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Category Archives: General

Backchannel Verdict?

17-May-05

Backchannel was good, and backchannel was fun, but was I the better or worse for having participated in it? I usually take personal notes at these types of conferences, and with IRC up the whole time the backchannel became my offboard note-taking file. This is good because my notes got to synergize with other peoples’, […]

Social Software Brain Dump: Blogging Now So I Don’t Regret It Later

15-May-05

Tonight marks the end of an entirely filled weekend, and really all I want to do is soak my brain in a big bucket of ice. Much more intellectual stimulation than I usually get in such a short amount of time. The cause of all this was a conference workshop on Social Software in the […]

Summer Taiwan Trip

11-May-05

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¡Libertad!

11-May-05

As of Monday evening, I finished the last final exam I’ll most likely ever take in my life. Wow. It really was a whimper-type rather than a bang-type ending. The class was Algorithms, the one that I’d put off taking for all of my academic career ’til now. Not because it’s not an interesting subject […]

Social Software and Armchair Academians

05-May-05

A few weeks ago, Sarah Lohnes put out a call for lunchtime discussion topics for the upcoming Social Software in the Academy Workshop. Well, the more controversial and future-looking the better, I thought, so I suggested the following: What will happen to the Ivory Tower as social software makes advanced research more accessible to the […]

On Things Folksonomic

04-May-05

Stefano’s Linotype has a good essay on emergent folksonomy, especially how it applies to del.icio.us and the different-people-use-the-same-word-to-mean-different-things problem. His solution to colliding semantics is to augment syntax to document things. This is good, but it overlooks the fact that I myself might use the same tag to refer to different things.

Freetag

19-Apr-05

Freetag – an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications. Gordon is awesome.

Mass Transit and Google Maps

19-Apr-05

Spent the good part of an hour yesterday night helping my girlfriend navigate between Big Blue Bus and Culver City Bus routes, so that she can get from Westwood to Culver city without a car. What a pain. After seeing the wonderful hack combining housing on Craigslist with Google Maps, it seems like it might […]

Wiki in Academia

18-Apr-05

Going to give a talk soon on Social Software in Academia. The following is a report on wiki-use in for our project.. Context ISI is halfway in between industry and pure research. Wide range of users (language educators, artists, coders, researchers). ~50-70 people. None are too cutting-edge social-software wise. Most all use the wiki (aside) […]

Thoughts on Blogging In Academia

15-Apr-05

Going to give a short presentation soon on Social Software in Academia. What follows is a a public collection-place for my thoughts on Blogging in Academia: Summary of my Use, and General Thoughts: Personal catch-all. Given that my interests are eclectic–borges & ts eliot, natural language processing, AI-driven pedagogy, social software, lingusitics, religion… the blog […]