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Small steps forward for calendar syndication

In turbulent times it can help to focus on small steps and tangible signs of progress. In that spirit, here’s a fragment of the collaborative events calendar I’ve been trying to summon into existence: 07:00 PM DREW HICKUM & THE COLONELS (armadillos) 08:00 PM Roger McGuinn & Tom Rush [...]

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08.10.2008 17:22:49 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Howard Bloom about collective learning, group selectionism, and the global brain

My guest for this week’s Innovators podcast is Howard Bloom. He’s written several books, one of which — Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century — is the main topic of our conversation. There’s no easy way to summarize this show, but here are some notes that I [...]

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07.10.2008 14:02:30 - Jon Udell

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Meme tracking with Twitter and Timeline

Social networks are Petri dishes in which we can watch memes emerge and spread by imitation. Three years ago, I traced the effect of a powerful one created by the ACLU: a fictional screencast about a dystopian future in which identity and privacy have gone horribly wrong. What I found when I looked at the [...]

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06.10.2008 16:01:14 - Jon Udell

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The Congressional content management system

Recent legislative drama highlights the absurdity of expecting people to make sense of complex texts that are evolving rapidly in high-stakes, high-pressure situations. What we have here is a classic culture clash, in this case between people who think in terms of paper documents and those who think in terms of electronic documents. Washington is [...]

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03.10.2008 16:46:40 - Jon Udell

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My Perspectives series: breakage and workaround

The home page for my Perspectives series is currently broken, but the entries are all intact. Here’s an alternate way to view a list of them: http://del.icio.us/judell/jonudell+perspectives Update: Fixed. Thanks Duncan!

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02.10.2008 05:13:10 - Jon Udell

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Old-fashioned and newfangled plumbing

On this week’s Interviews with Innovators I followed up on the most unusual thing I saw at DEMO: a silicon-based flow-control valve for air conditioners. Mark Luckevich, VP of engineering for Microstaq, explains how they’re using MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) to enable a simple retrofit that could save large amounts of the energy currently used for [...]

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01.10.2008 17:12:08 - Jon Udell

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Socializing the analysis of the socialization of banking

When Allen Noren pointed to this visualization of U.S. government bailouts, I wanted to tweak it by showing the magnitudes on a timeline. I found this data set on Many Eyes, updated it with the number $700B, and made this bubble chart: Bailouts by year (Many Eyes) It was quick and easy to do that, and the [...]

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29.09.2008 16:25:45 - Jon Udell

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Scott Prevost explains Powerset’s approach to semantic search

For this week’s Perspectives show I spoke with Scott Prevost, general manager and product director for Powerset, the semantic search engine that was recently acquired by Microsoft, and that can currently be seen in action working with the combined contents of Wikipedia and Freebase. In our interview, Scott discusses the natural language engine — 30 years [...]

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26.09.2008 17:01:18 - Jon Udell

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Ground truthing

My wife is preparing for one of her annual open studio events, and asked me to update her website with an announcement and a map. I’ve done this before, so it’s odd I never noticed that none of the popular mapping services accurately pinpoints our address. In Google Maps, the pushpin is stuck near Douglass [...]

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24.09.2008 17:00:39 - Jon Udell

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Catch-22

From a financial services company: Dear Sir or Madam, We are writing to let you know that computer tapes containing some of your personal information were lost while being transported to an off-site storage facility by our archive services vendor. … The missing tapes held certain personal information, such as your name, address, Social Security number and/or shareowner account [...]

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23.09.2008 22:27:26 - Jon Udell

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Small steps forward for calendar syndication

A conversation with Howard Bloom about collective learning, group selectionism, and the global brain

Meme tracking with Twitter and Timeline

The Congressional content management system

My Perspectives series: breakage and workaround

Old-fashioned and newfangled plumbing

Socializing the analysis of the socialization of banking

Scott Prevost explains Powerset’s approach to semantic search

Ground truthing

Catch-22

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