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 [...]
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my slides from CSCW
i did my presentation this morning! i feel like it went well, and the session format was really great — i think it allowed for much more in-depth critique and analysis of the ideas tossed around in the session. i’ve posted our slides here.
folders vs. tagging
today i read a paper from ASIST 2008, on a question i’ve wanted to find an answer to for a couple of years now: in head-to-head competition, are folders or tags better for PIM? the paper is “Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags? The Devil Is in the Details” by Andrea [...]
what makes for a “useful” tag?
I was reading an article in The New Yorker, titled The Science of Success by James Surowiecki, about prediction markets. A paragraph at the end of the article caught my attention: The collective intelligence of consumers isn’t perfect—it’s just better than other forecasting tools. The catch is that to get good answers from consumers you [...]
paper deadline madness
i was in “must finish this paper by friday at 8pm” mode for most of last week, and part of the week before. the CSCW 2008 papers & notes deadline was the 18th at 5pm pacific time. for those of us in the eastern time zone, it actually feels like we get three extra hours. [...]
