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A Second Digital Economy
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Second Digital Economy

W Brian Arthur at PARC via the Santa Fe Institute , who worked with us in the 90s to look at consumer behavior complexity simulation.  In a 65 minute videoSignalling...

Google's Changing View of Link Abuse
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Changing View of Link Abuse

In Search Engine Watch:  An instructive look at Google's changing view of link abuse.  hat is, the use of links in a site that are sued to primarily influence Google's...

Data Scientists
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Scientists

From the receont TDWI conference.  A short video by Krish Krishnan on the need and nature of the data scientist.  I agree in general, the data scientist includes...

Community Managers and Equity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Community Managers and Equity

In Word of Mouth Marketing Blog:  A resource I have just started to cover, some good thoughts about being a content and community manager. Reminds me of conversations...

User Interface and Launch
From The Eponymous Pickle

User Interface and Launch

In UX Magazine:  A real-life view of how a startup can be killed at launch by not paying attention to its user interface.

Videos of breakout sessions at the recent Interaction13 conference in Toronto
From Putting People First

Videos of breakout sessions at the recent Interaction13 conference in Toronto

The IxDA gathered in Toronto, Canada’s largest center for design, for its 6th annual conference. Here are the video records of the breakout talks that took place...

Videos of keynotes and panel discussions at the recent Interaction13 conference in Toronto
From Putting People First

Videos of keynotes and panel discussions at the recent Interaction13 conference in Toronto

The IxDA gathered in Toronto, Canada’s largest center for design, for its 6th annual conference. Here are the video records of the keynotes and panel discussions...

Sankey Diagrams for Balance Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sankey Diagrams for Balance Visualization

Though I had seen this form of visualization many times, I had never heard it called the Sankey Diagram.   Often used for energy and resource balances.  Recallstorytelling...

Communicating sustainability: lessons from public health
From Putting People First

Communicating sustainability: lessons from public health

Experts in public health have struggled with enabling behaviour change for years. The sustainability sector should learn what it can from their experiences, writes...

Two recent articles from UX Magazine
From Putting People First

Two recent articles from UX Magazine

Killed at Launch: A complete disregard for user experience leads to drastic action by Pete MacKie A failure to account for UX results in an e-commerce being pulled...

Disruptive Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disruptive Innovation

Useful thoughts on the topic in a short post.  And the start of a conversation:  " ... What are the secrets of companies that manage to bring disruptive innovation...

Speaking At OSCON
From Wild WebMink

Speaking At OSCON

I’ve received confirmation this week that my talk for OSCON 2013 – entitled “Can Evil Corporations Embrace Open Source?” – has been accepted. See you there!

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Zeno Proof Paradox

Another discussion of paradoxes src Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher who lived almost 2400 years ago. He is famous for the creation of paradoxes at the juncture...

Predicting Images in Dreams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Images in Dreams

In the Smithsonian Magazine.  Apparently we can now predict to some degree what people are seeing with a combination of fMRI and EEG sensors.  I observed a number...

Friday Squid Blogging: Nighttime Squid Fishing Seen from Space
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Nighttime Squid Fishing Seen from Space

Page 18 of this thesis explains that squid fishing is done at night, and the lighting is so bright shows up in the satellite surveys of planetary lighting. This...

Apple's iMessage Encryption Seems to Be Pretty Good
From Schneier on Security

Apple's iMessage Encryption Seems to Be Pretty Good

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has complained (in a classified report, not publicly) that Apple's iMessage end-to-end encryption scheme can't be broken. On the...

Data Visualization and Story Telling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Visualization and Story Telling

Gib Bassett sends along a link to an article compiled by Erica Driver.  Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills and Utility.  Just this topic came up in a recent...

The Best Posts of All Time
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

The Best Posts of All Time

I love how much easier it is to see statistics on blog post views with the most recent Blogger redesign.  While these (probably?) don't account for views by RSS...

Social Wicked Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Wicked Problems

An interesting technical look at the application of 'wicked problem' techniques to social problems.  We used the term to indicated difficult to formalize and solve...

Supercomputers are Sustainable
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Supercomputers are Sustainable

Last week, there were great advancements in Supercomputing as two new facilities were officially opened to the research community. This week, supercomputers are...
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