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Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Behavioral Science, Metadata Masterdata, Social Business

CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects.

After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his…

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Living the Lockout Hackathon (dublintenementexperience.wordpress.com)
Shrinivasan: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon on Android apps development. (goinggnu.wordpress.com)
Just re-launched: Collabfinder (swiss-miss.com)
Let’s enjoy the backlash against hackathons (mathbabe.org)
New York Hosts Music Research and Music Education Hackathons (hypebot.com)

The data science of chores

March 8, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information visualization, Linguistic Search, Social Business

The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores
Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury, theatlantic.com

Couples who don’t have a system for household tasks can get really resentful, really quickly. A look at the results of an in-depth study of middle-class families.

Between 2001 and 2004, a team of UCLA researchers tracked the lives of 32…

The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores – Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury – The Atlantic http://flip.it/erSuf http://flip.it/Ze5B1

Mobile communications and loneliness

February 9, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Behavioral Science, Digital Transformation, Ethnographic Methods, Identity Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Sharing Economy, Social Business

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 and a U Toronto information scientist that show the effects of widespread usage of mobile comms on our culture.