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The business of personal data
From Putting People First

The business of personal data

The World Economic Forum just came out with a report, “Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class,” that surely is going to raise some controversy, as it...

What I have been reading lately
From Geeking with Greg

What I have been reading lately

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Googler and AI guru Peter Norvig on what artificial intelligence has been able to do and what...

Google Improves Social Search Tool
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Improves Social Search Tool

Google has changed its social searches so that when you are logged in with your Google account you will get interleaved results that include hits from your ownMuch...

Disrupting Your Industry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disrupting Your Industry

I am in the midst of a consulting project where it looks like it will be very hard to disrupt the industry.  Most everything has been done already.   All the slack...

Procedural Rhetoric in Games
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Procedural Rhetoric in Games

In the Carleton Game Dev Club meeting last week, a member showed a video from the Escapist series Extra Credit. Called Narrative Mechanics, this episode was all...

On Backups
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Backups

Good defensive computing CW piece on backups, what they are and what they are not and how to make sure you don't lose really important things.

Catalog for Language Resources
From The Eponymous Pickle

Catalog for Language Resources

More resources that can help you do research with languages: " ... It has just become a whole lot easier to search the world's language archives. The new OLAC Language...

The business of Inclusive Design
From Putting People First

The business of Inclusive Design

Last year I wrote about the book “Innovating with people

Historical Study of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board
From Schneier on Security

Historical Study of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board

Recently declassified: "Historical Study: The National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board 1952

links for 2011-02-17
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-02-17

Microsoft: Absolutely NO Free Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps Despite all the rhetoric from Microsoft's evangelists, they just can't get over their hatred...

New Software on DreamSpark
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

New Software on DreamSpark

Dreamspark is all about free development software for students. This week we added six new or updated products to the mix. This release included: KoduSmallBasic...

? Archives
From Wild WebMink

? Archives

I’ve not found a way to add a subject index page to my blog that’s automatically generated from the tags or extracts or even a word list, but I have added an archive...

Ramping Up Shopper Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ramping Up Shopper Marketing

Good overview article from Wharton which provides a statement of the direction of what we used to call merchandising: " ... Shopper marketing is gaining popularity...

USACM Joins Statement of Concern Over Expansion of Intercept Law
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Joins Statement of Concern Over Expansion of Intercept Law

Today the Center for Democracy and Technology released a statement it developed to respond to possible changes to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement...

Sands Research Superbowl Ad Ranking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sands Research Superbowl Ad Ranking

Sands Research has posted their most recent super bowl ad ranking information, based on their unique neuro marketing methods.  They have also included eye tracking...

ACM Washington Update Vol. 15.1 (February 16 2011)
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM Washington Update Vol. 15.1 (February 16 2011)

CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM Comments on Proposed Web Accessibility Guidance [3] USACM Responds to Department of Commerce Online Privacy Report...

From Computational Complexity

If I tweeted here is what I would tweet

If I tweeted there is what I would tweet: There was an interesting blog post that responded to Aaron Sterling's Chemoinformatics Post. See here for this interesting...

? Nokia Dooming Windows Phone?
From Wild WebMink

? Nokia Dooming Windows Phone?

There’s plenty of talk about how Nokia’s embrace of Microsoft’s Windows Phone has doomed Nokia. But has Nokia’s embrace actually doomed Windows Phone? Read my views...

The Begone Movement
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Begone Movement

Begone.  A movement to make it easy to get off of mailing lists promoted by Forrester's Josh Bernoff.  Nice idea, we need it, but I wonder if the marketers will...

Live blogging the NSF-OECD Smart Health Workshop, Day 2
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Live blogging the NSF-OECD Smart Health Workshop, Day 2

Day 2 of the two-day
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