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Saint Bill: But where are his billions going?

2006-06-27T08:05:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Saint Bill: But where are his billions going? and commented 'Article with some details about the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. Mostly glowing praise, but a few words are in there about how the foundation has, in the past, eschewed low-tech solutions for problems like malaria (bed nets, insecticides) in favor of more scientific pursuits such as vaccines.'.
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Index of /~jimlin/personal/photos/mythbusters

2006-06-01T14:19:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Index of /~jimlin/personal/photos/mythbusters and commented 'For those of you familiar with the show "Mythbusters", I saw those guys talk at IBM Almaden yesterday. Jimmy Lin took some photos. You may want to watch the 24MB video, which is a sort of outtake on one of the shows (Warning: it is mildly gruesome). The later photos are of a live demonstration to compare what chills beer most quickly: ice, ice water, salted ice water, CO2 fire extinguisher, or liquid nitrogen (I listed them in ascending order of effectiveness).'.
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Data Privacy Course, Term Project Fair

2006-05-12T08:21:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Data Privacy Course, Term Project Fair and commented 'Listing of the end-of-semester projects for the Data Privacy course here at CMU. The theme is the potential of surveillance using public webcams. Most involve finding peak times for either human or automotive traffic.'.
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Jason Hong's Confabulations: Web 2.0 and Research

2006-05-10T10:57:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Jason Hong's Confabulations: Web 2.0 and Research and commented 'Timely opinion piece given my paper's rejection :) Here's my rebuttal to this opinion in two sentences: (1) Realizing ideas can be research too. (2) HCI is at least partly in the business of realization: enabling others to realize and use new technology.'.
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Official Google Research Blog

2006-04-25T07:56:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Official Google Research Blog and commented 'Google Research now has a blog; check out their most recent entry about CHI.'.
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Experts see computers getting bigger and smaller at the same time

2006-04-24T14:41:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Experts see computers getting bigger and smaller at the same time and commented 'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on the 50th anniversary of CMU's CS department (and the HCII's 12th) that features some quotes by Beth and other notables.'.
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Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Facebook and the Campus Cops

2006-03-22T12:04:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Facebook and the Campus Cops and commented 'Interesting stories about how Facebook is being used to solve campus crimes. Seems that privacy concerns may correlate with age and/or use of blogs/social networking sites.'.
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Slashdot | American Idol for Security Geeks

2006-03-21T19:13:00.001-05:00

Steve contributed the item Slashdot | American Idol for Security Geeks and commented 'Keith Edwards' Tiger Team competition -- a joint endeavor of GVU and GTISC -- just made the front page of Slashdot. Even better, the Bonfire project, co-led by one of ECL's own, Jeremy Goecks, was also featured in the article. Way to go, Keith and Jeremy!'.
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Slashdot | American Idol for Security Geeks

2006-03-21T19:13:00.000-05:00

The Tick - S P O O N ! ! ! ! !

2006-03-13T22:19:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item The Tick - S P O O N ! ! ! ! ! and commented 'The animated series is coming out on DVD...finally!'.
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Inside Trader Joe's!

2006-03-12T10:54:00.000-05:00

dan contributed the item Inside Trader Joe's! and commented 'For all the Trader Joe's fans / foodies in the lab ...'.
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Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging

2006-03-10T14:48:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item Microsoft redesigns iPod packaging and commented 'A humorous commentary on the aesthetics of technology packaging -- lite Friday afternoon fare. From a Mac user. =)'.
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FORTUNE: Trapped in cubicles - Mar. 9, 2006

2006-03-09T17:10:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item FORTUNE: Trapped in cubicles - Mar. 9, 2006 and commented 'A nice article explaining the '60s-era origins of cubicle hell, some humorous social rebellions against the idea, and a survey of the new office furniture concepts that are trying to break us all free. The article's big takeaway: not being in the office (telecommuting/third spaces) is where it's at.

Research relevancy bonus: Includes mention of Steelcase's Personal Harbor project, but, sadly, no pictures.
'.
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gladwell.com

2006-03-08T19:51:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item gladwell.com and commented 'Malcolm Gladwell has a blog now.'.
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PARC Privacy Appliance

2006-03-08T10:45:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item PARC Privacy Appliance and commented 'This is the thing I was talking about at the lab meeting. As best I know, this project is dead due to lack of funding.'.
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An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in the Enterprise. Many-to-Many:

2006-03-06T16:36:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in the Enterprise. Many-to-Many: and commented 'Interesting blog post about organizational social software adoption by Ross Mayfield, a very influential person in the Wiki world. How closely does the advice here mirror Elaine's 5 factors?'.
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Ideas on display at Microsoft's TechFest | CNET News.com

2006-03-06T11:22:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Ideas on display at Microsoft's TechFest | CNET News.com and commented 'Short writeup on some of the projects recently demoed at Microsoft's TechFest, an internal event where researchers demo their projects to the rest of the company. Some interesting projects include an inkable digital home calendar (AJ Brush) and a few ways of securely connecting mobile devices.'.
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Rocketboom

2006-03-03T20:11:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Rocketboom and commented 'You might not get this the first time you watch it; it's not high entertainment. But it is an absolutely brilliant example of what mash-ups are all about.

From what I can tell, Rocketboom got this random video of kids cooking pancakes, then sort of "responded" or "replied" to it by building on it. Rather than parody or put it down, they honored it by adding to it. I think it is awesome.'.
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Rocketboom

2006-03-03T20:07:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Rocketboom and commented 'These guys are on to something...'.
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Stanford on iTunes

2006-03-01T15:09:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Stanford on iTunes and commented 'I'd heard of this before, but Steve forced me to take a real look at it today. And it's pretty cool - some example lectures:

Using Information Systems to Improve Health Care Quality - Gilad Kuperman, PhD, MD (from the Stanford Clinical Information Seminar Series)

Nature's Economy: Population, Consumption, and Sustainability - Paul Ehrlich (!), Anne Ehrlick, Gretchen Daily
'.
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Wired News:

2006-03-01T14:06:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Wired News: and commented 'I always like to support the little man. Has anyone used or would recommend any of the alternative search engines that the article mentions?'.
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IEEE Spectrum: Unsafe At Any Airspeed?

2006-03-01T13:00:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item IEEE Spectrum: Unsafe At Any Airspeed? and commented 'Your scare for the day: A study at CMU has determined that yes, it actually is dangerous to use portable electronic devices on airplanes. Researchers used an on-board spectrum analyzer and broadband antenna to monitor cell phones and other devices on a number of commercial airline flights. They found that someone uses a cell phone at least once per flight, and that the operating frequencies of these phones can interfere with on-board GPS signals.'.
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Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Obligatory Summers Post

2006-02-28T15:36:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Obligatory Summers Post and commented 'Ed Felten's (Princeton Security Prof) interesting commentary on the Larry Summers' (Harvard prez) firing. What's interesting is that he argues that faculty have leverage because they are prized items in a competitive economic market, not because they have formal power according to Harvard's bylaws (they do not). '.
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Inescapable Data

2006-02-24T15:56:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item Inescapable Data and commented 'This is a slashdot book review for a title that seems to be relevant for lots of the folks in the ECL. The bits about convergence might be relevant to Amy's research and the notion of amassing and correlating data about all of our day-to-day activities (and the potentially nefarious results) sounds like it's right up Jeremy's alley. It could be an interesting read for any or all of us.'.
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Elatable | Bradley Horowitz » Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers

2006-02-20T10:39:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Elatable | Bradley Horowitz » Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers and commented 'Very interesting thoughts about social media (esp. Flickr) from a Yahoo bigwig.'.
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Rocketboom

2006-02-18T03:30:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Rocketboom and commented 'LED fun'.
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Icarus Diving » Google the Magnificent

2006-02-17T16:08:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Icarus Diving » Google the Magnificent and commented 'Google search completion can be funny!'.
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A lost interview with J. Presper Eckert - Computerworld

2006-02-16T09:04:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item A lost interview with J. Presper Eckert - Computerworld and commented 'This is an interesting transcript of interviews with Eckert conducted in 1989. There is cool trivia about how ENIAC was built, what it could do, and a few anecdotes. My personal favorite was the story of how they prevented mice from eating ENIAC's wire insulation.'.
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USATODAY.com - Love (or not) in an iPod world

2006-02-15T00:59:00.000-05:00

amyvoida contributed the item USATODAY.com - Love (or not) in an iPod world and commented 'A hotel edition USA Today was left open on a table at a restaurant in the Detroit airport where I may just have eaten the world's worst hamburger. This was the article face up. I love when the popular press can clear everything up for me. Happy Valentine's Day! :-)'.
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frogkitten03.jpg (JPEG Image, 300x248 pixels)

2006-02-12T10:12:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item frogkitten03.jpg (JPEG Image, 300x248 pixels) and commented 'When I'm not hard at work, I enjoy collecting pictures of kittens.'.
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Programmers get their own search engine

2006-02-11T21:40:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Programmers get their own search engine and commented 'New tool for searching on source code. Doesn't look live yet.'.
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Wired News: Transfer Your Data, for a Price

2006-02-09T14:24:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item Wired News: Transfer Your Data, for a Price and commented '"Don't be evil," huh? I want so much to believe that Google stands for wholesome goodness on the Internet, but it's just so hard to be sure anymore...'.
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cameraphone.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x610 pixels)

2006-02-04T10:16:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item cameraphone.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x610 pixels) and commented 'Amy's research, had it been done 10 years ago.'.
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Bibster

2006-02-02T11:11:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Bibster and commented 'A semantic web, p2p bibliography app written in Java.'.
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Firefox Extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

2006-02-02T10:18:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Firefox Extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base and commented 'Several people have asked about my development of a Firefox extension. This page provides a comprehensive list of references; my favorite resources are Getting Started with Extension Development, an excellent tutorial and sample application and XUL Planet, which provides API references and tutorials for XUL and JavaScript integration. Also, for those of you that want to detect and take action on a page load, see this page.'.
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JT Blog: Google's user happiness

2006-02-01T12:02:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item JT Blog: Google's user happiness and commented 'Writeup on Dan Russell's talk at GVU on Monday (1/30/06). Please add comments to fill in the blanks or add material I missed.'.
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Steve Krause : Blog: Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders

2006-02-01T10:19:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Steve Krause : Blog: Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders and commented 'Nice article about Pandora and Last.fm, two competing music recommender services. It's also a nice illustration of the fundamental differences in pure collaborative filtering along minimal features (Last.fm) and the more laborious method of manually selecting and labeling lots of features (Pandora). While Pandora may not encode all the features that make two songs "similar", Last.fm needs a wide cross-section of users to make good recommendations to everyone. Quick and accessible read.'.
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AJAX and calendars

2006-01-31T19:20:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item AJAX and calendars and commented 'Just some thoughts on a recent post in ZDnet discussing the threat of AJAX-based calendars to MS Office. For all you calendar buffs out there :)'.
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NOVA | scienceNOW | Mirror Neurons | PBS

2006-01-25T12:23:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item NOVA | scienceNOW | Mirror Neurons | PBS and commented 'Lots of good info on Mirror Neurons from PBS.'.
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Chickenfoot

2006-01-24T10:45:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Chickenfoot and commented 'This little tool apparently won best paper at UIST last year. It's an end-user programming tool for Firefox. It'd be interesting to apply social navigation to see what scripts other people are using/writing. Also, it might be interesting to note that MIT now has a User Interface Design Group in its CS department.'.
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Wired News: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops

2006-01-20T11:32:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item Wired News: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops and commented '...which could also be entitled, "How the Department of Justice Has Suddenly Made Cookie Management Sexy and Relevant." Go, Jeremy, Go!'.
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HCI @ Waterloo

2006-01-17T23:56:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item HCI @ Waterloo and commented 'HCI now has a web presence at Waterloo!'.
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Bored meetings

2006-01-17T12:01:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item Bored meetings and commented 'I move we cancel all meeting this semester -- lab meetings, faculty meetings, one-on-one meetings. For the sake of morale, of course. =)'.
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Amazon.com: Expert Political Judgment : How Good is It? How Can We Know?: Books

2006-01-16T17:31:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Amazon.com: Expert Political Judgment : How Good is It? How Can We Know?: Books and commented 'The book I was talking about today is Expert Political Knowledge by Tetlock. You can also read the New Yorker review of the book and a Wall Street Journal article about the book.'.
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Alex Barnett blog : Google: the internet is not enough

2006-01-10T12:56:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Alex Barnett blog : Google: the internet is not enough and commented 'In the past, companies have gone from physical to the digital world; here's an interesting example of a company going from the digital to the physical.'.
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Schneier on Security: Project Shamrock

2005-12-29T22:27:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Schneier on Security: Project Shamrock and commented 'An interesting blog post by Bruce Schneier (a digital security guru) about the recent flap regarding Bush and his use of the NSA to "spy" on American citizens. Turns out that the NSA has intercepted large quantities of communications - namely, telegraph data - to/from Americans before.'.
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Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

2005-12-20T18:54:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Google Press Center: Zeitgeist and commented 'A year-end version of Google's Zeitgeist. Check out all the tabs for lots of interesting data. I like the "World Affairs" tab best.'.
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Attensa demos power of Attention.xml

2005-12-20T15:21:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Attensa demos power of Attention.xml and commented 'A bit about a "next-generation" RSS reader called Attensa that prioritizes new articles according to past reading habits. There's a nice observation near the end about how Attensa's logic is stored on its own servers, essentially putting personal attentional information in the hands of a third party.'.
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CNN.com - Naughty or nice? Paris Hilton display upsets neighbors - Dec 9, 2005

2005-12-12T15:29:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item CNN.com - Naughty or nice? Paris Hilton display upsets neighbors - Dec 9, 2005 and commented 'Jeremy wanted me to post some thought-provoking content to the ECL feed. Here it is, in all its glory'.
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rsstroom reader - toilet paper printer!

2005-12-08T16:17:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item rsstroom reader - toilet paper printer! and commented 'We definitely need to get some of these for the TSRB. For Jeremy's research, right?
'.
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Wired News: History's Worst Software Bugs

2005-12-07T16:50:00.000-05:00

dan contributed the item Wired News: History's Worst Software Bugs and commented 'pretty entertaining article about software bugs. test test test !!'.
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SCS Emigration Course

2005-12-07T09:28:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item SCS Emigration Course and commented 'CMU has a nice series of "emigration" seminars concerned with helping graduating CS PhD's to find jobs after they're done. I just attended one on Job Interview Tips given by Jeanette Wing, head of the CS department, and another on industrial research given by Roy Levin, head of MSR's Bay Area lab (BARC). Look over Jeanette's slides, they're pretty useful in terms of telling you what to expect and what questions you should be asking.'.
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Amazon.com: Dating Design Patterns: Books

2005-12-07T08:55:00.000-05:00

amyvoida contributed the item Amazon.com: Dating Design Patterns: Books and commented '"This book is a patterns catalog. It documents and explores the underlying principles, patterns, best practices, and refactoring achievable in the complex world of empirical heterogeneous interactions. That's right: dating! Breaking the long time myth that "geeks can't date," you'll learn that dating patterns are achievable, measurable, and possible to implement. Use this book properly, and you will no longer have to run aloneOnSaturdayNight ever again." - from book's description on ThinkGeek.com'.
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Synergy

2005-12-07T00:19:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Synergy and commented 'This looks very cool -- sort of a software KVM switch. One machine acts as the "server", mapping your keyboard and mouse to other machines. Also synchronizes clipboards across machines.'.
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David's Journal: Current

2005-12-03T15:54:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item David's Journal: Current and commented 'David Byrne's blog, which is really, really interesting. For example, check out his Nov13th entry on "Democracy and Dictators".'.
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Adorablog: How to knit a sweater FOR A WEE PENGUIN

2005-12-02T01:01:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Adorablog: How to knit a sweater FOR A WEE PENGUIN and commented 'I can't figure out if this is legit or not, but it's certainly entertaining.'.
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His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at.

2005-11-29T13:01:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item His goal was to make it simple to use and a joy to look at. and commented 'Brief interview with Jonathan Ive, designer of the iPod and iMacs. It gets a little at his particular take on design and how it results in certain features like etched serial numbers and 1-button remote controls.'.
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"Ludic" hard drive?

2005-11-23T17:36:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item "Ludic" hard drive? and commented 'Gaver's revolution is now solidly underway. Witness an exceedingly geeky device (a portable USB hard drive) with a bit of industrial design and -- this might well be a first -- a product description explaining how the drive "expresses a ludic playfulness."

Be afraid. Be very afraid. =)

On the upside, how cool would it be if the hard drives could actually propagate power and usb connections through the Lego-like nubs? Oh, wait...MERL's already done that...'.
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Amazon.com Product Wiki

2005-11-23T16:38:00.000-05:00

amyvoida contributed the item Amazon.com Product Wiki and commented 'Amazon has now incorporated "Product Wikis" into their product pages (scroll about a third of the way down the page)'.
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Corporate Ethnography

2005-11-21T17:01:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Corporate Ethnography and commented 'Writeup on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, a corporate ethnography conference, recently held at Microsoft. The proceedings might be interesting to look over.'.
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The 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize for Blooks

2005-11-20T20:29:00.000-05:00

amyvoida contributed the item The 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize for Blooks and commented '"The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world's first literary prize devoted to "blooks": books based on blogs or websites." Website includes information on how to "blookify" your blog and how to enter your "blook" in the contest. '.
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Your hotel room knows just what you like - Business - International Herald Tribune

2005-11-17T10:23:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item Your hotel room knows just what you like - Business - International Herald Tribune and commented 'Fluffy ubicomp piece on smart hotels. Best quote:
"...bellmen and waiters took note of the preferences of Laurence Wiener, an anesthesiologist from Philadelphia, and managers updated the digital profile that the hotel keeps for each customer.
Wiener has stayed at the Mandarin 45 times in the past two years while he was supervising the construction of his apartment in New York."

Main takeaway: You should have been a doctor.'.
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FREAKONOMICS BLOG » Why Vote?

2005-11-15T15:15:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item FREAKONOMICS BLOG » Why Vote? and commented 'Freakonomics take on voting. Fascinating discussion of why people still vote despite the likelihood that their vote will be meaningless. '.
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Welcome to Laerdal Medical

2005-11-08T18:36:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Welcome to Laerdal Medical and commented 'Something about this page is so wrong...'.
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SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business

2005-11-08T14:35:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business and commented 'A class about search engines and their impact, with a phenomenal list of speakers and topics; the best part is that you can watch webcasts (or view slides) from any speaker.'.
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Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:SessionSaver .2 - All Releases

2005-11-07T10:22:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:SessionSaver .2 - All Releases and commented 'A very useful extension for Firefox: Saves your session when Firefox closes or crasshes.'.
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JT Blog: Metadata is people

2005-11-06T21:09:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item JT Blog: Metadata is people and commented 'A short writeup on a defense I attended last week by Luis von Ahn, a (former) theory student at CMU who has invented a number of clever ways for getting lots of people to solve difficult computational problems.'.
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JT Blog

2005-11-04T14:05:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item JT Blog and commented 'Apparently the big seller in Japanese games these days is not Nintendogs or Final Fantasy but a "Brain Training" game for the Nintendo DS. Adults are buying this game at a rapid clip in the hopes of staving off the onset of dementia. This kind of game presents possibilities for a line of research in eldercare technologies that could evaluate and possibly improve mental acuity. Aware home people: is this kind of research already in the works?'.
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netflix lawsuit- we get benefits :)

2005-11-03T12:32:00.000-05:00

quantt contributed the item netflix lawsuit- we get benefits :) and commented 'It's sad when people can sue companies by calling them on advertised claims that common sense would say 'duh- no' (e.g. "unlimited" dvd copies and "one day delivery") or that companies stretch reality just enough to make them appealing. I really like NetFlix and think their business model was what started the whole video rental shift. I'll give my free subscription settlement to my parents (since I should be writing instead of watching movies). Ah- I remember the good ol days late at night in the lab after hours of coding- getting cheap chinese food and watching a movie. That's right David- you can get your settlement subscription too :)'.
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JT Blog

2005-11-03T11:34:00.000-05:00

jtullio contributed the item JT Blog and commented 'Links to some useful HCI conference calendars.'.
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Slashdot Review: Security and Usability

2005-11-02T15:01:00.000-05:00

svoida contributed the item Slashdot Review: Security and Usability and commented 'Kudos to Jeremy for making Slashdot this afternoon! The O'Reilly "Security and Usability" book he contributed a chapter to was reviewed today, and his research was specifically mentioned in the review: "Another chapter discusses leveraging social processes for managing browser cookies. The concept being when a cookie is saved stored, it will provide you aggregate community data such as X percent of the people visiting this site blocked the cookie. One obvious benefit is the ability to educate 'less knowledgeable' users about 'good' cookies vs 'bad' cookies." Way to go, Jeremy!'.
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journal for medically integrated home

2005-11-01T18:17:00.000-05:00

quantt contributed the item journal for medically integrated home and commented 'Finally, one good thing came out of junk- er spam mailing- or did my email finally get on some mailing list that's somewhat relevant. Either way, this seems to be a decent layman's journal to future home medicine technology stuff.'.
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Wired News: Public Enemy Takes It to the Net

2005-10-31T22:17:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Wired News: Public Enemy Takes It to the Net and commented 'Man, I miss Public Enemy... They didn't always get it right (like Professor
Griff's antics, or Flava Flav's clowning), but they could still deliver a
socially potent message over thick beats when they were at their best.
Here's to hoping they "got it right" in their new album...'.
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public storyboard: may you live in interesting times

2005-10-28T15:27:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item public storyboard: may you live in interesting times and commented 'If you could post a short message to one of those electronic signs over the interstate, what would you post? This is a project that explores using texting to allow people to post messages to a public board in the U.K.'.
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BookCrossing - Home - FREE YOUR BOOKS!

2005-10-26T14:35:00.000-05:00

Amy contributed the item BookCrossing - Home - FREE YOUR BOOKS! and commented 'I discovered a reference to this site while perusing 43things.com (from a previous ecl rss post!) Books are registered on the site, tagged, and then "released" into the wild, where people can find them, read, them, and log back in to report where the book was found and what they thought about it (if they read it). Here's a good overview: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A8475-2003Jan3&notFound=true'.
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Tor: GUI Competition

2005-10-25T13:05:00.000-05:00

mterry contributed the item Tor: GUI Competition and commented 'Anyone know more about Tor? This sounds very interesting...'.
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PhD comics is touring campuses (visiting GaTech tomorrow)

2005-10-24T12:55:00.000-05:00

quantt contributed the item PhD comics is touring campuses (visiting GaTech tomorrow) and commented 'hrm.. I need to crank out my phd stuff ...or I could procrastinate a tad longer by going to this talk tomorrow... who else is going?'.
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Nick Carr's Amorality. Many-to-Many:

2005-10-24T10:21:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Nick Carr's Amorality. Many-to-Many: and commented 'Ross Mayfield (head of SocialText) talks about the disruptive power of peer-oriented software, democracy, alternative media, and Wikipedia.'.
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Woot

2005-10-22T03:39:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item Woot and commented 'Random shopping deals -- sometimes interesting and inexpensive, sometimes wonderfully pointless.

Today's auction? Just for Mike.'.
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43 Things

2005-10-21T12:54:00.000-05:00

Steve contributed the item 43 Things and commented 'An interesting take on blogging/social networking.... You post a list of up to 43 personal goals online, and the list becomes an artifact from which you can discover others with similar interests, invite others to achieve a goal with you, or offer support for someone else's posted goals. It seems like a nice way to ground a social networking experience (especially with strangers) and also appears to provide a lot of flexibility in terms of how much personally-identifiable information you want to expose about yourself.
'.
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'Flock' Web Browser

2005-10-20T23:18:00.000-05:00

dan contributed the item 'Flock' Web Browser and commented 'Next-generation 'social' web browser designed specifically to integrate with rss, blogs, photo sharing,
etc.
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Jon Udell: Attention economics

2005-10-19T15:17:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Jon Udell: Attention economics and commented 'A great blog post about attention and interruption from a technosociological perspective.'.
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Official Google Blog: This volt's for you

2005-10-19T14:55:00.017-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Official Google Blog: This volt's for you and commented 'Google's got some great ideas about how to encourage employees to think and act environmentally.'.
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JT Blog

2005-10-19T14:55:00.016-05:00

jtullio contributed the item JT Blog and commented 'Link to a recent ZDnet article on what's happening at Yahoo! labs.'.
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MacMynatt

2005-10-19T14:55:00.015-05:00

mynatt contributed the item MacMynatt and commented ''.
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NYT: At Public Universities, Warnings of Privatization

2005-10-19T14:55:00.014-05:00

jeremy contributed the item NYT: At Public Universities, Warnings of Privatization and commented 'Funding public universities through private means.'.
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The wireless life

2005-10-19T14:55:00.013-05:00

mynatt contributed the item The wireless life and commented 'Beth is quoted saying "cyborg" and "crackberries" in the AJC.'.
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GT Passport

2005-10-19T14:55:00.012-05:00

Steve contributed the item GT Passport and commented 'Escape from the bounds of that old gtXXXXX email address once and for all! The new GT Passport web site fianlly allows you to apply for sensibly-named XXX@mail.gatech.edu email addesses. Good plan of action: register your CoC username there and implement a forward...even more ways for spammers to find you!'.
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Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Virtual World, Meet Terrestrial Government

2005-10-19T14:55:00.011-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Virtual World, Meet Terrestrial Government and commented 'Fascinating discussion of how the virtual world evolves to mirror and integrate with the real world.'.
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gametap

2005-10-19T14:55:00.010-05:00

quantt contributed the item gametap and commented 'Turner's new venture into legalizing game emulators of atari, sega, commodore, and so on.'.
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BetterDesktop: Open Source finally discovers usability

2005-10-19T14:55:00.009-05:00

Steve contributed the item BetterDesktop: Open Source finally discovers usability and commented 'The most interesting part of this is that, in the true spirit of open source, Novell has actually released *both* their analysis and the source usability testing videos.'.
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I/O Brush video makes YouTube

2005-10-19T14:55:00.008-05:00

Steve contributed the item I/O Brush video makes YouTube and commented 'One way to make a killer conference video.'.
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Interesting Web 2.0/Ajax framework

2005-10-19T14:55:00.007-05:00

Steve contributed the item Interesting Web 2.0/Ajax framework and commented 'I'm becoming more and more interested in the idea of rich user experiences in browser-based applications. This looks like a particularly nice library for creating these kinds of applications.

And I'm also pleasantly surprised that Ruby on Rails seems to integrate this library as a built-in part of the Rails web development framework. Just another vote for taking a day or two to figure out what it's all about....
'.
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» The idea of less as a competitive advantage | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

2005-10-19T14:55:00.006-05:00

mterry contributed the item » The idea of less as a competitive advantage | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com and commented 'Less is more, taken to the extreme'.
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Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Taking Collaborative Notes at BlogTalk

2005-10-19T14:55:00.005-05:00

mterry contributed the item Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Taking Collaborative Notes at BlogTalk and commented 'I always wondered what collaborative editors were until I read about this use of SubethaEdit'.
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Woot : One Day, One Deal

2005-10-19T14:55:00.004-05:00

Steve contributed the item Woot : One Day, One Deal and commented 'This is a place you can buy really random stuff for really little dough. Sometimes the deals are good, but other times, like today...not so much.'.
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apophenia: remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture, part 2)

2005-10-19T14:55:00.003-05:00

jeremy contributed the item apophenia: remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture, part 2) and commented 'danah boyd on remixing, copyright, and identity.'.
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UIST2005

2005-10-19T14:55:00.002-05:00

jeremy contributed the item UIST2005 and commented 'The UIST 2005 program is available.'.
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The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large

2005-10-19T14:55:00.001-05:00

jeremy contributed the item The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large and commented 'Malcolm Gladwell (_The Tipping Point_, _Blink_) discusses how college admissions reflect an intense desire to brand/create an identity for a university.'.
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Official Google Blog: Google goes to Washington

2005-10-19T14:55:00.000-05:00

jeremy contributed the item Official Google Blog: Google goes to Washington and commented 'Google discusses various legal issues that impact them and how they set up a lobbying office in Washington D.C.'.
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