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HOW TO: Use Google Reader Like A Rockstar Google Reader recently got a facelift; with a fresh look and features, a lot of people are buzzing about the service. Knowing that new users are signing up and veterans are looking for some ideas to make their experience even better, we have put together a quick how-to that should offer something for everyone. Tell us in the comments about what you do to get the most out of Google Reader! The Story Of Twitter In Picture Form Sure, you could read about the history of Twitter in long-form blog posts, but that seems to go against the spirit of the micro-messaging service. So instead, here’s a picture created by InfoShots for the blog Manolith that puts some key moments of the service’s history in visual form. This spans from the advent of UNIX “Talk” in the 1980s (an early real-time text update system), all the way to the Twipocalypse.

How to Properly Research on the Internet Warning: if you are going to argue a point about politics, medicine, animal care, or gun control, then you better take the time to make your argument legit. Spending 10 seconds with Google and copy-pasting wikipedia links doesn't cut it. The standard for an intelligent argument is Legitimate research is called RE-search for a reason: patient repetition and careful filtering is what will win the day. The Best Tools for Visualization Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of.

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From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content. A couple of apps have grabbed the headlines in recent months. Flipboard has closed over $60 million in funding and has a $200 million valuation. More recently, Zite was snapped up by CNN. 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking about all the data visualization I've seen for Twitter tweets. I felt like I'd seen a lot, and it turns out there are quite a few. Here they are grouped into four categories - network diagrams, maps, analytics, and abstract. Network Diagrams Twitter is a social network with friends (and strangers) linking up with each other and sharing tweets aplenty. These network diagrams attempt to show the relationships that exist among users.

Whrrl This page cannot be displayed because Whrrl has shut down. Learn more about the Whrrl shut-down » Wait! I'm a Whrrl user. 6 Unique Twitter Visualizations Art, imagery, graphs, and maps help place context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and data. Twitter, the ultimate collection of 140-character thoughts and data, does not come with image sharing, video embedding, or almost any other visual feature. However, it does come with an API and hundreds of people developing Twitter applications all the time. When reading the Twitter stream becomes stale or repetitive, try using some useful and fun Twitter applications that visualize trends, map out locations, or just please the senses. These are a few of the most unique and innovative visualizations of the Twitter stream: 1.

Interview Ben Shneiderman | Visualize data GCN Interview Ben Shneiderman OUseful Info: Twittershow - Modifying Feedshow to Provide Twitte Twittershow - Modifying Feedshow to Provide Twitter Powered Presentations Over the weekend, I came across Twitter presenter, a proof of concept way fo using a Twitter feed as the basis for a presentation inspired by a tweet from @ewanmcintosh: "Can one present by Twit?" The feedshow link presenter takes and RSS feed in, typically from a social bookmarks site, and uses it to provide a set of links to web pages that are to be talked around during a presentation. I've been meaning to add an option to feedshow that lets you preface a displayed web page with a comment, provided either by the title or description element of the input feed, so as a step on the way to that, here's a quick proof of concept sideshoot from feedshow - Twittershow (or should that be TweetShow, or even Tweeshow?!

Current JISC Projects of Possible Interest to LAK11 Attendees Mulling over an excellent couple of days in Banff at the first Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference (LAK11; @dougclow’s liveblog notes), where we heard about a whole host of data and anlytics related activites from around the world, I thought it may be worth pulling together descriptions of several current JISC projects that are exploring related issues to add in to the mix… There are currently at least three programmes that it seems to me are in the general area… Activity Data Many systems in institutions store data about the actions of students, teachers and researchers. Business Intelligence