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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 Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From Apophenia
Does money equal time? (Regarding proposed NSF funding of qualitative research)
Following a conference about qualitative methods, the National Science Foundation issued a report that provided "general guidance for developing qualitative research...
From Apophenia
discussion of "impact" at the CHI conference
Yesterday, I attended the CHI conference (an ACM conference for those studying and working in the area of human-computer interaction). I had the privilege of speaking...
From Wild WebMink
Lump of Links for April 11
The JRE Class White List - Google App Engine Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade. That...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper Uses 2D Barcode
New use of 2-D Barcodes in newspapers. A good idea. Newspapers have included URLs for a long time now, though I have also seen a reluctance to provide them this...
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...
From Putting People First
LIFT France and I Realize Italy
Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers...
From Putting People First
Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development
Last week, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative organised a workshop on the “Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development” in...
From The Noisy Channel
Shooting Down Magpies
As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see...
From The Noisy Channel
Shooting Down Magpies
As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see...
From The Noisy Channel
Shooting Down Magpies
As regular readers know, I’m ambivalent about advertising in general, but very clear when it comes to shill marketing campaigns. So it’s with pleasure that I see...
From Putting People First
IT viewed through a moral prism
An EU-wide study of emerging technologies led by Leicester
From Wild WebMink
Faith Restored in TripIt But Not In BusinessWeek
I couldn't decide where to write about this though, since the two stories span two blogs, so it's over on my personal blog.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
e-Learning people: my top four
For a prospective Ph.D. student, I prepared a list of the 4 people I follow in e-Learning. (This list is not meant to represent the most important people. It is...
From The Noisy Channel
Reference vs. Referral
I just read an interesting “guessay” by designer Joshua Porter entitled “The Slow Erosion of Google Search“–which in turn cites an insightful essay by Brynn Evans...
From The Noisy Channel