Information Overload
Many of us are researching ways of reducing information overload. The next The Economist Oxford-style debate revolves around information overload. The proposition: “This house believes that if the...
View ArticleA Pitch on Future Recommender Systems
Yesterday I attended a workshop that was aimed at fostering research collaboration between our department and BSkyB. After a short introduction by the head of the department, a number of members of...
View ArticleResearch is the New Music
I’ve started trying out a new service, called Mendeley. The quickest way to describe it is a “last.fm for research;” they have a desktop client that can monitor the pdf files that you are reading, and...
View ArticleUshahidi
Ushahidi (blog) is an open source platform for collecting, visualizing, and distributing information related to a crisis or ongoing public problem, such as swine flu, election fraud, and political...
View ArticleDiscussing the Netflix Prize
After my last blog post, I was contacted by a journalist who wanted to discuss the effects of the Netflix prize. It seems that now that the competition is winding to an end, one of the real questions...
View ArticleDeconstructing “the Twitter revolution”
Hamid Tehrani of Global Voices gives a sober assessment of the role of Twitter in the Iranian election protests. One of the issues he raises is the temptation to relay breaking news without verifying...
View ArticleIntelligence-gathering by sneakernet
A new report by senior US intelligence officers recommends sweeping changes to intelligence-gathering practices in Afghanistan. The two most interesting recommendations: Intelligence work should be...
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The other America
The only sign most people have that they’re passing the headquarters of the world’s largest spy agency is that their GPS stops working. It’s with such evocative details that the Washington Post paints...
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