Category: Linguistic Search

  • IBM Gaming and Leadership Report

    IBM Research | IBM Innovation | Gaming and Leadership Report. Related articles InterConnect 2012: Where business and IT leaders connect (ibm.com) Is Big Tech Back on Top? (fool.com) The first step to changing the culture in healthcare (kevinmd.com) IBM Watson: All grown up and off to medical school (katsinsight.com) Who Should Replace Mark Zuckerberg? (fool.com)…

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  • Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free

    Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free. Related articles The Declaration of Internet Freedom (muninetworks.org) Civil liberties groups praise revised cybersecurity bill (networkworld.com) Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com) Is it time for an online ‘constitutional moment’? On the Declaration of Internet Freedom (blogs.siliconvalley.com) Journalists,…

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  • Mac OSX Automator as a folksonomy builder

    Mac 101: Automator. this tool allows you to tag content automatically to implemenent the folksonomy approach to file storage and search Related articles Cloud Files vs. Cloud Drive (rackspace.com) New Conference Paper: Folksonomies as Subject Access – a Survey of Implementing Tagging in Library Online Catalogs and Discovery Layers (infodocket.com) Amazon Glacier: Back Up All…

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  • David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®

        David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®.   this approach to time management focuses on organizing things by the context in which you do them, like you have done with the house: kitchen, office, recreation etc.     Related articles GTD Times: Ten Ways To Get More Done At Work (gtdtimes.com) Test Your…

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  • University of Michigan: School of Information

          UMSI.   Related articles   Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Michigan School Report Cards Released (detroit.cbslocal.com) University of Michigan Courses (programmableweb.com)  

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  • John Rooksby ethnography and tech expert

    John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)

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  • CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online

    CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online. Related articles Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford adds social learning component to free online course (insidehighered.com) Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online (infodocket.com)…

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  • How language drives biology and culture

    How language transformed humanity | GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk Interesting TED Video and article suggesting that language has driven all biological and cultural evolution and is our most powerful neurological social technology allowing us to implant a thought into someone’s mind without the need for surgery according to Mark Pagel. Language created social learning…

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  • Crowd-sourcing college housing: repurposing the McMansions

    Increasingly I’ve noted the rise in the rental economy in the USA as the previous ownership mentality of many Americans traumatized by economic collapse and wealth inequalities is replaced by one of access. One interesting example of this is college students who, according to a slew of recent articles, are now taking over McMansions which…

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  • Cornell scientists use Twitter to capture global mood, chronobiology

    Most adults I know dismissed Twitter, with only 140 characters at their disposal, as a waste of time just a year ago. But after the Iranian revolts, the Arab Spring and the London riots in which Twitter played a key part, it is not so easily dismissed anymore. But its seemingly brief and trivial nature is…

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  • Ratings and reviews: the end of serendipity (and bad hotel rooms)

    An interesting article which points out some social downsides to the Internet including the fact that almost everything now comes with a sea of reviews and ratings making the act of discovering something entirely oneself a little more difficult. Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related…

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  • Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling

    The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere. Narrative Science . Related articles Could algorithms replace writers? (raventools.com) We’ve sold…

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  • The promise and perils of cities

    Cities have been the engines of civilization for millennia, serving as places where the arts, commerce, and ideas flourish.  But as we are reminded in a recent article, the close social interactions that make a city so productive also proved ideal for tuberculosis, measles, the plague, and many other diseases. In European capitals, circa 1800,…

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  • Juan Downey: Energy anthropologist and artist

    I really like this guy’s stuff. A self proclaimed “energy anthropologist” this video artist travelled deep into South America to find a primal, invisible forms of energy which he documented. Juan Downey, like all the best avant-gardists going right back to the 19th century, had a utopian streak.  He spent seven years traveling back and…

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  • Johns Hopkins researchers identify health benefits in hallucinogenic mushrooms

    Anthropology has long documented that most traditional medical systems use indigenous plants often with psychoactive, spiritual effects. Recently researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that’s credited with inducing transcendental states. Now, they say, they’ve zeroed in on the perfect…

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  • Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

    As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have…

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  • Dan Zarrella: Social media science and Twitter linguistic analysis

    Dan is an interesting guy with a strong web and social networking background. He is a social media scientist and has designed a number of linguistic tools to analyze online behavior. My Bio | Dan Zarrella. Related articles Science Of Twitter 2013 (slideshare.net) 5 Proven Social Media Call-to-Action Tips [Research] (heidicohen.com) Nieman Journalism Lab &…

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  • Walk Score City Rankings: figuring out where you can live (and walk around)

    This is a great way to assess places you might want to live by how friendly they are for walking about. Boston, DC, NYC and San Fran are all tops which is encouraging but a little surprising given the crazy drivers I have encountered. Still, this probably refers to the downtown areas which feature older…

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  • Robochrist Industries: a robotic performance art troupe

    Robochrist Industries is a robotic performance art troupe and direct offshoot of Survival Research Laboratories   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robochrist_Industries Related articles A Robot With A Chainsaw! (i-programmer.info) Improv Comedy Resource Page – Costume SuperCenter (costumesupercenter.com) Lego robot teams battle it out in Sacramento (sacbee.com) New York Dance Troupe STOMP Gives Victoria A Preview (vicnews.com) First steps in appreciating performance art…

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  • If you’re going to do good science, release the code

      If you’re going to do good science, release the computer code too | Technology | guardian.co.uk.   Related articles   Berners-Lee calls for computer science education at a younger age (vg247.com) Entertainment Industries Council Inc. Celebrates the Importance of Science, Engineering and Technology during High-Tech Month with Special Interviews and Feature Reports (prweb.com) High…

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  • Alibaba.com: The world’s largest online B2B marketplace

    Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters & Importers from the world’s largest online B2B marketplace-Alibaba.com. As cited in the 4hour work week Related articles Alibaba boss Jack Ma to step down (bbc.co.uk) A couple of Americans in China take on Alibaba with social… and, er, customs data (pandodaily.com) Alibaba Billionaire Ma Steps Down as CEO Before Possible IPO (bloomberg.com)…

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  • Digital Anthropology becomes a science

    Using new online data sources and massive scale intelligence on social activities, this article argues that anthropology is being reinvented as a hard science. Digital Anthropology becomes a Science – broadstuff. Related articles What role does “digital” have within Anthropology? – Part I (chi.anthropology.msu.edu)

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