In a recent post, I mentioned Facebook’s “Like” button for the web, and wrote about how using the information contributed through all those “Like” button presses is more complicated than just inferring that a “Like” means that someone likes the web page. I recently came across mention of an alleged “censorship” controversy related to Digg.com [see [...]
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Q&A
Facebook announced last week that they are introducing a new feature, called “Facebook Questions”. From the description on the Facebook blog, it seems like this new feature is intended to be similar to Yahoo! Answers. I have to admit, I don’t really “get” Q&A sites. Who are these people that ask questions like, “what is [...]
searching the ‘real-time Web’?
CNN posted an article on March 13 as part of their coverage of SXSW Interactive, titled, “Privacy concerns hinder ‘real-time Web’ creation, developers say”. But what the article was really about was the semantic web. For tweets and status updates: The idea behind a real-time Web is to create technology that doesn’t require an Internet user to actively [...]
“getting the most out of twitter”
There was an interesting article the other day on nytimes.com titled “Getting the Most out of Twitter” which essentially argues that lurking (i.e., reading others’ posts and not posting yourself) is the way to go: Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions [...]
supplemental statistics
I came across a really interesting paper recently after seeing it referred to in a news story: Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievement (Beilock et al., 2010, PNAS, with Supplemental information) The researchers recruited 17 first- and second-grade teachers (all female) and assessed the math achievement of the students in their classrooms at the [...]
