Tag Archives: Research

Think-a-writer

The Grail for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)–or at least an interim grail–is being able to think words into a computer. Through what seems to be a fairly painstaking process, this can now be accomplished. It’s an exciting proposition, I think, because it suggests the idea of typing at the speed of thought. Of course, it turns […]
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Hyperlinked Society: [adult swim] v. YouTube

At the Hyperlinked Society conference, it was suggested that hype over new technology often outstripped real audience numbers. The challenge came from Jack Wakshlag, from Turner, to Jeff Jarvis, of BuzzMachine and other climes. The example given was that it was stupid to talk about the “immense popularity” of YouTube when the audience numbers were […]
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First summer conference: Hyperlinked Society

As I noted earlier, I am off later today to a small conference at UPenn on the Hyperlinked Society. Anybody who’s anybody in hyperlinkiness is there, so it should be a fun, if intense, one-day event. I’ve only met about eight or nine of these folks in person, and probably about the same over email, […]
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We Feel Fine

Ouch and bravo. Some of you know I’ve been crawling and working toward an emotional mapping system for blogs. Someone beat me to it! Check out We Feel Fine. It scrapes text that starts “I feel” and counts up the feelings that follow. Good stuff. Not enough to kill my work: I have a few […]
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