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Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books
From The Eponymous Pickle

Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books

Apparently a number of electronic books were removed remotely from Kindle book readers after they were bought and paid for. Included Orwell titles. Thats an advantage...

Determinants of faculty research productivity
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Determinants of faculty research productivity

Should you hire Ph.D. graduates from top schools in your country? Maybe not: The present analysis however dispels the notion that graduates of high-status doctoral...

Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications
From Putting People First

Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications

Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications Leslie MacNeil Weber 2009 Graduate Thesis University of Washington Ethnography, a field of anthropological...

Financial Times podcasts on connected lives
From Putting People First

Financial Times podcasts on connected lives

The Financial Times analyses the implications of a connected planet in this series of roundtable discussions. Connected Lives: the debate – Part 1 Three experts...

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - July 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 7)
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - July 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 7)

Here are some items in the July issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. As always, much of the content in CACM is premium content, and free...

In Defense Of Recall
From The Noisy Channel

In Defense Of Recall


Second Leadership Cohort Workshop
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Second Leadership Cohort Workshop

We just finished up a trip to Chicago for the second Leadership Cohort workshop. Going back for the second time help us to solidify many of the ideas that we put...

Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline
From Putting People First

Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang of The Institute for the Future has been working recently on a think-piece on what futures would look like if it started now: “If instead...

A few things American academics should know
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

A few things American academics should know

I sometimes get annoyed at Americans who seem to think that the rest of the world is modeled after them. Here are some things many American academics seem to take...

What FriendFeed got wrong
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

What FriendFeed got wrong

Don’t you feel sometimes like your brain is running out of storage space? Myself, I am very forgetful. I always seek new tools to extend my brain. FriendFeed is...

Power in People
From Putting People First

Power in People

The [UK] Government’s drive to reform public services by giving more power back to the citizen was accelerated yesterday, with the publication of a new study of...

Re-framing the problem: social interaction design
From Putting People First

Re-framing the problem: social interaction design

Social media expert and social interaction theorist Adrian Chan describes on Johnny Holland on what he means with ’social interaction design’ and on the role of...

Converting those who have no desire to be converted
From Putting People First

Converting those who have no desire to be converted

80% of the transactions of the UK Government are done with the bottom 25% of society and migrating services online offers great cost savings. Yet, 17 million Britons...

Extracting Knowledge from the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

Extracting Knowledge from the Web

In the enterprise we discovered how difficult it was to construct all the rules to provide the capabilities required for even a narrow slice of corporate knowledge...

Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy

At StorefrontBacktalk ... a good report on how contactless payment is progressing. Though I see the devices everywhere, it seems not as well as we were told just...

SAS and Social Network Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAS and Social Network Analysis

SAS announced a new product that does social network analysis (SNA). This is something we experimented with inside the enterprise, initially with plain old e-mail...

Emotions in Virtual Characters
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotions in Virtual Characters

In ZDNet:" .. Spanish researchers have developed a computer model able to generate virtual faces which display emotions and moods according to personality traits...

? Marketing In The Connected Age
From Wild WebMink

? Marketing In The Connected Age

Readers here may be interested in the article I just posted on my personal blog.

LinkedIn Rolling Out Faceted Search!
From The Noisy Channel

LinkedIn Rolling Out Faceted Search!


Do Web Sites Matter?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Do Web Sites Matter?

From Paul Gillin's Social Media Blog: Why Web Sites don't matter. He has some interesting points, but I disagree. I don't always want to engage with someone or...
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