Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: Google

  • Social Marketing

    Normally, I consider John Dvorak a crotchety old-timer who doesn’t get human-computer interaction due to his myopic self-centered view. (His use isn’t usually my use, so he gripes seem inapplicable.) Finally, he got one right… almost. In his most recent blog post… er… opinion article, he described people using social networks as “marketing” themselves. Actually,…

  • Writer’s Block: Google Me

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    I have! Irregularly. Now, I have a Google Alert which tells me about new instances of my name. In general, it makes me a little apprehensive. HowManyOfMe.com says my name should not exist. As far as I can tell, no one else with my name is active online, so… I am exposed. 🙁

  • links for 2007-11-21

    Google – Web History (tags: google Gmail privacy) Popular Science Blog – High School Science Gets Serious (tags: education biology technology) Joho the Blog » Facebook’s Privacy Default (tags: facebook privacy) loose wire blog: How Technology Shrinks and Amplifies Distance (tags: communication technology)

  • RE 2007: USG Digital Content Repositories: Resources to Share

    Digital Library of Georgia 60 different libraries and content providers digitizing content, available in various browsing and search options really impressive historical record widely dispersed Civil Rights Digital Library 65 institutions web access to 25 hours of news photage. Alternative Media Access Center Some publishers 9 times out of 10 provide an electronic copy. In…

  • RE 2007: Top Ten Disruptive Trends

    Rock Eagle 2007 Keynote – David Cearley, Gartner Way too many unfamiliar acronyms an terminology. It moved really fast without spending much time to explain anything. Disruptive trends selected by timing, speed, and likelihood. Multricore to fabric – Core on processors will double every two years through 2015. Applications will have to adapt to multi-cores.…

  • links for 2007-10-18

    Colleges Struggle to Keep Up With Storage Demands (tags: Blackboard_Vista storage) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Professor Avatar (tags: education social) Designing For Spam (tags: google search) Customer Reference Checklist | Smiley Cat Web Design (tags: checklist software)

  • Who Are You?

    I’m so vain…. I probably think this post is about me…. Probably only people who do vanity searches notice this, but there are spiders pulling names off web sites. They link the names to companies, blogs, and other web content. Supposedly, these sites allow online reputation control. Rather than you claiming your identity as others…

  • links for 2007-10-10

    Bug ID: 6598410 JVM 1.4.2_14 core dumps in CMS processing references (tags: java Blackboard_Vista garbage-collection) Google Talk (tags: communication Gmail google im chat web2.0 widgets collaboration gadgets social) More Evidence on the (Lack of) Impact of School Choice – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog (tags: economics education parenting) BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: What’s…

  • A Class of Cornell University Students Take Google as Gospel

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    PC World – Students Take Google as Gospel: The experiment involved 22 undergraduate students (with various majors) from Cornell University in the U.S. It found that overall, the students had an inherent trust in Google’s ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query. The news media has an inherent trust in studies…