Can we talk about my brain? It is taxed. It is experiencing information overload. It is tired and it wants to go to sleep. Some days it does just that–those are not usually my most productive days.
I’m simply innundated with information and ideas. And the thing is, I’m barely skimming […]
Archive for February, 2005
There’s no precise definition of AI, but broadly, it’s a field that attempts to provide machines with humanlike reasoning and language-processing capabilities.
Researchers now are emerging from what has been called an “AI winter” with renewed interest in the biology of the brain and research honed to practical applications in medicine, customer service, manufacturing, education and […]
Traditional linguists fear the internet damages our ability to articulate properly, infusing language with LOLs, dorky emoticons and the gauche sharing personal information on blogs. But some researchers believe we have entered a new era of expression.
Google’s Blogger service is bypassing Really Simple Syndication in favor of an alternative technology, a move that has sparked more discord in a bitter dispute over Web log syndication formats.
Old article about Google’s choice to go with Atom over RSS. Still trying to understand the fundamental difference. .
ETS, the nonprofit group that created the SAT and a number of other standardized tests, has worked with educators, information technology experts, and other institutions to develop a new test designed to measure what it means to be literate in the digital age.
Check out this article (registration required) about a new ETS test designed to […]
I’m not an expert on digital voice recorders, but given some recent conversations in DTLT, this seemed intriguing. . .
So according to an article in Salon, the social networking site “43 Things” is actually receiving funding from Amazon.
(I actually came across this site a few months ago and thought, “Hmmm. . .I should come back and check this out later.” Then I never did. Somehow it got lost in the digital circular file that […]
Like email and the World Wide Web in their times, blogs have become the “killer app” of the moment. Three years ago, all but the most hardcore of followers of Internet phenomenons would not have thought much of the term “blog,” other than perhaps it was a misspelling of “blob.” Now you know you are […]
Apparently, the iPod is pretty popular among Microsoft staff at the corporate campus. Read the article–funny stuff.
I meant to blog about this topic last week; then I got distracted, closed my posting window, and thought “I’ll get back to it later.” Well, today Wired News ran this article on folksonomies and reminded me to get back to it now.
I’ve been reading a lot about the folksonomy phenomenon lately (particularly at […]
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