I hear a lot of people (not particularly in research but in other less academic areas) saying that they don’t consider reading papers past 2008 important or useful because they’re are too dated. I can understand why this perception is knocking around, but I think that ignoring older[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Author’
February 16th, 2009 - 5:33 pm § in Blog research
How you affect your blog reader
We’re long due another paper review so we’ll start the week with “Exploring the Role of the Reader in the Activity of Blogging” by Baumer, Sueyoshi, Tomlinson (University of California, Irvine). The authors looked at blog reader practices and how these were affected by identi[...]
January 29th, 2009 - 2:02 pm § in Semantic web
"I won’t adopt the semantic web!"
I’ve heard variants of this for quite a long time, in fact since the semantic web thing became mainstream. It’s never easy to introduce something new, as novel applications designers will know, and users don’t want to learn something new, however easy it is to pick up. The sema[...]
January 28th, 2009 - 3:28 pm § in Information/text analysis, Uncategorized
Information credibility analysis
I wanted to draw a little attention to a Japanese project called the “Information Credibility Criteria Project“. The NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) started it in 2006. This project is all about looking at how information sources are not all equ[...]
January 23rd, 2009 - 11:36 am § in Information/text analysis, Uncategorized
G patent: identifying similar passages in text
The patent entitled “Identifying and Linking Similar Passages in a Digital Text Corpus” was published on the 22nd of January and filed on the 20th July 2007. It’s a really interesting one, not just because it covers a topic I’m particularly interested in but because it descri[...]
January 7th, 2009 - 11:08 pm § in Uncategorized
Blackhat discussed at ACM
Ross Malaga (Professor in information systems at Montclair State University) wrote an article for the ACM in December 08 about what the worst practises in SEO were and which ones got you banned from Google. I am sure many of you SEO’s will have plenty to say about this. The article is an A[...]
December 17th, 2008 - 9:54 pm § in Semantic web
A global review of the semantic web industry
On the Cusp: “A global review of the semantic web industry” by David Provost is a great 38 pager on the semantic web industry at the moment. It’s good because I don’t see many buzz words in there or very technical terms, it’s high level as it should be for managers, v[...]
December 7th, 2008 - 11:00 pm § in Search engines
The Gooleplex: serious issues?
Piotr Cofta (BT Plc) wrote a very interesting paper for the 10th Int. Conf. on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) ’08 Innsbruck, Austria. It questions the Googleplex as a whole rather than just “Google”, and honestly raises some serious issues with it. They have an awful lot of power and we[...]
November 18th, 2008 - 9:38 pm § in Uncategorized
Predictions for 2008 – were they right?
The eLearn magazine from the ACM published an article where they had asked a number of scientists what they predicted in technology for 2008. This is focused on e-education but it’s good to see some of these predictions anyway as they concern us all really. This was in January, and seeing th[...]
July 25th, 2008 - 6:46 am § in Uncategorized
Google Knol
Google just made Knol available to us all! It’s a big repository of expert articles, written by…well…experts. Just like wikipedia but written by experts. A knol is a unit of knowledge. “With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call ̶[...]
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