The title may be a bit misleading, but P.M. Gleiser may have written the coolest research paper ever: an analysis of social networks of heroes in the Marvel Universe.
It turns out that superheroes don’t have social connections like normal humans… they resemble “technical networks”, such as the Internet. Want to be a superhero? Act more [...]
Here goes my first experiment in meme-ship with this blog. Thanks, Cogdog!
The meme is “8 Random Things About Me”. The rules are:
Post these rules before you give your facts
List 8 random facts about yourself
At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them
Leave a comment on their blog, [...]
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Greasemonkey SLurl, originally uploaded by Jessica Shannon.
This Greasemonkey script allows you to create a direct link to teleport to a location in Second Life with flickr tags. This is the second useful application I’ve seen built [...]
I decided to use the del.icio.us feature that creates a daily blog post out of my tagged and archived links. There are so many wonderful sites that I find and just don’t have the time or depth of knowledge to write up. Please let me know what you think of this addition!
For those of you [...]
One recurring theme in geek media - and in geeky conversations over beer - over the last couple of years has been various awesome keyboards. Next time you find yourself having to make small talk with the geekily-inclined, just mention one of these devices.
First came Das Keyboard, an all-black, totally blank keyboard. In addition to [...]
Chris Brogan is asking a question on his blog, then waiting until the post has 100 comments. Then another question will be asked! I like this idea, as it brings the question to a larger number and wider variety of readers. There are already some interesting answers.
The first question is: Why does some video [...]
Microsoft Research’s Photosynth technology can use tagged photos of a landmark to automatically generate a 3d visualization. Very cool!
It will be amazing when we can watch these immersive, virtual spaces construct themselves. Eventually, I hope we will be able to use this technology to create places that don’t exist in the real world, by taking [...]
There’s been a lot of interest lately in search engines designed to help you find information about people. This is a service that Google hasn’t done a great job of providing. You can always throw someone’s name in the Google search box, but if there are multiple mentions of that person online, they’ll be all [...]
It started with the fuss last October over Srybe’s supposed offline features, continued with the announcement of the Dojo Offline Toolkit in January (Dojo is an JavaScript library for creating AJAX applications), and with today’s announcement on the Google Web Toolkit blog, it’s certain: offline applications are coming soon!
This means that your favorite web apps [...]
I’ve done several workshops this year on using technical tools in the classroom. It often seems like problems that have been solved for years - like coordinating events or committee work (painfully ineffective through e-mail) - keep going unsolved because the technology to solve them is inaccessible to the people that most need it.
This [...]