6 days ago
43folders : Psychological Cognitive Benefits of Nature Interaction - <p>Exposure to the visual complexity of natural environment may help memory and symptoms of ADHD. </p> <blockquote> <p>”Taken together, these experiments demonstrate the restorative value of nature as a vehicle to imp
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Linkorama : Understanding HP Lab's Twitter Research - You can read the free Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope (PDF). Written in an academic style, it’s a bit dense for the casual reader. I write for a business audience and I’ll strip out the most important findings, and add my own
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Richard Rutter : Making decisions about user research - Useful thinking process and tool for justifying (how much) user research to do.
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gleuschk : Advice to a Young Mathematician - from Atiyah, Bollobas, Connes, McDuff, Sarnak
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Competing Against Open Source - “Divide and conquer,” says Haim Mendelson, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Professor in the Graduate School of Business. Commercial firms, he says, have three levers to gain competitive advantage when they compete with a free product: Timing, p
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4 month ago
deusx : [0808.3569] Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology - ""Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognizers can offl
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5 month ago
deusx : Warren Ellis » On Teleportation - "Teleportation should be a matter of simply proving you’re somewhere else."
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5 month ago
deusx : PURE Unobtrusive Rendering Engine for HTML - "PURE is an Open Source JavaScript Template Engine for HTML. Truly unobtrusive, it leaves your HTML untouched. It is cross-browser (IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+)."
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Technology forecast: Operational Web 2.0 - PwC: Finally, enterprise-class tools and methods are emerging to create informal online networks. Already, business users are collaborating to deliver better decisions.
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5 month ago
43folders : Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter: Scientific American - "During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems" via http://www.aldaily.com/
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5 month ago
gleuschk : Confessions of a Community College Dean: Thoughts on Service - I'm firmly in response category #1. should print this out and send it to the new dean
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gleuschk : About disXover | disXover.org - social networking for scientists, built around the arxiv
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6 month ago
Linkorama : [reboot] Jyri Engestrom on “Nodal Points” - Jyri Engestrom, whose company, Jaiku, was bought by Google, is talking about “Nodal Points: The emerging real-time social Web.”
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Wikibility of Innovation oriented Workplaces - This is the networked professional’s web 2.0, via Sebastien Sauteur I found Vincenzo Cammaratas master thesis, called “Wikibility of Innovation Oriented Workplaces - The CERN Case”
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7 month ago
Richard Rutter : Web Use Project - Lots of research into how people use the Web in their everyday lives.
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deusx : E-LIS - @toread and Cool : Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging - "Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Keep It Short, Make It Instant - IM less of an interruption, perhaps because social mores adapted
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8 month ago
Linkorama : A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis - Wikis provide new opportunities for learning and for collaborative knowledge building as well as for understanding these processes. This article presents a theoretical framework for describing how learning and collaborative knowledge building take place.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Ypulse: - Daily news & commentary about Generation Y for media and marketing professionals
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8 month ago
Linkorama : McKinsey surveys the new software landscape - A new study, to be released today by McKinsey & Company, reveals in some of the clearest terms yet the sea change that is under way in business software.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Consumers Using Social Media to ‘Vent’ about, Research Customer Service - When making purchase decisions, affluent online consumers are using social media channels to share their own customer-service experiences and learn about those of others, according to a new study from the Society for New Communications Research.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media - The post was "How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?" and it looks at all the different types of activities and levels of participation on a sliding scale depending on how much time you have to invest.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Organizations Target Enterprise 2.0 but Lack Clear Understanding - The single greatest factor impacting attitudes, adoption rates and definitions is corporate culture.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Six degrees of messaging - They found that the average shortest number of jumps to get from one random user to another was 6.6; spookily close to the infamous six degrees of separation demonstrated practically in a group of 64 people by Stanley Milgram, at Harvard University, in th
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Linkorama : Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE - It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we a
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