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Information R/evolution

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

The age of the Google Man is upon us! Great work by Michael Wesch (of The Machine is Us/ing Us fame), shows how search (and search literacy) has altered the landscape and shattered hierarchies.

http://www.youtube.com/?v=-4CV05HyAbMInformation R/evolutionTags: search, information, netculture, cyberpunk, anthropology, ethnography

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Annotating the Web

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Guillaume Cabanac is conducting an ambitious experiment on the automatic evaluation of discussion threads on web annotation systems. Web annotation systems are an interesting premise that could make the web more interactive. The problem is that the results are often messy and unusable. This experiment is part of an effort to reduce this mess.

The ultimate […]

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Another paper submitted for the alt.chi 2007 conference. This comes from PARC and is a study of the del.icio.us website using metrics based on entropy.

Their results are interesting:

The efficiency of social tagging is decreasing. The efficiency of social navigation affored by the tagging system is decreasing Users overlap in places they visit more strongly than before

These results […]

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