newsmap Update: Jan 20, 2012 My appologies for not updating this site lately. Flipboard has been keeping me a little busy. I'll try to work something out here soon, but in the meantime, you might want to say hello on Twitter, browse through a few photos here or peek into what it is like designing Flipboard. marumushi.com the life and work of Marcos Weskamp Marcos Weskamp is a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in playing with and visualizing lots of data. In March 2010, Marcos joined a yet-to-be-named startup in Palo Alto, where he designs, sketches, codes, serves coffee, washes dishes and leads the User Experience vision of a product that's going to be so awesome, it's going to blow your pants off. Marcos is based in Palo Alto, California, where right now it is Fri Jun 09, 10:17am and the weather is .contact: marcos@marumushi.com 404, Lalala, Document not found! Fresh From the Lab Latest News tags
TT job search advice aggregator | Fumbling Towards Tenure Track I only started this blog in 2009, and what I didn't realize until 2010 was that a whole bunch of super useful TT search advice-related posts were written in 2007 and 2008 by some of your favorite faculty bloggers. What better place to put all that great advice together than a blog about finding a TT job? Below is what immediately came to mind. Best of luck to everyone on the TT job market! TT Job Search Advice from Around the Blogosphere General advice before applyingSciencegeist Your CV PhysioprofDrDrA (Blue Lab Coats)Zen FaulkesGEARS The Application Package DrDrA (Blue Lab Coats)Zen Faulkes (Research Statement)Zen Faulkes (Teaching Statement, Part 1)Zen Faulkes (Teaching Statement, Part 2)Gerty-ZProdigal AcademicMattMightPhysioprof (Research Statement)GEARSDr O Interviewing (phone) Prof-like SubstanceDr 24 hours Interviewing (campus visit) The job talk PhysioprofDrDrAMattMightHermitage (general talk advice)Yours Truly (also general talk advice) The chalk talkPhysioprofDrDrAGerty-Z
Silicon Valley Watcher - at the intersection of technology and media Twitter, Facebook, and social activism At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress. “We don’t serve Negroes here,” she replied. The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at one end. By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the original four. By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away. The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. These are strong, and puzzling, claims. Some of this grandiosity is to be expected. What makes people capable of this kind of activism? This pattern shows up again and again.
How To Use Google Buzz. The Unofficial (and Frequently Updated) Guide. If you’re a GMail user you’ve no doubt come across a brand new section of your email called Buzz. Buzz is Google’s new social network and it’s already created a stir. There have been concerns over privacy but all in all, the reaction has been very largely positive. What is Buzz? Buzz is Google’s answer to Twitter and Facebook, remarkably similar to another service (that Facebook acquired and still exists) called Friendfeed. Buzz is a way for you to share status updates, video, audio and images with friends. A little like Facebook you might say, but Google does dramatically improve on the stream based UI that Facebook has become synonymous with. Before You Get Started Your Profile Page One of the things Buzz prides itself on is the minimal set up time, you can literally just begin using the service and should have a number of friends on there already because , as mentioned, Buzz autofollows recommends people you communicate frequently with via email and Gtalk. Start Using Buzz 1. 2. 3. NOTE.
6 Content Curation Examples Illustrated - HiveFire on Content Curation As 2011 online marketing and social media predictions start rolling in, we are hearing more and more about curation and how it’s going to be huge every day. But most of the discussion is conceptual and theoretical, talking about information overload and parallels to curation in museums. To help demonstrate what content curation actually means in the flesh, I have compiled a list of a 6 illustrated examples of curation in action by marketers, publishers and every day consumers. 1. Intelligent workload management (IWM) is an emerging method of IT systems management arising that draws from dynamic infrastructure, virtualization, identity management, and software appliance development. 2. The Big Apple Circus has created a section of their website for videos. 3. IBM runs a stream of curated content at as a part of their Smarter Planet marketing campaign to highlight how we are moving towards a world that’s “instrumented, interconnected and intelligent”. 4.
Explore Google Search Explore Google Search Want to learn something new about Google? Check out these 15 second search tips. Read others' search stories From lost relatives to that song that goes "doot doot doodle..." these stories are what Google is about. Spread the word Search is at the heart of everything we do at Google. Spelling Improvements Pat talks about new ways in which we try to save you time with spelling corrections. Back to top Google Squared Daniel demonstrates Google Squared, a new experimental search tool that lets you customize your search results in a table. Maps in Search Results Jim shows you the convenience of maps when you need them on Google Search Results Pages. International Results Trystan talks about internationalization of Google Search result pages around the world. User Experience User Experience Researcher, Melanie talks about the process and research to build Google's Search Options Panel. Wonder Wheel Search Options Panel Product "Plus Box" Personalized Suggestions Search Freshness Sitelinks
blog - Technology principle: The toy will win 6th November 2010 Text Technology principle: The toy will win In this post I will explain an important principle that I noticed in the technology world. I call this principle: The toy will win. What does “toy” mean? Here’s my definition for toy: Toy [noun]: A technological product which is simple and fun to use, and which may be criticized by some people as being weak and not suitable for serious work. The iPod is a good example of a toy; when the iPod first came out, it was criticized for its low specs, yet it grew to become the most popular music player ever. On the other end of the spectrum we have “enterprise products.” Examples of toys winning Let’s look at a few examples of toys winning versus competing enterprise products: Example 1: “Micro-computers”The computers that you and I use today, like our desktop computers and laptop computers and netbooks, were not originally called “computers.” There are many more examples of toys winning, but we will not explore them all here. Notes:
Adam Corney: @SarahMoran Haha - sometim... Top 5 Corporate Blogs’ Front Page Structure « Mario Sundar Just today Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox published the findings of a recent eye tracking study on the reading habits around corporate blogs. Of course, I find this of immense interest both as the blog editor of a Top 10 corporate blog (LinkedIn), but more so since I publish rankings for the Top 10 corporate blogs out there. I found this a perfect opportunity to re-rank the top business blogs out there and study their front page structure. More on the front page structure of the Top 5 Corporate blogs (ranked August 2010), after this confusing graphic. Confusing Jakob Nielsen graphic comparing full articles vs. summaries Before I continue, here were the results of the eye tracking study: “Showing summaries of many articles is more likely to draw in users than providing full articles, which can quickly exhaust reader interest.” 1. Google Blog's front page design 2. Facebook's newly redesigned corporate blog front page 3. Newly redesigned Twitter business blog front page 4. 5. Old school Yahoo!
Getting to QED, Part 1: Informal logic and online argumentation Introduction For regulars at Ars Technica, the forums are as much a part of the site's identity as the articles. And where there are forums, there are flame wars. The BattleFront is infamous for its contentious threads, but arguments arise just as easily in The Observatory. What are we to do when when people disagree with one another? In some cases, there is a way to tell good arguments from bad using what is called informal logic. For all the differences, there are some core elements upon which everyone agrees. The fallacy fallacy A common approach to studying informal logic is to start with logical fallacies. However, fallacies are not necessarily the best place to start learning informal logic. An example of this problem is the ad hominem fallacy. Note that we have not completely let Ben off the hook here; this is probably a fallacy, but not certainly. If a forum poster wants to argue that Ben is not a credible authority, then Ben's platform biases are relevant.
www.physicsmynd.com Intel Corporation Behind Intel’s Poor Quarterly Numbers in Mobile Many companies entering new markets don't show profit, but their revenue growth looks impressive on a percentage basis. Not so with Intel's business of selling chips for smartphones and tablets... Identifying security innovation strategies Tom Quillin is the Director of Cyber Security Technology and Initiatives at Intel Corporation. Intel: The Final Push Before Earnings Earnings season is about to really pick up, especially in the technology sector. Follow Up On Intel: Is The 'Bad News Still Good'? Nearly three months ago with the price at $25.60 a share, I suggested holders of Intel Corporation (INTC) hold onto their shares: ...yes, for a day or two after this or that piece of bad news, you see weakness in the shares. Has Intel Smelled the Coffee? Is it back to bananas and coffee for Costa Rica? Intel (INTC) Upgraded To 'Outperform' At Pacific Crest Intel Powers Up Multi-OS Smartphone Revolution Intel: Always Read Between The Lines