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[Tech] Visualizing live text streams with TextPool
TextPool allows you to watch a dynamic, interactive visual summary of the latest topics of discussion in live text streams (discussion taking place on hundreds of cable channels, newswires, blogs, chatrooms and email). For instance, here is a summary of six hours of content from several news feeds ...
[Tech] Visualizing Network Structure to Support Navigation of Aggregated Content
NusEye: Visualizing Network Structure to Support Navigation of Aggregated Content (.pdf) by Brian M. Dennis, Azzari C. Jarrett The application of social network analysis techniques, along with graph visualization and interaction, for navigating syndicated web content, a.k.a webfeeds, is presented. ...
[Research] Locative Media testing
At last! A study that aims at investigating how users names places using a location-based service (namely geonotes: Petra Fagerberg, Fredrik Espinoza, and Per Persson.What is a place? Allowing users to name and define places. In Proceedings of CHI 2003, April 2003. From working with location-based ...
[Future] People complaining about FOAF
The FOAF search engine plink has been shut down because of people's complaints. That is indeed a challenge with social software: some relatives/friends/colleagues does not want to show up on some webpage while using google. Orient Lodge postes about it: Plink “has shut down. For now.” Why? Julian B...
[Research] A social network analysis tool
Agna is a freeware application designed for social network analysis, sociometry and sequential analysis. It can assist in the study communication relations in groups, kinship relations and the structure of animal behavior. ...
[LifeHack] Augmenting google scholar
Ingenta proposes two tools in the forms of bookmarklets (simple tools that extend the surf and browse capabilities of your web browser) to augment google scholar that could be useful: Google Scholar Highlighter: If you use Google Scholar, this bookmarklet will highlight the citations in your search...
[Space and Place] A red light
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[Locative Media] Multi-disciplinary research in location aware media
Via the locative mailing list, herehttp://34n118w.net/UCHRI/ you can find an open channel for the scientist/researcher quotient of the discussion participants, who may not have considered a creative application of mobile media and mapping in the context of their research. The identification of crit...
[Life Hack] Why bloging a course?
This page explains why a postgrad student chose to blog his course. It offers interesting insights about how blogs could be use to support project management for students. Like almost every other student, I take notes, furious notes, during class time. I spend a lot of time with my laptop open in f...