Text Analysis and Text Mining Software: Lexalytics. Sophie In North Korea. The longer I think about what we saw and heard, the less sure I am about what any of it actually meant.
Top Level Take-aways: Go to North Korea if you can. The magic left the building with Jobs. I remember the moment Steve Jobs scrolled through his music and uttered those magical words – “scrolls like butter” – while illustrating the beauty of the original iPhone.
It’s moments like this that you lived for, as a technology obsessed professional in Silicon Valley. And with Jobs we got to watch the Michael Jordan of technology, courtside, at his best. iPods, iPhones, iPads, the hits kept coming and Jobs made them look great. So, it’s a pet peeve of mine these days when companies try to rip off Steve Jobs’ launch style. Not Apple’s style because the new PR machinery at Apple leaves a lot to be desired. Social metrics : l’envers du décor. Autant le dire d’emblée.
La dernière (et première de l’année) conférence du Social Media Club à La Cantine, a délivré du lourd. Un vrai plateau d’experts pointus, ne maniant pas la langue de bois et y allant franco. Ce pour expliquer ce qu’est réellement la discipline de la "social metrics" pour les sites web et dispositif 2.0. Notre cerveau à l’heure des nouvelles lectures. Maryanne Wolf, directrice du Centre de recherche sur la lecture et le langage de l’université Tufts est l’auteur de Proust et le Calmar (en référence à la façon dont ces animaux développent leurs réseaux de neurones, que nous avions déjà évoqué en 2009).
Sur la scène des Entretiens du Nouveau Monde industriel au Centre Pompidou, la spécialiste dans le développement de l’enfant est venue évoquer « la modification de notre cerveau-lecteur au 21e siècle » (voir et écouter la vidéo de son intervention)… Image : Maryanne Wolf face au public sur la scène du Centre Pompidou, photographiée par Victor Feuillat. Comment lisons-nous ? « Le cerveau humain n’était pas programmé pour être capable de lire. Washington Post. This is Weibo, interrupted.
The Internet of Everything: Let's Get This Right. The SDS Sigma-7: The first computer to be connected to the Internet.Photo: FastLizard4/Flickr A decade ago, when Cisco helped connect millions of devices to the Internet, we proclaimed we were in the midst of an “Internet Revolution.”
We were wrong. What we witnessed at the onset of the 21st Century, as remarkable as it was, was merely a prelude. While still in the distance, we are now seeing what the internet is delivering: an age of information and freedom that we could never fathom just 10 short years ago. We are rapidly heading into a new era that will not be measured by the number of users, devices, or connections. Each of these connections brings its own unique value, and the value increases even more with the exponential growth in potential connections between everything. John Chambers is Chairman and CEO of Cisco. London Review of Books. I am not usually comfortable in a bar by myself, but I had been in San Francisco for a week and the apartment I sublet had no chairs in it, just a bed and a couch.
My friends in town were married or worked nights. One Tuesday I had lentil soup for supper standing up at the kitchen counter. After I finished, I moved to the couch in the empty living room and sat under the flat overhead light refreshing feeds on my laptop. This was not a way to live. L’affaire #adgate : opt-in publicitaire, Niel et hypocrisie généralisée. 140 caractères ne sont pas suffisant pour parler de l’affaire #Adgate.
Alors voilà mon avis. Histoire d’éviter de noyer les timelines de mes gentils followers sur Twitter. Les faits La dernière mise à jour de la Freebox v6 a installé une fonction qui coupe les principaux adservers. c’est à dire l’affichage de bannière publicitaire et autre publicité Google sur les sites web (et aussi les Analytics). The Big Internet Museum. Cartoons: Triumph of the nerds. IN 1989 Bill Watterson, the writer of “Calvin and Hobbes”, a brilliant comic strip about a six-year-old child and his stuffed tiger, denounced his industry.
In a searing lecture, he attacked bland, predictable comics, churned out by profit-driven syndicates. Cartooning, said Mr Watterson, “will never be more than a cheap, brainless commodity until it is published differently.” In 2012 he is finally getting his way. As the newspaper industry continues its decline, the funnies pages have decoupled from print.
News Media. News social media. #insolite #incroyable #innovation #cyberpunk. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. 12 Buzzwords You'll Hear in 2013.