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Pew Internet & American Life Project
Note: The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world. The basis of the reports are nationwide random digit dial telephone surveys as well as online surveys. This data collection is supplemented with research from government agencies, academia, and other expert venues; observations of what people do and how they behave when they are online; in-depth interviews with Internet users and Internet experts alike; and other efforts that try to examine individual and group behavior. The Project releases 15-20 pieces of research a year, varying in size, scope, and ambition.
Posted by ammy, at 07:25AM 11/22/06 :
Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
Note: Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Included in our award-winning site are more than 18 thousand Web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve 20 million visitors a year on the site—more than thirty times the number of visitors who come to the museum in San Francisco. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world. The Exploratorium's Web site is designed to extend the kinds of experiences our visitors have beyond the museum's floor. Today, the medium of the Internet makes it possible for the museum to reach homes and schools all over the world. This has changed the way formal and informal learning takes place, both in the classroom and in the home. The Exploratorium online, and the resources it provides, are available 24 hours a day, worldwide, to anyone with an Internet connection. Many of the resources on our Web site are examples of very simple uses of information technology, but thoughtfully implemented. For example, the site contains instructions for over 500 simple experiments, all of which may be viewed on any type of Web browser, with even the slowest connection, and easily printed out. Other types of content have required more creative use of existing or new technologies. In order to demonstrate certain phenomena, for instance, we have created a variety of online exhibits using Shockwave, Flash, QuickTime VR, and other technologies. Many of these online exhibits are patterned after real exhibits on the museum floor, providing equally rich experiences. Our newest experiments with information technology have revolved around Webcasting and podcasting, in which we broadcast live video and/or audio directly from the museum floor (or from satellite feeds in the field) onto the Internet. Webcasts provide access to events, scientists, artists, educators, and other museum resources for audiences on the Web. Using video and audio with information and images lets a visitor choose among different methods of learning about a particular topic. Video and audio also provide the ability to hear or view interviews with scientists, "meet" interesting people, or tour unusual locations, from factories to rainforests.
Posted by ammy, at 07:22AM 11/22/06 :
The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Part One)
Note: Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture. media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence
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Venyo
Note: With the explosion of new collaborative services particular to Web 2.0, users find themselves drowning beneath waves of informations, recommendations, solutions and contacts whose relevance it is no longer easily possible to judge. Unlike the traditional media, Internet has no gatekeepers but the audience is now robust enough to exert some sort of quality control. In order to do that, the audience needs an evaluation tool to share its positive or negative experiences with the rest of the community, like the eBay™ reputation system for example. That's precisely the Venyo mission : to provide a free online reputation management tool to offer a unified and standardized measure of the personal reliability of each contributor through the evaluation of his/her contributions by the users : the Vindex™ A user-centric certification of the contributors reputation guaranteed by an independent organization, Venyo, will increase the trust level of Web 2.0 users and advertisers. To propose a secure and easy to use reputation management tool, the only way is to partner with websites that rely on users to contribute contents or offer services. Social networks but also Blog platforms, Blog guides as well C2C Marketplaces should be interested in displaying the Vindex™ of their contributors, with the aim of inspiring sufficient trust in users by reassuring them of the quality of material or of proposed services, thereby turning them into readers or buyers.
Posted by ammy, at 06:59AM 11/22/06 :
Jim Pitman's Home Page
Note: Jim Pitman is Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at U.C. Berkeley, and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics http://imstat.org. Over the last few years he has been working towards improving the quality and quantity of open access content in the mathematical sciences, by promoting and launching open access journals for expository and survey material, and by creating bibliographic software to encourage distributed alternatives to centrally controlled indexing systems.
Posted by ammy, at 06:58AM 11/22/06 :
296a1 Schedule - Seminar Information Access Fall 2006
Note: Friday Afternoon Seminar on Information Retrieval at Berkeley University
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Posted by ammy, at 09:49AM 11/22/06 :Pew Internet & American Life Project
Note: The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world. The basis of the reports are nationwide random digit dial telephone surveys as well as online surveys. This data collection is supplemented with research from government agencies, academia, and other expert venues; observations of what people do and how they behave when they are online; in-depth interviews with Internet users and Internet experts alike; and other efforts that try to examine individual and group behavior. The Project releases 15-20 pieces of research a year, varying in size, scope, and ambition.
Posted by ammy, at 07:25AM 11/22/06 :Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
Note: Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Included in our award-winning site are more than 18 thousand Web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve 20 million visitors a year on the site—more than thirty times the number of visitors who come to the museum in San Francisco. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world. The Exploratorium's Web site is designed to extend the kinds of experiences our visitors have beyond the museum's floor. Today, the medium of the Internet makes it possible for the museum to reach homes and schools all over the world. This has changed the way formal and informal learning takes place, both in the classroom and in the home. The Exploratorium online, and the resources it provides, are available 24 hours a day, worldwide, to anyone with an Internet connection. Many of the resources on our Web site are examples of very simple uses of information technology, but thoughtfully implemented. For example, the site contains instructions for over 500 simple experiments, all of which may be viewed on any type of Web browser, with even the slowest connection, and easily printed out. Other types of content have required more creative use of existing or new technologies. In order to demonstrate certain phenomena, for instance, we have created a variety of online exhibits using Shockwave, Flash, QuickTime VR, and other technologies. Many of these online exhibits are patterned after real exhibits on the museum floor, providing equally rich experiences. Our newest experiments with information technology have revolved around Webcasting and podcasting, in which we broadcast live video and/or audio directly from the museum floor (or from satellite feeds in the field) onto the Internet. Webcasts provide access to events, scientists, artists, educators, and other museum resources for audiences on the Web. Using video and audio with information and images lets a visitor choose among different methods of learning about a particular topic. Video and audio also provide the ability to hear or view interviews with scientists, "meet" interesting people, or tour unusual locations, from factories to rainforests.
Posted by ammy, at 07:22AM 11/22/06 :The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Part One)
Note: Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture. media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence
Posted by ammy, at 07:12AM 11/22/06 and by 1 others:Venyo
Note: With the explosion of new collaborative services particular to Web 2.0, users find themselves drowning beneath waves of informations, recommendations, solutions and contacts whose relevance it is no longer easily possible to judge. Unlike the traditional media, Internet has no gatekeepers but the audience is now robust enough to exert some sort of quality control. In order to do that, the audience needs an evaluation tool to share its positive or negative experiences with the rest of the community, like the eBay™ reputation system for example. That's precisely the Venyo mission : to provide a free online reputation management tool to offer a unified and standardized measure of the personal reliability of each contributor through the evaluation of his/her contributions by the users : the Vindex™ A user-centric certification of the contributors reputation guaranteed by an independent organization, Venyo, will increase the trust level of Web 2.0 users and advertisers. To propose a secure and easy to use reputation management tool, the only way is to partner with websites that rely on users to contribute contents or offer services. Social networks but also Blog platforms, Blog guides as well C2C Marketplaces should be interested in displaying the Vindex™ of their contributors, with the aim of inspiring sufficient trust in users by reassuring them of the quality of material or of proposed services, thereby turning them into readers or buyers.
Posted by ammy, at 06:59AM 11/22/06 :Jim Pitman's Home Page
Note: Jim Pitman is Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at U.C. Berkeley, and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics http://imstat.org. Over the last few years he has been working towards improving the quality and quantity of open access content in the mathematical sciences, by promoting and launching open access journals for expository and survey material, and by creating bibliographic software to encourage distributed alternatives to centrally controlled indexing systems.
Posted by ammy, at 06:58AM 11/22/06 :296a1 Schedule - Seminar Information Access Fall 2006
Note: Friday Afternoon Seminar on Information Retrieval at Berkeley University
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