As a woman, I'm offended. (19)
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As a woman, I'm offended by John McCain's decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. It is clear that the decision is primarily driven by politics, by the belief that to get Hillary's supporters, all you need to do is play the gender card. I respect what Palin has done in Alaska in terms of calling out corrupt politics, and I'm sure that McCain does too. But being a whistleblower and ...
Applying Turing's Ideas to Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design (5)
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Here’s how the game works: You’re on your computer, instant messaging away. One IM session is with a real person and the other is with an artificial intelligence (AI) program that’s designed to pose as a human being by using a casual conversational tone. The AI is able to respond in complete sentences with realistic syntax to mask its identity, even throwing in slang, canned humor, or typos.Q: Who’s the most famous person in the ...
Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 :: Personal InfoCloud (4)
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Yesterday I made a few comments in Twitter that prompted a fair amount of questions and requests for more information. The quips I made were about the differences between Web 2.0 (yes, an ambiguous term) and Enterprise 2.0 (equally ambiguous term both for the definition of enterprise and the 2.0 bit). My comments were in response to Bruce Stewart's comment The whole "Enterprise 2.0" schtick is wearing thin, unless you've been monitoring real results. Otherwise ...
The SXSW Experience (1)
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Not sure what SXSW is all about? Check out the video below for a glimpse of what you're in for at SXSW 2009. Thanks to the folks at Super! Alright! and our sponsor, Dell Lounge for putting it together and making it happen.
Jeff Han: We're Just Scratching the Surface of Multitouch (10)
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SAN JOSE, California -- Jeff Han has some simple advice for companies thinking about how to integrate the latest interface technology into their products: Start over. "It's like Yoda said, you must unlearn what you've learned," he says, referring to the 40 years that the mouse and keyboard have dictated how we interact with computers. Admittedly, that's no easy task, so the multitouch pioneer and his company, Perceptive Pixel, have devoted the better part of ...
Dionysus and the Amethyst Initiative (16)
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Across the United States, dozens of higher education leaders have signed on to the Amethyst Initiative. It's a fascinating approach. The signers aren't committing to a stance, but rather asking American society to begin an informed and unimpeded debate on the 21 year-old-drinking age. It's a controversial topic and it hit the airwaves in controversial style. Merely trying to cover the story touched a nerve across the country and countless media channels dedicated air time ...
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Logical Extremes said:
Nice summary of the issues on both sides, though I think it would be helpful to include some international experience. Personally, I don't like the idea of a permit, and I wouldn't make it legal in public under 18. But, 18 is the age of majority in all other things in the US, and there's no good reason to promote the taboo of prohibition for those between 18 and 21.
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Greg said:
A really wonderfully-written article from danah boyd on changing the American drinking age. I agree with every word.
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Thomas said:
I wish someone would give Danah the magic wand she asks for so as to change the laws regarding alcohol to her liking. Her ideas make sense.
Response Summary for Google Forms (24)
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Google Docs experiments with automatically generating response summaries for forms. If you edit a form and click on "View responses", Google shows charts for questions with multiple choices and lists the first answers for free-style questions.The summaries are pretty basic but they reveal more information than the raw data. Hopefully, until the feature is officially launched, Google will make the summaries interactive and customizable and users will be able to publish them.To see all the ...
subway map bathroom tiling (5)
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several design for a bathroom based on pixel drawings made out of classic 4 by 4 inch colored tiles. the one based on a subway map seems quite infosthetic. [link: blogs.nytimes.com|thnkx Remy]
Whoops! L.A. Times' 2008 'Dewey Defeats Truman' moment (3)
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Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times' Web site on Saturday showing multiple stories prepared in advance, analyzing different Democratic vice-presidential picks. News flash! Barack Obama has actually chosen his former arch-rival, Hillary Clinton, to be his vice presidential candidate. And Bill Richardson. And Kathleen ...
everything is ok (1)
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I received an email last week from US graphic designer Christopher Simmons, who shared this cool little design project with me...Everything is OK began as a small project in Christopher's San Francisco-based design studio. The goal was to assemble a list of resources encouraging positive action in various forms. They launched a simple website, and to promote the site, they created barricade tape with the incongruous message "everything is ok."The response to the tape was ...
Interesting Conference New York 2008 (3)
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Open Intelligence Agency is bringing the fourth installment of their awesome “Interesting Conference” to New York City next month. Interesting brings speakers together to talk about things they are passionate about, but may have never shared before. Previous conferences have covered a huge range of fascinating and random subjects including: what to do with a broken umbrella, how to turn your blog into a new media company, personal digital archives, making and sampling raw organic ...
Taking on bad copyright law (5)
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A nice victory for EFF. A judge's ruling today is a major victory for free speech and fair use on the Internet, and will help protect everyone who creates content for the Web. In Lenz v. Universal (aka the "dancing baby" case), Judge Jeremy Fogel held that content owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Universal Music Corporation ("Universal") had sent a takedown notice targeting a ...
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ryan said:
This is an excellent ruling. I hope it is upheld on appeal.
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TxVoodoo said:
@Jenny - what's your take on this?
Mark Pesce Respins John Gilmore (1)
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Mark uses the pre-web language, a la reengineering and knowledge management, to recast Gilmore's aphorism. Gilmore said, The net regards censorship as a failure, and routes around it. Mark Pesce tries a new spin, in a very interesting (and too long to provide a precis for here, especially on my vacation) post: [from Mob Rules (The Law of Fives) | the human network] The net regards hierarchy as a failure, and routes around it. My ...
Facebook engineering notes on Scaling Out (3)
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Facebook engineering notes on Scaling Out. Jason Sobel explains a couple of tricks Facebook use to deal with consistency between their California and Virginia data centres. The first is to hijack the MySQL replication stream to include information about memcached records to invalidate; the second is to use Layer 7 load balancers which inspect a “last modification time” cookie and send users to the masters in California if they have updated their profile in the ...
No More Gas (1)
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You're sure to like one of the songs in this new mash-up from DJ Earworm. Download it here. * Rihanna - Disturbia * Kardinal Offishall Feat. Akon - Dangerous * Ne-Yo - Closer * Estelle Feat Kanye West - American Boy * Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up * Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love * Danity Kane - Damaged * Madonna , Timbaland & Justin Timberlake - 4 minutes * Lupe Fiasco Feat. Matthew ...
How To Respond To Criticism: EA's Tiger Woods Walks On Water Ad (19)
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In an age where anyone can speak up, and anyone can criticize you, the first reaction of many folks is to hit back hard -- even trying to take down critical info. As we all know, that's exactly the wrong thing to do. But, it's still quite difficult to turn something that's negative into a positive quite as well as video game company EA just did. Mathew Ingram has the details, but basically, when last ...
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trygve said:
I love it, that's hilarious!
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Brian said:
What an awesome reply!
Tiger Woods Responds to Fan's YouTube Video (55)
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This video response is brilliant marketing on the part of Electronic Arts and Tiger Woods. A fan posted on YouTube that it's possible for Woods to hit a golf ball in Tiger Woods 08 while walking on water. How does Tiger react? By showing how it's done and promoting Tiger Woods 09 in the process. It shows they listen and bring in the big guns to engage. (via John Porcaro) LATER:: Michael Phelps is someone ...
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Ian Betteridge said:
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
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cniknet said:
Incredible.
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narphorium said:
LOL What a great viral ad.
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Pierre said:
That's what I call marketing :D
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Mario Sundar said:
Savvy marketing by EA arts yields a terrific viral video.
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Goyal said:
Pure awesomeness!!
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GS said:
Brilliant marketing!
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vanlandw said:
Tiger Woods is brilliant...
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blogan said:
This is awesome marketing. And a nice switch from all the Obamessiah stuff we hear about. Good job, Tiger! :-)
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Sean said:
THIS is good social marketing
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doransky said:
óriási.
You go to war with the data you have (2)
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Academic research, at its best, is about asking interesting questions and then designing experiments to answer them. One of the toughest challenges is designing experiments that are both possible and capable of answering the question at hand. The gap between the set of possible experiments and convincing experiments can sometimes be a vast one. Just like the former US secretary of defense, you go to publication with the data you’ve got, not the data you’d ...
Facebook's platform head-fake and the ball that LinkedIn dropped (1)
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The other day I signed up for the Web 2.0 Expo Conference Social Network (I'll be speaking at one of the workshops). It was powered by Crowdvine. I found it mildly annoying to have to retype my professional information when that already existed somewhere else on the web--namely LinkedIn. I tweeted that Crowdvine should integrate LinkedIn import, since I'd seen a few places hack it, and then very quickly got this response via Crowdvine's Twitter ...
