Jon Udell

Homophily, anti-recommendation, and Driveway Moments

The folks at National Public Radio love to create driveway moments: You’re driving along, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself at your destination, so riveted to a piece that you sit in your idling car to hear it all the way through. That’s a Driveway Moment. The podcasting counterpart, for me, is the [...]

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16.07.2008 19:17:37 - Jon Udell

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Will people understand and embrace the right identity systems? Maybe yes!

In conversation with English and Welsh friends last week, the subject of Britain’s imminent National Identity Scheme came up. My friends, who are worldly and well-educated but not technical, voiced concerns about the amount of personal information that will be stored. Their understanding was that a lot of this information will be kept on the [...]

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15.07.2008 14:25:14 - Jon Udell

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How the WorldWide Telescope works

On my Perspectives show last week, Curtis Wong and Roy Gould relate the history and educational mission of the WorldWide Telescope. On this week’s show, principal developer Jonathan Fay describes how the underlying technologies enable the WWT’s seamless view of the sky. There were a bunch of things I wanted to know, including: How does the WWT [...]

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14.07.2008 16:33:24 - Jon Udell

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More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds

Last week I started looking into ways to Internet feeds into TV feeds. Although I did come up with a way to turn a data feed into a video file, that wound up being overkill. It turns out that the local station is willing to broadcast the signal from a computer display. To create that [...]

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01.07.2008 15:11:42 - Jon Udell

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From seeing to hearing: A conversation with Susan Gerhart about assistive technologies for the sight-impaired

For many of us, the podcasting revolution has opened up the audio channel as a new option for receiving information that we might otherwise read. But for the sight-impaired, like Susan Gerhart, who joins me for this week’s ITConversations show, the audio channel isn’t optional. Her myopic retinal degeneration has forced her to shift almost [...]

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30.06.2008 16:01:48 - Jon Udell

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From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML

As per the comments on yesterday’s item about creating a video crawl for local TV, it turns out there’s no need to produce a video file. Instead it’ll be OK to use a computer display directly. The computer could be running, for example, a PowerPoint slideshow in a loop. Here’s the apparently standard recommendation for making [...]

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26.06.2008 21:30:26 - Jon Udell

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Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds

I’ve cobbled together a way to turn an Internet data feed into a video crawl that can run on my local public access cable TV channel. Before explaining how, I need to explain why. Here’s the short answer: As much as I want everyone to use the Internet for all it’s worth, most people don’t [...]

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25.06.2008 22:02:46 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley about open notebook science and the educational uses of Second Life

On this week’s ITConversations show I finally got to meet Jean-Claude Bradley, the Drexel chemistry professor who coined the phrase open notebook science and who champions the principles behind it. There were a couple of surprises for me. First, I was intrigued to learn about Jean-Claude’s vision for mechanized research. I’ve always thought of open notebook [...]

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24.06.2008 16:40:34 - Jon Udell

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The story of the WorldWide Telescope

My guests for this week’s Perspectives are Microsoft researcher Curtis Wong and Harvard-Smithsonian science educator Roy Gould. At Ted 2008 they jointly delivered the first preview of the WorldWide Telescope, an elegant and powerful application for exploring the sky and weaving narratives about it. In this extended interview, you can hear (or read) the whole [...]

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23.06.2008 15:14:57 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with George Hripcsak about electronic health records and clinical truth

George Hripcsak, professor of biomedical informatics, is one of the recipients of a Microsoft Research grant to support work on the computational challenges of genome-wide association studies. These studies involve scanning complete human genomes, and looking for correlations between certain markers of genetic variation and certain diseases. Doing that correlation is a computational challenge, but as [...]

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17.06.2008 14:45:05 - Jon Udell

Homophily, anti-recommendation, and Driveway Moments

Will people understand and embrace the right identity systems? Maybe yes!

How the WorldWide Telescope works

More ways to turn Internet feeds into TV feeds

From seeing to hearing: A conversation with Susan Gerhart about assistive technologies for the sight-impaired

From PowerPoint to IronPython/XAML

Turning Internet feeds into TV feeds

A conversation with Jean-Claude Bradley about open notebook science and the educational uses of Second Life

The story of the WorldWide Telescope

A conversation with George Hripcsak about electronic health records and clinical truth

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