May 2008
Freakomendations - MyStrands →
Here’s an unusual recommendation from MyStrands, but in a good way, not a bad way. While I was listening to some Aphex Twin I checked the MyStrands application to see what they recommended….
April 2008
Why you get annoying as you grow older →
As a young Ph.D. student, I thought that my thesis supervisors were annoying. Looking back, ten years later, I think they were not nearly harsh enough.
I used to think that keeping detailed logs…
The Kos war →
Jim Wolcott (fellow Hillary voter) dissects the feud — schism, actually — at Daily Kos and within the Democratic Party. Note well that the nasties in this story are the followers of Mr. Getalong.
Obama’s problem →
Now I’m actually angrier about Obama and the Rev. Wright than before. When I complained about what Wright said the first times, I was told that I didn’t understand the history of the black church, I…
Zotero Citation Manager →
I’ve been a moderately happy citeulike user for quite some time, but their community-developed scrapers have been growing less consistently useful over time - more and more, I have been forced to…
ICDE 2009 ( June 20, 2008 / March 29 - April 4,... →
The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering will be held in Shanghai, China in March 2009. ICDE is a generic database conference.
Freakomendations - One LLama →
One Llama is a music recommender that uses “acoustic analysis, cultural analysis and collaborative filtering tools for music navigation, discovery and search. On their website they say One…
Live →
Here’s the first example I’ve seen of a witness broadcasting live from a news event with a mobile phone on Flixwagon. It’s very rough — extremely rough thanks to a finger on the lens! — but it’s…
Freakomendations - Hacking Last.fm, Poor Hillary →
Last.fm has a similar artist feature. When you are looking at the page for an artist they will show you artists that are similar based upon the wisdom of the crowds. Last.fm can tell you for…
No news is no news →
It’s no longer news that newspapers are reporting disastrous drops in circulation: “Apart from those two national dailies, which eked out gains of under 1 percent each, every other newspaper in…
Me at CUNY →
Not that I expect a soul to watch but if you’re curious, here was my spiel about the interactive journalism program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism open house for our accepted students a…
Strands Acquires Expensr and Launches... →
Today we are happy to announce the launch of moneyStrands, a personal money management solution, as well as the acquisition of Expensr, a leading online personal finance application.
This marks…
On the pulse →
It’s fascinating how new layers of Twitter as a platform for our thoughts keep emerging.
I saw Twitter-maker Ev Williams say today that he loves Twistori, which was inspired by friend Jonathan…
Questioning Yahoo Answers →
Zoltan Gyongyi, Georgia Koutrika, Jan Pedersen, and Hector Garcia-Molina published a paper at WWW 2008, “Questioning Yahoo Answers”, that has an interesting analysis of how people are using Yahoo…
Search trails and relevance →
Misha Bilenko and Ryen White from Microsoft Research had a paper at WWW 2008, “Mining the Search Trails of Surfing Crowds: Identifying Relevant Websites From User Activity” (PDF), that is a…
Keynotes at WWW 2008 →
The keynote talks at WWW 2008 promised to be exciting. With names like Google VP Kai-Fu Lee (who’s departure from Microsoft famously caused chairs to become airborne), Microsoft VP Harry Shum,…
Freakomendation - Google Sponsored Links →
I was looking at the Keith Fullerton Whitman Google Music page when I noticed that there was a Google Sponsored Link on the side for Pandora. KFW is not exactly a mainstream artist, so it seemed…
Freakomendations - The Potted Peace Lily →
I hope people don’t think I am picking on Amazon. Amazon clearly has one of the best recommenders in the world. The last time I went to Amazon, I intended to buy 1 book, I ended up with 5 all because…
Last.fm scrobbling for Nokia S60 and S40 devices... →
For those of you who are mobile enthusiasts and also Last.fm users, we have good news!
We have just released version 3.1 of Nokia’s Mobile Rules! 2008 winning application, MyStrands Social Player,…
Freakomendations - Amazon →
Zac sends along this freakomendation: I don’t know if you’re a Kinky Friedman fan, but his books are detective stories — kind of a foul-mouthed cross between Phillip Marlowe, Hunter Thompson and…
The truth will make you relevant →
Scientists often cheat. Bad and famous scientists cheat. The cheating can be small or large: putting your name as an author on a paper that you barely read, omitting part of the an experiment,…
Newspapers and change →
Change in newspapers — upgrading, updating, inventing, innovating — should be celebrated, no matter what causes it. See the story of the Madison Capital Times shifting — “reluctantly,” says the NY…
Graydon Carter, child pornographer →
I blame the adults around Miley Cyrus for exploiting her: Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, Annie Liebovitz, her agents, and her parents. She’s just a kid with a sweet show that millions more…
More Netflix Freakomendations →
Here are a few more freakomendations from Netflix.
No Country for Old Ogres
From “The Killers” to “Looney Tunes”
A Death Wish for Moses
Netflix Freakomendation →
Here’s a recommendation from Netflix. Because you enjoyed Trekkies, Netflix suggests that you’ll enjoy Frontier House.
Are these really Better Together?
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Bad news for London fliers →
Eos, the great all-business (all-first, actually) airline to London is shutting down after something snagged its $50 million in financing, forcing it into bankruptcy. This pretty much leaves…
Freakomendations →
Some people are bird watchers, some collect cars. I like to collect unusual recommendations. I’m calling these ‘Freakomendations’. There’s almost always a story behind the recommendation - but…
Defining quality in journalism →
Some Norwegian journalists who visited CUNY on Friday emailed me to ask about definitions of quality in journalism today for a white paper they are writing. Here’s what I said. I’d like to hear what…
Social insurance, continued →
Great discussion going on in the post about social insurance below. Please keep it coming there. This is very helpful in my thinking for my book. Thanks, all.
Links for 2008 04 26 →
Especial Bruno Bozzetto
Extrafunny animation about the difference between Europeans and Italians
(tags: funny, animation, cartoon, europe, italy)
AdSense And Robin…
Links for 2008 04 26 →
Especial Bruno Bozzetto
Extrafunny animation about the difference between Europeans and Italians
(tags: funny, animation, cartoon, europe, italy)
AdSense And Robin…
Digging into the DataPortability site →
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Links for 2008 04 26 →
Especial Bruno Bozzetto
Extrafunny animation about the difference between Europeans and Italians
(tags: funny, animation, cartoon, europe, italy)
AdSense And Robin…
Links for 2008 04 26 →
Especial Bruno Bozzetto
Extrafunny animation about the difference between Europeans and Italians
(tags: funny, animation, cartoon, europe, italy)
AdSense And Robin…
Digg spy fullscreen →
digg.com/spy ajaxy shows in real time every action happening on Digg: a user submitting a new story, a user voting for or against a story or commenting on it. Pretty impressive ongoing picture of…
Not-so-virtual enemies: when Web2.0 affects your... →
Great article on Financial Times No place to hide. It tells two alarming stories for getting the idea and then analyzes the changes and threats social networking insert into our lifes.
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Animate the song →
Jawdropping animation of a song and its lyrics. Watch it fullscreen on Vimeo!!! It is made with processing.org (I quickly checked processing and unfortunately it does not seem something you can…
Not-so-virtual enemies: when Web2.0 affects your... →
Great article on Financial Times No place to hide. It tells two alarming stories for getting the idea and then analyzes the changes and threats social networking insert into our lifes.
…
Animate the song →
Jawdropping animation of a song and its lyrics. Watch it fullscreen on Vimeo!!! It is made with processing.org (I quickly checked processing and unfortunately it does not seem something you can…
Social insurance? Naw. →
For my book, I’ve been thinking about a few industries that I think are impervious to social, Google-age, web-2.0, VRM goodness; we are bound to hate them.
Take insurance. I can’t see any way…
Not-so-virtual enemies: when Web2.0 affects your... →
Great article on Financial Times No place to hide. It tells two alarming stories for getting the idea and then analyzes the changes and threats social networking insert into our lifes.
…
Not-so-virtual enemies: when Web2.0 affects your... →
Great article on Financial Times No place to hide. It tells two alarming stories for getting the idea and then analyzes the changes and threats social networking insert into our lifes.
…
Digg spy fullscreen →
digg.com/spy ajaxy shows in real time every action happening on Digg: a user submitting a new story, a user voting for or against a story or commenting on it. Pretty impressive ongoing picture of…
Animate the song →
Jawdropping animation of a song and its lyrics. Watch it fullscreen on Vimeo!!! It is made with processing.org (I quickly checked processing and unfortunately it does not seem something you can…
Digg spy fullscreen →
digg.com/spy ajaxy shows in real time every action happening on Digg: a user submitting a new story, a user voting for or against a story or commenting on it. Pretty impressive ongoing picture of…
Animate the song →
Jawdropping animation of a song and its lyrics. Watch it fullscreen on Vimeo!!! It is made with processing.org (I quickly checked processing and unfortunately it does not seem something you can…
Digg spy fullscreen →
digg.com/spy ajaxy shows in real time every action happening on Digg: a user submitting a new story, a user voting for or against a story or commenting on it. Pretty impressive ongoing picture of…
Job offer: education specialist →
We are looking for someone to fill a permanent position as an education specialist (spécialiste en sciences de l’éducation). The job includes some research time. You must have a degree in…
Best mistake of the year →
Wireless — uh, I mean Wired — quotes David Weinberger and identifies him as a coauthor of the Clueless Manifesto. Which, of course, only demonstrates that they missed the train.
(And if they…
Is Starbucks a spa or our third place? Is it... →
As Starbucks tries to recapture its old focus, it is stepping back from the music business — from the content business, really — and that made me wonder what spot Starbucks should fit into in our…