December 2008
Dr. Wow →
Thanks to links to the post below on medicine as information, I heard from Dr. Jay Parkinson, who is starting an incredible company and platform called HelloHealth to reform the relationship…
November 2008
The new news mindset →
It’s so great to see more and more news executives face the tough questions in the business and recognize the fundamental and urgent change upon them. Chuck Peters, CEO of a newspaper and TV company…
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John Naughton has a good Observer (UK) column today about patients getting health information on the internet.
The medical profession is, to put it mildly, not over the moon. The more literate…
Are you really running out of time? →
A common feeling among creative workers is the lack of time. Yet, most people will run out of energy before they run out of time. A single task that takes you 5 minutes (asking a BDO for IP rights)…
Links for 2008 11 28 →
SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper
The end of p2p micro lending? Kiva.org is probably not affected because it is no profit
(tags: kiva, prosper, p2p,
Links for 2008 11 28 →
SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper
The end of p2p micro lending? Kiva.org is probably not affected because it is no profit
(tags: kiva, prosper, p2p,
Links for 2008 11 28 →
SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper
The end of p2p micro lending? Kiva.org is probably not affected because it is no profit
(tags: kiva, prosper, p2p,
Links for 2008 11 28 →
SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper
The end of p2p micro lending? Kiva.org is probably not affected because it is no profit
(tags: kiva, prosper, p2p,
Social Networking for Scientists: Mendeley →
Among scientists-bloggers, the new buzz word is Mendeley: a social networking platform for scientists (Ricardo Vidal, Sylvie Noël, Misha Lemeshko, Michael Kuhn, …). The site is barely…
Innovative ideas are indistinguishable from... →
It is impossible to distinguish objectively and systematically bogus work from high quality work. You can sort work based on external attributes such as quality of the presentation, length, …
When witnesses take over the news →
I’m writing a Media Guardian column on the news after Mumbai: When witnesses take over the news, the impact on our experience of news, the impact on the news event itself, on the role of…
Links for 2008 11 26 →
Transcendent Interactions Collaborative Contexts and Relationship-based Computing - SlideShare
Old presentation by Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield. “Don’t build applications. Build…
Links for 2008 11 26 →
Transcendent Interactions Collaborative Contexts and Relationship-based Computing - SlideShare
Old presentation by Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield. “Don’t build applications. Build…
Links for 2008 11 26 →
Transcendent Interactions Collaborative Contexts and Relationship-based Computing - SlideShare
Old presentation by Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield. “Don’t build applications. Build…
Links for 2008 11 26 →
Transcendent Interactions Collaborative Contexts and Relationship-based Computing - SlideShare
Old presentation by Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield. “Don’t build applications. Build…
No bullshit here →
Let me make this clear: I did not say bullshit to Bill Keller. Not that I couldn’t, wouldn’t, or haven’t, but I didn’t. Nor did he to me.
I said bullshit to the reporter (and, I suspect, his…
RocketSurgeon's Music 2.0 Directory →
After a long hiatus, Rocketsurgeon is back and is updating his comprehensive Music 2.0 directory. There’s an RSS feed, so just add it to your feedreader and find out what’s new in the…
Links for 2008 11 25 →
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Recommendation Engine Updates
- Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.
- The Recommendation Engine…
Links for 2008 11 25 →
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Recommendation Engine Updates
- Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.
- The Recommendation Engine…
Links for 2008 11 25 →
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Recommendation Engine Updates
- Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.
- The Recommendation Engine…
Links for 2008 11 25 →
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg Recommendation Engine Updates
- Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.
- The Recommendation Engine…
Two presidents →
Barack Obama says we have only one president at a time. That, apparently, is why Gail Collins and Tom Friedman want the old one to leave office now, which is silly if understandable wishful…
Hacked U →
Fred Wilson is right: This is a great PPT on hacking education:
Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
View SlideShare presentation or Upload…
Processing 1.0 has been released →
Ben Fry writes on his blog that Processing 1.0 has been released. Processing is a programming language for those that want to program images, animation and interactions. I like to think of it as a…
The perceptron - astute music recommendations →
The perceptron is a music recommender built by London-based programmer maryrosecook. Instead of relying on the usual collaborative filtering methods used in most recommenders, the perceptron…
Diversity in recommender systems: sketch of a... →
I have been arguing on this blog that while everyone knows diversity is a desirable property of recommender systems, there has been little work on the topic. To make my claim precise, I decided to…
Diversity in recommender systems: sketch of a... →
I have been arguing on this blog that while everyone knows diversity is a desirable property of recommender systems, there has been little work on the topic. To make my claim precise, I decided to…
Something’s rotten in… →
Amazing but newspapers in Denmark are still objecting to “deep linking” and want all links - even from emails - to come directly to the home page so they can then control the experience. It would…
A scenario for news →
In the snarkoff recently about my holding journalists to account for the state and fate of journalism, commenters asked with good reason where I say journalism will be done, how we’re doing to…
Disappearing divides →
As sure as clockwork, whenever there is a discussion of the advances the internet and technology provide, someone will bring up the digital divide. Not sure what they expect the folks in the…
The Napoleon Dynamite Problem →
Clive Thompson has an excellent piece today in the New York Times Magazine about recommendation: If you liked this, You’re sure to love that. The article gives a good overview of the Netflix…
Defending Google, the video →
Here’s video of my presentation at the NPR Intelligence Squared debate on whether Google violates its “don’t be evil” motto:
I am responding to Siva Vaidhyanathan’s inspired …
Pity purchase →
A friend sent me a link to a Facebook group called, Don’t let newspapers die. It’s cure: “Help spread the word and encourage people to pick up a newspaper today!”
So newspapers have become…
The YES Developer API →
Yes.com is an aggregator of information about terrestrial radio. They track the song playing activity of many thousands of radio stations. Now they are making all of this wonderful data…
Recommender systems: where are we headed? →
Daniel Tunkelang comments on the recent progress in collaborative filtering:
(…) the machine learning community, much like the information retrieval community, generally prefers black box…
Be a JavaOne Rock Star →
The JavaOne call for papers is now open Speaking at JavaOne is fun, but also a lot of work. Here are some images from last year (courtesy of flickr):
Tim Bray on solving the economic crisis →
For reasons I will not go into, this quote feels very satisfying today:
Solution to economic crisis: sack everyone who has an MBA. (Tim Bray)
Restructuring The Times →
So The New York Times Company is now worth less than it paid for the disastrous Boston Globe. It has cut its dividend to save cash, which - PR protestations aside - could lead to a family revolt,…
How to speed up retrieval without any index? →
John Cook gives us a nice recipe to quickly find all squares in a set of integers. For example, given 3, 4, 9, 15, you want your algorithm to identify 4 and 9 as squares.
The naïve way to solve…
Links for 2008 11 20 →
Thomson Reuters Regarding Lawsuit Concerning George Mason University’s Zotero Software
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has initiated a law suit against George Mason University…
Links for 2008 11 20 →
Thomson Reuters Regarding Lawsuit Concerning George Mason University’s Zotero Software
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has initiated a law suit against George Mason University…
Links for 2008 11 20 →
Thomson Reuters Regarding Lawsuit Concerning George Mason University’s Zotero Software
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has initiated a law suit against George Mason University…
Links for 2008 11 20 →
Thomson Reuters Regarding Lawsuit Concerning George Mason University’s Zotero Software
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has initiated a law suit against George Mason University…
Finding task boundaries in search logs →
There has been more talk lately, it seems to me, on moving away from stateless search where each search is independent and toward a search engine that pays attention to your previous searches when it…
Why am I not work on world hunger? →
My wife sometimes asks me why I am not working on important problems like world hunger. Instead, I am one of the top world expert in tag-cloud drawing. I am sure she thinks that I just fool…
See Mediastorm →
Come see Brian Storm, proprietor of the much-loved MediaStorm at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism tomorrow, Thursday, starting at 6:30. It’s open to the public but space is limited, so sign…
Strands.com on the Nokia! →
As you know, Strands recently launched the iPhone and touch mobile version of Strands.com. You like it, you really like it! Some of you said “Hey, what about us Nokia folks!” Well, today
Detecting spam just from HTTP headers →
You have to love research work that takes some absurdly simple idea and shows that it works much better than anyone would have guessed. Steve Webb, James Caverlee, and Calton Pu had one of these…
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Is what I do technical? →
We are trying to design a master degree in Information Technology. To me, this sort of program should be a professional master degree, that is, it does not lead naturally to a research career or a…