the answer to a couple. At Startups.com you’ll find your business question answered within minutes. Useful answers, fast and free.
8 Questions to Ask BEFORE Hiring a Financial Planner ∞ Get Rich Slowly
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/04/16/8-questions-to-ask-before-hiring-a-financial-planner/
important feedback in the comments, good stuff
Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study -- Fowler and Christakis 337: a2338 -- BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338
"Clusters of happy and unhappy people are visible in the network, and the relationship between people’s happiness extends up to three degrees of separation (for example, to the friends of one’s friends’ friends). People who are surrounded by many happy people and those who are central in the network are more likely to become happy in the future. Longitudinal statistical models suggest that clusters of happiness result from the spread of happiness and not just a tendency for people to associate with similar individuals. A friend who lives within a mile (about 1.6 km) and who becomes happy increases the probability that a person is happy by 25% (95% confidence interval 1% to 57%). Similar effects are seen in coresident spouses (8%, 0.2% to 16%), siblings who live within a mile (14%, 1% to 28%), and next door neighbours (34%, 7% to 70%). Effects are not seen between coworkers. The effect decays with time and with geographical separation."
Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart - life - 02 November 2009 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.000-clever-fools-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html?full=true
The differences between rational thinking and intelligence.
Is George W. Bush stupid? It's a question that occupied a good many minds of all political persuasions during his turbulent eight-year presidency. The strict answer is no. Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which suggests an intelligence in the top 10 per cent of the population. But this, surely, does not tell the whole story. Even those sympathetic to the former president have acknowledged that as a thinker and decision-maker he is not all there. Even his loyal speechwriter David Frum called him glib, incurious and "as a result ill-informed".
DMLcentral
http://dmlcentral.net/
DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another.
"Digital Media and Learning"
digital media and learning: the power of participation
oday, at the forum on Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, being hosted by the Sesame Workshop at Google headquarters, we are announcing the launch of a major new research initiative in digital media and learning (DML) and its associated website. Based at the University of California Humanities Research Institute in Irvine, California, the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub is generously supported by the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative. The Research Hub, for which I serve as Executive Director and Mimi Ito the Research Director, intersects work promoting and networking collaborative efforts to understand and assess the participatory ways in which digital media are transforming youth learning practices and lifelong learning opportunities.…
This site is about collaboration, conversation and exploration in Digital Media and Learning. Join the conversation.
New York Times - Linked Open Data
http://data.nytimes.com/
For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data. The Data The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions.
People subject headings for New York Times
data.nytimes.com For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data. The Data The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions.
The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions.
data.nytimes.com For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data. The Data The New York Times has published 5,000 people subject headings as linked open data under a CC BY license. We provide both RDF documents and a human-friendly HTML versions.
20 + mind-blowing social media statistics | Blog | Econsultancy
http://econsultancy.com/blog/4327-20-+-mind-blowing-social-media-statistics
Social media remains the hot topic of the digital world and I often get asked about the various statistics involved. This in itself is fairly difficult, as this particular online sphere is constantly shifting, evolving and growing at an astronomical rate. But I’ve pulled together some interesting (and hopefully useful) data for a couple of the bigger players in the market...
econsultancy - interesting social media stats
20 + mind-blowing social media statistics | Blog | Econsultancy
http://econsultancy.com/blog/4327-20-+-mind-blowing-social-media-statistics
Social media remains the hot topic of the digital world and I often get asked about the various statistics involved. This in itself is fairly difficult, as this particular online sphere is constantly shifting, evolving and growing at an astronomical rate. But I’ve pulled together some interesting (and hopefully useful) data for a couple of the bigger players in the market...
FEED
http://feed.razorfish.com/
Razorfish's new report on Digital Brand Experience
11/09
Razorfish research - via Paul RO
40% of People "Friend" Brands on Facebook
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/survey_brands_making_big_impact_on_facebook_twitter.php
reaosns, news etc
By http://bit.ly/Tweets2Delicious
Digital marketing company Razorfish has just launched its third annual FEED survey of 1,000 "connected consumers." The survey is focused on online consumer behavior. This year Facebook and ...
40% of People "Friend" Brands on Facebook
[Follow for the deals/discounts... instread of a love for them. Is that really so surprising?] This year Facebook and Twitter feature prominently. 40% of respondents "friended" brands on Facebook, while 25% reported following brands on Twitter. What's more, Razorfish found that consumers access brands on Twitter and Facebook mainly for deals and promotions.
News Innovation |  New Business Models
http://newsinnovation.com/models/
business models for journalists, courtesy of CUNY and Jeff Jarvis
CUNY: "We have developed four business models for a new news ecosystem. The question we attempt to answer: What happens to journalism in a top-25 metro market if a newspaper fades away. Can journalism be sustained? And how?"
We have developed four business models for a new news ecosystem. The question we attempt to answer: What happens to journalism in a top-25 metro market if a newspaper fades away. Can journalism be sustained? And how?
Donald Clark Plan B: 10 facts about learning that are scientifically proven and interesting for teachers
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2008/05/10-facts-about-learning-that-are.html
Usability News 112 - Shaikh
http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/112/typeface.asp
Summary. This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and handwriting classes) using semantic differential scales. Responses are shown by typeface class and individual typeface using scaled scores. These results are helpful to practitioners when deciding which typeface to use for online text.
Survey results of typefaces and their usability.
user reponses to web typefaces
40 onscreen typefaces for useability
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web (Chromium Developer Documentation)
http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
@kasthomas: "SPDY, Google's answer to HTTP http://3.ly/Qbp" (from http://twitter.com/kasthomas/status/5693351096)
pskomoroch's dataset Bookmarks on Delicious
http://delicious.com/pskomoroch/dataset
Resource list of public datasets
Pew Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/6--The-Internets-Role-in-Campaign-2008.aspx
Statistical findings from a Pew survey, showing the percentage of internet users that used online sources to get information on the 2008 election. The survey shows how many users shared information through blogs, watched political videos online, shared political content online through e-mail, and used social networking sites to get involved.
This research summary from the Pew Internet & American Life Project provides some interesting insights into who used the Internet during the 2008 presidential campaign and how they used it. In short, the researchers note a significant jump in the number of people seeking information about candidates online rather than from radio or print, not to mention the level of engagement (two-sided interaction with the information) these users demanded. The most intriguing part of the research is perhaps unwritten: The shift in methods of civic engagement highlighted by this report points to the importance of studying--and more importantly teaching--new media/literacies.
This article is an overview of internet usage patterns in relation to the 2008 US Election campaign. It statistically analyses who went online to get involved in the political process.
Tutkimustuloksia Internetin roolista USA:n vaalikampanjassa. Mistä kansalaiset hakivat tietoa jne.
100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips - Online Colleges
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/11/11/100-excellent-open-access-journals-for-educators/
Education journals
How Search Engines Work - Search Engine Watch (SEW)
http://searchenginewatch.com/2168031
How search engines work, including the difference between crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. Explanation of what a spider is and how it crawls web pages.
STUDY: Most Fortune 100 Companies Don't Get Twitter
http://mashable.com/2009/11/17/fortune-100-companies-twitter/
the majority of them weren’t using Twitter effectively to engage their followers, weren’t tweeting often, and didn’t display any personality in their tweets, according to the study.
A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/a-speculative-post-on-the-idea-of-algorithmic-authority/
one of the things up for grabs in the current news environment is the nature of authority. In particular, I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia (in its ‘breaking news’ mode.). Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.”
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority differs from personal or institutional authority, and has, I think, three critical characteristics.
We were talking about authority and trust the other day in class after Angela's presentation on medical diagnoses - here's a new post from Clay Shirky on the topic - worth reading.
Invité à réagir à l'évolution des médias, Clay Shirky explique que la transformation majeure dans l'environnement de l'information repose sur la nature de l'autorité. En quelques années, par l'intermédiaire de nouveaux outils de filtrage et d'agrégation, nos autorités ont changé. Et de définir l'autorité algorithmique nouvelle par trois caractéristiques : il utilise des sources multiples et les combine pour les classer ; ces résultats étant suffisamment bons, les gens lui font confiance ; enfin, les gens se rendent compte que nombreux sont ceux qui font confiance à ces résultats ce qui les aide à adopter ces nouvelles autorités (comme Wikipédia).
PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop | The Web Life | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=965
RT @jamesladd: Oh My Gosh - Awesome http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=965 [from http://twitter.com/Velona/statuses/4648064485]
This link is a blog post on Ziff Davis.com about an upcoming software program that it takes a rough, hand-drawn sketch, scours the web for photos that match, and runs them through an algorithm, stitching it all together. There's a 3 minute 43 second video embedded on the blog post that illustrates the capability of this program developed by Chinese students. It's pretty amazing.
it takes a rough, hand-drawn sketch, scours the web for photos that match, and runs them through an algorithm, stitching it all together.
2009-10-13 17:50:55 <eve> http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=965
How to Manage a Group Project in Google Wave - Google Wave - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5407183/how-to-manage-a-group-project-in-google-wave
another new gadget to investigate
"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html
Some in the room might immediately think, "Ah, but it's a meritocracy. People will give their attention to what is best!" This too is mistaken logic. What people give their attention to depends on a whole set of factors that have nothing to do with what's best. At the most simplistic level, consider the role of language. People will pay attention to content that is in their language, even if they can get access to content in any language. This means Chinese language content will soon get more attention than English content, let alone Dutch content or Hebrew content.
In his seminal pop-book, Csikszentmihalyi argued that people are happiest when they can reach a state of "flow." He talks about performers and athletes who are in the height of their profession, the experience they feel as time passes by and everything just clicks. People reach a state where attention appears focused and, simultaneously, not in need of focus at the same time. The world is aligned and it just feels right.
As we continue to move from a broadcast model of information to a networked one, we will continue to see reworkings of the information landscape. Some of what is unfolding is exciting, some is terrifying. The key is not be all utopian or dystopian about it, but to recognize what changes and what stays the same. The future of Web2.0 is about information flow and if you want to help people, help them reach that state. Y'all are setting the tone of the future of information.
Via Jon Stahl - very interesting stuff
essay
What is Pivot?
http://getpivot.com/
Here at Live Labs we’re all about experiments, and Pivot is our most ambitious to date. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web.
PaperCube - Peter Bergström
http://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/
"PaperCube is a new experimental tool exploring the visual navigation of academic citation networks."
Terrific visualization tool for exploring connections between authors and citations.
Incredibly pertinent on bibliometry. Nice.
Lesson Plans and Student Activity Sheets
http://cybersmartcurriculum.org/researchinfo/lessons/
"CyberSmart! original, nonsequential standards-based lesson plans and student activity sheets actively engage students in making good search decisions and in evaluating the resources they encounter online. "
Original, nonsequential standards-based lesson plans and student activity sheets that actively engage students in making good search decisions and in evaluating the resources they encounter online.
Lesson plans and activites for grade k-12.
Cybersmart lessons...a number of high school lessons are "in development" but look very useful once completed.
Cambridge University Engineering Department - Qi Pan
http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/my_papers/BMVC09/
"(a) Object rotated by hand in front of camera. (b) Point cloud obtained from on-line structure from motion estimation followed by bundle adjustment. (c) Delaunay Tetrahedralisation of point cloud, partitioning the convex hull into tetrahedra. (d) Carved mesh obtained from recursive probabilisitic tetrahedron carving. (e) Texture-mapped surface mesh." COOL BUT THE CARVING MISSES SOME EDGES
Welcome to Elefant — Elefant
http://elefant.developer.nicta.com.au/
Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit
Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit) is an open source library for machine learning licensed under the Mozilla Public License
Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale Inference, and Optimisation Toolkit) is an open source library for machine learning licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
Perfecting User Experience Design with A/B Testing - Freelance Web Design Belfast Northern Ireland - Lee Munroe
http://www.leemunroe.com/ab-testing/
Some great recources for A/B-Testing
Pixel Poppers: Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement
http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html
As I grew older, this conclusion lay dormant and unexamined in my mind. RPGs continued to be my favorite genre. I relished the opportunity to watch interesting, lovable characters develop and interact in epic storylines. (Comparatively interesting and lovable, anyway - say what you will about Cecil, but his quest for redemption revealed a lot more depth than Mega Man's quest to shoot up some robots.) And I loved feeling like a hero. I saved the world in Final Fantasy IV, again in Lufia II, then again in Chrono Trigger.
The Boom of Social Sites | Other | Focus.com
http://www.focus.com/fyi/other/boom-social-sites/
The explosion of social networking sites over the past decade has facilitated a transformation in the way we communicate with each other. Here we look at some of these communities with over 1 million users, both active and defunct.
gráfico con número de usuarios de las redes sociales desde el comienzo
Infographic of various social sites, dates est and members
SHODAN - Computer Search Engine
http://shodan.surtri.com/
Computer Search Engine
SHODAN lets you find servers/ routers/ etc. The data in the index covers web servers, FTP, Telnet and SSH services.
SHODAN lets you find servers/ routers/ etc. by using the simple search bar up above. Most of the data in the index covers web servers at the moment, but there is some data on FTP, Telnet and SSH services as well. Let me know which services interest you the most and I'll prioritize them in my scanning.
Penn Gazette | Essays | Notes from the Undergrad
http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1109/expert.html
Yawn It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain.
It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain.
"My advice is simple. Yawn as many times a day as possible: when you wake up, when you’re confronting a difficult problem at work, when you prepare to go to sleep, and whenever you feel anger, anxiety, or stress. Yawn before giving an important talk, yawn before you take a test, and yawn while you meditate or pray because it will intensify your spiritual experience."
Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1230413
Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012. Gartner listed applications based on their impact on consumers and industry players, considering revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration.
Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012
No. 1: Money Transfer No. 2: Location-Based Services No. 3: Mobile Search No. 4: Mobile Browsing No. 5: Mobile Health Monitoring No. 6: Mobile Payment No. 7: Near Field Communication Services No. 8: Mobile Advertising No. 9: Mobile Instant Messaging No. 10: Mobile Music
Half of Social Media Users Connect With Brands
http://mashable.com/2009/08/31/social-media-brands/
Marketers may be adopting social media in droves, but are consumers reciprocating by following or becoming a fan of companies and brands on social media sites?
A study published today by eMarketer, more than half of social networking users have become a fan or follower of a brand online. Moreover, users are far more likely to say something positive about a brand than something negative.
Royal Society
http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/
3.5 centuries of science in an interactive timeline
A brit tudományos akadémia 2010-ben ünnepli alapításának 350. évfordulóját, ebből az alkalomból egy időszalagon elhelyezve számos történelmi jelentőségű publikációját hozta nyilvánosságra. - *http://ow.ly/HbMZ
Interactive Science TimeLine
trendwatching.com's December 2009 Trend Briefing covering "10 CRUCIAL CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2010"
http://trendwatching.com/trends/10trends2010/
82 Million User-Generated Content Creators and Counting
http://mashable.com/2009/02/19/user-generated-content-growth/
WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey Results
http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey2/
In October 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. This was a follow-up survey to a previous survey. We received 665 valid responses to the screen reader user survey.
Study: Males vs. females in social networks | Royal Pingdom
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/11/27/study-males-vs-females-in-social-networks/
Have you ever wondered how many of Twitter’s users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere? We have tracked down this information for a number of social network sites (19 of them). All the major ones have been included, like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and also some of the most popular social news sites; Digg, Reddit and Slashdot.
Kevin: The male-female ration on 19 social network sites including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and social news sites like Digg, Reddit and Slashdot.
Full list of sites in this mini study: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Imeem, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com, Bebo.
STATS: Social Media Resistance Is Fading Fast
http://mashable.com/2009/08/26/social-media-brand-marketers/
Recently, Mashable highlighted a study that showed two-thirds of marketers now use social media in some capacity. Today, more data confirming this trend, but also pointing to what looks poised to be nearly total saturation within a year. According to a report published today by eMarketer, 59% of brand marketers currently use social media. But within 12 months, that number will swell to 82%. And in the long-run, only 13% indicate having no plans to enter the medium.
Our Documents - Home
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
8th Grade history -- US documents
Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available.
history research
Jalopnik Car Care: How To Decode Your Car's VIN
http://jalopnik.com/5165656/how-to-decode-your-cars-vin
How To Decode Your Car's VIN - How To Decode A VIN
Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory
http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/eureqa
Eureqa is a software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Its primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data. Eureqa is free to download and use. Below you will find the program download, video tutorial, user forum, and other and reference materials.
"Eureqa is a software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data."
Eureqa is a software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Its primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data. Eureqa is free to download and use.
It's just what I've always wanted! Thank you!
Uses GA to discover the most likely equation behind your pile of data. Very pretty.
FindABetterBank - A free, unbiased tool to compare banks in the US
http://www.findabetterbank.com/
laboratory tests of vegan restaurants in la | vegan food and living in Los Angeles
http://www.quarrygirl.com/2009/06/28/undercover-investigation-of-la-area-vegan-restaurants/
Citizen journalism digs deep into whether LA vegan restaurants actually are vegan
eat from a manufacturer in Taiwan. It’s produced for the Taiwanese and Chinese vegetarian market then re-labeled for export, often to the USA. I do know of times when things have been labelled incorrectly, but I do my best to make sure that what they send me is what they say it is.”
Operation Pancake tests food from vegan restaurants around LA - and discovers some disturbing stuff about processed food from Taiwan in the followup.
Operation Pancake: Undercover investigation of LA vegan restaurants
Designing the ultimate wayfinding typeface | Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog
http://opentype.info/blog/2009/09/02/designing-the-ultimate-wayfinding-typeface/
First type article I've read in ages that doens't leave me thinking that I'm just a font snob
Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools
http://www.honeytechblog.com/top-50-twitter-tracking-and-analytics-tools/
Good list of twitter analytics tools
vLane.com: Accelerate your car search
http://vlane.com/
a search engine of car
similar to carmony.co.uk
BBC News - Children who use technology are 'better writers'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8392653.stm
Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust. A survey of 3,001 children aged nine to 16 found that 24% had their own blog and 82% sent text messages at least once a month. In addition 73% used instant messaging services to chat online with friends. However, 77% still put real pen to paper to write notes in class or do their school homework. Of the children who neither blogged nor used social network sites, 47% rated their writing as "good" or "very good", while 61% of the bloggers and 56% of the social networkers said the same. "Our research suggests a strong correlation between kids using technology and wider patterns of reading and writing," Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, told BBC News. "Engagement with online technology drives their enthusiasm for writing short stories, letters, song lyrics or diaries." Mr Douglas dismissed criticisms about the inf
Children who use technology are 'better writers'
Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.
12.02.2008 - EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml
News from UC Berkeley
In a study recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, scientists at UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the School of Public Health report that normal 9- and 10-year-olds differing only in socioeconomic status have detectable differences in the response of their prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is critical for problem solving and creativity.
EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 02 December 2008
Beware Social Media Snake Oil - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_50/b4159048693735.htm
Hordes of marketing &quot;experts&quot; are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools
Hordes of marketing "experts" are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools
This is why claiming to be an "expert" in social media is not an option - I had a love/hate response while reading this article.
For business, the rising popularity of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media Web sites presents a tantalizing opportunity. As millions of people flock to these online services to chat, flirt, swap photos, and network, companies have the chance to tune in to billions of digital conversations.
Their pronouncements follow a rigid gospel: Be transparent, engage with your customers, break down silos. Yet these strictures don't always make business sense.
What Women Want from Social Sites - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007231
Women who are core social network users expect a lot, according to “The Power of Social Networking For Women Research Study” from female-oriented social networking site ShesConnected. Participants in
Only Collect « a historian’s craft
http://idlethink.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/only-collect/
The work is: Only Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You're five years old. Don't presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it's just one line saying "Never read this again"; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge. And the higher, civilizing impulse that kicks in after the fact is organization, or librarianship.
his should be a fledgling historian’s maxim & I wish someone had told me this earlier. When you start out studying history — when you begin as a graduate historian, you are nothing; you are not even the history books you’ve already read, because you’ve probably misunderstood or not appreciated some fundamental aspect of them.
I've long held this philosophy. "You’re five years old. Don’t presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book you read, even if it’s just one line saying “Never read this again”; collect newspaper clippings and email them to yourself; collect quotes; save your ideas for future papers, future projects, future conferences, even if they seem wildly implausible now. Hoarding must become instinctual, it must be an uncontrollable, primal urge."
"Here, there’s one more point I could make: time fine-tunes your collecting habits. You are a predator of sources. Over time, things will start to jump out at you. For a lionness in the savannah on the hunt, the merest movement in the grass is a stimulus to action, but she has learned to distinguish between the random twitches of the landscape and the presence of prey. In the library and the archive, the hunt is as much a matter of skill as of instinct. In short, until you’re an adult lion, jump at everything"
Cold Sore Virus Linked To Alzheimer's Disease: New Treatment, Or Even Vaccine Possible
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081207134109.htm
"The virus behind cold sores is a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers, University of Manchester researchers have revealed."
s disease puts out the welcome mat for the virus that
The virus behind cold sores is a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers, University of Manchester researchers have revealed. They believe the herpes simplex virus is a significant factor in developing the debilitating disease and could be treated by antiviral agents such as acyclovir, which is already used to treat cold sores and other diseases caused by the herpes virus. Another future possibility is vaccination against the virus to prevent the development of the disease in the first place. The team discovered that the HSV1 DNA is located very specifically in amyloid plaques: 90% of plaques in Alzheimer's disease sufferers' brains contain HSV1 DNA, and most of the viral DNA is located within amyloid plaques. The team had previously shown that HSV1 infection of nerve-type cells induces deposition of the main component, beta amyloid, of amyloid plaques.
MediaPost Publications Social Media Fails To Manifest As Marketing Medium, Report Likens Twitter To TiVo: More Hype Than Reality 05/20/2009
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=106445
marketing medium
Good stats on actual usuage of Twitter, drop off rates, etc.
Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read - Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/20/digital-youth-projec.html
The conclusions are sane, compassionate, and compelling: in a nutshell, the "serious" stuff we all hope kids will do online (researching papers and so on) are only possible within a framework of "hanging out, messing around and geeking out." That is to say, all the "time-wasting" social stuff kids do online are key to their explorations and education online.
"hanging out, messing around and geeking out."
Comment from Cory Doctorow on the Digital Youth Project, publishing results of the ethnographic study of kids use on Internet.
Rethinking artificial intelligence
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/ai-overview.html
Broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
ai
Proyecto del MIT que busca rescatar algunas investigaciones en inteligencia artificial de hace 50 años, para conformar nuevo proyecot MMP
"This time, they are determined to get it right — and, with the advantages of hindsight, experience, the rapid growth of new technologies and insights from the new field of computational neuroscience, they think they have a good shot at it."
Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_semantic_web_products_of_2009.php
"The 10 products we've picked out for this end-of-year review are ones that have done interesting things with data. Connecting to other data, building new applications with data, sharing data, and more. These 10 products may not be the type of Semantic Web apps that the W3C envisaged in the 90s, but that no longer seems to matter. What's important is that the Web is becoming more meaningful - more semantic."
Facebook Plans to Make Money by Selling Your Data - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_sells_your_data.php
facebook make money
College Crunch - School Research, Degree Options, Career Planning, University & College Reviews
http://www.collegecrunch.org/
f you are like most college students, you want to have a second set of eyes look over…
School Research, Degree Options, Career Planning, University & College Reviews
like the layout
The best college resource online ever -- according to the website.
Unique way to use wordpress recommended by Randa Clay
Morgan Stanley - Institutional Services
http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html
More detail on Mobile than the Oct 09 Internet Report.
Our global technology and telecom analysts set out to do a deep dive into the rapidly changing mobile Internet market. We wanted to create a data-rich, theme-based framework for thinking about how the market may develop. We intend to expand and edit the framework as the market evolves. A lot has changed since we published “The Internet Report” in 1995 on the web. We decided to create The Mobile Internet Report largely in PowerPoint and publish it on the web, expecting that bits and pieces of it will be cut / pasted / redistributed and debated / dismissed / lauded. Our goal is to get our thoughts and data into the conversation about what may be the biggest technology trend ever, one that may help make us all more informed in ways that are unique to the web circa 2009, and beyond.
The Mobile Internet Report December 2009
Introducing the ReadWriteWeb Guide to Online Community Management - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/introducing_the_readwriteweb_guide_to_online_commu.php
@marshallk: ".@clarkkaren our Guide to Online Community Management was well received http://bit.ly/tv1fZ" (from http://twitter.com/marshallk/status/5453618012)
Publication américaine sur le management d'une communauté Mai 2009 299dollars
does Josh have this?
42 Million U.S. Women Use Social Media: Blogs Most Influential | Small Business Trends
http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/05/42-million-women-use-social-media-blogs.html
An interesting study.
"The study found that 42 million women in the United States (roughly 53% of the 79 million adult women in the United States who use the Internet) participate in social media at least weekly. As they spend more time with social media, women are spending correspondingly less time with traditional media: 39% less on newspapers, 36% less time reading magazines, and 30% less time watching TV."
Women spending more time with social media sites, less with newspaper, magazines and TV
The study found that 42 million women in the United States (roughly 53% of the 79 million adult women in the United States who use the Internet) participate in social media at least weekly. As they spend more time with social media, women are spending correspondingly less time with traditional media: 39% less on newspapers, 36% less time reading magazines, and 30% less time watching TV.
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery Presenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science
Gray
In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, the collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized.
Free eBook of essays on "Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery" : "Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets."
http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf
http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf
A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy
BY ALISON J. HEAD, PH.D. AND MICHAEL B. EISENBERG, PH.D. PROJECT INFORMATION LITERACY PROGRESS REPORT DECEMBER 1, 2009 THE INFORMATION SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON RESEARCH SPONSORED BY A GIFT FROM PROQUEST
How college students seek information in the digital ageis a report of findings from 2318 US students, surveyed in spring 2009 that seeks to understand how students search for information and approach research-type activities.
A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy. Respondents, while curious in the beginning stages of research, employed a consistent and predictable research strategy fwere conducting course-related or everyday life research.
A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy. Respondents, while curious in the beginning stages of research, employed a consistent and predictable research strategy for finding information, whether they were conducting course-related or everyday life research. Almost all of the respondents turned to the same set of tried and true information resources in the initial stages of research, regardless of their information goals. Almost all students used course readings and Google first for course-related research and Google and Wikipedia for everyday life research. Most students used library resources, especially scholarly databases for course-related research and far fewer, in comparison, used library services that required interacting with librarians.
A List Apart: Articles: Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2008
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/findingsfromthewebdesignsurvey2008
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more **
If we, the people who make websites, want the world to know who we are and what we do, it’s up to each of us to stand up and represent. Last year, 30,055 of you did just that, taking time out of your busy day to answer the sometimes detailed and often thought-provoking questions in the second A List Apart Survey.
If we, the people who make websites, want the world to know who we are and what we do, it’s up to each of us to stand up and represent.
** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** If we, the people who make websites, want the world to know who we are and what we do, it's up to each of us to stand up and repre
"This year’s findings paint a clearer picture of the distinctions between full-time and freelance web professionals: how you work, what you earn, and what you love about the job. "
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Single molecule's stunning image
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8225491.stm
whoa dude
RT @justinvincent Single molecule's stunning image http://bit.ly/rcsbq [from http://twitter.com/CollinVanUden/statuses/3614397312]
The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers.
The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time, say researchers. The physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar techniques - but the new method even shows up chemical bonds. Understanding structure on this scale could help in the design of many things on the molecular scale, particularly electronics or even drugs. The IBM researchers report their findings in the journal Science.
若い女性が多く見ているサイトは?--ビデオリサーチ調査:ニュース - CNET Japan
http://japan.cnet.com/news/media/story/0,2000056023,20394257,00.htm
F1層(女性20~34歳)の含有率
Department for Culture Media and Sport - final report
http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/broadcasting/6216.aspx
final report Digital Britain: The Final Report - 16 June 2009
The Digital Britain Report is the Government's strategic vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy. It is an example of industrial activism in a crucial growth sector. The report contains actions and recommendations to ensure first rate digital and communications infrastructure to promote and protect talent and innovation in our creative industries, to modernize TV and radio frameworks, and support local news, and it introduces policies to maximize the social and economic benefits from digital technologies.
Department for Culture Media and Sport - final report
Most Bizarre Experiments Of All Time | MagazineTimePass
http://www.magazinetimepass.com/oddities/most-bizarre-experiments-of-all-time
The Site is Now Missing (as of 10 march 2009) But Lucky i annotated most of the part , so click on the Expand and read from ther Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.magazinetimepass.com%2Foddities%2Fmost-bizarre-experiments-of-all-time
How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/createwithcontext/how-people-really-use-the-iphone-presentation?type=powerpoint
By Bill Westerman (Principal, Create With Context). "How people really use the iPhone", an interesting readout of design issues and recommendations for people designing for the iPhone and beyond.
How to Get the Most Out of Social Networks and Not Annoy Users - Advertising Age - Digital
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=136233
"The constant barrage of invites to sign up for this group or download that app are starting to wear on social-network users, presenting big challenges for the brands and marketers who are looking to use these sites to aggregate fans and cultivate relationships with customers."
The constant barrage of invites to sign up for this group or download that app are starting to wear on social-network users.
AKQA had success with a Marmite group on Facebook. The savory spread's advertising message is "Love it or hate it," so the group works well as a discussion topic for social networkers. Fans post recipes, discuss weird and wonderful ways to enjoy the sticky black spread, tell tales of conversion to the taste and share frustrations about not being able to purchase it outside the U.K. Too often, Mr. Beattie said, advertising on social networks is "still a traditional interruptive approach where brands are piggybacking on content that people value." The IAB research found that exclusive content, which appeals to 28% of social networkers, and a genuine interest in the message, which attracts 37%, are the keys to a positive response from consumers on social networks. And because only 5% say that they actively dislike messages from brands, there are big opportunities for marketers who can hit the right notes
Berkman Publication Series - Media Re:public - Home
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/mediarepublic/
The transformation of the media world is well underway, facilitated by the spread of digital tools. A myriad of innovative new media organizations have sprung up to take advantage of the opportunities that stem from low-cost distribution networks. Meanwhile the economic base of many of the large media companies continues to erode.
a series of papers exploring the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment
Transformation of the media into the digital world.
The transformation of the media world is well underway, facilitated by the spread of digital tools. A myriad of innovative new media organizations have sprung up to take advantage of the opportunities that stem from low-cost distribution networks. Meanwhile the economic base of many of the large media companies continues to erode. Despite the demonstrated success of many new media enterprises, the euphoria over the rise of participatory media has been tempered by concerns over the quality and credibility of online media, the possible fragmentation of audiences, a decline in editorial standards and the persistent challenge of effectively reporting the news. Over the past year, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society have reached out to a broad range of media experts to help in this assessment of the changes in new media over the past several years and to take a sober look at the successes and ongoing challenges.
Twitter’s 1,928 Percent Growth and Other Notable Social Media Stats
http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/twitter-june-2009-growth/
Earlier this month, we looked at some numbers from Web tracking firm Compete, showing the current growth (or lack thereof) at many of the companies we cover.
New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars
Given these numbers, the authors estimate that even a moderate-sized botnet of 10,000 machines could successfully obtain identity verifications for younger residents of West Virginia at a rate of 47 a minute.
Two researchers have found that a pair of antifraud methods intended to increase the chances of detecting bogus social security numbers has actually allowed the statistical reconstruction of the number using information that many people place on social networking sites.
How People Share Online Video - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007111
Online video in the US is now as big as network TV.
"Digital WOM (...) Suddenly video was an open, consumer-driven platform, with virtually no cost of entry. As a result, online video moved from niche to mass market, and in the process became one of the fastest-growing media platforms in history. "
How to Succeed at Anything « Aran at Grad School
http://littlecomputerscientist.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/how-to-succeed-at-anything/
How to Succeed at Programming
How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert | Webdesigner Depot
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/12/how-to-find-anything-online-become-an-internet-research-expert/
Zero Intelligence Agents » Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists
http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=1614
will send it to Chopy
"If you conduct social science research but are desperately clinging onto your SAS, SPSS or Matlab licenses; waiting for someone to convince you of R’s value, please allow me to be the first to try".
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Can We Please Kill This Meme Now
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2006/05/can_we_please_k.html
"You miss the time-consuming but enriching act of looking through shelves, of pulling down a book because the title interests you, or the binding... Looking for something and being surprised by what you find - even if it's not what you set out looking for - is one of life's great pleasures, and so far no software exists that can duplicate that experience." I find these arguments completely infuriating. Do these people actually use the web? I find vastly more weird, unplanned stuff online than I ever did browsing the stacks as a grad student. Browsing the stacks is one of the most overrated and abused examples in the canon of things-we-used-to-do-that-were-so-much-better. (I love the whole idea of pulling down a book because you like the "binding.") Thanks to the connective nature of hypertext, and the blogosphere's exploratory hunger for finding new stuff, the web is the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture.
I'm with ya Steven. People (myself included) usually want to find *more* meaning in their lives, not less. To suggest I need more distractions, more tangental, accidental experiences, and a further lack of focus, meaning, and clarity, is insane.
Serendipity isn't dead online.
Serendipity is not randomness, not noise. It's stumbling across something accidentally that is nonetheless of interest to you. The web is much better at capturing that mix of surprise and relevance than book stacks or print encyclopedias. Does everyone use the web this way? Of course not. But it's much more of a mainstream pursuit than randomly exploring encyclopedias or library stacks ever was. That's the irony of the debate: the thing that is being mourned has actually gone from a fringe experience to a much more commonplace one in the culture. Boingboing has a million readers, for crissakes! Right now, on their front door, we have a study of monkey drinking habits, a roadsite alert sign hacking project, a "news of the weird" story about a German would-be suicide, a re-writing of Robinson Crusoe, a collection of vintage cartoons, a digital mapmaking tool, and so on and so on. And this eclecticism is what you get every day there -- which is precisely why it is the most linked-to blog
Serendipity is not randomness, not noise. It's stumbling across something accidentally that is nonetheless of interest to you. The web is much better at capturing that mix of surprise and relevance than book stacks or print encyclopedias.
Thanks to the connective nature of hypertext, and the blogosphere's exploratory hunger for finding new stuff, the web is the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture. It is far, far easier to sit down in front of your browser and stumble across something completely brilliant but surprising than it is walking through a library looking at the spines of books.
I find these arguments completely infuriating. Do these people actually use the web? I find vastly more weird, unplanned stuff online than I ever did browsing the stacks as a grad student. Browsing the stacks is one of the most overrated and abused examples in the canon of things-we-used-to-do-that-were-so-much-better. (I love the whole idea of pulling down a book because you like the "binding.") Thanks to the connective nature of hypertext, and the blogosphere's exploratory hunger for finding new stuff, the web is the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture. It is far, far easier to sit down in front of your browser and stumble across something completely brilliant but surprising than it is walking through a library looking at the spines of books.
50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students & Librarians | Online Colleges
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/08/24/50-fantastic-bing-tricks-for-students-librarians/
I've ignored Bing because my first experiences were really lame, but some of these tricks are kinda cool. Most of them work on Google, too.
Report: Corporate Blogs Not Trusted - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/corporate_blogs_trust.php
According to a new report by Forrester Research, corporate blogs are the least trusted information source of all. Only 16% of online consumers who read corporate blogs say that they trust them.
oversikt over firmablogger
Ein Forrester-Studie besagt, dass Corporate Blogs nicht getraut wird; dies muss man allerdings so nicht stehen lassen.
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1
Screw ups, disasters, misfires, flops. Why losing big can be a winning strategy.
"There are advantages to thinking on the margin. When we look at a problem from the outside, we’re more likely to notice what doesn’t work. Instead of suppressing the unexpected, shunting it aside with our 'Oh shit!' circuit and Delete key, we can take the mistake seriously. A new theory emerges from the ashes of our surprise."
"This is why other people are so helpful: They shock us out of our cognitive box."
Over the past few decades, psychologists have dismantled the myth of objectivity. The fact is, we carefully edit our reality, searching for evidence that confirms what we already believe. Although we pretend we’re empiricists — our views dictated by nothing but the facts — we’re actually blinkered, especially when it comes to information that contradicts our theories. The problem with science, then, isn’t that most experiments fail — it’s that most failures are ignored.
Article about the messiness of science, its failures and how an “in vivo” investigation that attempted to learn from the messiness of real experiments -
Top Twitter Lists
http://www.vobios.com/twitter-lists/
Data Sets | GroupLens Research
http://www.grouplens.org/taxonomy/term/14
HostMonk - Compare Linux dedicated server hosting plans
http://www.hostmonk.com/dedicated_hosting/linux_servers
Compare Linux dedicated server hosting plans
Compare Linux dedicated servers from leading hosting providers hosting plans and find the best plan for you
Get Satisfaction, Or Else... - (37signals)
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
Now that the dust has settled a bit, it seems that this convo at @37signals actually benefitted @getsatisfaction - http://tinyurl.com/dc6bh3 [from http://twitter.com/blueroot/statuses/1433278924]
note critiche sul get satisfaction
How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=building-around-the-mind
Research behind design
Provides examples that include 'Kingsdale School in London [which] was redesigned, with the help of psychologists, to promote social cohesion; the new structure also includes elements that foster alertness and creativity.'
How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood
ists are giving their hunches an empirical basis
Active Facebook Users By Country - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/active-facebook-users-by-country-200904.html
Since I last posted numbers on Facebook's user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users. I've had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update. Among countries with at least a million users, the fastest-growing are Indonesia and the Philippines.
How To Make Thermite: - How To Do Stuff
http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-make-thermite.html
Google Technology RoundTable: Map Reduce
http://research.google.com/roundtable/MR.html
Matt is also the author of
Trouble in the (99-cent) App Store - Apple 2.0
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/10/trouble-in-the-99-cent-app-store/
Pie chart of the app distrubution and price range distribution.
With 10,000 applications and 300 million downloads in less than four months, Apple's iPhone may be the most successful software platform since the IBM personal computer. But that doesn't mean all is well in the App Store. In fact, the business model that nurtured its success now threatens to choke off the ...
With 10,000 applications and 300 million downloads in less than four months, Apple’s iPhone may be the most successful software platform since the IBM personal computer. But that doesn’t mean all is well in the App Store.
Newest Professions, Growing Salaries
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-newest_professions_growing_salaries-992
Education Distance learning, which provides instruction to students who are not on-site, is booming. O*Net now recognizes distance learning coordinators, who prepare and run online courses at colleges, trade schools and secondary schools. A master's degree instructional design, curriculum design, curriculum development is usually required, as is a strong understanding of Web-based technologies. The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't yet recognize distance learning coordinators as a job category, but an analysis of job openings shows a range from the upper $30s to the low $60s for a coordinator with at least two years' experience.
Anesthesiologist assistants and Green jobs
The latest directory of job titles from Occupational Information Network (O*Net) features a variety of new entries that many people have never heard before. Some of these jobs -- at least the duties -- have been around in some form for a while. What's new is a "professional pathway" for these careers.
The latest directory of job titles from Occupational Information Network (O*Net) features a variety of new entries that many people have never heard before. Some of these jobs -- at least the duties -- have been around in some form for a while. What's new is a "professional pathway" for these careers, according to employment expert and author Laurence Shatkin. "O*Net officially recognizes job titles once there is a critical mass of workers in those jobs and a clear road map for attaining the positions," he says.
Are You a 'Digital Native?' | Newsweek Tech and Business | Newsweek.com
http://www.newsweek.com/id/163924
Are you a digital native?
article about iBrain book - changes in brain due to technology
leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can rewire your circuits. But is it evolution?
Technology Use and Our Brains
Zinn Education Project
http://www.zinnedproject.org/
Download free teaching activities for middle- and high- school classrooms to bring a people's history to the classroom. Sponsored by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.
The Zinn Education Project is a website designed to help teachers use A People's History of the United States in their classrooms. The Zinn Education Project provides complete lesson plans for use in elementary school, middle school, and high school settings. In some cases the lesson plans include document excerpts and references to A People's History of the United States. You can search for lesson plans by time period, theme, or by student reading levels.
Lots of teaching resources identified by time period and theme. - not dependent on any text. The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.
Howard Zinn is known for telling US History from various perspectives. This would be a great tool for you if you ever talk about US History in your classroom.
What’s Working for Social Media Marketers? - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007449
What’s Working for Social Media Marketers?
A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the b
Web App Business Models: User Needs and What People Pay For | Our Blog | Box UK
http://www.boxuk.com/blog/web-app-business-model-user-needs
2read
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber
http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/facebook-smarter-twitter-dumber/
based on some recent neuroscience studies
memory_brainOf course, it’s not that simple; but if you believe Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improve your “working memory“, which relates to “the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory.”
Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber http://ff.im/-7LOlp [from http://twitter.com/kenmat/statuses/3827888273]
Of course, it’s not that simple; but if you believe Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improve your “working memory“ [...]
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber: Of course, it&#8217;s not that simple; but i.. http://bit.ly/mvYOS [from http://twitter.com/StoneCS/statuses/3818117834]
True or Not? Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber http://ow.ly/orHP [from http://twitter.com/gideonking/statuses/3836716669]
The Top 5 Google Alternatives and Why You Should Use Them
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-google-search-alternatives-that-you-could-experiment-with/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Makeuseof+%28MakeUseOf.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html?r
Comparing presidential approval ratings over the decades.
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fdocuments%2Finfo-presapp0605-31.html%3Fr
What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/good-teaching
Shocking News: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity! - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shocking_news_scientists_say_workplace_social_netw.php
Can you believe that using social networking sites at work can increase your workplace productivity? A new study just published by Australian scientists found that taking time to visit websites of personal interest, including news sites and YouTube, provided workers a mental break that ultimately increased their ability to concentrate and was correlated with a 9% increase in total productivity.
Reading: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity http://bit.ly/tUILN [from http://twitter.com/sandroalberti/statuses/1459864907]
Shocking News: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity! http://tinyurl.com/cp9lyt [from http://twitter.com/AdNerds/statuses/1461946011]
Twitter no Brasil
http://www.slideshare.net/bullet_promo/twitter-no-brasil-1453989?type=presentation
O departamento de Presença Digital da Bullet fez uma pesquisa com 3.268 brasileiro usuários do Twitter, para traçar o cenário do Brasil no Twitter. Ele dá um “overview geral” sobre o serviço de microblogging também.
social online research revealling brazilian presence on twitter
AT&T - 50 Things we know now that we didn't know this time last year
http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=7020757&render=y&Table=&ch=ne&
Amazing things from 2009
The layer, a sort of protective barrier called the heliosphere, shields us from harmful cosmic radiation. Its existence defies all expectations about what the edge of the solar system might look like. Fisher's response: "We thought we knew everything about everything, and it turned out that there were unknown unknowns." In other words: We don't know what we don't know until we know that we don't know it.
Webmaster Central 日本版 公式ブログ: Google のインデックスやランク付けなどに関する、10 の誤解
http://googlewebmastercentral-ja.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-10.html
「PageRank は...ランク付けを行ううえで用いる 200 以上の技術のひとつに過ぎません」
サーチクオリティチームの John Mueller が紹介した、「Google のインデックスやランク付けに関する、10 の誤解 」というプレゼンテーションを元に、これらの誤解について、解説したいと思います。
How to create personas your design team will believe in
http://www.userfocus.co.uk/articles/personas.html
Some more good information on how to create good quality persona documents
Wish Fulfillment? No. But Dreams (and Sleep) Have Meaning - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090616/hl_time/08599190456100
"A recent study by Walker and his colleagues examined how rest - specifically, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep - influences our ability to read emotions in other people's faces." does sleep promote brain acuity? can lack of sleep explain social deviations? are autistic people counted into this study?
"Adequate sleep may underpin our ability to understand complex emotions properly in waking life." Research suggests that sleep-deprived people are more-sensitive to negative emotions such as anger and fear. "With little mental energy to spare, you're emotionally more attuned to things that are likely to be the most threatening in the immediate moment. Inversely, when you're well rested, you may be more sensitive to positive emotions, which could benefit long-term survival." So if you're not sleeping, and you're feeling a little on-edge, there's your reason why...
BBC NEWS | Health | Self-help 'makes you feel worse'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8132857.stm
In the low self-esteem group, those who repeated the mantra felt worse afterwards compared with others who did not. However people with high self-esteem felt better after repeating the positive self-statement - but only slightly. The psychologists then asked the study participants to list negative and positive thoughts about themselves. They found that, paradoxically, those with low self-esteem were in a better mood when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts. Writing in the journal, the researchers suggest that, like overly positive praise, unreasonably positive self-statements, such as "I accept myself completely," can provoke contradictory thoughts in individuals with low self-esteem. Such negative thoughts can overwhelm the positive thoughts.
BBC NEWS | Health
Repeating affirmations which are, in your perception, not true will not actually help. Just the opposite, in fact.
A UK psychologist said people based their feelings about themselves on real evidence from their lives.
WebMii - Search for people and get their online visibility score
http://www.webmii.com/Default.aspx
Social Technographics: Conversationalists get onto the ladder
http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2010/01/conversationalists-get-onto-the-ladder.html
Forrester's updated social technographics ladder doesn't seem right. The Conversationalist involves less work or commitment than Critics, and seems too similar to Collectors & Joiners.
An update to the Groundswell Social Technographics ladder.
"1. Convince your boss this stuff is for real, and that if you haven't jumped on it, you're late. 2. Profile your customer base, and see what they're ready for, before planning a project to reach out to them. (After all, People is the first step in the POST process.) 3. Segment your audience; build different strategies for different segments. (Social is so prevalent now that a single approach for your company is probably too broad.)"
Unlocking innovation | data.gov.uk
http://data.gov.uk/
UK government stats online
UK government opens up its data - using Drupal!
How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/redux_how_to_build_a_social_media_cheat_sheet_for.php
social media research work flow
Why Do You Tweet?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_do_you_tweet.php
eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends. About 29% use Twitter to update their status, 26% to find news, and 21% for work-related reasons.
eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends. About 29% use Twitter to update their status, 26% to find news, and 21% for work-related reasons. Oddly, only 0.3% said that they use Twitter for fun
11% use the service to interact with brands eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends. About 29% use Twitter to update their status, 26% to find news, and 21% for work-related reasons. Oddly, only 0.3% said that they use Twitter for fun Almost 30% of all respondents also use the service to interact with celebrities - which is clearly a driving force in the mainstream adoption of the service
Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/
What happened with the Internet in 2009?
What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. ;)
Fascinating stats
Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'
http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html
HOLY SHIT SCOTTY WAS HERE
check this out
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion
Blogging Has Come a Long Way, Baby - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007027
If yesterday’s blogs were about personal expression, today’s are about two-way conversations that take place on many fronts: independent, standalone blogs; social networks; e-commerce and mainstream m
RT @MackCollier: 14% of the US internet population blogs, and 48.5% read blogs - http://is.gd/tT57 [from http://twitter.com/ErikNYC/statuses/1594495515]
The numbers tell the tale—or lo
If yesterday’s blogs were about personal expression, today’s are about two-way conversations that take place on many fronts: independent, standalone blogs; social networks; e-commerce and mainstream media sites; and microblogging platforms such as Twitter.
Your amazing brain: Top 10 articles from 2008 - life - 05 December 2008 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16205-your-amazing-brain-top-10-articles-from-2008.html
Twitter Zombies: 24% of Tweets Created by Bots
http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-bots/
24% of Tweets are created by automated bots, not humans, according to a recent study. Meanwhile, it was found that 5% of Twitter accounts generate 75% of
What Social Followers Want - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007476
Brand marketers want consumers to follow them to build buzz and engagement, but social media users often desire something in return. What they’ve come to expect is a good deal, but many consumers&mdas
Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone (Phil Gyford’s website)
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2010/01/18/input.php
For some time I’ve been meaning to test my small collection of PDA/smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. The iPhone’s software keyboard? The Newton’s handwriting recognition? Palm’s Graffiti? With the possible imminent arrival of a tablet from Apple that will save the world, it seemed a good time to get round to the test.
Phil Gyford tested a small collection of PDA and smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. He tested six input method: Apple Newton handwriting recognition (1997); Palm Vx Graffiti (1999); Palm Treo 650’s hardware QWERTY keyboard (2004); Apple iPhone 3G’s software QWERTY keyboard (2009); old-fashioned Pen & Paper; a full-size QWERTY keyboard. He copied out 200 plus words. And he did it twice for each input. The results were surprising. Palm Graffiti was surprisingly slow. Handwriting was surprisingly slow. The iPhone soft keyboard was surprisingly fast.
Productividad escribiendo en diferentes dispositivos. For some time I’ve been meaning to test my small collection of PDA/smartphone gadgets to see which of their methods of input was quickest. The iPhone’s software keyboard? The Newton’s handwriting recognition? Palm’s Graffiti? With the possible imminent arrival of a tablet from Apple that will save the world, it seemed a good time to get round to the test.
Sehr schöne kleine Statistik. Das iPhone gewinnt nach der QWERTZ Tastatur und vor der Handschrift.
World Government Data | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data
Tehgrauniad's search engine for government data sets.
more info : http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/07/government-data-world
The one-stop shop for World Government datasets from The Guardian.
Buscador de datos gubernamentales mundiales de The Guardian
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information. Search for government data here from the UK (including London), USA, Australia and New Zealand – and look out for new countries and places as we add them.
The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/good-teaching
awesome article!
This tale of two boys, and of the millions of kids just like them, embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter.
After his two years were up, Farr went to law school, as planned.,
Worth having every staff read and debate this article.
Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
http://collections.si.edu/search/
Launched in Jan. 2010 SI is a new collections search center that contains more than 2 million searchable records and 265,900 resrouces (including images, videos, sound files, and electronic journals) from the Smithsonian's libraries, archives, and museums.
Search over 2 million records with 265,900 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives
Federated search for the Smithsonian's museums archives, and libraries for images, video, sound files, and electronic journals
SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
recommended by sla
BBC NEWS | Health | Coffee 'may reverse Alzheimer's'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8132122.stm
Drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease, US scientists say.
The Florida research, carried out on mice, also suggested caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease.
Forget Gen Y: Gen X is Making Real Change - ReadWriteEnterprise
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/09/forget-gen-y-gen-x-is-making-r.php
Forget Gen Y: Gen X is Making Real Change: http://bit.ly/k6M7k (via @RWW) [from http://twitter.com/desabol/statuses/3922302597]
Qui amène les technologies 2.0 en entreprise Gen X ou Gen Y? Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readwriteweb.com%2Fenterprise%2F2009%2F09%2Fforget-gen-y-gen-x-is-making-r.php
Read: Forget Gen Y: Gen X is Making Real Change http://bit.ly/3vhhEg [from http://twitter.com/krisnelson/statuses/3922286748]
Sometimes even the best researchers forget that the answer you get depends entirely on who you ask. A new Forrester survey of 2,000 information workers has revealed that ...
@Literatenmelu Seit bk09 komm ich mir vor, wie #Vader #Abraham. Aber irgendwer muß die Kaputzen ja führen .... http://bit.ly/3bnV9f [from http://twitter.com/schulezweinull/statuses/3931304689]
20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited | Blog | Econsultancy
http://econsultancy.com/blog/5324-20+-mind-blowing-social-media-statistics-revisited
I really tried to put alot of information as I could into Econsultancy’s Social Media Statistics, which is part of our Stats Compendium (a truly wonderful resource) but I find it is always neat to go back and review the old against the new.
20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited.
Remarkable stats about number of users, items uploaded, pages viewed, frequency etc on Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.
Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/global/led-by-facebook-twitter-global-time-spent-on-social-media-sites-up-82-year-over-year/
According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. In addition, the overall traffic to social networking sites has grown over the last three years. Globally, social networks and blogs are the most popular online category when ranked by average time spent in December, followed by online games and instant messaging. With 206.9 million unique visitors, Facebook was the No. 1 global social networking destination in December 2009 and 67% of global social media users visited the site during the month. Time on site for Facebook has also been on the rise, with global users spending nearly six hours per month on the site.
According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. In addition, the overall traffic to social networking sites has grown over the last three years.
According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. In addition, the overall traffic to social networking sites has grown over the last three years. Globally, social networks and blogs are the most popular online category when ranked by average time spent in December, followed by online games and instant messaging. With 206.9 million unique visitors, Facebook was the No. 1 global social networking destination in December 2009 and 67% of global social media users visited the site during the month. Time on site for Facebook has also been on the rise, with global users spending nearly six hours per month on the site. [...] Australia led in average time per person spent, with the average Australian spending nearly 7 hours on social media sites in December."
Nielsen, Jan. 22, 2010.
Ongoing List of Social Media Marketing Efforts and Social Networks and Communities for Women
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/03/06/ongoing-list-of-social-media-marketing-efforts-for-women/
I've done a lot of other lists, for a variety of industries, verticals, age groups, but need to spend some time on women. Agencies and brands get to showcase their work (I've got great SEO in front of a social media audience) and it's easy for women
How women are quickly becoming a dominating demographic in social media.
Running Barefoot: Home
http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/
This website has been developed to provide an evidence-based resource for those interested in the biomechanics of different foot strikes in endurance running and the applications to human endurance running prior to the modern running shoe.
A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15351002
Revista The Economista dedica seu dossiê às redes sociais.
Economist weighs in on web2.0
Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles (interviewed here)
Seeing Red: Tweak Your Brain With Colors | Wired Science from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/coloreffects.html
Older news, but I finally got around to reading it. Interesting piece on the importance of color.
In the latest and most authoritative study on color's cognitive effects, test subjects given attention-demanding tasks did best when primed with the color red. Asked to be creative, they responded best to blue.
The State of the Internet
http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/state-internet/
Focus, Feb. 2, 2010.
The State of the Internet
visualization of stats rec by Kathy Schrock
Using data from the Pew Research Center, Technorati, and other organizations, Focus has produced an infographic about Internet use and Internet access in 2009.
Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds - Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/mh012010pkg.cfm
This national survey of children about their media use was released at an event in Washington, D.C. featuring the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. A webcast is available.
The report about childrens and youngsters use of media
JSUR | Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results
http://jsur.org/
This could be good if it takes off...
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny…'" -Isaac Asimov
50 Brain Facts Every Educator Should Know | Associate Degree - Facts and Information
http://www.associatesdegree.com/2010/01/27/50-brain-facts-every-educator-should-know/
Survey Of Insular Social Media Elite Says: Twitter Is Better Than Facebook For Businesses
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/17/survey-says-twitter-is-better-than-facebook-for-businesses/
If you were to ask over 200 social media leaders which social media site they would pay for if they had to, as ...
RT @mikefilsaime "Twitter Is Better Than Facebook For Businesses" , says Survey Of Social Media Elite: http://tinyurl.com/dekmdq [from http://twitter.com/barbhd34/statuses/1226732194]
If you were to ask “over 200 social media leaders” which social media site they would pay for if they had to, as Abrams Research recently did, Facebook would come out on top, with 32.2 percent saying they would pay for it. (Yeah, right). LinkedIn was second, Twitter was third, and MySpace and Digg tied for last place (with only 1.5 percent of respondents saying they’d pay for those services). But if you ask, which one would they recommend for businesses to pay for (if they had to), Twitter beats Facebook by more than two to one (39.6 percent vs. 15.3 percent). LinkedIn again comes in second. Why did Twitter come out on top. It is seen as an efficient way for companies to get their marketing messages out there. One typical response:
Twitter vs. Facebook for businesses
RTI Tools : a response to intervention directory
http://rtitools.com/
Strategies
Open Mobile Consortium
http://open-mobile.org/
The Open Mobile Consortium aims to: * Implement joint mobile solutions in the field. * Maximize interoperability and data-sharing capabilities between our technologies. * Streamline development, deployment, and use of open source mobile technologies.
odk and dimagi
open source applications for social change
Does Anyone Trust the Media? - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007067
People around the world do trust the media, but to varying degrees. According to TNS, the good news, for Internet content producers, is that people now trust the information they get from online ne
Does Anyone Trust the Media? - Yes, but not all media http://ow.ly/4Hf3 [from http://twitter.com/barbhd34/statuses/1670958181]
How to Clip, Sort, and Cite the Entire Web with Zotero - Information - Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/5463293/how-to-clip-sort-and-cite-the-entire-web-with-zotero
Zotero is, at its heart, a citation manager. It was designed to facilitate research and to make organizing and including that research in essays and publications pain free. As such, it's an excellent tool for any scholar, researcher, or student to have in their toolbox. Its utility extends well beyond preparing to write a paper, however, as it allows you to grab nearly anything off the web and insert it into the Zotero system.
If you're looking for a way to organize all the information you find and research you do online, and you've had enough with bookmarking, copying and pasting, and cobbled-together techniques not cutting it, Zotero is a comprehensive information manager for Firefox.
Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/30/context-is-king-how-videos-found/
Part 3 great article about online video industry. good thoughts for monetizing DER
TechCrunch - metric about video consumption on-line. (Pyramid of content / average nb of times a video is seen)
Social Media and Young Adults | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx
Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group, as does social network use. Teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers, though high school-aged girls show the greatest enthusiasm for the application.
Social media and mobile internet use among teens and young adults.
The Roles of Facebook and Twitter in Social Media Marketing | Brian Solis
http://www.briansolis.com/2010/02/the-role-of-facebook-and-twitter-in-social-media-marketing/
Social Media marketing is rapidly earning a role in the integrated marketing mix of small and enterprise businesses and as such, it’s transforming every
Social Media marketing is rapidly earning a role in the integrated marketing mix of small and enterprise businesses and as such, it’s transforming every division from the inside out. What starts with one champion in any given division, be it customer service, marketing, public relations, advertising, interactive, et al, eventually inspires an entire organization to socialize. What starts with one, a domino effect usually ensues toppling each department, gaining momentum, and triggering a sense of urgency through its path. And, it also marks the beginning of our journey through the ten stages of social media integration.
Social Media marketing is rapidly earning a role in the integrated marketing mix of small and enterprise businesses and as such, it’s transforming every division from the inside out. What starts with one champion in any given division, be it customer service, marketing, public relations, advertising, interactive, et al, eventually inspires an entire organization to socialize. What starts with one, a domino effect usually ensues toppling each department, gaining momentum, and triggering a sense of urgency through its path. And, it also marks the beginning of our journey through the ten stages of social media integration. ...
Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Searching with Success!
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/websearching/
PeteSearch: How to split up the US
http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.html
Data visualization of Facebook profiles: "Looking at the network of US cities, it's been remarkable to see how groups of them form clusters, with strong connections locally but few contacts outside the cluster. For example Columbus, OH and Charleston WV are nearby as the crow flies, but share few connections, with Columbus clearly part of the North, and Charleston tied to the South. "Some of these clusters are intuitive, like the old south, but there's some surprises too, like Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas having closer ties to Texas than Georgia. To make sense of the patterns I'm seeing, I've marked and labeled the clusters, and added some notes about the properties they have in common..."
Fun stuff, lots of entertaining demographic data.
According to Facebook
The Social Life of Health Information | Pew Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/8-The-Social-Life-of-Health-Information.aspx
Americans' pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources. Whereas someone may have in the past called a health professional, their Mom, or a good friend, they now are also reading blogs, listening to podcasts, updating their social network profile, and posting comments. This Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation survey finds that technology is not an end, but a means to accelerate the pace of discovery, widen social networks, and sharpen the questions someone might ask when they do get to talk to a health professional. Technology can help to enable the human connection in health care and the internet is turning up the information network’s volume.
Americans' pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources.
This Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation survey finds that technology is not an end, but a means to accelerate the pace of discovery, widen social networks, and sharpen the questions someone might ask when they do get to talk to a health professional. Technology can help to enable the human connection in health care and the internet is turning up the information network’s volume.
study conducted nov-dec 2008, published june 2009
How Social Gaming is Improving Education
http://mashable.com/2010/02/07/social-gaming-education/
RT @thomasjhardy: How Social Gaming is Improving Education - http://bit.ly/a4vwi5 [from http://twitter.com/axbom/statuses/8777021752]
How Social Gaming is Improving Education
Enter social video games as a solution — immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here’s how they’re doing it.
Memonic
http://www.memonic.com/
Memonic is a relatively new tool for curating collections of information from the web. Memonic's key function is to give users the power to clip sections of websites and build them into a personal collection. Along with the clipping of information, users can add commentary to each item they place into their personal accounts. From Free Technology for Teachers
a free web-based tool that seeks to help you clip out just what you need from your web-based research and organize it in a personally meaningful and helpful way. Memonic allows you to move away from the model of bookmarking sites that contain data you want and instead of snipping that data out of the page and saving it to your Memonic account. If you're doing research on a vacation for instance, you wouldn't bookmark every page you found with interesting content about that vacation. You would use Memonic to clip out the bits that were of interest to you—a specific restaurant review from a restaurant critic page, a landmark you found on the visitor's bureau site you want to visit, some photos of local street performers you'd like to keep an eye out for, and so on. All the things you clip end up in your Memonic inbox, seen below:
自分が気に入った記事や写真などをスクラップ
a free, web based tool for collecting, organizing, storing and sharing information. Similar to Evernote. Bookmarklet will capture whole webpages.
Social Media: Consumers Trust Their Friends Less - Advertising Age - News
http://adage.com/article?article_id=141972
It's a finding that strikes at the foundation of many a social-media marketing philosophy: Tapping into peer-to-peer networks is a way for marketers to tell authentic, credible stories to consumers whose confidence in corporate CEOs, news outlets, government officials and industry analysts has taken a beating. But according to Edelman's latest Trust Barometer, the number of people who view their friends and peers as credible sources of information about a company dropped by almost half, from 45% to 25%, since 2008.
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_user_data_analysis.php
Easy = True - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/31/easy__true/?page=full
Results like these suggest that feeling good about yourself may in part be a matter of having a hard time feeling bad, and that confidence and even success might be triggered by interventions that do nothing but make failure seem the more intimidating possibility. The human brain, for all its power, is suspicious of difficulty, but perhaps we can learn to use that.
Phrases that are easier on the ear aren’t just catchy and easy to remember, McGlone argues, they also feel inherently truer.
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fbostonglobe%2Fideas%2Farticles%2F2010%2F01%2F31%2Feasy__true%2F%3Fpage%3Dfull
in any situation where we weigh information. It’s a key part of the puzzle of how feelings like attraction and belief and suspicion work
"Cognitive fluency is simply a measure of how easy it is to think about something, and it turns out that people prefer things that are easy to think about to those that are hard. On the face of it, it’s a rather intuitive idea. But psychologists are only beginning to uncover the surprising extent to which fluency guides our thinking, and in situations where we have no idea it is at work."
Cognative fluency
The seven secrets behind great teaching - Features - TES
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6013022
interesting summary of effective teaching
Analysis of the personalities, motivations and behavior of 15 award-winning teachers uncovers the seven habits that make them successful in the classroom.
"The TES magazine teamed up with business psychologists Crelos to analyse the personalities, motivations and behaviour of 15 award-winning teachers to uncover the seven habits that make them successful in the classroom."
SXSW09: The Future Of Social Networks
http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/sxsw09-the-future-of-social-networks
Charlene Li presentation at SXSW09
SXSW presentation
Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own
http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0704/Johnson/Johnson.html
In 1981, Eurisko, a computer program that arguably displays the rudiments of such skills, easily won the Traveller tournament, becoming the top-ranked player in the United States and an honorary Admiral in the Traveller navy. Eurisko had designed its fleet according to principles it discovered itself–with some help from its inventor, Douglas B. Lenat, an assistant professor in Stanford University’s artificial-intelligence program.
popular overview
Trillion Credit Squadron playing 'bot in 1984. Cool.
"During one run, Lenat noticed that the number in the Worth slot of one newly discovered heuristic kept rising, indicating that Eurisko had made a particularly valuable find. As it turned out the heuristic performed no useful function. It simply examined the pool of new concepts, located those with the highest Worth values, and inserted its name in their My Creator slots. It was a heuristic that, in effect, had learned how to cheat." :via the new yorker, 2009.05.11 :via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko#cite_note-newyorker-2
"In 1981, Eurisko, a computer program that arguably displays the rudiments of such skills, easily won the Traveller tournament, becoming the top-ranked player in the United States and an honorary Admiral in the Traveller navy. Eurisko had designed its fleet according to principles it discovered itself–with some help from its inventor, Douglas B. Lenat, an assistant professor in Stanford University’s artificial-intelligence program."
Social Radar Top 50 Social Brands (March 2009) | Buzz Study
http://infegy.com/buzzstudy/social-radar-top-50-social-brands-march-2009/
Weber Clients include Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft XBox, General Motors,
Keeping up with online conversations can be a daunting task. As a freelance consultant, I not only need to keep up with what people are saying about me and my company, but I also need to monitor the latest industry trends to learn new skills and stay relevant. While wearing my blogging hat, I also have to keep up with conversations that would be interesting to web workers for this blog, or relevant for people building online communities for my own blog.
The Social Radar Top 50 measures the most social brands by the number of unique topics of conversation.
Twitter tops the list
How memories form, fade, and persist over time - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/28/memory.research/index.html
We all suffer occasional lapses in memory. Some people suffer severe neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer's, that rob them of their ability to form memories or remember recent events. Three new studies shed light on the way the brain forms, stores and retrieves memories. Experts say they could have implications for people with certain mental disorders.
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction
http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/publications/2007_orig-articles/2007-10-15-reducingrisk.html
LearningXL | 100 Fun & Useful Search Engines for Writers
http://www.unixl.com/blog/2008/100-fun-useful-search-engines-for-writers/
Created by retired Capilano College prof Kilian Crawford. A very good list, organized by types of engines, with useful notes on each. I found some useful new engines from this list.
# Mooter: Your results are categorized using a mind map to give your experience a little more variety. # ChaCha: If researching online drains your creativity and inspiration, use the personality-driven ChaCha for help. # Searchbots: This fun search engine lets you personalize your search experience. # Trooker: Browse and search for videos on
Study: Ages of social network users | Royal Pingdom
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/16/study-ages-of-social-network-users/
Hmm ... what should one think when your age is well above the averages?
Age of people using various social networks
Some interesting demographics on social network users
Study: Ages of social network users
101 Time-Saving Google Tricks for Work, Play and Learning | Best University
http://www.bestuniversity.com/blog/2009/101-time-saving-google-tricks-for-work-play-and-learning/
"101 Time-Saving Google Tricks for Work, Play and Learning The Internet is full of useful tools and hacks that keep you more focused and efficient, but you have to know which ones are best. This large list of 101 Google tricks can help you lead a more streamlined, stress-free existence, from your personal to your school or work life."
Wholesale eBook Sales Statistics
http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/industrystats.htm
International Digital Publishing Forum collects quarterly US trade retail eBook sales in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
Don't look now but e-book sales are growing ever-so-rapidly in the trade market. 200% in the last year.
Trade #ebook sales for October up $254% over October 2008, per AAP/IDPF: http://bit.ly/oH21b (via @andrewsavikas) – Tim O'Reilly (timoreilly) http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/6716317310
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Top 10 Free Ways To Discover New Music Online
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-free-ways-discover-music-online/
The Case For An Older Woman « OkTrends
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/02/16/the-case-for-an-older-woman/
Interesting!
Excellent data, frank discussion of men's bias towards younger women (with graphs and pictures of cute non-young women!)
ause it has been a successful way to introduce previous posts, I wanted to put real faces on this demographic before I delve into a bunch of numbers. Pictured below are some single users in their mid-thirties or early forties, taken from the first couple pages of my own local match search. Nothing I'll talk about today pertains necessarily to any one of them, but I wanted to put forward some people to go with th
Data from OKCupid on sex match preferences and changes based on age as well as attitudes of men and women basically proving that men should date women older than they are despite the fact that typically they date younger women.
The real FacteryLabs - Get Facts, not Links
http://facterylabs.com/
Delivering facts instead of links, Factery Labs provides users with a simple way to find out what’s going on and what people are talking about on the web. Users can personalize their view to get real-time information that is of particular interest to them. Users can choose from pre-defined categories like “sports,” “politics,” “world,” “entertainment,” or set up their own topic of interest by typing any term into the search box. Each search will continuously refresh with the best and latest facts allowing users to stay completely up to date on what’s happening on the web. Users can then easily share facts via Facebook, Twitter or email.
Factery Labs – Transformando links em notícias
monitors popular searches across the web
The Rush to Social Networks - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006910
The Rush to Social Networks
The Rush to Social Networks FEBRUARY 9, 2009 Plenty of users, but marketers can’t yet take them to the bank. The social networking audience is growing rapidly. eMarketer estimates that in 2008 nearly 80 million people, 41% of the US Internet user population, visited social network sites at least once a month, an 11% increase from 2007. By 2013, an estimated 52% of Internet users will be regular social network visitors. “The steady stream of social network updates and news is now a weekly—or even daily—habit for many online users,” says Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, Social Networks: Five Consumer Trends for 2009. “That stickiness is good news for social networks.” Good news because social networks have yet to develop viable revenue models. But there is still time. “Social network usage is not tapering off—it is growing,” Ms. Williamson says. “Not only are more consumers joining social networks, but their level of involvement is deepe
Plenty of users, but marketers can’t yet take them to the bank. The social networking audience is growing rapidly. eMarketer estimates that in 2008 nearly 80 million people, 41% of the US Internet user population, visited social network sites at least once a month, an 11% increase from 2007
in 2008 nearly 80 million people, 41% of the US Internet user population, visited social network sites at least once a month, an 11% increase from 2007.By 2013, an estimated 52% of Internet users will be regular social network visitors.
79.7 million people, 40% of US Internet users, will create content on social networks at least once a month in 2009, either by updating a profile or communicating publicly.
PR 2.0: The Ties that Bind Us - Visualizing Relationships on Twitter and Social Networks
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/02/ties-that-binds-us-visualizing.html
MediaPost Publications Study: Brands Must Do Better in Social Media 07/13/2009
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=109574
既然微網誌上人氣有限,企業為什麼還要經營它?此文提供了一個觀點
brands have to participate directly in these online discussions or face growing irrelevance, says Razorfish. But they have to bring credible voices that "need to be more engaging, personal, humble, authentic and participatory than traditional advertising images," advises the report.
great summary of the interesting new research from razorfish
Social media sites aren't where most people go to get recommendations on products and services. Even so, marketers must still try to reach consumers through social media since that's where conversations about brands are increasingly taking place. That's one of the key conclusions of a new study on social influence marketing by interactive agency Razorfish. The report released today also includes a new index developed by the firm which scores brands based on how they're being discussed online.
Bloom Energy | Be the solution
http://www.bloomenergy.com/
whoa
Bloom Energy is changing the way the world generates and consumes energy. Our unique on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell technology with roots in NASA's Mars program. Derived from a common sand-like powder, and leveraging breakthrough advances in materials science, our technology is able to produce clean, reliable, affordable power,... practically anywhere,... from a wide range of renewable or traditional fuels. Our Energy Servers™ are among the most efficient energy generators on the planet; providing for significantly reduced electricity costs and dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. By generating power on-site, where it is consumed, Bloom Energy offers increased electrical reliability and improved energy security, providing a clear path to energy independence.
Bloom Box!!!
Localized energy "servers" for your home.
Announcing the June 2009 State of the Twittersphere Report
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4829/Announcing-the-June-2009-State-of-the-Twittersphere-Report.aspx
RT @acarvin: rt @danzarrella: Just released a new State of the Twittersphere report: http://bit.ly/SOTblog0609 [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/2102959075]
RT: @pabaker55 @acarvin @danzarrella: Just released a new State of the Twittersphere report: http://bit.ly/SOTblog0609 [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/2103146004]
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements | Information Is Beautiful
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/
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Good and bad supplements
The Future of the Internet IV | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV.aspx
A survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders reveals fascinating new perspectives on the way the Internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways that information is being shared and rendered.
Experts and stakeholders discuss predictions about the future of the internet. Update: <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV.aspx">Correction</a>.
In this report, PEW researchers cover experts' thoughts on the following issues: Will Google make us stupid? Will the internet enhance or detract from reading, writing, and rendering of knowledge? Is the next wave of innovation in technology, gadgets, and applications pretty clear now, or will the most interesting developments between now and 2020 come “out of the blue”? Will the end-to-end principle of the internet still prevail in 10 years, or will there be more control of access to information? Will it be possible to be anonymous online or not by the end of the decade?
A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2010 « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2010/01/19/a-collection-of-social-network-stats-for-2010/
For the third year running (see 2008, 2009) I'm going to aggregate stats in the social networking space on a single blog post, and update it through the year.  Data fiends should bookmark this post for future reference. Stats are important –but
Social network stats collection from Owyang - updated throughout the year
'City of Heroes' character 'Twixt' becomes game's most hated outcast courtesy of Loyola professor - NOLA.com
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/loyola_university_professor_be.html
Get New Orleans, Louisiana latest news. Find photos and videos, comment on the news, and join the forum discussions at NOLA.com
"As part of his experiment, Myers decided to play the game by the designers' rules -- disregarding any customs set by the players. His character soon became very unpopular."
Interesting blog about Professor Myers' research and paper on MMO rules vs MMO social norms
David Myers, a Loyola professor and computer game scholar, looks at his computer screen with his "City of Heroes" online computer game character "Twixt" reflected in his glasses at his home in Slidell Friday, July 3, 2009. "Twixt" became perhaps the game's most reviled, abused player because his playing methods were unpopular.
A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis - MapReduce vs. DBMS Benchmarks
http://database.cs.brown.edu/sigmod09/
"The following information is meant to provide documentation on how others can recreate the benchmark trials used in our SIGMOD 2009 paper."
A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis: MapReduce vs. DBMS Benchmarks
The Extreme Searcher's Web Page
http://extremesearcher.com/
I will be using the book and this website for my college course.
Text for 5540
Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_sc/do_it_yourself_dna;_ylt=AizdzZ8IboSWpqhDNHN6GasDW7oF
DIY at home genetic engineering movement has begun
"Co-founder Mackenzie Cowell, a 24-year-old who majored in biology in college, said amateurs will probably pursue serious work such as new vaccines and super-efficient biofuels, but they might also try, for example, to use squid genes to create tattoos that glow."
"Many of these amateurs may have studied biology in college but have no advanced degrees and are not earning a living in the biotechnology field. Some proudly call themselves "biohackers" — innovators who push technological boundaries and put the spread of knowledge before profits."
biohackers
JESS3 / The State of The Internet on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/9641036
Estatistica sobre internet
JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.
JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010
A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all/
"In 1936, the music magazine the Gramophone reported that children had "developed the habit of dividing attention between the humdrum preparation of their school assignments and the compelling excitement of the loudspeaker" and described how the radio programs were disturbing the balance of their excitable minds."
Slate Magazine
A useful historical look at the anxiety of technology and information overload.
This article from the Slate looks at a "history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook." It gives a fine perspective on how whilst the technology evolves, the essence of prophets of doom railing against the technology remain basically the same.
Wikipedia hoax points to limits of journalists' research - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/05/wikipedia-hoax-reveals-limits-of-journalists-research.ars
A sociology student placed a fake quote on Wikipedia, only to see it show up in prominent newspapers, revealing that a lot of the press doesn't go much further than most 'Net users when it comes to researching a story.
another media hoax; bad journalism....
A key part of the argument for maintaining traditional journalism is that its trained reporters can perform research and investigations that the untrained masses can't, and the content they produce is run by editors and fact-checkers. The revelation that their research is often no more sophisticated than an average Web surfer's, and that the fact checking can be nonexistent, really doesn't help that argument much. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2F2009%2F05%2Fwikipedia-hoax-reveals-limits-of-journalists-research.ars
According to the AFP, the hoax traces back to Shane Fitzgerald, a student at Ireland's University College Dublin. Upon learning of the death of the Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre, the student modified his Wikipedia entry, adding a completely fictitious post that was nicely designed to fit perfectly into any obituary. "When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear," the added material read in part.
Excellent share for students about not only wikipedia's limits, but also about the shoddiness and PR core of much journalism. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2F2009%2F05%2Fwikipedia-hoax-reveals-limits-of-journalists-research.ars
Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gmail_preferred_by_students_but_nothing_beats_texting.php
nu stiu
«Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you should forget email. Send a text message instead.»
article about how students communicate with different technologies. For quest. 4 of hzau09.
Super Bowl Commercials | Adland
http://commercial-archive.com/SuperBowlCommercials
7 Insanely Useful Ways to Search Twitter for Marketing : Marketing :: American Express OPEN Forum
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/marketing/article/7-insanely-useful-ways-to-search-twitter-for-marketing-john-jantsch
As a marketing tool Twitter gets much more interesting and useful when you can filter out 99% of the junk that doesn&rsquo;t apply to your objectives
100 Useful Research Tools for Amateur Economists | Rated Colleges
http://www.ratedcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-useful-research-tools-for-amateur-economists/
important research document
Rated Colleges Top Rated Online Colleges and Universities 100 Useful Research Tools for Amateur Economists Posted By Site Administrator You don’t have to be a professional economist to do some really great research on the web. Whether you’re looking into historical trends, modern buying patterns or the latest stats on the global financial market you won’t find any shortage of information to keep you interested. Here are 100 great resources to utilize that can help you find, organize and understand your economic research. General Tools These tools offer some great general research material, help getting it all organized and some essential search capabilities. Internet Resources for Economists: This extensive list will direct you towards journals, economic research institutions, software and more that can be helpful in your search for information. American Economic Association: Here you’ll find a wealth of resources including journals, papers and links to members who may be able to he
Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/05/researchers-hijack-botnet-score-56000-passwords-in-an-hour.ars
410 financial institutions
Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour - Ars Technica http://ow.ly/5eyt [from http://twitter.com/ChipRiley/statuses/1706638693]
“The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind of information the botnet gathers as well as the behavior of Internet users who are prone to malware infections. ” – via nelson
Projeto 10 elevado a 100
http://www.project10tothe100.com/intl/PT_BR/index.html
Projeto google para o recebimento de idéias em 2007
O Projeto 10100 é a convocação de ideias para mudar o mundo ajudando o maior número de pessoas possível. Vocês enviaram mais de 150.000 ideias. Escolhemos algumas finalistas. Quais delas devem se tornar realidade? Você decide.
O Projeto 10100 é a convocação de ideias para mudar o mundo ajudando o maior número de pessoas possível.
Projeto do Google em que você deve enviar uma idéia que ajude o maior número de pessoas possível.
O Projeto 10100 é a convocação de idéias para mudar o mundo ajudando o maior número de de pessoas possível.
Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html
This is awzzzzom
Lemov himself pushed for data-driven programs that would diagnose individual students’ strengths and weaknesses. But as he went from school to school that winter, he was getting the sinking feeling that there was something deeper he wasn’t reaching. On that particular day, he made a depressing visit to a school in Syracuse, N.Y., that was like so many he’d seen before: “a dispiriting exercise in good people failing,” as he described it to me recently. Sometimes Lemov could diagnose problems as soon as he walked in the door. But not here. Student test scores had dipped so low that administrators worried the state might close down the school. But the teachers seemed to care about their students.
There are more than three million teachers in the United States, and Doug Lemov is trying to prove that he can teach them to be better.
The Atlantic Online | December 2008 | Pop Psychology | Virginia Postrel
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200812/financial-bubbles
imperfect people create imperfect financial situations, regardless of prior experiences. fascinating!
Postrel on a laboratory experiment where people buy and sell a guaranteed and specified security. "Here, finally, is a security with security—no doubt about its true value, no hidden risks, no crazy ups and downs, no bubbles and panics. The trading price should stick close to the expected value. At least that’s what economists would have thought before Vernon Smith, who won a 2002 Nobel Prize for developing experimental economics, first ran the test in the mid-1980s. But that’s not what happens. Again and again, in experiment after experiment, the trading price runs up way above fundamental value. Then, as the 15th round nears, it crashes...you don’t just get random noise. You get bubbles and crashes. Ninety percent of the time. So much for security. "
These lab results should give pause not only to people who believe in efficient markets, but also to those who think we can banish bubbles simply by curbing corruption and imposing more regulation. Asset markets, it seems, suffer from irrepressible effervescence. Bubbles happen, even in the most controlled conditions.
financial bubbles
At least that’s what economists would have thought before Vernon Smith, who won a 2002 Nobel Prize for developing experimental economics, first ran the test in the mid-1980s. But that’s not what happens. Again and again, in experiment after experiment, the trading price runs up way above fundamental value. Then, as the 15th round nears, it crashes. The problem doesn’t seem to be that participants are bored and fooling around. The difference between a good trading performance and a bad one is about $80 for a three-hour session, enough to motivate cash-strapped students to do their best. Besides, Noussair emphasizes, “you don’t just get random noise. You get bubbles and crashes.” Ninety percent of the time.
Scott and Scurvy
http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
One of the most striking features of the disease is the disproportion between its severity and the simplicity of the cure. Today we know that scurvy is due solely to a deficiency in vitamin C, a compound essential to metabolism that the human body must obtain from food. Scurvy is rapidly and completely cured by restoring vitamin C into the diet.
scurvy bad, science hard : "We tend to think that knowledge, once acquired, is something permanent. Instead, even holding on to it requires constant, careful effort."
Google - public data
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Limited data but nice and clear interface
Datasets and visualization
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Graficación animada desde diferentes fuentes de info pública
100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars | Online Universities
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/03/100-time-saving-search-engines-for-serious-scholars/
Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources.
Code Bubbles Project: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm
Very cool IDE concept!!
Science gleans 60TB of behavior data from Everquest 2 logs - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars
WEEK 8 -- 03/10/2010
In February 2009 Dmitri Williams
4 years, 400k players ~=60TB -- about 475k/s, slightly > 1k /user/sec.
Thanks to a partnership with Sony, a team of academic researchers have obtained the largest set of data on social interactions they've ever gotten their hands on: the complete server logs of Everquest 2, which track every action performed in the game.
m psychologists to epidemiologists have wondered for some time whether online, multiplayer games might provide some ways to test concepts that are otherwise difficult to track in the real world. A Saturday morning session at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Food for data miners
The evolutionary origin of depression: Mild and bitter | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899022
as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops you doing damaging mental ones—in particular, pursuing unreachable goals. Pursuing such goals is a waste of energy and resources.
"Dr Nesse’s hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops you doing damaging mental ones—in particular, pursuing unreachable goals. Pursuing such goals is a waste of energy and resources. Therefore, he argues, there is likely to be an evolved mechanism that identifies certain goals as unattainable and inhibits their pursuit—and he believes that low mood is at least part of that mechanism." Via Mindhacks.
Their conclusion was that those who experienced mild depressive symptoms could, indeed, disengage more easily from unreachable goals. That supports Dr Nesse’s hypothesis. But the new study also found a remarkable corollary: those women who could disengage from the unattainable proved less likely to suffer more serious depression in the long run.
The Economist | Depression may be linked to how willing someone is to give up his goals
Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
What other facts are needed to legalize pot at this point?
BBC News - The top 100 sites on the internet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm
RT @estima7: BBC가 선정한 인터넷TOP 100 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm 미국중심이지만 분류를 잘해놨네요. 세력분포를 이해할 수 있어 좋음!
Did This Man Just Rewrite Science? - New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EEDA113DF932A25755C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
This insight is the jumping-off point of Dr. Wolfram's glossy 1,263-page book, ''A New Kind of Science,'' published a month ago by Dr. Wolfram himself to the accompaniment of articles comparing Dr. Wolfram to Isaac Newton.
A New Kind of Science
simples rules and algorithms define nature, not complex ones
Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090402/lf_nm_life/us_work_internet;_ylt=Ajv93cQKOzgitgxsVSCbHBsDW7oF
MELBOURNE (Reuters Life!) – Caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? It'll make you a better employee, according to an Australian study that shows surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity. The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.
Makes sense to me: "Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study" ( http://tinyurl.com/cxm63m ) [from http://twitter.com/nikiblack/statuses/1445740510]
Scientific Journal to Authors: Publish in Wikipedia or Perish - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/publish_in_wikipedia_or_perish.php
Every day, hundreds of articles appear in academic journals and very little of this information is available to the public. Now, RNA Biology has decided to ask every author who submits an article to a newly created section of the journal about families of RNA molecules to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. As Nature reports, this is the first time an academic journal has forced its authors to disseminate information this way. The initiative is a collaboration between the journal and the RNA family database (Rfam) consortium led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Scientific Journal to Authors: Publish in Wikipedia or Perish
Every day, hundreds of articles appear in academic journals and very little of this information is available to the public. Now, RNA Biology has decided to ask every author who submits an article to a newly created section of the journal about families of RNA molecules to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes the work. As Nature reports, this is the first time an academic journal has forced its authors to disseminate information this way. The initiative is a collaboration between the journal and the RNA family database (Rfam) consortium led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/
he Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that’s not indexed by the search engines. Most of us think that that search powerhouses like Google and Bing are like the Great Oracle…they see everything. Unfortunately, they can’t because they aren’t divine at all; they are just web spiders who index pages by following one hyperlink after the other. But there are some places where a spider cannot enter. Take library databases which need a password for access. Or even pages that belong to private networks of organizations. Dynamically generated web pages in response to a query are often left un-indexed by search engine spiders.
"Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"
http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2010/SXSW2010.html
dannah boyd keynote notes from sxsw2010 via monstro
Uncommon Schools
http://uncommonschools.org/usi/aboutUs/taxonomy.php
The Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices, described in the book Teach Like a Champion, is a collection of instructional techniques gleaned from years of observations of outstanding teachers in some of the highest-performing urban classrooms in the country. Developed by Uncommon Schools Managing Director Doug Lemov and Uncommon teachers, this set of specific and concrete actions, paired with a library of over 700 video clips of highly-effective teachers in action, has provided teachers nationwide with actionable tools to drive greater student achievement and a shared language to discuss and support teacher effectiveness.
Why you only need to test with five users (explained): Measuring Usability
http://www.measuringusability.com/five-users.php
There are a lot of strong opinions about the magic number 5 in usability testing and much has been written about it. Here's another one.
CaseStudiesOnline.com
http://www.casestudiesonline.com/
Gigantische selectie aan internationale case studies.
The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]
http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/twitter-follow-stats/
Barracuda Labs also analyzed Twitter’s growth over time, and the numbers are consistent with previous reports that show while Twitter grew like wildfire in early 2009, it has dramatically slowed down in recent months. Going back further to early 2008, the report estimates that the microblogging tool grew by just 0.31%. However, with the quick rise of media coverage and the influx of celebrities such as Oprah and Shaq, Twitter use grew by 20% in April 2009 before dropping off to 0.34% growth in December 2009.
RT @mashable The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS] http://bit.ly/ahm9gi
A full 79% of users had less than 10 tweets in June 2009, but that number dropped to 73% by December. Eighty percent of users had less than 10 followers in June 2009, but that percentage dropped to 74% by December.
The latest research coming from protection organization Barracuda Labradors provides a few exciting skills directly into your your Twitterverse.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Simulated brain closer to thought
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8012496.stm
A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated experimental results from real brains. "It starts to learn things and starts to remember things. We can actually see when it retrieves a memory, and where they retrieved it from because we can trace back every activity of every molecule, every cell, every connection and see how the memory was formed."
A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated experimental results from real brains.
It's a matter of if society wants this. If they want it in 10 years, they'll have it in 10 years.
advances
Merit Scholarships - Merit Awards - College and University Admissions - Merit Aid - Merit Aid - Search
http://www.meritaid.com/
search scholarships by college or other criteria
Search merit aid scholarships from schools near you, plus thousands of other schools at MeritAid.com.
Accessible search engine for college-bound seniors looking for financial aid opportunities.
What Social Media Users Want [STATS]
http://mashable.com/2010/03/18/social-media-sites-data/
Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and Digg's audience has a mixed bag of interests.
What Social Media Users Want [STATS] http://goo.gl/5b2L
Odds Are, It's Wrong - Science News
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong
Good story on how much science is messed up by misuse of statistics
Tom Siegfried, Mar 27, 2010 "uring the past century, though, a mutant form of math has deflected science’s heart from the modes of calculation that had long served so faithfully. Science was seduced by statistics, the math rooted in the same principles that guarantee profits for Las Vegas casinos. Supposedly, the proper use of statistics makes relying on scientific results a safe bet. But in practice, widespread misuse of statistical methods makes science more like a crapshoot." "Statistical tests are supposed to guide scientists in judging whether an experimental result reflects some real effect or is merely a random fluke, but the standard methods mix mutually inconsistent philosophies and offer no meaningful basis for making such decisions. Even when performed correctly, statistical tests are widely misunderstood and frequently misinterpreted. As a result, countless conclusions in the scientific literature are erroneous, and tests of medical dangers or treatments are often contra"
On the abuse and misuse of statistics by science
Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics
A useful article outlining the shortcomings of statistics when it comes to ascertaining scientific fact. Half of all medical data could be wrong. "For better or for worse, science has long been married to mathematics. Generally it has been for the better. Especially since the days of Galileo and Newton, math has nurtured science. Rigorous mathematical methods have secured science’s fidelity to fact and conferred a timeless reliability to its findings."
Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2010
http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/
The State of the News Media 2010, An Annual Report on American Journalism - Presented by Journalism.org
価格.comは一体どうやって儲けているのか、その秘密に迫る - GIGAZINE
http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20081107_kakaku_com/
価格.comを運営するカカクコムの2008年4月~9月の売上高は43億5500万円で、純利益は9億5300万円、価格.comの月間総ページビューは約5億8761万、月間利用者数は約1489万人(2008年10月31日現在)ということで、見た目の割には想像を絶する規模になっています。価格.comをぱっと見てわかるのは「広告があるな~」ということぐらいですが、それ以外に一体どうやって利益を上げているのでしょうか?
■のバナー一週間160万円
Wolfram|Alpha
http://www96.wolframalpha.com/
Computational Knowledge Engine
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
Die Welt Verbessern durch Spiele. Interessante Idee, muss ich mir aber beizeiten mal ansehen.
The Current State of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://mashable.com/2010/03/18/twitter-infographic/
RT @Chegoyo: RT @pciudadano: El estado actual de Twitter RT @BBCCollege: [INFOGRAPHIC] http://bit.ly/aJAQZu
The following graphic takes a look at Twitter’s path to 10 billion tweets, what we have learned about its users and what they’ve been talking about along the way.
Facebook and Twitter Making a Major Impact on Purchase Decisions [STATS]
http://mashable.com/2010/03/16/facebook-twitter-purchase-decisions/
Of course, those findings might be a bit overstated — many people actively seek out the brands they’re already fans of and follow or fan them on Twitter and Facebook
How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction/
Brendan Koerner argues that research shows that social media breaks actually boost the creativity and productivity of innovation-focused workers. He writes: "Twitter and Facebook give knowledge workers the chance to turn downtime into a game where creativity and insight are rewarded, if only with digital pats on the back."
RT @tcar Here's a great article to give your boss when they catch you slacking off on Twitter: http://bit.ly/amZ8qu
Contrary to recent research about social networks and efficiency, taking a break from work to read that tweet about Lady Gaga's lingerie might actually stoke creativity and enhance problem-solving skills.
Article discussing the value of "down time" in creativity, and extending the idea to Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Research Tools
http://www.cyberbee.com/tools.html
Teaching information access skills cannot be done in a vacuum. It must relate to the learning environment by actively engaging students to gather and process information in a meaningful way. The Big6 and WebQuest are two frameworks you can use in research. In addition, students need to know whether or not the information is reliable, how to cite resources, and understand copyright. The following guides and activities are designed to help teachers and students examine Websites and their content.
SEOをある程度勉強して、初級から中級になりかけた頃に知りたくなる8つのQ&A - 海外のSEO対策・SEOツールをわかりやすく解説するブログ
http://seofromusa.com/seo-technique/seo-q-and-a/
Search Engine Land に Jill Whalen さんによる、「The Answer To All Your SEO Questions!」という投稿がありました。 記事タイトルを訳すと「SEOに関する全ての質問に対する答え」となります。ポイントは「questions」が複数形であるのに対して、「answer」が単数でしかも「The answer」となっていること。 これは、SEOに関する全ての質問に対する答えは「一つの答え」
タイトルタグ変更など
Social networking and blogs now more popular than email, says Nielsen | Technology | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/09/nielsen-social-networks
RT @JesseNewhart: Social networking and blogs now more popular than email, says Nielsen: http://bit.ly/aWDI5 [from http://twitter.com/MandyBee/statuses/1303396335]
PsyBlog: 7 Reasons Leaders Fail
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/11/7-reasons-leaders-fail.php
Around two-thirds of workers say the most stressful aspect of their jobs is their immediate boss, their line manager (Hogan, 2006). While this will come as no
Around two-thirds of workers say the most stressful aspect of their jobs is their immediate boss, their line manager (Hogan, 2006)...
PsyBlog | As a result of the strict hierarchies, huge pay differentials, poor decision-making, greasy-pole climbing and feeling powerless to change huge bureaucracies, followers naturally develop feelings of alienation, and alienation kills motivation and productivity, along with any hope of job satisfaction.
Data Marketplace : Find, buy and sell data online
http://datamarketplace.com/
a place where one can buy and sell structured datasets online - e.g. the WAL MART Location in the US - weekly Oilprices since 1970. If a dataset is not available, you can request it and bid an amount with a set deadline for delivery
Find, buy and sell data online
e=mc2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/sc_afp/sciencephysicseinstein_081120235605
For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows."
"Until now, this has been a hypothesis," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said proudly in a press release.
According to the conventional model of particle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons. The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent? The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.
Just What is Social Media, Exactly?
http://mashable.com/2008/11/18/social-media-defined/
Mashable site used for uni: Social media are platforms for interaction and relationships, not content and ads
maybe I should know this, but I wanted a touch up- and even though it's bias because it's not "formally" written, I think it's helpful.
"What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word?"
「ビートルズ名曲冒頭の音の謎」を数学者が解明 | WIRED VISION
http://wiredvision.jp/news/200811/2008110622.html
「解析の結果、このコードには、プロデューサーのジョージ・マーティンが演奏したと思われる5つのピアノ音が含まれていることが判明した。」
10 Essential Rules for Brands in Social Media - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=142907
Our process was to query data from hundreds of our brand clients to see what testable truths emerged -- and here's what we found: 10 rules that hold up across category and time.
social media great reference for measuring success
* Haven't read yet...
10 rules that hold up across category and time.
* Tip #1: Learn how to monitor your brand * Tip #2: Learn from your brand community * Tip #3: Have a game plan * Tip #4: Promote, promote, promote * Tip #5: Allow open, yet governed access for your employees
MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead to ‘Unlimited’ Solar Power : CleanTechnica
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/25/mit-energy-storage-discovery-could-lead-to-unlimited-solar-power/
alta modalitate de a capta puterea soarelui
Daniel Nocera
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/25/mit-energy-storage-discovery-could-lead-to-unlimited-solar-power/
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a new way of storing energy from sunlight that could lead to ‘unlimited’ solar power. The process, loosely based on plant photosynthesis, uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. When needed, the gases can then be re-combined in a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity whether the sun is shining or not.
Interesting. I hate to be cynical, but I wonder if it will take off?
10 Awesome Tools To Get More Out of Wikipedia - Dumb Little Man
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/06/10-awesome-tools-to-get-more-out-of.html
Strumenti per utilizzare meglio wikipedia
tools para usar mejor wikipedia
Great site for research on Wiki
The Future of Reading - In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update - Series - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/books/16libr.html
Titled "The Future of Reading" this article is not pertinent to our future, but to our now. Many of the ideas that this librarian incorporates into her multimedia lessons are only a start in terms of what we owe our students.
The changing role of the school librarian as educator in how to access, process and analyse information.
The Future of Reading In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update By MOTOKO RICH Published: February 16, 2009 School librarians are increasingly teaching digital skills, but they often become the first casualties of budget crunches.
NY Times article on School Librarians featuring NYC SLMS Stephanie Rosalia.
Stephanie Rice on "the future ofreading: in web age, library job gets update" Stephanie Rosaila
This is the third in a series of articles looking at how the Internet and other technologies are changing the way people read. Previous articles examined the debate over the value of reading on the Internet versus reading in print and how educators are using video games as bait to lure children to read.
In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update
ケータイユーザーの“本音”   女子高生に聞いた10代後半のケータイ事情
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/interview/44338.html
女子高生の携帯事情
女子高生に聞いた10代後半のケータイ事情
料金, 端末価格, アドレスにソフトバンクダサい, 音楽は掲示板よりレコチョク(早さ、信用), 買うまでもない曲はケータイ, 日記、リアル(一言ブログ)、プロフは過去のもの
Science and Pseudoscience in Adult Nutrition Research and Practice
http://www.csicop.org/si/2009-03/spector.html
lots of bunk in science's 1st draft
"The data clearly show that much current advice about dietary pyramids, food supplements, megavitamins, and weight loss regimens is frequently unproven, erroneous, or even harmful and is often based on pseudoscience or derivative incorrect professorial opinion."
Resources for Teachers Search Tools
http://www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/searchtools.asp#Fake_Websites_to_Use_For_Student_Instruction_on_Using_the_Internet
possible hoax sites
List of fake websites to use to teach Internet research.
10 Very Useful Comparison Sites You Have To Bookmark
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-useful-comparison-sites/
RT @draenews 10 Very Useful Comparison Sites You Have To Bookmark: http://bit.ly/Dplyy
Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/03/17/design-fiction-a-short-essay-on-design-science-fact-and-fiction/
Julian Bleecker : Extending this idea that science fiction is implicated in the production of things like science fact, I wanted to think about how this happens, so that I could figure out the principles and pragmatics of doing design, making things that create different sorts of near future worlds.
Extending this idea that science fiction is implicated in the production of things like science fact, I wanted to think about how this happens, so that I could figure out the principles and pragmatics of doing design, making things that create different sorts of near future worlds. So, this is a bit of a think-piece, with examples and some insights that provide a few conclusions about why this is important as well as how it gets done. How do you entangle design, science, fact and fiction in order to create this practice called “design fiction” that, hopefully, provides different, undisciplined ways of envisioning new kinds of environments, artifacts and practices.
"Design Fiction is making things that tell stories. It’s like science-fiction in that the stories bring into focus certain matters-of-concern, such as how life is lived, questioning how technology is used and its implications, speculating bout the course of events; all of the unique abilities of science-fiction to incite imagination-filling conversations about alternative futures ... It’s meant to encourage truly undisciplined approaches to making and circulating culture by ignoring disciplines that have invested so much in erecting boundaries between pragmatics and imagination."
design essay
Sleep May Prepare You for Tomorrow by Dissolving Today’s Neural Connections | 80beats | Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/03/sleep-may-prepare-you-for-tomorrow-by-dissolving-todays-neural-connections/
Sleep may be a way to sweep out the brain and get it ready for a new day of building connections between neurons, according to two new studies of fruit flies. The studies support the controversial theory that sleep weakens or entirely dissolves some synapses, the connections between brain cells. “We assume that if this is happening, it is a major function, if not the most important function, of sleep” [Science News], says Chiara Cirelli, a coauthor of the first study, published in Science.
Small Businesses Get Social - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007121
According to a study by Sage Software and AMI-Partners, more than 260,000 small businesses in the US and Canada employ social networking tactics.
The Media Computing Group : SLAP
http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/slap
"Our Silicone ILluminated Active Peripherals, or SLAP widgets, are physical widgets made from silicone rubber and acrylic that combine the advantages of physical and virtual devices: Our SLAP buttons, sliders, knobs and keyboards have the physical shape of real devices to provide the right haptic feedback, but are still easily relabeled using a tabletop rear projection. At the same time, they are particularly low-cost, and easy to put to use."
périphériques et table "multi-touch" pour manipuler des données numériques de manière tangible
SLAP widgets
100 Tips and Tools for Managing Your Personal Library | PhD American History Online
http://www.phdamericanhistoryonline.com/blog/2008/100-tips-and-tools-for-managing-your-personal-library/
PhD American History Online
Librarything volledig naar je hand zetten...
10 Simple Google Search Tricks
http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/04/01/10-simple-google-search-tricks/
Hey Businesses! Social Media Users Want Your Attention - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/majority_of_social_media_users_want_businesses_attention.php
Out of the 85% of users who want companies to have a presence in social media, 34% want companies to actively interact with them and 51% want companies to interact with them as needed or by request. 8% think companies should only be passively involved on social media and 7% think companies should not be involved at all.
85% of Americans using social media think companies should have an active presence in the social media environment. What's even more interesting is that those users actually want the companies to interact with them while there.
The benefits of a monthly recurring revenue model in tough economic times - (37signals)
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1471-the-benefits-of-a-monthly-recurring-revenue-model-in-tough-economic-times
Very nice
Upside of software as service
James A. Fogarty - Research - Prefab
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jfogarty/research/prefab/
reverse-engineering user interface to allow mashup of applications, supposedly
Imagine if every interface was open source. Any of us could modify the software we use every day. Unfortunately, we don't have the source. Prefab realizes this vision using only the pixels of everyday interfaces. This video shows using Prefab to add new functionality to Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes, and Microsoft Windows Media Player. Prefab represents a new approach to deploying HCI research in everyday software, and is also the first step toward a future where anybody can modify any interface.
Horizontal Attention Leans Left (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/horizontal-attention.html
10 signs you don't understand web analytics - iMediaConnection.com
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/23436.asp
Useful info for MKT571 and MKTTM571 students.
BBC NEWS | Health | Enzyme behind cancer spread found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7813072.stm
Scientists found way to stop metastasis
"Scientists say they have identified an enzyme that helps cancer spread around the body."
Enzyme promotive of metastasis identified.
Enzyme behind cancer spread found breast cancer Breast cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body Scientists say they have identified an enzyme that helps cancer spread around the body. Cancer metastasis, where the cancer spreads from its original location, is known to be responsible for 90% of cancer-related deaths. Institute of Cancer Research scientists have found that an enzyme called LOX is crucial in promoting metastasis, Cancer Cell journal reports.
Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers | Design Finds You | Fast Company
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/mark-dziersk/design-finds-you/ten-things-demand-design-thinkers
Ten Things to Demand From Design Thinkers
Design thinking starts with empathy and perception around what people actually need and do, as opposed to what they say they want. This, in turn, mandates new processes for evaluation and new metrics for measurement. It may even require the courage to make decisions that run counter to metrics. That's the decision Herman Miller designers faced when focus groups told them that people thought the first Aeron chair would be a failure.
10 Simple Google Search Tricks - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/04/02/02gigaom-10-simple-google-search-tricks-58674.html?src=me&ref=general
10 Simple Google Search Tricks http://nyti.ms/cNQ0xO /via @DesignerDepot
Scientists debunk myth that most heat is lost through head | Science | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour
Myths debunked: You don't lose most heat from your head and sugar doesn't make children hyperactive
Lovely example of checking your facts
Good to know!
and other myths debunked
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fscience%2F2008%2Fdec%2F17%2Fmedicalresearch-humanbehaviour
This article is like several Mythbusters episodes. Several kinda boring Mythbusters episodes.
I never get tired of looking at Guardian articles. One of the best looking news sites on the interweb.
Stats: Old Media’s Decline, New Media’s Ascent
http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/stats-old-media-decline/
Quick: what was the most widely-used form of media in 2008? If you guessed Internet news sites, blogs, or social networks, you’d be way off. Network TV news
While old media is still on top, the trends in the survey, which has been conducted each of the last three years, point to a familiar story: media consumption habits are quickly changing.
Keith Starky Explains Twitter
http://explainingtwitter.tumblr.com/
Sparsely kept up, but a funny blog by a good writer at a University in Indiana.
Keith Starky, »leading researcher in the field of Advanced Sparse-Tree Social Networking Systems from Washington Polytechnical Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana« (wer da noch nicht grinst, ist selber schuld) spießt im unnachahmlichen pseudo-wissenschaftlichen Duktus die Absurditäten aus der Tweet-Masse. Sehr, sehr (sagte ich schon: sehr?) lesenswert.
"This 'weblog' is part of his ongoing research in humor propagation and fluid reputation dynamics."
Social Networks and 40-Something Women - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006795
Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend - Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com
http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/research-the-travelers-best-friend/#more-475
Tips by the frugal traveler on nytimes.com
Best practices for researching a vacation.
essential travel websites
Good set of links for flights, etc
Geeks Guide to Travel Planning - Wired How-To Wiki
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Geeks_Guide_to_Travel_Planning
Telephone Number IDentification
http://tnid.org/
Lookup US Telephone Number and find out the location
10% Of Twitter Users Account For 90% Of Twitter Activity
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-of-twitter-users-account-for-90-of-twitter-activity-2009-6
10% Of Twitter Users Account For 90% Of Twitter Activity
10% of twitter users = 90% of traffic. http://bit.ly/kaNDh [from http://twitter.com/madguy000/statuses/2027075241]
9 Strong Reasons To Eat Slowly
http://www.healthassist.net/food/slow/slow-eating.shtml
Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102518565
About the creative (descriptive) use of language
An interesting discuss on language and how images have different meaning to different people and cultures
Lera Boroditsky's take on how language transmit culture. I'd also love to read her essay, "How Does Language Shape the Way We Think" in the anthology What's Next (Vintage Books, June 2009)
Through Juliet's lips, Shakespeare said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But the Bard may have been wrong &mdash; names do matter. Language researchers say your sense of the rose depends on what you call it.
Lera Boroditsky asks us to describe a bridge - "What explains the difference? Boroditsky proposes that because the word for "bridge" in German — die brucke — is a feminine noun, and the word for "bridge" in Spanish — el puente — is a masculine noun, native speakers unconsciously give nouns the characteristics of their grammatical gender" (wikipedia notes that "For the Burning Man festival, she once built a banana vehicle" ;)
Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels: yeah, right - Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/study-pirates-buy-tons-more-music-than-average-folks.ars
"Those who download illegal copies of music over P2P networks are the biggest consumers of legal music options, according to a new study by the BI Norwegian School of Management".
between 15 and 20 are more likely to buy music via paid download than on a physical CD, though most still purchased at least one CD in the last six months. However, when it comes to P2P, it seems that those who wave the pirate flag are the most click-happy on services like the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3. BI said that those who said they download illegal music for "free" bought ten times as much legal music as those who never download music illegally.
Those who download "free" music from P2P networks are more likely to spend money on legit downloads than those who are squeaky clean, according to a new report out of Norway. The music labels, however, aren't quite buying that data.
A Sudoku Solver in Java implementing Knuth’s Dancing Links Algorithm
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jchu/publicportal/sudoku/sudoku.paper.html
Dr. Donald Knuth’s Dancing Links Algorithm solves an Exact Cover situation. The Exact Cover problem can be extended to a variety of applications that need to fill constraints. Sudoku is one such special case of the Exact Cover problem.
See also the references, esp. Knuth's original paper.
How Many People Actually Use Twitter?
http://mashable.com/2009/04/28/twitter-active-users/
As you no doubt have heard, Twitter’s traffic is growing at an incredible rate – the most recent numbers we’ve seen show that the microblogging service
The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides
http://askeric.org/index.shtml
The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
governmental (US) databases such as Ask Eric, which provide access to over 3000 educational resources (organized by category)
「渋滞学」の権威、西成活裕東大教授が伝授! 目からウロコの“究極”の渋滞回避術 - デジタル - 日経トレンディネット
http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/pickup/20090428/1025879/
時速75km 車間距離40m (75/40=1.67) を保つべし!!
統計データによれば、車間距離40mの時の平均速度は時速72kmですので、「高速道路では40m以上詰めると損をする」あるいは「時速約70km、車間距離40mが渋滞の始まり」と覚えておいていただければいいでしょう。
やってみよう
回避術の対象が1km程度の自然渋滞ばかりなきがするけど,10km以上の渋滞についてはどうなのだろう…。
Im Powerpoint-Nirvana: Beamer an, Hirn aus - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Netzwelt
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,630918,00.html
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=32BC95C9D7E5959C
future of health
Learn about the frontiers of human health from seven of Stanford's most innovative faculty members. Inspired by a format used at the TED Conference (http://www.ted.com), each speaker delivers a highly engaging talk in just 10-20 minutes about his or her research. Learn about Stanford's newest and most exciting discoveries in neuroscience, bioengineering, brain imaging, psychology, and more.
7 youtube videos from Stanford University
Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It, Including Case Studies
http://www.twitip.com/twitter-for-research-why-and-how-to-do-it-including-case-studies/
amazing twitter research capabilities.
Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It, Including Case Studies
SEO is Dead
http://learntoduck.com/search-marketing/seo-is-dead
Yesterday I moderated a panel on SEO and Social Media Marketing at the Thin Air Summit in Denver. Panel went great, the folks on the panel were fantastic. Jeremiah Oywang has a great run down of the panel and the advice given, so I wont rehash it her
http://tinyurl.com/69x7dw
The Formula for Effective Facebook Ads [REPORT]
http://mashable.com/2010/04/20/nielsen-facebook-ad-report/
The Formula for Effective Facebook Ads [REPORT] http://bit.ly/96nOt6
BBC NEWS | Technology | Study shows how spammers cash in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stm
Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study. ... "After 26 days, and almost 350 million e-mail messages, only 28 sales resulted," wrote the researchers. -- And still they found it would have been worth it.
Spammers see a 1 in 12,500,000 response rate and still profit. How the hell do you fight that? http://is.gd/6VoG [from http://twitter.com/inxilpro/statuses/1000550716]
Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.
negocio spam
"Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send [...] the researchers estimate that the controllers of the vast system are netting about $7,000 (£4,430) a day or more than $2m (£1.28m) per year. While this was a good return, said the researchers, it did suggest that spammers were not making the vast sums of money that some people have predicted in the past."
Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send
How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience « Usability Post
http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/05/21/how-to-listen/
How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience
Active Listening consists of a set of communication techniques
New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015 [STATS]
http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/
In a dense, 87-page report, Morgan Stanley analysts have charted the most important online trends and predicted the future of the Internet. In addition to forecasting more online shopping and showing the geographical distribution of Internet users, the study also shows a dramatic shift toward mobile web use. Including devices such as the Kindle, the iPhone (iPhone) and other smartphones, web-enabled tablets, GPS systems, video games and wireless home appliances, the growth of the mobile web has been exponential — and we’re still just at the beginning of this cycle. Morgan Stanley’s analysts believe that, based on the current rate of change and adoption, the mobile web will be bigger than desktop Internet use by 2015.
In a dense, 87-page report, Morgan Stanley analysts have charted the most important online trends and predicted the future of the Internet
In a dense, 87-page report, Morgan Stanley analysts have charted the most important online trends and predicted the future of the Internet.
Time Spent on Facebook up 700%, but MySpace Still Tops for Video | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/time-spent-on-facebook-up-700-but-myspace-still-tops-for-video/
As theories circulate about the actual dollar value of sites like Facebook and Myspace-analysts recently placed Facebook’s worth at $10 billion-there is no question that people continue to gravitate in droves towards social networking and blog sites. In the U.S. alone, total minutes spent on social networking sites has increased 83 percent year-over-year. In fact, total minutes spent on Facebook increased nearly 700 percent year-over-year, growing from 1.7 billion minutes in April 2008 to 13.9 billion in April 2009, making it the No. 1 social networking site when ranked by total minutes for the month.
afternoon Facebook posted about how the site is growing beyond regional networks and how networks will no longer be part of the privacy settings. The rationale is that the company has grown beyond it's previous boundaries … Jun 4, 2009, 11:55 AM - In con
Top 10 Social Networking and Blog Sites Ranked by Total Minutes for April 2009 and Their Year-over-Year Percent Growth (U.S., Home and Work)
LiveJournal
Rewiring the Brain: Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/neuroengineering1
Podcasting Goes Mainstream - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006937
Great stats on podcasting and purchasing behaviour.
Podcasting was born of the collision between social media and the iPod. Or, as Wired described it in a March 2005 article, “the bastard offspring of the blog and the Apple MP3 player.” Back then podc
Good stats
Podcasting was born of the collision between social media and the iPod. Or, as Wired described it in a March 2005 article, “the bastard offspring of the blog and the Apple MP3 player.” Back then podcasting was the domain of a few tech aficionados who saw it as a cheap and easy outlet to broadcast their views. All they needed was a microphone, some off-the-shelf software, and an installed base of iPod owners and Web surfers. But things have changed.
100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access « mary & mac design
http://maryandmacdesign.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/100-extensive-university-libraries-from-around-the-world-that-anyone-can-access/
Em inglês
Blog que lista 100 bibliotecas digitais universitárias com maior intensidade nos EUA. 2009
ItsTrending.com - A real time feed of the most shared content on Facebook
http://www.itstrending.com/
How to Follow Everyone Back on Twitter Without Ruining Your Experience
http://www.twitip.com/how-to-follow-everyone-back-on-twitter-without-ruining-your-experience/
How often have you heard the argument that not following back everyone who follows you is ’snobby’ and ‘arrogant’? (It’s not, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you so. You have a right to choose who you follow and don’t follow.) Following everyone back...
How to Follow Everyone Back on Twitter Without Ruining Your Experience http://twurl.nl/a66055 [from http://twitter.com/JonayCom/statuses/1623202941]
short answer: tweetdeck
@DEE522 Yeah (http://is.gd/uvxo) and (http://is.gd/c17V) is interesting too, got me thinking. [from http://twitter.com/suPEARLative5/statuses/1621050784]
Nielsen: Facebook's Ads Work Pretty Well - Advertising Age - Digital
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143381
Yep, la vinculación de amigos+publicidad está funcionando.
Gives examples of how ads on Facebook actually work and you can use them to promote events through Willow
It pays to have fans on Facebook if you want your ads to work there too, according to the first public study to come out of the collaboration of Nielsen Co. and Facebook.
Частично - нюансы продвижения в фейсбуке. Что интересно.
Facebook's Ads Work Pretty Well
Social Media Demographics: Who’s Using Which Sites? / Flowtown (@flowtown)
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/social-media-demographics-whos-using-which-sites?display=wide
Social media demographics whos using which sites
[illustration] Social Media Demographics / segmentation drastique de qui utilisent quoi - http://bit.ly/cAAhpX
The State of Web Development 2010 | Web Directions
http://www.webdirections.org/sotw10/
Welcome to this detailed report from our sec­ond “State of Web Development” sur­vey of pro­fes­sional web design­ers and devel­op­ers. It includes details and analy­sis of all the responses to over 50 ques­tions cov­er­ing tech­nolo­gies, tech­niques, philoso­phies and prac­tices that today’s web pro­fes­sion­als employ.
Welcome to this detailed report from our second State of Web Development survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis
What technologies are web developers using in 2010?
Detailed report about web development based on interviews with developers
Can User-Generated Content Change Your World? - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006888
Dobrý úvod
eMarketer 2008年的报告,关于生产性用户、生产的内容等的调研与预测
This article hypothesis about the long term impacts of user generated web content on greater society, and the many professional facets within society (albeit within an American context). Stills discusses how user generated content can only increase in size and rapidity, as new media platforms continue to increase in size and rapidity. He also discusses how platforms such as the internet have allowed for a liberation of free speech and communication amongst individuals, whereas 10 years ago there were limited avenues to get your opinion heard. This article provides an interesting insight into the phenomenon of user generated content and how pervasive it has actually become.
Every day, user-generated content (UGC) is part of the online experience of millions of US Internet users. From entertainment to communications to e-commerce, consumers are taking charge of the creation, distribution and consumption of digital content. And it’s growing. Up from 83 million in 2008, eMarketer estimates the number of UGC creators will grow to 115 million in 2013.
Info on growth of UGC and creators, consumers of UGC
Statistics and predictions
Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain | Wired Science from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/poordevelopment.html
:| (Also, wait, poverty-influenced stress can affect... your genes? Erm, what?)
"To test their hypothesis, Evans and Schamberg analyzed the results of their earlier, long-term study of stress in 195 poor and middle-class Caucasian students, half male and half female. In that study, which found a direct link between poverty and stress, students' blood pressure and stress hormones were measured at 9 and 13 years old. At 17, their memory was tested. Given a sequence of items to remember‚ teenagers who grew up in poverty remembered an average of 8.5 items. Those who were well-off during childhood remembered an average of 9.44 items. So-called working memory is considered a reliable indicator of reading, language and problem-solving ability — capacities critical for adult success. When Evans and Schamberg controlled for birth weight, maternal education, parental marital status and parenting styles, the effect remained. When they mathematically adjusted for youthful stress levels, the difference disappeared."
Does being poor make you physically less intelligent?
Growing up poor isn't merely hard on kids. It might also be bad for their brains. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory.
New Data on Top Twitter Applications and Usage
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4584/New-Data-on-Top-Twitter-Applications-and-Usage.aspx
Data on Twitter application usage to update Twitter.
Let's look at a random sample of a half a million tweets and see what people actually use to post updates to Twitter.
Feb 09 statistics on where and how people use Twitter
CS264: Peer-to-Peer Systems
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mema/courses/cs264/cs264.html#schedule
Embracing the digital book — Craig Mod
http://craigmod.com/journal/ebooks/
Let's talk about text. Let's talk about the digital book.
On redesigning e-readers or how we read digital text. Of note: "Show me the overlap of 10,000 readers' highlighted passages in a digital book. This is our ‘Cliff Notes.’ We don’t need Derek Sivers' brilliant summaries[14] anymore (sorry Derek!) — we’re collectively summarizing for each other as we read and mark our digital copies. Show me a heat map of passages — ‘hottest’ to ‘coldest’. Which chapters in this Obama biography should I absolutely not miss?(Fig 7) Let Stefan Sagmeister publicly share the passages he’s highlighted in the new Murakami Haruki novel. This is something I want to see. And I bet you do, too. When I’m considering buying a book, show me how far the average reader gets. Do most readers get through the whole novel or give up halfway? How many notes do they take? How many passages do they highlight?"
What Happy People Don’t Do - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/research/20happy.html?em
They enjoy TV, but watch it a lot less!
Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.
via Lifehacker. "But the researchers could not tell whether unhappy people watch more television or whether being glued to the set is what makes people unhappy."
Designing for Social Interaction - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
http://boxesandarrows.com/view/designing-for-social
Designing for Social Interaction Strong, Weak, and Temporary Ties By Paul Adams Senior User Experience Researcher at Google. I'm the research lead for sociability, and I work with teams building products and features for the social web. I've previously worked as a User Experience consultant at Flow (working with the BBC, The Guardian, Vodafone, London Underground, and others), and as an Industrial Designer at Dyson.
RT @timkastelle: Terrific post! Can't find who mentioned it first - Designing for Social Interaction http://bit.ly/axYN9P
教授からのメッセージ
http://www.bioreg.kyushu-u.ac.jp/saibou/qanda.html
著者の生物学の分野以外には一概に当てはまらないが、学部学生は読むべき。まぁ、大学院に入ればどのみち身をもって知ることになるのだけど。
長い.
http://riywo.tumblr.com/post/71955065
Teens and Their Mobile Phones / Flowtown (@flowtown)
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/teens-and-their-mobile-phones?display=wide
How Teens Use Cellphones [INFOGRAPHIC] http://www.flowtown.com/blog/teens-and-their-mobile-phones?display=wide
How are teens using their Cell Phones?
RT @trendplanner: Teens and Their Mobile Phones: An infographic - http://ow.ly/1HCqL
What iPads Did To My Family - Chuck's Blog
http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2010/05/what-ipads-did-to-my-family.html
Apparently they all ditched their other computers within a day. willnotgetanipadwillnotgetinanipod
y wife asserted her rightful place in the hierarchy later that evening, and took it upstairs to the bedroom to relax while watching TV. Tap, tap, tap. Occasionally, she showed me something interesting she found online. And smiling.
l the PCs and laptops are basically not being used.  All the Macs are not being used.  All have been powered off. Everyone in the family is waiting for their turn at the
Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet
http://gigaom.com/2010/04/12/mary-meeker-mobile-internet-will-soon-overtake-fixed-internet/
via @lmalita
Readings in Database Systems Web Supplement
http://redbook.cs.berkeley.edu/
This book is one of the fundamental database theory books available today. A list of the papers featured in the book, as well as various lecture notes, are listed. Need to track down some of these papers.
Not Exactly Rocket Science : Carbon nanotechnology in an 17th century Damascus sword
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/09/carbon_nanotechnology_in_an_17th_century_damascus_sword.php
An article which analyses the Damascus blade, known for being supernaturaly strong, using scientific method.
Marianne Reibold
impressive
swords damascus steel
Rohdesign | Mike Rohde, Designer : SXSW Interactive 2009 Sketchnotes
http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/003039.html
SXSW Interactive 2009 Sketchnotes
Wowee Zowee!
Usability of iPad Apps and Websites: First Research Findings
http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/ipad/
Jakob Nielsen/Nielsen Norman Group.
ユーザーインターフェースの大御所、ヤコブ・ニールセンが93ページにわたる、iPadのユーザビリティレポート。
33 Free Trend Tracking Tools | Traffikd
http://traffikd.com/resources/trend-tracking-tools/
RSSmeme RSSmeme shows popular blog posts that have been shared.
tracking trends on social media - a wide variety of tools to help you out
Trend Tools!!
Report: Social Media Marketing Up During Recession
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/03/16/report-social-media-marketing-up-during-recession/
What Social Media Ad Types Work Best? [STATS]
http://mashable.com/2010/03/30/social-media-ad-stats/
What Social Media Ad Types Work Best? [STATS]
From Mashable
* Regardless of format, the most effective advertisements were those that were related to the content on the publisher’s website (i.e. a soup advertisement on a cooking website). * Of the seven advertising types, banner ads and newsletter links were the most successful at encouraging purchase intent. Surprisingly, the study suggests that banner ads may be the best choice for advertisers that want to push a product. However, for campaigns that want to build engagement, corporate profiles or sponsored content is the better option.
「膨大なデータを分析して見えてくること」ニコニコ動画データ分析研究発表会:CodeZine
http://codezine.jp/article/detail/3516
「ニコニコ動画のデータの収集方法や分析結果を発表する」―25日にGLOCOM国際大学にて「ニコニコ動画データ分析研究発表会」が開催された。
On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence - Research - Harvard Business Review
http://blogs.hbr.org/research/2010/05/influence-and-twitter.html
On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence - Research - Harvard Business Review http://ow.ly/1MBcN
It could be that Twitter research is popular because Twitter data is free and so accessible. That's okay. Gift horses are just as good for riding. The best, latest entry in Twitter research is the handiwork of Meeyoung Cha from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. (Co-authors are: Hamed Haddadi, Royal Veterinary College, University of London; Fabricio Benevenuto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and Krishna P. Gummadi, also from Max Planck Institute.)
The number of followers of a Tweeter is largely meaningless, says Meeyoung Chaa from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. After looking at data from all 52 million Twitter accounts (and, more closely, at the 6 million "active users"), Cha says, "Popular users who have a high indegree [number of followers] are not necessarily influential in terms of spawning retweets or mentions".
Harvard Biz Review: On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence http://bit.ly/c3Qvv0 (via @Vocus)
Your results seem to suggest that number of followers does not equal influence and that other factors show that number of follows is in fact a bad indicator of actual influence. That would mean those companies both marketing techniques to increase followers, and the ones paying tweeters with large numbers of followers, are in the wrong business.
he number of followers of a Tweeter is largely meaningless, and Cha, after looking at data from all 52 million Twitter accounts (and, more closely, at the 6 million "active users") seems to have proven Avnit right. "Popular users who have a high indegree [number of followers] are not necessarily influential in terms of spawning retweets or mentions," she writes.
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html
An emerging field called collective intelligence could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.
The success of Google, along with the rapid spread of the wireless Internet and sensors — like location trackers in cellphones and GPS units in cars — has touched off a race to cash in on collective intelligence technologies.
collective intelligence
“The new information tools symbolized by the Internet are radically changing the possibility of how we can organize large-scale human efforts,” said Thomas W. Malone, director of the M.I.T. Center for Collective Intelligence. “For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,” Dr. Malone said. “In some sense we’re becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly.”
Cognitive Biases - A Visual Study Guide by the Royal Society of Account Planning | Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/documents/30548590/Cognitive-Biases-A-Visual-Study-Guide-by-the-Royal-Society-of-Account-Planning
Facebook Now Growing by Over 600,000 Users a Day - And New Engagement Stats
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/12/16/facebook-now-growing-by-over-600000-users-a-day-and-new-engagement-stats/
Facebook stats
droolit
Facebook se vendendo para marketing viral
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | How to understand risk in 13 clicks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7937382.stm
What are we to make of all those stories that warn of lifestyle dangers and slap a giant percentage sign in the headline? Michael Blastland introduces the Risk-o-meter to his regular column.
nice presentation, and even nicer correlation visualization if you scroll down further.
Ценнейший материал о том, как создавалась и тестировалась на читателях социальная реклама, представляющая сложные факты в виде наглядной инфографики.
What are we to make of all those stories that warn of lifestyle dangers and slap a giant "%" sign in the headline? Michael Blastland introduces the Risk-o-meter to his regular column.
Hoe persona’s en user stories bijdragen aan een succesvol designproces - Frankwatching
http://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2009/04/01/hoe-personas-en-user-stories-bijdragen-aan-een-succesvol-designproces/
In dit artikel beschrijf ik het nut van persona’s en user stories en waarom ze onmisbaar zijn in een ontwerptraject. Ook geef ik praktische tips in hoe je ze zelf kunt opstellen en toepassen.
Persona’s, MBTI, user stories. Allemaal tools om tijdens het ontwerpen van een website de gebruiker centraal te stellen. Er zijn veel vragen rond het gebruik van deze tools. In dit artikel beschrijf ik het nut van persona’s en user stories en waarom ze onmisbaar zijn in een ontwerptraject. Ook geef ik praktische tips in hoe je ze zelf kunt opstellen en toepassen. Have fun! En pssst, je kunt vandaag beginnen!
Artikel over hoe persona’s en user stories bijdragen aan een succesvol designproces
Peter Suber, Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/mit-adopts-university-wide-oa-mandate.html
March 2009
News about MIT OA mandate: http://tinyurl.com/c9w4cl [from http://twitter.com/MyOpenArchive/statuses/1399671252]
Peter Suber writes about and comments on MIT's decision to adopt a faculty-wide OA policy, the first of a university doing so across all its departments unanimously. As he rightfully points out, this will send out strong signals to lawmakers and other educational institutions.
0309 - Each Faculty member grants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nonexclusive permission to make available his or her scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles for the purpose of open dissemination. In legal terms, each Faculty member grants to MIT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each of his or her scholarly articles, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit, and to authorize others to do the same. The policy will apply to all scholarly articles written while the person is a member of the Faculty except for any articles completed before the adoption of this policy and any articles for which the Faculty member entered into an incompatible licensing or assignment agreement before the adoption of this policy. The Provost or Provost's designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written notification by...
The Psychologist’s View of UX Design | UX Magazine
http://uxmag.com/design/the-psychologists-view-of-ux-design
Some choice observations on UX including: ‘People can only look at so much information or read so much text on a screen without losing interest. Only provide the information that's needed at the moment (see progressive disclosure...).’
Umfangreicher Guide einer Psychologin zu guter Usability
L'avis d'un psychologue sur la création d'interfaces utilisateurs
Search EFF's FOIA Documents | Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/issues/foia/search
Freedom Of Information Act Search Engine
EFF's Freedom Of Information Act project has gathered thousands of pages of material. These shed light on controversial government surveillance programs, lobbying practices, and intellectual property initiatives. You can use the EFF FOIA Search Engine below to search and examine the documents' contents. If you find something you think is significant, send us an email: foia@eff.org.
EFF's document collection-obtained through requests and litigation under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-covers some controversial government initiatives, including the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse and DCS 3000 surveillance program and the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System and ADVISE data-mining project.
EFF's Freedom Of Information Act project has gathered thousands of pages of material. These shed light on controversial government surveillance programs, lobbying practices, and intellectual property initiatives.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Online time 'is good for teens'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7740895.stm
News article Nov 2008. Surfing the internet, playing games and hanging out on social networks are important for teen development, a large study of online use has revealed.
Surfing the internet, playing games and hanging out on social networks are important for teen development, a large study of online use has revealed.
Surfing the internet, playing games and hanging out on social networks are important for teen development, a large study of online use has revealed. The report counters the stereotypical view held by many parents and teachers that such activity is a waste of time.
Sky News appoints Twitter correspondent... | Media | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/mar/05/twitter-socialnetworking1
I'm in two minds about the creation of a Twitter correspondent by Sky News. By Jemima Kiss
[no comment] RT @simeonkerr Sky News appoints Twitter correspondent! http://tinyurl.com/cgd4vm [from http://twitter.com/s_m_i/statuses/1300356459]
RT @tomsmiled: @skynews appoints a Twitter correspondent to scour for interesting news http://bit.ly/jcI8k [from http://twitter.com/theholodeck/statuses/1283827369]
Media - Guardian - Twitter
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fpda%2F2009%2Fmar%2F05%2Ftwitter-socialnetworking1
Michael Malloy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy
re found this... thanks pat
You Can't Kill Michael Malloy
A man who was very hard to kill.
I had to come back with a good one
Chronicling America - The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/home.html
search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910
Something similiar (but much smaller of course) for us?
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Library of Congress newspaper resources go way back.
Pro Tools for Social Media Monitoring and Analysis: Sysomos Launches MAP and Heartbeat
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pro_tools_for_social_media_sysomos_launches_map_and_heatbeat.php
Very good offering of social media analytics
Both MAP and Heartbeat are surfing the current wave of enthusiasm for the real-time web, and MAP's crawlers index an enormous number of blog posts, forum posts, news reports, and tweets every hour.
MAP is a powerful and flexible analysis tool. It gives its users the ability to research any topic on blogs, social media sites, and in traditional news media reports.
Study: Young adults haven't warmed up to Twitter | The Social - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10253161-36.html
What turns women on - Times Online
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5802819.ece
Meredith Chivers is a 36-year-old psychology professor at Queen’s University in the small city of Kingston, Ontario.
Could your social networks spill your secrets? - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/what-your-social-network-can-r.html
The Google team's paper (Under)mining privacy in social networks (pdf) will be presented at the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2009 meeting in May. Tom Simonite, online technology editor
Chris Harrison - Pseudo-3D Video Conferencing with a Generic Webcam
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/3dvideo/
Conferenze 3d con webcam
Cacti Search - Get Search Results from all the Major Search Engines.
http://www.cactisearch.com/
Mega-search Engine
Metasearch engine
Meta-searchengine - cool!
Rubicon Consulting - Insight - WinMarkets - Michael Mace's Blog
http://rubiconconsulting.com/insight/winmarkets/michael_mace/2008/10/online-communities-and-their-i.html
Online Communities and Their Impact on Business: Ignore at Your Peril
From Rubicon Consulting: Review of research done by the firm that provides data supporting the value of online community to businesses. A PDF of the report is available for download.
Report: Enterprise 2.0 Apps Will Dramatically Fall in Price - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/enterprise_20_apps_fall_price.php
Commoditization of the technology opens the door for adding value through better implementation strategies.
A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up...
A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. The only exception is mashups, which will increase in price over the next 5 years.
Religion: Biological Accident, Adaptation — or Both | Wired Science from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/religionbrain.html
Whether or not God exists, thinking about Him or Her doesn't require divinely dedicated neurological wiring. Instead, religious thoughts run on brain systems used to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling. The findings, based on brain scans of people contemplating God, don't explain whether a propensity for religion is a neurobiological accident. But at least they give researchers a solid framework for exploring the question. "In a way, this is a very cold look at religious belief," said National Institutes of Health cognitive scientist Jordan Grafman, co-author of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We're only trying to understand where in the brain religious beliefs seem to be modulated."
Whether or not God exists, thinking about Him or Her doesn't require divinely dedicated neurological wiring.
"In a way, this is a very cold look at religious belief," said National Institutes of Health cognitive scientist Jordan Grafman, co-author of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We're only trying to understand where in the brain religious beliefs seem to be modulated."
Whether or not God exists, thinking about Him or Her doesn't require divinely dedicated neurological wiring. Instead, religious thoughts run on brain systems used to figure out what other people are thinking and feeling. The findings, based on brain scans of people contemplating God, don't explain whether a propensity for religion is a neurobiological accident. But at least they give researchers a solid framework for exploring the question.
Views: Admissions of Another Sort - Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/04/13/george
/ Mary W. George (April 13, 2009). It is clear from e-mail, reference encounters, research consultations in my office, and questions that arise in library instruction sessions, that most students simply do not retain the concepts and logic involved in discovering information sources — never mind the principles for evaluating the sources they do turn up.
Evaluating Internet-based Information: A Goals-based Approach
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/jun98/feat2-6/feat2-6.html
using of the Internet as a reliable resource for academic information
Evaluating Internet-based Information: A Goals-based Approach David Warlick is a former history teacher and is currently an Instructional Technology Consultant
A high school junior is asked to write a report about the Holocaust, a topic that her class has not yet discussed. At home our student uses her computer with access to the Internet to research the topic and word processing software to construct the report. She spends an hour searching the Internet and examining a variety of web pages about the subject and selects three web sites that are particularly compelling because of the graphics and layout of the pages, indicating authority.
Warlick,David. (n.d.). NCSU.edu. In Evaluating Internet- based Information:A Goals Based Approach. Retrieved March 30,2010, from http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/jun98/feat2-6/feat2-6.html. Information from the Internet is used by many students for research purposes but information located may not be accurate or appropraite.Students need goals for projects which would provide authentic context and enable students to assemble information located on the Internet in a more informative way. Using smaller chunks of info and interweaving them as opposed to using large chunks or paragraphs.
Article on how to go about evaluating internet-based information
Evaluating Internet-based Information: A Goals-based Approach David Warlick is a former history teacher and is currently an Instructional Technology Consultant.
Researcher Claims “Attention Spirals” Hold Key To Predicting Success Of YouTube Videos
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/18/researcher-claims-attention-spirals-hold-key-to-predicting-success-of-youtube-videos/
Riley Crane claims every time a YouTube video turns into a hit, the development takes the form of an “attention spiral”, a geometric pattern that partly follows physical laws. He discovered that a decrease of popularity with certain videos, for example, can be explained through methods usually utilized in modeling the aftershocks of earthquakes. He believes social systems on the web follow the rules of physics and can therefore be analyzed mathematically.
Interesting perspective on the spread of information online. Curious how this fits with current social network research
Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently researching at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH university in Zurich/Switzerland, says he has the answer: According to him, the success of online videos can be explained with physics.
mendelson_div_conq
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/mendelson_div_conq.html
there is talk about the media world, as well as the open source world. And how businesses should "defeat" the masses. Timing, product features, and the skillful use of network effects across market segments [benefits of a business]. This is a very "odd" study
How can a business compete with a free product? It’s not easy, and it’s more than just a theoretical question. U.S. newspapers are finding it difficult to compete with free news and the commentary of bloggers and other internet sources. And in the software world, the rise of open source products, which are available for free on the internet, is reshaping the technology industry.
Ultimately, from the point of view of the buyer, free products provide an important benefit. “Even if consumers do not end up adopting the free product, it can act as a credible threat to the commercial firm, forcing it to both lower prices and invest more in product innovation,”
Businesses Can Win the Competition Against Open-Source Technology
Why Sleep Is Needed To Form Memories
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211161934.htm
In research published recently in Neuron, Marcos Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, postdoctoral researcher Sara Aton, PhD, and colleagues describe for the first time how cellular changes in the sleeping brain promote the formation of memories.
The key cellular player is the molecule N-methyl D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), which acts like a combination listening post & gate-keeper. It both receives extracellular signals in the form of glutamate & regulates the flow of calcium ions into cells. Once the brain is triggered to reorganize its neural networks in wakefulness (by visual deprivation, eg), intra- & intercellular communication pathways engage, setting a series of enzymes into action w/in the reorganizing neurons during sleep. To start the process, NMDAR is primed to open its ion channel after the neuron has been excited. The ion channel then opens when glutamate binds to the receptor, allowing calcium into the cell. In turn, calcium, an intracellular signaling molecule, turns other downstream enzymes on and off. Some neural connections are strengthened as a result of this process, & the result is a reorganized visual cortex. &, this only happens during sleep.
If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists are beginning to understand why.
In research published recently in Neuron, Marcos Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, postdoctoral researcher Sara Aton, PhD, and colleagues describe for the first time how cellular changes in the sleeping brain promote the formation of memories. ... "We find that the biochemical changes are simply not happening in the neurons of animals that are awake," Frank says. "And when the animal goes to sleep it's like you’ve thrown a switch, and all of a sudden, everything is turned on that's necessary for making synaptic changes that form the basis of memory formation. It's very striking." The team used an experimental model of cortical plasticity – the rearrangement of neural connections in response to life experiences. "That's fundamentally what we think the machinery of memory is, the actual making and breaking of connections between neurons,” Frank explains
MeCabの辞書にはてなキーワードを追加しよう - 不可視点
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/code46/20090531/p1
-MeCabの辞書にはてなキーワードを追加しよう - 不可視点 http://j.mp/9SnTxA
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/rin1024/20090830/1251608698
naist-jdic 辞書ファイルの指定方法
Study: Influencers are Alive and Well on Social Media Sites - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/influencers_are_alive_and_well.php
Who are your brand leaders?
User Generated content stats - the arguement
Highlights of the Rubicon Consulting study: http://rubiconconsulting.com/downloads/whitepapers/Rubicon-web-community.pdf
Better Learning With Sites and Sound :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/03/audio
Even as many instructors embrace digital tools in the classroom, some are pushing the technology envelope with more complex tools for teaching or interacting with students. New research suggests the promise of such approaches.
Neue Studie: Communitys krempeln Netz-Nutzung um - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Netzwelt
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,612124,00.html
Nielsen-Zahlen zur Internet-Nutzung.
Social Networks wie Facebook, MySpace oder Wer-kennt-wen? gehören zu den populärsten Anwendungen des Web. Jetzt aber explodiert ihre Nutzung geradezu, sagen die Marktforscher von Nielsen. Zugleich wird ihre Nutzerschaft älter - was den Medien- und Werbemarkt erschüttern könnte.
34 Million Moms Online - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007118
Keeping up with their children keeps moms on the leading edge of new technologies and online activities. In fact, they are among the most savvy of all online users. They are also one of the larger
Keeping up with their children keeps moms on the leading edge of new technologies and online activities. In fact, they are among the most savvy of all online users.
eMarketer estimates 34 million mothers in the US go online at least once a month.
Keeping up with their children keeps moms on the leading edge of new technologies and online activities. In fact, they are among the most savvy of all online users. They are also one of the larger user groups online. eMarketer estimates 34 million mothers in the US go online at least once a month.
study shows what they are researching and purchasing online (18% of respondents researched health/fitness)
Marissa Mayer on the future of Google | News | TechRadar UK
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/marissa-mayer-on-the-future-of-google-496016
Marissa Mayer on the future of Google | TechRadar UK
Maye [...] believes that personalisation – "What can we understand about the user and how can we tailor the results to them?" – will be an important part of search. Search engines will be better because they'll understand more about the user. "Maybe the search engine of the future will know where you're located," Mayer suggests. "Maybe they'll know what you know already, or what you learned earlier today. Or maybe they'll fully understand your preferences because you've chosen to share that information with us. We aren't sure which personal signals will be most valuable, but we're investing in research and experimentation on personalised search now because we think this will be very important later."
As the self-proclaimed search addict points out, there's still a lot of opportunity for innovation, change and progress in search. Although typically tight-lipped about future products, she does hint at the direction Google is going to take. "We think it's really important to move beyond just keywords and allow people to ask questions, and maybe access things more easily from their mobile phone," she says. "We're also looking at how to weave new media into it and how we can bring books, videos and news right into the search experience. And then there are various pieces of personalisation."
Pretty much every product that Google works on has to go through gatekeeper Marissa Mayer, who decides whether it's ready to be released or needs more work. She even approves every single Google Doodle that adorns the search giant's homepages around the world. From being hired as the first female engineer nine and a half years ago to becoming one of the key decision makers at Google, she's come a long way.
3-1-2009
"I look for the insight and innovation that's baked into the idea," Mayer explains. "I also look at the overall energy and strength of the team that's presenting it. Then I develop an overall sense of confidence that it's both a good product idea and that we have a good team who are interested in moving it forward. If those two things come into alignment, it's going to be a successful product."
It's really important to move beyond just keywords"
"She's absolutely devoted to the needs of the 'end user' and often uses her mom as a reference point to check whether an idea is simple enough. But what other criteria does she take into account when she decides whether a product is a goer? "I look for the insight and innovation that's baked into the idea," Mayer explains. "I also look at the overall energy and strength of the team that's presenting it. Then I develop an overall sense of confidence that it's both a good product idea and that we have a good team who are interested in moving it forward. If those two things come into alignment, it's going to be a successful product."
[TechRadar]
The Future Of Social Networks - SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/the-future-of-social-networks-presentation
From Charlene Li, via Alex Iskold on Twitter
An important slide which should be followed.
Not particularly groundbreaking, but sets down in words the way things have been moving.
An interesting video that what seems to be a student did about social networking and how it is the future
Techlearning > > The New Rules of Copyright > October 15, 2008
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605472
Copyright discussion for educators on TechLearning
T
A review of the online copyright from Ahrash Bissell, head of Creative Commons ccLearn division.
Three-Quarters of the World’s Messages Sent by Mobile - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006995
Worldwide communication in the future will be done through mobile devices. According to TNS Global, 74% of the world’s digital messages were sent through a mobile device in January 2009, a 15% incre
Worldwide communication in the future will be done through mobile devices. According to TNS Global, 74% of the world’s digital messages were sent through a mobile device in January 2009, a 15% increase over the previous year.
"In Japan, 40 out of 100 e-mails sent are from a mobile device. In North America, 69% of those using e-mail on their mobile phone use it daily, high compared with 43% worldwide."
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Alien life 'may exist among us'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7893414.stm
Our planet may harbour forms of "weird life" unrelated to life as we know it.
When will the BBC get better quality science journos Alien Life my arse - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7893414.stm [from http://twitter.com/AndyBoydnl/statuses/1227806875]
new forms of life on earth, from earth or arrived to it. How to look for them. Definition of life (self sustained and capable of darwinian evolution?). Did life hartch on earth from scratch more than once?
MBAs vs. Entrepreneurs: Who Has the Right Stuff for Tough Times? - Bill Taylor - HarvardBusiness.org
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/taylor/2009/05/mbas_vs_entrepreneurs_who_has.html
"Now, I understand the use of students from elite business schools as a proxy for "talent" in the business world. But as the economy experiences the most deep-seated changes in decades, maybe it's time to change our minds about what kinds of people are best-equipped to become business leaders. Is our fascination with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest" of what business has to offer?"
Good article on entrepreneurship
Brings out a great distinction between focusing on the 'cause' vs. the 'effect' -- the latter being more akin to Design Thinking. Note also in the explanation of the latter -- the message in effect is 'embrace the heuristics'.
The more Sarasvathy explains the differences in the two styles of thinking, the more obvious it becomes which style matches the times. Causal reasoning is about how much you expect to gain; effectual reasoning is about how much you can afford to lose. Causal reasoning revolves around competitive analysis and zero-sum logic; effectual reasoning embraces networks and partnerships. Causal reasoning "urges the exploitation of pre-existing knowledge"; effectual reasoning stresses the inevitability of surprises and the leveraging of options.
"Her work revolves around one big question: What makes entrepreneurs "entrepreneurial?" Specifically, is there such as thing as "entrepreneurial thinking" — and does it differ in important ways from, say, how MBAs think about problems and seize opportunities?"
Thought-provoking.
Education Week: March 26, 2009
http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2009/03/26/index.html
Education Week posts Technology Counts 2009: Breaking Away From Tradition http://tinyurl.com/dkbjrs [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/1388211470]
Iowa AEA Online - Welcome to Iowa AEA Online
http://www.iowaaeaonline.org/vnews/display.v/ART/4252c621ae9df
Jackpot!
User ID: nwclel Password: ******
directions for Mac technology
Op-Ed Columnist - How to Raise Our I.Q. - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/opinion/16kristof.html
Another indication of malleability is that I.Q. has risen sharply over time. Indeed, the average I.Q. of a person in 1917 would amount to only 73 on today’s I.Q. test. Half the population of 1917 would be considered mentally retarded by today’s measurements, Professor Nisbett says. Another proven intervention is to tell junior-high-school students that I.Q. is expandable, and that their intelligence is something they can help shape. Students exposed to that idea work harder and get better grades. That’s particularly true of girls and math, apparently because some girls assume that they are genetically disadvantaged at numbers; deprived of an excuse for failure, they excel.
Poor people have I.Q.’s significantly lower than those of rich people, and the awkward conventional wisdom has been that this is in large part a function of genetics.
Good mythbuster and eye-opener on I.Q. Recommended.
"Intelligence does seem to be highly inherited in middle-class households, and that’s the reason for the findings of the twins studies: very few impoverished kids were included in those studies. But Eric Turkheimer of the University of Virginia has conducted further research demonstrating that in poor and chaotic households, I.Q. is minimally the result of genetics — because everybody is held back. "
praise effort more than achievement, teach delayed gratification, limit reprimands and use praise to stimulate curiosity
PopTech: What Facebook and Steroid Use Have in Common | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/profile-from-po.html
Social networking is a phenomenon both online and offline. "Steroid use (in baseball) spread because of the wicked combination of a closed network, or cluster, and positive reinforcement..."
Krebs believes everything is quantifiable as a social network, from steroid use to linked websites to a strand of HIV working its way through the porn industry. He is at the cutting edge of the growing discipline of social network analysis, and creator of InFlow, one of the most advanced social networking software tools. The field has exploded recently as social networks, the complex sets of relationships between members of groups, have formed the backbone of popular Web systems like Facebook and Google's search crawler. Social network analysts use software, like Keyhubs and NetMiner, to uncover how the structure of peoples' connections affect their thoughts and actions.
In the eyes of Valdis Krebs, the bulging bodies of baseball's steroid era reveal a problem exacerbated by a powerful social network.
The field has exploded recently as social networks, the complex sets of relationships between members of groups, have formed the backbone of popular Web systems like Facebook and Google's search crawler. Social network analysts use software, like Keyhubs and NetMiner, to uncover how the structure of peoples' connections affect their thoughts and actions.
Key to Hallucinations Found | LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/081123-hallucinations.html
What a long, strange trip it's been!
PR 2.0: Humanizing Social Networks: Revealing the People Powering Social Media
http://www.briansolis.com/2009/03/humanizing-social-networks-revealing.html
# cialmedia # statistics # socialnetworking # stats # socialnetworks
Social Networks are among the most powerful examples of socialized media. They create a dynamic ecosystem that incubates and nurtures relationships between people and the content they create and share. Gives some growth stats
stats
Demographics behind social media
Facebook Growth By Age Group: Share of College-Age Users is Declining - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/09/facebook-growth-by-age-group-s.html
With the U.S. now accounting for only about a third of all Facebook users, we are starting to see a gradual shift away from its original demographic of college-age users (18-25): 46% of all users are 18-25 years old, down from 51% in late May. The number of users in the 18-25 segment is growing, but at a slower pace...
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/1
Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
The book excerpt: the Shallows
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Design Research | UX Booth
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-design-research/
'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uosc-fk062006.php
ation of an imag
RT @HoagiesGifted: 'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving http://bit.ly/YHoJP [from http://twitter.com/bfwriter/statuses/14961074185]
How to Track Down Anyone Online
http://lifehacker.com/329033/how-to-track-down-anyone-online
The State of Mobile Apps | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/the-state-of-mobile-apps/
Statistical data of app usage
Four Ways to Find Out if Your Customers Are Active With Social Media | Social Media Examiner
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/four-ways-to-find-out-if-your-customers-are-active-with-social-media/
Free Science Books and Journals | Sciyo.com
http://sciyo.com/
Sciyo is a free service that allows scientists to publish their works and connect with other authors. Works published on Sciyo are made available for free to visitors. Visitors can download works as PDFs. There are currently 211 free books on Sciyo. The category of books that is probably of most interest to readers of this blog is Technology and Education. In the future videos will also be available on Sciyo.
FamilySearch.org - Family History and Genealogy Records
http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/
Beta program to digitize records.
Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Why Twitter Is the Future of News
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/25128/?a=f
From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society
On Kwak et al 2010
"...No matter how many followers a user has, the tweet is likely to reach [an audience of a certain size] once the user's tweet starts spreading via retweets," says Kwak et al. "That is, the mechanism of retweet has given every user the power to spread information broadly [...] Individual users have the power to dictate which information is important and should spread by the form of retweet [...] In a way we are witnessing the emergence of collective intelligence." [...] "Half of retweeting occurs within an hour, and 75% under a day." And it's those initial re-tweets that make all the difference: "What is interesting is from the second hop and on is that the retweets two hops or more away from the source are much more responsive and basically occur back to back up to 5 hops away." 67.6% of users are not followed by any of their followings in Twitter," they report. "We conjecture that for these users Twitter is rather a source of information than a social networking site."
Christopher Mims/Technology Review, April 30, 2010.
Reputation Management and Social Media | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Reputation-Management.aspx
"More than half (57%) of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to look up their name and see what information was available about them online, up from 47% who did so in 2006. Young adults, far from being indifferent about their digital footprints, are the most active online reputation managers in several dimensions. For example, more than two-thirds (71%) of social networking users ages 18-29 have changed the privacy settings on their profile to limit what they share with others online. Reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young. … When compared with older users, young adults are more likely to restrict what they share and whom they share it with. “Contrary to the popular perception that younger users embrace a laissez-faire attitude about their online reputations, young adults are often more vigilant than older adults when it comes to managing their online identities,” said Madden."
"Young adults, far from being indifferent about their digital footprints, are the most active online reputation managers in several dimensions. For example, more than two-thirds (71%) of social networking users ages 18-29 have changed the privacy settings on their profile to limit what they share with others online."
More than half (57%) of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to look up their name and see what information was available about them online, up from 47% who did so in 2006. Young adults, far from being indifferent about their digital footprints, are the most active online reputation managers in several dimensions. For example, more than two-thirds (71%) of social networking users ages 18-29 have changed the privacy settings on their profile to limit what they share with others online.
Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research
http://www.slideshare.net/CMSummit/ms-internet-trends060710final
Check the Online advertising section starting at slide 25
Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research
CS242: Course Readings
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/
Stanford
How Much Is a Facebook Fan Really Worth?
http://gigaom.com/2010/06/11/how-much-is-a-facebook-fan-really-worth/
cuanto cuesta un fan en facebook
Calculan que el fan en Facebook vale 136,38 dólares (Gigaom) http://micurl.com/Etfcus – Evento Blog España (eventoblog) http://twitter.com/eventoblog/statuses/16370768524
How the World Is Spending Its Time Online [STATS]
http://mashable.com/2010/06/15/time-spent-online-nielse/
Cómo se gasta el tiempo online.....
RT @mashable: Now trending on Mashable: "How the World Is Spending Its Time Online [STATS]" - http://bit.ly/aS9PH4
David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve.html
TED Talks As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve.html
moves head too rapidly
iPad vs. iPhone: A User Experience Study | UX Magazine
http://www.uxmag.com/technology/ipad-vs-iphone-a-user-experience-study
Some interesting insights into the different interactions and social experience of iPad vs. iPhone in a retail setting.
Studying how using Square on the iPad worked different than on the iPhone.
#iPad vs. #iPhone: A User Experience Study http://ow.ly/208ep #UX #Usability
Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics - it is bad news. And then it gets worse
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-analysis-of-iphone-economics-its-bad-news-and-then-it-gets-worse.html
great piece looking at the brutal economic realities of the iphone app market media cost of building an iphone app ($35K) and the median app sales ($700/year).
Tragic, scary stuff here.
Period ending.....Period downloads.....Cumulative downloads....Period revenues Jun 2008............no apps...................no apps........................no revenues Dec 2008.............600 M......................600 M..........................$ 172 M Jun 2009..............800 M....................1.4 B.............................$  228 M Dec 2009..........1.6 B.........................3.0 B............................$  458 M Jun 2010...........2.0 B.........................5.0 B............................$  542 M Total.................5.0 B.........................5.0 B............................$1.4 B
Stats on iphone dev. Money etc.
평균적인 앱스토어 개발자의 1년 수입은 $680
A truly excellent analysis on how much an iPhone app developer can expect to earn on average. Phrases like "But the picture starts out bleak" and "Now the picture starts to get worse." sum it up. Well worth reading the whole thing.
How to Find the Person behind an Email Address - Reverse Email Search
http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-person-by-email-address/13913/
Find the Person Behind an Email Address
Reverse Email Search
Facebook Fans Spend More Money [STUDY]
http://mashable.com/2010/06/12/facebook-fan-value/
A social media marketing company called Syncapse surveyed 4,000 people who've Liked brands on Facebook and figured out how valuable those fans are.
Facebook Fans Spend More Money [STUDY]
The study (“The Value of a Facebook Fan: An Empirical Review”) estimates that someone who has Liked a brand will spend an average of $71.84 more each year on that brand’s products or services than will someone who has not Liked it on Facebook, for a total average annualized value of $136.38.
Social Networks/Blogs Now Account for One in Every Four and a Half Minutes Online | Nielsen Wire
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/social-media-accounts-for-22-percent-of-time-online/
New statistics about social media consumption rates, broken down by individual medium.
Latest global survey from research house Nielsen shows Australia and Brazil are the top Social Media users in the world http://bit.ly/9W6k0d
Detecting Plagiarism for Free - Learn How to Prevent Plagiarism in Your Classroom
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/online-teaching/plagiarism#q
"This comprehensive resource will tell you everything you need to know about plagiarism, from the basic facts to free detection tools to preventing it in both the physical and online classroom." "Quick Facts - Defining Plagiarism - Free Tools for Detecting Plagiarism - Examples of Plagiarism Policies - Plagiarism Tutorials - Tips for Discouraging Plagiarism - Plagiarism in the Online Classroom - Additional Plagiarism Resources"
"Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data"
http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2010/WWW2010.html
presentation script by danah boyd
Big data, the currency that users pay Facebook and other social media companies for the right to use 'free' services
One-Third of Twitter Users Talk Brands - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007750
good stats about users talking about brands on Twitter and Facebook
at least once a week, 33% of active Twitter users share opinions about companies or products, while 32% make recommendations and 30% ask for them. Connectés à la marque, ces taux augmentent.
TWITTER IS A GOLDMINE (STILL UNTAPPED!)
The 5 Most Advanced Search Engines On The Web
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-advanced-search-engines-web/
Google, TinEye, GazoPa, CompletePlanet, Semantic Search
尖端类型搜索引擎
How Consumers Interact with Brands on Social Networks - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007742
Coupons remain a leading driver of brand interactions in social networks
“Those who still think that social network users are too busy engaging with friends to notice marketers must change their viewpoint,” said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report “Brand Interactions on Social Networks.” “Brand interactions are real, valuable and growing. “ According to a February 2010 survey by Chadwick Martin Bailey, a market research firm, 33% of Facebook users have become fans of brands on the network.
New Media, Old Media - Pew Research Center
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1602/new-media-review-differences-from-traditional-press
A study of top news stories finds that not only do social media (blogs, Twitter and YouTube) differ sustainably from mainstream media, but they also differ greatly from each other. Among 49 weeks studied, in only 13 did blogs share the same lead story with the traditional media; Twitter (four weeks of 29) and YouTube (eight weeks of 49) were even less likely to match up with the mainstream press. The least overlap, however, occurred within social media. In just one week of 29 studied did blogs, Twitter and YouTube share the same top story. That week was June 15-29, 2009, when all three social media platforms were led by the political protests in Iran. The study of top stories found that different social media regularly focus on different topics. Bloggers gravitate toward stories (often political) that elicit emotion. Twitter is squarely focused on technology. YouTube, while its top story was often seemingly random, has social media's most international mix of stories.
Technology makes it increasingly possible for the actions of citizens to influence a story’s total impact.What types of news stories do consumers share and discuss the most? What issues do they have less interest in? What is the interplay of the various new media platforms? And how do their agendas compare with that of the mainstream press? A review of a year's worth of data sheds light on these questions.
why new media is important
"the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has gathered a year of data on the top news stories discussed and linked to on blogs and social media pages and seven months' worth on Twitter. We also have analyzed a year of the most viewed news-related videos on YouTube. Several clear trends emerge."
News today is increasingly a shared, social experience. Half of Americans say they rely on the people around them to find out at least some of the news they need to know. Some 44% of online news users get news at least a few times a week through emails, automatic updates or posts from social networking sites. In 2009, Twitter's monthly audience increased by 200%.
Razorfish Outlook Report 2010 Razorfish Outlook Report
http://razorfishoutlook.razorfish.com/publication/?m=11995&l=1
La rapport de Razorfish, 100 pages d'infos intéressantes.
Digital outlook report for 2010
Advertising typology: basis for newspaper website audit instrument
Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_twitter_isnt_very_social.php
RT @rww Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network http://bit.ly/bfjiSq
After analyzing over 41 million user profiles and 1.47 billion follower/following relationships, the researchers concluded that only 22% of all connections on Twitter are reciprocal. On Flickr, this number is closer to 68% and on Yahoo 360 it's 84%. The large majority (78%) of connections between users on Twitter are one-way relationships.
More a broadcast network than a social network: 68% of Twitter users aren't followed by anyone they are following http://bit.ly/bfjiSq – Michael Zimbalist (zimbalist) http://twitter.com/zimbalist/statuses/14333138366
iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html
Nielson compares Kindle to iPad reading speeds
Possible ECOO
Summary: A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.
A study of people reading long-form text on tablets finds higher reading speeds than in the past, but they're still slower than reading print.
Nielsen säger att det går snabbare att läsa bok än e-bok. Testat på 24 personer- http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html
Studie: Vergleich von Lesekomfort bei Kindle, iPad, PC
The Real Life Social Network v2
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2
210p.
@jcstearns The Real Life Social Network v2 - http://goo.gl/2fDa <-in slideshare . A must read.
This is fascinating! — The Real Life Social Network v2 http://spncr.me/br
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2
awesome!
10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-google-books-lifelong-learning-research/
10 ways to use Google Books for Lifelong learning and research from makeuseof.com http://ow.ly/27fDf – Manchester Libraries (MancLibraries) http://twitter.com/MancLibraries/statuses/18022651860
Good post on ways to use Google Books
10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-google-books-lifelong-learning-research/
The great thing about Google is that you can take any of its services and extend it to uses that are not so obvious. We have seen the uncounted ways you can use Google Search. Now, take Google Books for instance.
10 ways to use Google Books for Lifelong learning and research from makeuseof.com http://ow.ly/27fDf – Manchester Libraries (MancLibraries) http://twitter.com/MancLibraries/statuses/18022651860
What Makes Up a Social Marketing Strategy? - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007766
What Makes Up a Social Marketing Strategy?
It’s quickly becoming common wisdom among marketers that a strategy is needed to use social media effectively. Of course, that doesn’t mean a majority of those involved in the space have gotten on boa
52% of social marketers are operating “without a game plan”
Welcome to Kan-ed!
http://www.kan-ed.org/
Kan-ed is a program created by the Kansas Legislature and administered through the Kansas Board of Regents. The purpose of the program is to expand the collaboration capabilities of Kan-ed's member institutions, specifically K-12 schools, higher education, libraries and hospitals. Kan-ed Mission: Kan-ed will be the leader in facilitating statewide technology solutions for Higher Education Institutions, Hospitals, K-12 Schools, and Libraries. Kan-ed will provide resources that enable its members to collaborate, educate and enhance their information delivery services to ensure our members become part of the global technology environment.
Kan-ed
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Why Many Teens Are Moving on from Facebook - eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007808
There’s no question of Facebook’s position at the top of the social networking space, and one thing that makes the site so powerful is that when it comes to social networking, a user’s friends must be users too. But among some teens, Facebook may be losing its stickiness.
There’s no question of Facebook’s position at the top of the social networking space, and one thing that makes the site so powerful is that when it comes to social networking, a user’s friends must be users too. But among some teens, Facebook may be losing its stickiness. According to a study from OTX and virtual fashion site Roiworld, nearly one in five teens with a Facebook profile had decreased or discontinued their use of the site as of April 2010. What’s more, the decreases seemed to speed up in recent months, with two-thirds of the lapsed users having turned away from the site in the past six months.
decrease apparently not related to privacy or influx of older users: it's just boring!
JULY 12, 2010, eMarketer
boredom.....really?
Some educators question if whiteboards, other high-tech tools raise achievement
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/10/AR2010061005522.html
Under enormous pressure to reform, the nation's public schools are spending millions of dollars each year on gadgets from text-messaging devices to interactive whiteboards that technology companies promise can raise student performance.
Article about whiteboards and effectiveness in student achievement.
Some educators question if whiteboards, other high-tech tools raise achievement
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/10/AR2010061005522.html
Under enormous pressure to reform, the nation's public schools are spending millions of dollars each year on gadgets from text-messaging devices to interactive whiteboards that technology companies promise can raise student performance.
Article about whiteboards and effectiveness in student achievement.
REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware
http://zeltser.com/remnux/
A Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution targeted on analyzing malware.
REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to emulate within an isolated laboratory environment when performing behavioral malware analysis. As part of this process, the analyst typically infects another laboratory system with the malware sample and directs potentially-malicious connections to the REMnux system that's listening on the appropriate ports.
REMnux is a lightweight Linux distribution for assisting malware analysts in reverse-engineering malicious software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu and is maintained by Lenny Zeltser.
REMnux: A Linux Distribution for Reverse-Engineering Malware
http://zeltser.com/remnux/
REMnux
A Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution targeted on analyzing malware.
REMnux is designed for running services that are useful to emulate within an isolated laboratory environment when performing behavioral malware analysis. As part of this process, the analyst typically infects another laboratory system with the malware sample and directs potentially-malicious connections to the REMnux system that's listening on the appropriate ports.
3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates
http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
Even in this example, I personally have no problem with using we.
#!/bin/bash weasels="many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely\ |exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly\ |mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)\ |excellent|interestingly|significantly\ |substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely" wordfile="" # Check for an alternate weasel file if [ -f $HOME/etc/words/weasels ]; then wordfile="$HOME/etc/words/weasels" fi if [ -f $WORDSDIR/weasels ]; then wordfile="$WORDSDIR/weasels" fi if [ -f words/weasels ]; then wordfile="words/weasels" fi if [ ! "$wordfile" = "" ]; then weasels="xyzabc123"; for w in `cat $wordfile`; do weasels="$weasels|$w" done fi if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "usage: `basename $0` <file> ..." exit fi egrep -i -n --color "\\b($weasels)\\b" $* exit $?
Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
tl;dr Government is too big.
To ensure that the country's most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation's interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called "inherently government functions." But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post. What started as a temporary fix in response to the terrorist attacks has turned into a dependency that calls into question whether the federal workforce includes too many people obligated to shareholders rather than the public interest -- and whether the government is still in control of its most sensitive activities.
To ensure that the country's most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation's interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called "inherently government functions." But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
RT @redlog: RT @ananny Phenomenally good reporting from the Washington Post: "Top Secret America", http://bit.ly/9Ja5Fi
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
invetigaciones especiales acerca del gob de EUA
tl;dr Government is too big.
To ensure that the country's most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation's interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called "inherently government functions." But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post. What started as a temporary fix in response to the terrorist attacks has turned into a dependency that calls into question whether the federal workforce includes too many people obligated to shareholders rather than the public interest -- and whether the government is still in control of its most sensitive activities.
To ensure that the country's most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation's interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called "inherently government functions." But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
RT @redlog: RT @ananny Phenomenally good reporting from the Washington Post: "Top Secret America", http://bit.ly/9Ja5Fi
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
invetigaciones especiales acerca del gob de EUA
tl;dr Government is too big.
To ensure that the country's most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation's interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called "inherently government functions." But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post. What started as a temporary fix in response to the terrorist attacks has turned into a dependency that calls into question whether the federal workforce includes too many people obligated to shareholders rather than the public interest -- and whether the government is still in control of its most sensitive activities.
To ensure that the country's most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation's interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called "inherently government functions." But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
RT @redlog: RT @ananny Phenomenally good reporting from the Washington Post: "Top Secret America", http://bit.ly/9Ja5Fi
Confirmation Bias « You Are Not So Smart
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/
The Misconception: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis. The Truth: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information which confirmed what you believed while ignoring information which challenged your preconceived notions.
RT @joegerstandt: RT @valdiskrebs: Great post on confirmation bias by @notsmartblog -- http://bit.ly/a2f5yq
The future of social relations | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/The-future-of-social-relations.aspx
The future of social relations | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project http://bit.ly/aFbc5a #gwws
Pew research
Overview The social benefits of internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the next decade, according to experts who responded to a survey about the future of the internet. They say this is because email, social networks, and other online tools offer ‘low-friction’ opportunities to create, enhance, and rediscover social ties that make a difference in people’s lives. The internet lowers traditional communications constraints of cost, geography, and time; and it supports the type of open information sharing that brings people together.
"Report: Future of the Internet, Social Networking, Communities The future of social relations " -- Pew
2010 research report on the ways in which social media are expected to enhance relationships. Positives outweigh negatives.
Mobile Access 2010 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx
Current (July 2010) stats on mobile use and how we are communicating, sharing pictures, email, vids and more... good stats for presentations and/or instruction.
Stats on mobile access and use in 2010
The ROI of Social Media Marketing: More than Dollars and Cents | Forrester Blogs
http://blogs.forrester.com/augie_ray/10-07-19-roi_social_media_marketing_more_dollars_and_cents
Brands are making plenty of money in social media: Dell Outlet’s Twitter account has generated millions for Dell, the Intel Channel Voice community has decreased costs by eliminating the need for expensive in-person events, and P&G used media mix modeling to demonstrate that the BeingGirl.com community is several times more effective at driving sales than the brands' television ads.
Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs
Afghanistan: The war logs [guardian.co.uk] http://goo.gl/XHW4
SearchCredible
http://www.searchcredible.com/
SearchCredible
critical-thinking - Tools
http://critical-thinking.iste.wikispaces.net/Tools
The tools below can help students evaluate information they find online.
evaluate online info
Top 50 Library Websites Worth Bookmarking from Around the World
http://mastersdegrees.org/2010/top-50-library-websites-worth-bookmarking-from-around-the-world/
RT @Zac_eMINTS: RT @rkiker: http://bit.ly/afdd01 Top 50 library sites worth bookmarking from around the world