Tag Archives: Research
Stars and Friends (pt. 2)
Dave Sifry provides a nice segue in the comments for part 1 by asking just what I mean by reciprocal links. Just to eliminate any appearances that I am gradually revealing a well thought-out plan, allow me to assure you that this is an unedited brain dump. It’s also a distraction for while I’m working […]
Stars and Friends (pt. 1)
I wonder if Dave Winer is lonely. There is some sort of unstated “fitness measure” within the blogosphere–made explicit through services like Technorati. The assumption is that the more inbound links you have, the more “respect” (for lack of a better word) is expressed. This is compounded in a reputation system like Google’s, in which […]
Cyborg 7-year-olds
You would think people might have learned from BF Skinner not to experiment on their own children, but a Dad at UCLA is busily hooking up sensors to everything and everybody in a first grade classroom–a project that was inspired by his daughter. The sensors will track where the students go, what they look at, […]
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