Category: Design UX

  • MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

    MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining This new center, part of the MIT Human Dynamics group, studies the ways we can use millions of sensors in portable devices already in common use to actually measure human behavior in real time. So, the end of psychology, the beginning of digital anthropology. Related articles Social Robots May Gain…

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  • Technical Writing Email Discussion List Home | TechWhirl

    Technical Writing Email Discussion List Home | TechWhirl. Related articles The Insider’s Guide to Technical Writing (matthewhelmke.net) Be a warrior with Technical Communications Suite 4! (techcommgeekmom.com) Higher Education in Technical Communication- Is it worth it? (technicalwritingtoolbox.com) Technical Writing as a Calling (heroictechwriting.wordpress.com) Copyright on the Internet – Part 1 – Cooks Source (heratech.wordpress.com)

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  • MonitorClosely.com – Digital Surveillance Solutions

    MonitorClosely.com – Digital Surveillance Solutions. high rated franchise by entrepenuer magazine Related articles Balloons on border showing surveillance potential (kens5.com) Op-Ed Contributor: Who’s Watching the N.S.A. Watchers? (nytimes.com) Op-Ed Contributor: Who’s Watching the N.S.A. Watchers? (nytimes.com) How-to Fool Facial Recognition Tracking Systems (alexanderhiggins.com) Anonymous releases how-to instructions on fooling facial recognition (familysurvivalprotocol.com) Wikileaks reveals “TrapWire,”…

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  • Best Credit Cards – Reviews, Offers, Applications | Card Ratings

      Best Credit Cards – Reviews, Offers, Applications | Card Ratings. best ratings site for credit cars Related articles Credit Cards Go Social & Why You Should Care (cardhub.com) The credit card to clear your overdraft – Confused.com (confused.com) Credit Card Application Study – 2012 (cardhub.com) Simple Steps to Build and Protect Credit Ratings (dailymorningcoffee.com)…

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  • Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) | CultureRx

    Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) | CultureRx. Related articles Will Results Only Work Environment Work for You? (ashleylaurenperez.com) Amid Birth Control and Breastfeeding News, Two Startups Aim to Educate Women (pandodaily.com) To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation (businessweek.com) Pharma’s Huge Threat (and Opportunity): mRx (techcrunch.com) How Sony Could Rule the Tech World Again (gizmodo.co.uk)

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  • American Medical Writers Association: good resource for life science writers

    American Medical Writers Association. Related articles What It Takes to Be a Medical Writer (biotechinkspots.com) Pitch Database By Young Science Writers For Young Science Writers (blogs.scientificamerican.com) What Science Writers Can Learn from Fiction Writers (writingishardwork.com) Announcing a Civil War Novel of Stunning Intensity & Great Beauty (prweb.com) Great Science Fiction Resources (costumesupercenter.com)

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  • Computational Linguistics: links and info

    Computational Linguistics. Related articles Can Computer Speak? (debaprasad.wordpress.com) Crossed conversations (bit-player.org) VigLink’s Principal Data Scientist Selected to Present at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2012)’s TextGraph Conference Workshop (viglink.com) Translation as Object Linguistic Review (socyberty.com)

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  • Skyscape: Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry

    Mobile medical resources for iOS, Android & Blackberry | Skyscape. Related articles 500+ Android And iOS Apps Now Available on Appy Pie Inc (prweb.com) Home Depot abandoning BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iOS (technologynewsworldwide.com) Opinion: An Apple iOS UI redesign? Nice, but not essential (electronista.com)

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  • John Kay: The world needs more foxes and fewer hedgehogs

    Why are the predictions of well known experts worse than those of people who linger in obscurity? Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between the hedgehog, who knows one big thing, and the fox, who knows many little things, provides a clue to the answer. John Kay – The world needs more foxes and fewer hedgehogs. Related articles…

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  • Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends

    In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com)…

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  • Google Ngram Viewer: Sciences vs. Religion

    Google Ngram Viewer. Related articles Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com) Colossal is shrinking, but massive continues to grow (diginsider.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) Semantics: Ecohydrology vs. Hydroecology (snowhydro1.wordpress.com) Digital Signage in the Workplace Trends (themarlincompany.com) The Rise of…

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  • Tracking Tweet Truthiness

    Computer and information scientists at Indiana University have developed a process to identify false tweets after these have become increasingly prevalent in politics and other sectors such as so called Twitter Bombs. Tracking The ‘Truthiness’ Of Tweets : NPR.  

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  • Dan Roam: Explaining Healthcare Reform on a napkin

    Due to the incredible complexity of our current healthcare reform and the challenges of explaining the need to reform it, Dan Roam has visualized it using a series of napkins… Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles US Healthcare on a napkin (pharmastrategyblog.com) Drawing with Dan Roam…

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  • Social network analysis science detects Medicare fraud, terrorisms plots

    Fascinating article which shows how social network analysis (SNA)science is being used in the business world including everything from finding Saddam Hussein (by mapping his chauffeurs’ habits online) to identifying healthcare fraud. Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist. Related articles Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending – Gartner (misco.co.uk)…

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  • Hunch: Crowdsourcing our Tastes and Preferences

    The founder of Flickr has now moved on to create a new web service that will map tastes and recommendations. What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Women In Tech: Up & Coming Female Entrepreneurs (grasshopper.com) CrowdSource CEO, Stephanie Leffler, Earns ’40 Under 40′ Nod…

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  • LinkedIn maps career success paths

    A fundamental discovery of social sciences is that in organizations it is often individuals who communicate across organizational boundaries that hold true organizational power rather than individuals who may hold power institutionally. Well, Linkedin has just developed an app for that. There are now some neat ways to see how the power of one’s network…

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  • Pixel Qi’s Transflective LCD: Best of both worlds?

    I’ve been a big fan of e-Ink because it allows a very low energy cost, low EMF design for reading. However this comes with drawback for people who need monitors with higher resolutions or brightness. Now there appears to be a type of display that does both… E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD…

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