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What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
From The Noisy Channel

What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...

What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
From The Noisy Channel

What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...

What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
From The Noisy Channel

What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...

LIFT France and I Realize Italy
From Putting People First

LIFT France and I Realize Italy

Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers...

Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development
From Putting People First

Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development

Last week, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative organised a workshop on the “Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development” in...

Shooting Down Magpies
From The Noisy Channel

Shooting Down Magpies

As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see...

Shooting Down Magpies
From The Noisy Channel

Shooting Down Magpies

As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see...

Shooting Down Magpies
From The Noisy Channel

Shooting Down Magpies

As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see...

IT viewed through a moral prism
From Putting People First

IT viewed through a moral prism

An EU-wide study of emerging technologies led by Leicester

Faith Restored in TripIt But Not In BusinessWeek
From Wild WebMink

Faith Restored in TripIt But Not In BusinessWeek

I couldn't decide where to write about this though, since the two stories span two blogs, so it's over on my personal blog.

e-Learning people: my top four
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

e-Learning people: my top four

For a prospective Ph.D. student, I prepared a list of the 4 people I follow in e-Learning. (This list is not meant to represent the most important people. It is...

Reference vs. Referral
From The Noisy Channel

Reference vs. Referral

I just read an interesting “guessay” by designer Joshua Porter entitled “The Slow Erosion of Google Search“–which in turn cites an insightful essay by Brynn Evans...

Reference vs. Referral
From The Noisy Channel

Reference vs. Referral

I just read an interesting “guessay” by designer Joshua Porter entitled “The Slow Erosion of Google Search“–which in turn cites an insightful essay by Brynn Evans...

Nearly One Billion Apps Sold
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nearly One Billion Apps Sold

Apple has 'sold' nearly a billion IPhone applications. Impressive, though many were for free..

Happy Birthday, Noisy Channel!
From The Noisy Channel

Happy Birthday, Noisy Channel!

Actually, I’m a few days late: Monday, April 6th was the 1-year anniversary of The Noisy Channel. I was looking back at my first post and I’m happy to see that,...

Schnucks Deli Kiosks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Schnucks Deli Kiosks

I have at times said some experienced-based critical things about store kiosks. Here though is an excellent example of their use. Schnucks is installing some....

Sun Loses Top CPU
From insideHPC

Sun Loses Top CPU

According to industry reports and company insiders, Sun has lost one its top CPU architects.

Flavored Ads and Fictional Inspiration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flavored Ads and Fictional Inspiration

I am always looking for new sensory engagements with consumers. In the Economist: Trading Licks. Word of a researcher inspired by Willy Wonka's flavored wallpaper...

Hello from Saskatoon Canada!  Ambassador: Julita Vassileva, Canada
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Hello from Saskatoon Canada! Ambassador: Julita Vassileva, Canada

Hello from Saskatoon, Canada!(where in April the ice is hesitantly thawing)Let me present to you Carrie Demmans (in the photo), a 2nd year M.Sc. student in Computer...

Guest Post: Exploring Visual Similarity with Modista
From The Noisy Channel

Guest Post: Exploring Visual Similarity with Modista

Guest posts are always a pleasure, but today I’m particularly delight to have AJ Shankar of Modista share his thoughts about visual exploration. My friend Arlo...
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