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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cutting Funds for Libraries
Stan Dyck does a good post on the looming threat of cutting funds for Ohio libraries. A sign of the times. Though I have heard of a number of other things in the...
From The Noisy Channel
JCDL 2009 Proceedings now in ACM Digital Library
Thanks to Gene for letting us know that the JCDL 2009 proceedings are now available to ACM Digital Library subscribers. Hopefully authors will make their posts...
From Putting People First
Social media moving to mobile media?
In an article for Computerworld, Paul Lamb suggests that we are transitioning from online social media to an era of social mobile media or
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Physical tools to improve research productivity
Using the right tools can improve your productivity: I use black gel pens with a large to medium point. Right now, I favor uni-ball 207 pens. I always carry a...
From The Noisy Channel
Google News Adds Author Search
On the Google News Blog today: you can now search by author. Actually, I think you could always search by author from their advanced search page, but now the links...
From The Noisy Channel
Bringing the Noise to Technology Review
As an MIT alum, I take a special pride in having published a short article in the July/August issue of Technology Review. It’s entitled “To Search, Ask” (with credit...
From Putting People First
First LIFT09 France videos are online
The first LIFT France conference took place last way in Marseilles. Being in Seoul, South Korea, myself, I missed it entirely, but luckily the videos are now becoming...
From Putting People First
Four must-read pieces on UX Matters
Four must-read pieces on UX Matters: The social buzz: designing user experiences for social media By Junaid Asad, UX and human factors professional With the rise...
From Putting People First
The rise of the sensor citizen
Anne Galloway was one of the excellent presenters at the recent LIFT conference in Geneva. So it is with much pleasure to notice that she has written the latest...
From Putting People First
Towards social business design
Social business design is a new concept that could potentially become quite important for businesses and corporations: In “From Social Media To Social Business...
From Putting People First
The revolution will be fetishised
Now that the refrains of “Twitter Revolution” and “the first uprising powered by social media” are fading into the distant memory that is 24 hours ago, we can start...
From Putting People First
A range of new products will be created from social data
LinkedIn founder and CEO Reid Hoffman says in an interview on Nokia’s Ideas Project that the unprecedented accumulation of social network data provides fertile...
From Putting People First
Technology is for revolution (and repression)
Far from being a tool for oppression, as often portrayed in old science fiction, technology has become a means of liberation, argues the Financial Times. “Technology...
From Putting People First
As blogs are censored, it
The New York Times discusses extensively the “Cute Cat Theory of Internet Censorship”, as propounded by Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at the Berkman Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of TV
Dave Knox posts a good piece: I have seen the future of TV
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Brand Loyalty Fading
In a large scale study of loyalty card customers. In the Financial Times. Not unexpected, but note that the funders of the study stand to gain by these results...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 22
June 25 Hearing: The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity activity at NIST and the Department of Homeland Security. 2 p...
From The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
Those of you who know Marti Hearst or follow her work may have heard that she’s been writing a book on Search User Interfaces to follow up on her chapter in Ricardo...
From The Eponymous Pickle