Linguistic Search – Page 25

Do natural disasters redistribute wealth?

November 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm
thedailybeast.com

HURRICANE SANDY

Hurricane Sandy may have devastated areas of New York City, but there was one silver lining in the otherwise massively destructive storm cloud: the city’s overall crime rate dropped 27 percent compared with the sam…

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A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com)
How capitalism stacks the deck on disaster (grist.org)
Biggest summer storms in 50 years hit Chiang Rai, Thailand (disaster-report.com)
How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning (datacenterknowledge.com)

Cyberwar of personalized data

November 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

The cyber war: Deus ex machina
economist.com

THE scene could be in Tampa, or Santa Barbara, or Chicago. Mr and Mrs Sixpack are relaxing after dinner with their iPads. Each is looking at the same news website, but each will be shown different political advertising. He sees…

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NATO cyberwar directive declares hackers military targets (poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com)
The Dangerous New Rules Of Cyberwar (warnewsupdates.blogspot.com)
Israel creates cyberwar unit in Defense Ministry (worldtribune.com)
Hackers engage Israel in cyberwar (thetimes.co.uk)

Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not

November 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Janine Popick, inc.com BASEMENT TO BOARDROOM Turn your boring piles of stats, data and other information into an eye-catching infographic using these three steps. Last week my online marketing company, VerticalResponse, published a big social media…

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Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not (business2community.com)
SEOs: why no love for the infographic? (econsultancy.com)
The Modern Marketer: Infographic (beingyourbrand.com)
Is social media bad for your phone? (infographic) (siliconrepublic.com)

Power grid flaws exposed by Sandy hurricane

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

Superstorm Shines A Light On Power Grid Vulnerabilities
Scott Neuman, npr.org

The storm that has spawned so many worst-ever superlatives managed a few more when it comes to electricity, with record-breaking power outages across 18 states stretching from Michigan and Indiana to Maine and North Carolina, according…

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Preparing The Grid For The Next Superstorm (forbes.com)
Better power grid synchronization may enable smart grids to self-recover from failures (phys.org)
National Grid to Lead LIPA ‘Blizzard’ Response (longislandpress.com)
Some of State’s Most Powerful Lobbies Oppose PSE&G’s $4 Billion Grid-Upgrade Plan (njspotlight.com)
Should You Add Backup Batteries to Your Grid-Tied Solar Array? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Off-Topic – Re: 750,000 Households in America have gone off-the-grid (disclose.tv)
NJ Frets Over Smart-Grid Technologies, While U.S., Other Countries Move Ahead (njspotlight.com)

Redo the resume for shrinking attention spans

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

The average recruiter spends six seconds on your resume. So this is what you do.

It’s frightening. You’ll spend most of your waking life at a job, yet, according to a new study by TheLadders, the average recruiter spends just six seconds…

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gyroVoice: Want a Job? Here Are Six LinkedIn Tips (forbes.com)
InnovateCV innovates the resume, the cover letter, and the application … right out of existence (venturebeat.com)

Photograph your entire life

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

A Wearable Camera That Photographs Your Entire Life
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

Microsoft’s cult-favorite SenseCam technology is reborn in a new, consumer- friendly package.

One of the coolest things to come out of Redmond was Microsoft’s SenseCam. It was a wearable camera that took thousands of pictures of your daily…

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Wearable cameras – the future of fitness monitoring? (gizmag.com)
Wearable cameras provide new insight into lifestyle behaviors and health (eurekalert.org)
Wearable cameras provide new insight into lifestyle behaviors and health (medicalxpress.com)
Lifelogging captures a real picture of your health (newscientist.com)
Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Maps The Universe With NASA’s Data (techcrunch.com)
Monitoring Lifestyle Behaviors And Health Via Wearable Cameras (medicalnewstoday.com)
Easy Prototyping With Microsoft Gadgeteer (spectrum.ieee.org)
Advertisement | Meet The New Microsoft And Build A Total Technology Vision For Your Business (lifehacker.com.au)
App of the Week: Photosynth (dualshow.com)
The Battle We Didn’t Choose: Capturing My Wife’s Fight With Breast Cancer (petapixel.com)

Digital agencies learn to design culture

November 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights
Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com

Picture this: you’re in a meeting in which your team is challenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop culture. Everyone at the table nods in agreement. Culture! Yes. Important. Check.

Two weeks later, only vague (if any)…

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Pressgram is Instagram for WordPress Brad McCarty,… (cssmania.com)
Vote for Alan Turing’s Universal Machine (i-programmer.info)
Start Calling it Digital Liberal Arts (transducer.ontoligent.com)
Alex Pierce: Black In History (designworklife.com)
Was Alan Turing right about the mechanism behind tiger stripes? (simonsfoundation.org)
Alan Turing’s Universal Machine is named greatest British innovation of the 20th Century (dailymail.co.uk)
George Dyson Seminar Primer (longnow.org)
Turing machine built from artificial muscles may lead to smart prosthetics (engadget.com)

Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

November 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate.

Oxford University’s Clinical Research Unit is an 11-year-old network of groups that cooperate to track and prevent infectious diseases, fro…

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geordie shore cast are surprise hit with oxford toffs (thesun.co.uk)
Teachers should confiscate mobiles in ‘sexting’ clampdown (telegraph.co.uk)

Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

November 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Eric Markowitz, inc.com

Inc.com staff

Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills.

Reams have been written about the importance of founders that can code—or, in Silicon Valley parlance, the…

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Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

Silicon Valley to boost clout in Washington (phys.org)
Myth Busters: Money Does Not Grow On Trees In Silicon Valley (nibletz.com)
Silicon Valley Space Center to Develop Suborbital Payloads for Lynx (parabolicarc.com)
Equity Office selling two major Silicon Valley office parks to Rreef, KBS (bizjournals.com)
The Real Silicon Valley Vs India’s Silicon Valley: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective (nextbigwhat.com)
Asia, Give Up On The Dream Of Being Silicon Valley (techinasia.com)
Silicon Valley HVAC firms heat up the local hiring scene (bizjournals.com)

Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

November 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates
By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com

Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down.

[The following is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Anyone to Think Differently and Win by Peter Sander (McGraw…

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Quotes to think about (Steve Jobs) (thepeacefulteen.wordpress.com)
Steve Jobs’ Touching Email To An Apple Employee (soshitech.com)
Remembering 2 Letters from Steve (applios.wordpress.com)
Find the Next Steve Jobs: Exclusive Extract from Atari Founder’s Book (mashable.com)
Funny or Die presents Steve Jobs, the parody (bizjournals.com)
Q&A: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Innovation, the “Next Steve Jobs” and Why Mobile Games Are “Over” (allthingsd.com)

Health 2.0: this year will be all about big data

November 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Health 2.0 Conference: Big Data Making A Big Impact
Richard MacManus, readwrite.com

At the end of the Health 2.0 Conference earlier this month, I sat down with the event’s co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya to discuss the big trends. I’d been impressed and excited by the innovation demonstrated at Health 2.0. It…

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A Shift in the Power Dynamic: Health 2.0 (projecthealthdesign.typepad.com)
Reporting Live from Health 2.0 (rwjfblogs.typepad.com)
David Harlow’s Health 2.0 vlog (healthblawg.typepad.com)
Audience votes for Living Profiles at Health 2.0 conference (projecthealthdesign.typepad.com)
Health 2.0 Fall 2011 (healthblawg.typepad.com)
big data is.. (riazkanani.com)
Video: My interview with Phytel’s Steve Schelhammer from Health 2.0 (meaningfulhitnews.com)
When Analyzing Big Data Goes Wrong (healtheconblog.com)
Connect with Project HealthDesign at Health 2.0 (projecthealthdesign.typepad.com)

Klout and other ways to measure your influence

November 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence
Adam Popescu, readwrite.com

Measuring social influence online is becoming a more sophisticated, refined and granular process. While the much-maligned early leader in the market, Klout, has scooped up a lot of headlines over the past few years, there’s a better…

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Is Klout Gaining . . . Clout? (business2community.com)
The Pros and Cons of Using Klout and Kred for Hiring (news.terra.com)
Klout Announces Klout for Business (business2community.com)
Klout Hooks Deeper Into Bing and Instagram Data (allthingsd.com)

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