Linguistic Search – Page 29

Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

October 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones
Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com

If you’ve ever had trouble explaining the concept of “big data” to someone—or had trouble wrapping your brain around the buzzword yourself—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demonstrate big data? It’s the somewhat abstract,…

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How to Read Your Own Body With Data (bigthink.com)
The Human Face of Big Data: Using DPS to Digest Our World today (blogs.adobe.com)
Bianca Bosker: The Truth About ‘Truth’ In Data: Often There Isn’t Any (huffingtonpost.com)
Age of Context Takes A Sponsorship Route (forbes.com)
Putting a Global Big Face On It (stevetodd.typepad.com)
Big Data is Neutral: A Tool for Both Good and Evil (bigthink.com)
5x5x5: Rick Smolan Of ‘The Human Face Of Big Data’ Talks About Transformative Tech (huffingtonpost.com)
Big Data Helps Build Better Wireless Coverage Maps (informationweek.com)
Can’t Hire Big Data Staff? Try Enterprise Crowdsourcing (informationweek.com)
Crowdsourcing and the business of creativity. (digitalsurgeons.com)

Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data

October 4, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data
Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com

There is no question that in today’s connected world — where few activities go untracked and undigitized — social data is everywhere, being generated by the terabyte. Fast on the heels of social data are innumerable ideas for…

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When only honesty matters (examiner.com)
CEOs Avoiding Social Media Are Missing Out | Domo | Blog (domo.com)
Get better visibility worldwide… (opensourceenterprise.wordpress.com)
Porsche Design Meets Touchcode Technology (sys-con.com)
Getting Buy-In for Your Content Marketing: A 3-Point Process (contentmarketinginstitute.com)
All that human eyes see – Todo lo que los ojos humanos no ven (gisellchanden.wordpress.com)
The Invisible Fish (uptake.co)

Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future

October 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future
U.S. Department of Energy, earthtechling.com

Editor’s Note: EarthTechling is proud to repost this article courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Imagine it is a scorching hot summer day, and your smart phone beeps, asking if you’d like it to raise your home thermost…

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Socrata Announces Release of “Open Data Field Guide” (prweb.com)
FEB 23 is the OPEN DATA DAY.. (boddhisattvasiddhartha.wordpress.com)
Quality energy data released: buildingsdata.eu celebrates International Open Data Day (semantic-web.at)
International #OpenDataDay: Now at 90 Cities (and… the White House) (eaves.ca)
Can we have open data without open access? (oanow.org)
New Contest: Visualize Open Data & Win $2K (semanticweb.com)
New Open data hub from OKFN Greece (okfn.org)
Bias and Self-Interest: Timeless Constraints in the Era of Open Data (cpdiehl.org)
Open Science Course Sprint: An Education Hackathon for Open Data Day (creativecommons.org)
The ethics of participatory digital mapping with communities (lindaraftree.com)

What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

September 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy
Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is a frequent speaker to communities, business and professional organizations, and founder of the Creative Class Group, whose current client list can be found here. All posts », theatlanticcities.com

What makes more sense today — to rent or to buy? And where to do it?

Real-estate website Trulia’s “Summer 2012 Rent vs. Buy” report, released Thursday, points to the large U.S. metros where owning a house, when taxes and other transactio…

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Rule for Success: Choose Your Playing Field (inc.com)
Renters Insurance, Is It Worth It? Weighing the Pros and Cons – Rent.com. | The Shared Wall (rent.com)
Refocusing important on and off the court, says recent study. (eurekalert.org)
Buying home £120 cheaper a month than renting (telegraph.co.uk)
4 Steps to Take Before Renting Out Your Home (allstate.com)
Rent My Vacation Home Makes Deposits and Cancellations Unnecessary (prweb.com)

How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

September 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know
Eliza Barclay, npr.org

Our impulse to share intimate details about our lives within our social networks (and even sometimes with complete strangers) seems to know few bounds.

Now devices loaded with health apps let us monitor and share our sleep patterns, stre…

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Childhood Obesity Rates Spark New Cholesterol Testing Guidelines (liheart.org)
What Your Cholesterol Level Means (wcvb.com)
The Truth Behind Six Cholesterol Myths (everydayhealth.com)
Questions to Ask Your Doctor About High Cholesterol (everydayhealth.com)

The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

September 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives [Hardcover]
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, amazon.com

Harvard professor and health care policy specialist Christakis (Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care) became interested in social connectivity when observing that the mortality rate of spouses spike after …

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Gastrophysics: Some said ‘more’, others said ‘meh’ (newscientist.com)
Patients are health care workers, too. (durgastoolbox.com)
Pew’s fact tank studies American social networking (phys.org)
USA Returns to Social TV with Psych’s S#cial Sector (wired.com)

#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

September 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com

When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.

“Many brands and individuals mistakenly obsess about shortcut tactics to gain f…

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#The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

How a Facebook Sweepstakes Can Help Small Businesses Hit the Engagement Jackpot (blogs.constantcontact.com)
CareerBliss Guide: Social Media | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)
Collection Services Company, Rapid Recovery Solutions, Responds To Bloomberg Article Analyzing Social Media’s Role In Debt Collection (prweb.com)
If You’re Going To Rig A Sweepstakes, Don’t Give The Prize To Your Facebook Admin (consumerist.com)
So, You Want To Be A Social Media Manager? (fanfaresocialmedia.wordpress.com)
Raytheon’s RIOT tracks social media users, predicts their next move (digitaltrends.com)

The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

September 9, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing
fastcocreate.com

Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution.

About a decade ago, I would stand in the middle of a…

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Prince Harry Doesn’t Have to Worry About His Career — You Do | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)
10 Content Marketing Challenges (And How Small Businesses Can Overcome Them) (blogs.constantcontact.com)
Book of the Day: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World (p2pfoundation.net)
The Internet of Everything Has Begun (blogs.cisco.com)
There Will Soon Be More Mobile Devices Than Humans – And We’ll Need A New Internet To Cope (businessinsider.com)
The World’s Biggest Ant Colony Is No Match for Facebook (mashable.com)
Barbara Holm: Social Anxiety and the Internet (huffingtonpost.com)

The Limits of Science—and Scientists

September 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux

discovermagazine.com

By Ananyo Bhattacharya, chief online editor of Nature magazine.

“About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus tends to resonate with scientists, sceptics,…

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Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering (prweb.com)
KVH Ships 3,000th TracPhone System for mini-VSAT Broadband Network (spacemart.com)
91. Ray Bradbury, Visionary Author (discovermagazine.com)

Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

September 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Barack Obama (Photo credit: jamesomalley)

Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever

by Donna Tam, cnet.com

The president breaks all the rules, breaks a Reddit record, and draws at least 5.3 million views, news stats reveal.

President Barack Obama broke all the campaigning rules when he held an unmoderated Q&A session on one of the…

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How To Use Reddit Like an Old Pro (makeuseof.com)
President Obama Holding Google+ Hangout (fastcompany.com)
Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on Entrepreneurship, Advocacy (fora.tv)
A Web Marketer’s Guide to Reddit (distilled.net)

Netatmo Urban Weather Station

August 31, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

Netatmo Urban Weather Station tells iOS users when it’s safe to brave the great outdoors (video)

Jon Fingas, engadget.com

We haven’t seen weather stations garner the same level of clever mobile integration as other pieces of household gear — like, say, thermostats. Netatmo wants its newly available Urban Weather Station to inject a similar dose of life…

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Netatmo Urban Weather Station hands-on (phonearena.com)
Netatmo Personal Weather Station Monitors Indoor/Outdoor Conditions, Reports to Smartphone (mashable.com)
Netatmo’s Urban Weather Station Debuts Android Compatibility at CES 2013 (paramuspost.com)
Netatmo Personal Weather Station (geeknewscentral.com)
Get Your Own Personal Weather Station That Interfaces With The iPhone With Netatmo (macgasm.net)
Personal weather station offers users health advice (springwise.com)
Complete CES coverage from Reviewed.com (reviewed.com)
In Depth: What’s next in home Wi-Fi: new kit, apps and more (techradar.com)
A digital fork, and other new and strange gadgets at CES (theglobeandmail.com)

Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis

August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Sleep (or how to hack your brain) + Dustin Curtis.

What if.. You Sleep 2 Hours a Day (jaggedgracecreations.wordpress.com)
New study shows sleep is a hotbed of information (storagebedsdirect.co.uk)
How Certain Sounds Help Us Sleep (news.health.com)
Ask Dr. K: Sleep vital for reasons unclear (goerie.com)
What Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment (brainpickings.org)
Mastering the Art of Sleep (enfamil.com)
Could our brains be busy wiping information as we sleep? (storagebedsdirect.co.uk)
Study: One in two Brits suffer from sleeping problems (storagebedsdirect.co.uk)
How I Hacked My Brain with Adderall: A Cautionary Tale (longform.org)
Brain hacking: It’s for real (deathandtaxesmag.com)

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