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This morning I was inspired to do a bit of word cloud exploration ... I was prompted by a general tweet from Kevin Lim about "making beautiful word clouds using wordle.net. He had constructed a word cloud based on his del.icio.us entries ... Kevin, in turn, was prompted by Henry Farrell's posting of his text cloud based on his book “The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests

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In a post to the googgleblog, Official Google Blog: Technologies behind Google ranking, Amit Singhai, Google Fellow, writes: As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50

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Joi Ito explains the Creative Commons to Loic Le Meur Note: July 21. While correcting a typo in the title of this post, I discovered some link rot. The video is no longer available. Youtube reports "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." That's the only information - as if there were only one term of use. I originally found it on Joi Ito's own blog at http://

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Hamburg artist DAIM sprays graffiti into the empty space in a large hall. Three cameras capture his position and movements as he paints with a virtual spray can. The assimilated data is shown to him in real time in a pair of video glasses — as free-floating 3D graffiti in space. His extended reality becomes a three-dimensional canvas, on which something completely new is created: street art of

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Often we are faced with evaluating comments, suggestions, and survey questions frequently taken from small groups. Other than just reading the comments and sifting through them mentally, is there any (easy) way to get a view of "what they all mean?" Last week, Kevin Lim mashed up web 2.0 style tagging with a small survey and came up with a text cloud visualization of "Workshop Participants

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A new study by IAC and JWT, two large internet advertising agencies, have announced a new study detailing the rise of the "Young Digital Mavens" demographics in the United States and China. "The study found that while a large majority of youth in both countries now feel dependent on digital technology, this attitude is especially pronounced in China. As many as 80 percent of Chinese

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danah boyd and Nicole Ellison are the guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication exploring issues in social computing and networking. The articles explore the feature sets of social networking sites, their audiences, the cultures and sub-cultures, and issues that occur in both the sites and their study. Not surprisingly, the field turns out to be quite a

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This morning, a fascinating google alert appeared in my email, a posting by Kevin Lim, University of Buffalo, describing a recent graduate seminar. The posting was accompanied by the mindmap above .. [Recently, Kevin Lim] presented “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams at [his] graduate reading seminar. [He] created a simple mindmap

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Hiroko Tabuchi, reporting for the Associated Press in Tokyo, observes that "a new PC or laptop computer may be the last thing a Japanese student will want to buy for college." Leaving aside the differences between the Japanese and American undergraduate curriculum, several important observations stand out: the Japanese PC market is shrinking, rather than growing. PC sales have declined in

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In some schools, classrooms are being redesigned to resemble cyber cafés. Virginia Matthews of the Independent [London] reports "At Colne Community School in Brightlingsea, Essex, the ICT Learning Centre – despite its 60 or so matt black, flat-screen computers – is designed to look more like a coffee bar than a secondary school, according to Mark Thomson, assistant principal. "Yet despite the

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Malcolm Brown, Dartmouth, wonders with all the buzz that surrounds the Web 2.0, students' immersion in it, and the current focus on emphasizing the learner, if it doesn't make sense to implement Web 2.0 features into the CMS? Url: Malcolm Brown, Mashing up the Once and Future CMS, Educause Review, vol. 42, no. 2 (March/April 2007): 8–9 http://www.educause.edu/er/erm07/erm0725.asp?bhcp=1http://

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Ubiquituous Media: Asian Transformations From July 3 to 16, 2007, a major media studies conference, entitled Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations, will be held at Tokyo University. Prominent scholars such as Friedrich KittlerShigehiko HasumiRem KoolhasBernard StieglerAsada Akira and others will serve as plenary speakers and there are literally hundreds of papers being presented,

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The R Project for Statistical Computing The R Project for Statistical Computing is an Open Source application with binary installation routines for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is much much more than a simple statistical package. R provides an interpreted statistical programming language that looks a lot like S. The resemblance is so strong that I can use my old S language reference books to

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Tracy Mitrano and Anita Rho, both of Cornell University, are leading an online workshop on November 8 to explore ways in which colleges and universities can use social networking tools: Facing Facebook and Other Social Networking Technologies. The announcement seems facebook (and marketing) oriented - If you’re starting a capital campaign at your institution, why not use social networking

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"The rapid growth of 'social networking' Web sites, such as http://www.myspace.com/ , continues to soar, according to the most recent numbers from Nielsen-NetRatings, released Thursday." Peer-to-Peer Networking For Podcasts and People

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"A group of 46 senior scientists accused the Royal Society this week of putting its own considerations above those of science by adopting a negative stance on the issue of open access publishing, in which scientific literature is made freely available via the Internet. The letter-writers argue that the Royal Society is disparaging open access to protect the interests of for-profit publishers –

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Gerry McKiernan, the blogging, theoretical, visual librarian sent this to the digital library list: John Markoff, Your Internet Search Results, in the Round, The New York Times, May 9, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 - For decades, computer researchers have experimented with the idea of displaying textual information in visual maps, but the concept has been slow to find practical applications. Now,

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The Christian Science Monitor published a editorial today touching on a fundamental tasks of academic computing - understanding numbers. Pi's presumed infinite nature has absorbed mathematicians - and others - for centuries. According to "That Book...of Perfectly Useless Information," newly published, actress Melissa Joan Hart can actually recite pi from memory to 400 decimal places - not quite

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opensourceCMS.com was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs. The administrator username and password is given for every system and each system is deleted and

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OrangeGuava is focused on allowing people to get their work done without needing to think like a computer. OrangeGuava Desktop updates the desktop metaphor which has remained mostly unchanged for the past decade. A real world desktop has stacks of paper arranged informally in such a way that you always know where to find a piece of information, simply by knowing which side of the desk you

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Viola Huang. Fighting for the 'freedom to tinker,' Daily Princetonian, March 1, 2005 writes: "The world is an imperfect place, and Edward Felten likes to tinker with it. "In December, Felten released the world's smallest peer-to-peer file-sharing program — 15 lines of code he named tinyP2P — to prove that such programs could not easily be banned. Felten wrote tinyP2P with his graduate student

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Connotea is a free online reference management service for scientists created by Nature Publishing Group. Connotea stores your reference list online, and that provides many advantages: it's readily accessible, it's linked directly into the literature and it's easily shared with colleagues. Opening your references to other researchers enables you to discover new leads by connecting to the

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How did we go from using computers with punched cards, where you'd have to wait a day for the results of your calculations - to sitting around in coffee shops with a laptop ? Liquid Information is a research project at UCLiC in London in cooperation with Doug Engelbart in California. We are aiming to make text more interactive - turning words into hyperwords. Why? Most electronic

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Gerry McKiernan has announced the launching of the "disruptive scholarship blog". at http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com/. I have begun to speculate further about the Wiki as *the* platform for The Next Generation e-Journal [1] and the transformation of the review process. I hereby invite Any and All of my Web Colleagues to Critically Review the scenarios outlined below in which I sketch

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Computer scientists identify future IT challenges Goals for IT include harnessing the power of quantum physics, building systems that can't go wrong By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service January 25, 2005 http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/25/HNfuturechallenges_1.html A group of British computer scientists have proposed a number of "grand challenges" for IT that they hope will drive forward

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