June 2008
Googlicious →
I twittered that I was having fun writing the chapter in my book about what a restaurant run on Googlethink might look like (besides being decorated in gaudy primary colors). Andy Carvin responded…
Old school music recommendation →
Instead of relying on machines to recommend music, John Scalzi does something radical … he asks his readers to recommend some music to ‘re-hipify’ him. He’s received lots of interesting…
When your organizers organize you →
Ari Melber happens upon what could be an important moment in the history-in-the-making of participatory, self-organized online politics: Barack Obama supporters used his own network to organize…
Seeing readers →
Paulo Coehlo — whom I got to interview in Paris for my book and an upcoming column — is asking his readers to help him create a virtual exhibition of them reading his books making 100 million —…
Carlin would curse →
If you happened to be driving down a New Jersey street this morning and saw a tall, pencil-necked, sweaty geek “running” down the road cursing into what appeared to be thin air, that would be me….
Retiring the green eye shade →
Copy editors and subeditors appear to be headed for the pasture. They’re getting laid off. The Orange County Register said recently that it would outsource copyediting to India. Roy Greenslade…
Guardian column: Down to the wire →
My Guardian column this week reprises the talk of the last two weeks about The Associated Press — not so much the blog kerfuffle but the clash of media models and the fate of syndicates. The end:
Looking for a PhD student for a project on... →
There is the opportunity for a 3-years PhD scholarship at the University of Trento working with my group on Web2.0 and social networking at FBK. The specific project that is funding the…
Looking for a PhD student for a project on... →
There is the opportunity for a 3-years PhD scholarship at the University of Trento working with my group on Web2.0 and social networking at FBK. The specific project that is funding the…
Looking for a PhD student for a project on... →
There is the opportunity for a 3-years PhD scholarship at the University of Trento working with my group on Web2.0 and social networking at FBK. The specific project that is funding the…
Looking for a PhD student for a project on... →
There is the opportunity for a 3-years PhD scholarship at the University of Trento working with my group on Web2.0 and social networking at FBK. The specific project that is funding the…
Nobama blogs kerfuffle →
A bunch of anti-Obama blogs were apparently shut down on Google’s Blogspot as suspected spam. They say that Obama fans reported them as spam to get rid of them. I have no idea what the truth is….
Oh, those Brits →
My friend Neil McIntosh says he was inspired by my wonder at the British institution of the Pukka Pie (why’d anyone one to puke a pie, I asked) to explain the ritual on his blog as he did for me…
List of Accepted Papers to Large-Scale Recommender... →
We just posted the list of accepted papers to second workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize Competition. Here are the titles:
Jinlong Wu and Tiejun Li. A Modified…
List of Accepted Papers to Large-Scale Recommender... →
We just posted the list of accepted papers to second workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize Competition. Here are the titles:
Jinlong Wu and Tiejun Li. A Modified…
.rose →
Identity just got more complicated. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to open up top-level domains to most any suffix we can imagine — from .com, .net,…
Hmmm →
Barack Obama’s first two notable acts after clinching the nomination are rejecting public campaign financing and endorsing the Supreme Court’s gun decision.
He’s not making this easy.
F— G-d →
Doing some research for a Reliable Sources segment I’m supposed to do this Sunday about George Carlin and his dirty words, I went to Google Trends and found this fascinating tidbit:
* Google…
OD on me →
The Guardian asked me to finish off their Future of Journalism series of lectures and discussions with a talk about the 10 questions we should be asking now. Talk about intimidating. These people…
Advertising auctions and modeling externalities →
Googlers Gagan Aggarwal, Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, and Martin Pal have an upcoming paper, “Sponsored Search Auctions with Markovian Users”, with a new model of people’s behavior that captures…
Personalizing physical spaces with online content →
Will our online activities affect our real life social interactions? asks Corvida.
Well, we certainly think so. And this is precisely the topic of our next event Proactive Displays: Bridging…
Good research: invent new problems or explain... →
It is a lot of work to grind through a research project and get an interesting paper out of it. Mostly, you have to be patient enough and work everyday at it. If you follow a sane process, it is…
Links for 2008 06 24 →
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
There’s no reason to cling to our old ways. It’s time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
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Links for 2008 06 24 →
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
There’s no reason to cling to our old ways. It’s time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
(tags: science,
Links for 2008 06 24 →
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
There’s no reason to cling to our old ways. It’s time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
(tags: science,
Links for 2008 06 24 →
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
There’s no reason to cling to our old ways. It’s time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
(tags: science,
Playing Oprah →
Yesterday when I led a panel at the Personal Democracy Forum, I gave props to Dave Winer as I told the room that they were the panel — that’s what Dave told me quite firmly at the first Bloggercon —…
F the FCC: The internet as interstate →
At PDF, I ask Vint Cerf — who said the FCC should die — to zero-base what government should or must do: regulation, incentive, investment. He launches onto a nice riff on roads and whether we should…
Yeah, Vint →
At PDF, Andrew Rasiej asks Vin Cerf for the one thing we need to do to advance the internet. His answer: Kill the FCC. I applauded.
Do as I do, not as I say →
Wonderful story in today’s Times on using Google data to show what we’re really interested in: more orgies than apple pie. The peg is an obscenity trial in Florida in which the defense attorney…
Determining synonyms from tags →
One issue that is encountered when working with social tags is
synonymy, that is, taggers have lots of ways to say the same thing.
For instance, looking at the tags that have been applied to an…
TechNation Australia » Blog Archive » Top 100... →
Saved By: Chris Saad | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: apml, attention, attention economy, engagd
Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0... →
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Listening Enrico Giovannini (OECD) speaking about... →
I’m in Luserna for blow minding 3 weeks of Webvalley.
Now listening to Enrico Giovannini of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “democracy and statistics”. You can watch…
Listening Enrico Giovannini (OECD) speaking about... →
I’m in Luserna for blow minding 3 weeks of Webvalley.
Now listening to Enrico Giovannini of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “democracy and statistics”. You can watch…
Listening Enrico Giovannini (OECD) speaking about... →
I’m in Luserna for blow minding 3 weeks of Webvalley.
Now listening to Enrico Giovannini of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “democracy and statistics”. You can watch…
Listening Enrico Giovannini (OECD) speaking about... →
I’m in Luserna for blow minding 3 weeks of Webvalley.
Now listening to Enrico Giovannini of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development “democracy and statistics”. You can watch…
Lowly tasks you should do →
Many of my colleagues never mark assignments. I tend to mark papers on nearly a weekly basis. Why am I doing this? Because I believe that marking assignments is the best way to identify the…
CUNY’s grant →
At the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, we’re proud to announce today that we received a $3 million matching grant from the Tow Foundation to create a Center for…
Shit →
Twitter was built for tributes to George Carlin. Seven words just fit.
He no longer needs a place for his stuff. Damn.
The crowdsourced life →
I happened to tweet this morning about two crowdsourcing moments — student tries to crowdsource his tuition; Michael Arrington crowdsources his rats/ship/flee list for Yahoo — when Mark…
Open Notebook Science →
I’ve noticed a few articles and resources around open research in the last few weeks. Last week, when I was visiting my parents in Florida, I noticed my Dad’s copy of Scientific America had an…
He changed →
Whenever you want to show how soft big media are on Barack Obama, refer back to Howard Kurtz’ column on their coverage of the candidate’s hypocritical flip-flop on campaign financing. Chapter and…
@PDF08 →
Make a last-minute decision and come to the Personal Democracy Forum in New York tomorrow. I had to scour the schedule to find a slot when I could sneak off for a meeting — in any conference, that’s…
High on Weeds →
I’ve been inhaling the third season of Weeds on my iPod (it’s a crime to watch Mary-Louise Parker that size). On the way back from London last night, I watched four episodes in a row - which is a…
Getting things smart →
I was not going to post about this, but I cannot seem to get Steve Yegge’s post, “Done, and Get Things Smart”, out of my head. It is clever piece on hiring that challenges the conventional wisdom.
Heh →
Google Trends new service that allows you to get audience stats through Google’s eyes for any site doesn’t work for … Google.com.
Aggregating - and checking - the pundits →
Hubdub, a news prediction betting marketplace, has started a cool new feature that tracks the pundits’ predictions. Punditwatch takes the predictions of prognosticators from Christ Matthews to…
Social Tags and MIR - a tutorial at ISMIR 2008 →
The organizers for ISMIR 2008 have just posted the schedule for tutorials for this year’s conference. Among them is a tutorial that will be presented by Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Elias Pampalk…
Ununderstanding the link economy →
David Ardia reports on the fundamental misunderstanding of the link economy of media at the Carnegie-Knight Conference on the Future of Journalism. I got the quote from Jay Rosen’s tweet; he…