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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 17 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 17 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
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Archives
Monthly Archives: June 2005
Mobile Retail
Last night we talked a bit about retail informatics. One of the things we didn’t talk about was the move from retail stores to highly mobile retail. When I got home, this commercial (wmv format) from Nextel was on. (I know we have an alektorophobe in the class who should probably avoid watching; I don’t [...]
Top 100 Blogger
I am just so pleased to have finally made it. A new method of ranking bloggers, which is clearly superior to all earlier methods, places me at number 100 of the top 100 bloggers. The method is easy to follow. You simply look for where your Alexa traffic ranking falls when compared with the Technorati [...]
On not supporting the troops
People are up in arms about Dick Durbin’s “Godwin’s Law” moment. And of course he isn’t comparing our military with the Nazis, because if there is one thing we must do as a society it is support our troops. It is America’s last sacred cow. Anyone who does not support the troops is, by present [...]
Remaindered Links
Some more diamonds in the rough for your perusal: * I could write a review of Batman Begins, but instead I’ll have your read the one by Tom Coates and just urge you to go see the movie. I’m also kicking myself for not sneaking in to St. Pancras Station before my meeting at the [...]
Beyond Emergence
Yeah, I know — sounds like the title of a bad S.F. movie. Anyway, I have a short essay up in the ASIST Bulletin called Social Informatics: Beyond Emergence. It’s a very broad kind of essay, but I would be happy to have any feedback on it.
Uncanny Bots
In last night’s seminar, we spoke a bit about the uncanny valley. How’s this for an example: a robot covered in “skinlike silicone,” was presented at the 2005 World Expo in Japan: Internal sensors allow the android to react “naturally.” It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it’s the little, “unconscious” movements that [...]
Philip K. Dick robot