Category: Linguistic Search

  • Freelance Blogger Jobs | Demand Media Studios

    Freelance Blogger Jobs | Demand Media Studios. Related articles Data: Demand Media’s Post Panda Search Rankings Illustrate Why Their Stock Has Recently Plummeted | Conductor Blog (conductor.com) Demand Media and Donuts respond to lawyer’s accusations about TLD eligibility (domainnamewire.com) Find Freelance Writing Jobs Online (theworkathomewoman.com) Technology Copy Editor – Demand Media Studios (jobs.problogger.net)

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  • Rapleaf | Data on your email list

              Rapleaf | Data on your email list.   Related articles Explore Marketplace | Mashape (aelag.com) Salesforce + Radian6 (thecontentlab.icrossing.com) All the cool kids are using the Rapleaf API (petewarden.typepad.com) What can I find out about you if I know your email address? (petewarden.typepad.com) 30 APIs To Look At When Planning…

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  • Dabble Boston

      Boston – Dabble.  

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  • Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole world!

        Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole world!.   Related articles Wikimapia (philbradley.typepad.com) Introducing GeoXray for Crisis Mapping (irevolution.net)  

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  • Featured articles | ScienceWriters (www.nasw.org)

    Featured articles | ScienceWriters (www.nasw.org). Related articles Congratulations to author Raymond M. Scurfield on winning the 2012 NASW Lifetime Achievement Award! (psypress.com)

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  • Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT

    Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT. Related articles OpenNews: Building a Community of Fellows (sinker.tumblr.com) How MIT Can Honor Aaron Swartz (slate.com) Google offers 10-week summer 2013 Google Journalism Fellowships (jimromenesko.com) New water desalination technology shows promise (earthsky.org)

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  • Anthropology Careers – UNT Anthropology

    Anthropology Careers – UNT Anthropology. Related articles Baobabs and Briars: Plucking Anthropological Essentials From ‘The Little Prince’ (aaanet.org)

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  • You’re It!: the world of folksonomy

    You’re It!. Related articles New Conference Paper: Folksonomies as Subject Access – a Survey of Implementing Tagging in Library Online Catalogs and Discovery Layers (infodocket.com) What are Tags? (enhancingteaching.com) Mullen does catvertising work. (adland.tv) The Four Facets of SharePoint Productivity (slideshare.net) What’s Cooking in Tagging? (beth.typepad.com) Zemanta API Showcase: RetailFans for easier sharing of fashion,…

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  • EurekAlert! Science News: useful site for science writers

    EurekAlert! – Science News. Related articles Physicists study lily blossoms (proflowers.com:80)

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  • Escapeartist.com: crowdsourcing expat advice

    Live Overseas; Resources, Articles & Videos For Living Overseas In A Multi-Newsletter Format By Nation, Featuring Expat Taxes, Asset Protection, 2nd Passports, International Real Estate, Overseas Jobs – Expatriate Resources – Overseas Retirement. Related articles Expats see cost of living rise (independent.co.uk) Expat Extremophiles (retirenicaragua.wordpress.com) Expats (justinelarbalestier.com)

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  • AT&T Labs Research: Anthropology meets innovation

    AT&T Labs Research – July 2012. Related articles IBM Opens Its First Research Lab in Africa (voanews.com) IBM to open research lab in Kenya (bbc.co.uk) You Can Find a Job in R&D If You Look Hard Enough (news.dice.com) 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Social Anthropology in Norway (phdland.com) Microsoft hires 14 Yahoo researchers to kickstart…

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  • The End of Rational Economics

    The End of Rational Economics – HBR.org . According to the latest issue of HBR in 2008,  Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve once hailed as “the greatest banker who ever lived,” confessed to Congress that he was “shocked” that the markets did not operate according to his lifelong expectations. He…

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  • Change management concept

    According to an article in Strategy and Business “Any significant transformation creates “people issues.” New leaders will be asked to step up, jobs will be changed, new skills and capabilities must be developed, and employees will be uncertain and resistant. Dealing with these issues on a reactive, case-by-case basis puts speed, morale, and results at…

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  • James W. Pennebaker: Natural language and health

    Over the course of his career, Pennebaker has studied the nature of physical symptoms, health consequences of secrets, expressive writing, and natural language, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Research Institute, and other federal agencies for studies in language, emotion, and social dynamics. A pioneer of writing…

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  • Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine

      A classic. Wiley: An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Related articles Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Practice, Drugs and additionally Anthropology have – Fuzhou, China (travelpod.com) International Summer School in Medical Anthropology (CfP, Summerschool, July 2013, Berlin) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Neanderthal dental tartar reveals evidence of medicine (newscientist.com) Dying for Capitalism…

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  • Seattle Genetics studies monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease

    Interesting company that is studying the use of monoclonal antibodies for Hodgkin’s disease Seattle Genetics: News Release. Related articles More Effective, Safer Protection Against Osteoporosis? (medicalnewstoday.com) Clinical trial for rabies monoclonal antibody (medicalxpress.com) Invisible Sentinel Announces Product Launch of Its Foodborne Pathogen Specific Monoclonal Antibodies (sys-con.com) Billionaire’s biotech seals second deal with Synthetic Biologics (fiercebiotech.com) Lymph…

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  • Moretti: Applying Quantitative Analysis to Classic Lit

    Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts.  Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a…

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  • Cornell University Information Science

    Cornell has a great Information science program as well… Cornell University – Information Science – Overview. Related articles Cornell NYC Begins Accepting Applications for ‘Highly Selective’ Beta Class (betabeat.com) Artificial Vision: Cornell and Stanford Researchers crack Retinal Code (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Cornell University to install nets on bridges in bid to prevent suicides (foxnews.com)

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  • Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology: Syracuse University iSchool

      Another good program in information science: Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology – iSchool – Syracuse University. Related articles Syracuse Hack BeerText.Us Hits Thousands of Users in 72 Hours (twilio.com) Syracuse University Men’s Soccer features Central New York trio of freshmen (cnycentral.com) Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in…

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  • UC Berkeley School of Information: Birth of the iSchool

      Increasingly new information schools are cropping up with combine engineering, social science and technology studies. School of Information. Related articles Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) UC Davis tops Sierra magazine’s green rankings (universityofcalifornia.edu) UC Berkeley…

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  • US Government Printing Office

      US Government Printing Office – FDsys – Home.  

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  • Mobile communications and loneliness

      An article in Boston Globe magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being “un reachable” at times which is becoming increasingly difficult, and of being able to tolerate being alone. In particular the article cites research by an NYU social scientist…

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