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The Taste Blog is an aggregation of Paul Lamere's favorite blogs about recommendation.

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Jun
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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:
Jun
29th
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Looking for a PhD student for a project on collective memory building. 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…
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Looking for a PhD student for a project on collective memory building. 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…
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Looking for a PhD student for a project on collective memory building. 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…
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Looking for a PhD student for a project on collective memory building. 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…
Jun
28th
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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….
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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…
Jun
27th
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List of Accepted Papers to Large-Scale Recommender Systems Workshop

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…
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List of Accepted Papers to Large-Scale Recommender Systems Workshop

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…
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.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,…
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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…
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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.