i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Anyone ever had experience organizing information into the synthesized format of a wikipedia article?

 you can get a lot of people to agree on a few things, and a few people to agree on a lot of things.  but you can't get a lot of people to agree on a lot of things.    

Since 1993, artist Nina Katchadourian has been sifting through library collections and remixing their holdings in a delightfully unconventional way. I was going through her ongoing Sorted Books project that constructs irreverent, humorous and witty sentences by arranging a stack of books so that their titles can be read from top to bottom or left to right.

Did you enjoy working with the text tools?

Do you know read-it-later applications? If you don’t, you have to try it. With it, “One reading list, everywhere you are” (from Read it Later). Read It Later and Instapaper are the most used applications. They

There are many reasons to use them.

Considering the important role of IO and IR in any markets and consequently in the green and sustainability market, one might ask: How effective is searching for green products, services, professionals, or businesses?

 The sudden increase in Image proliferation while exciting comes with a lot of obvious problems. As mentioned in the previous blog and comments, New Mobile Photo Sharing Applications Flood the Market, how will we efficiently search for specific parts of an image, different versions of the same image and digitally altered images when there are just so many available everywhere.

According to the New York Times, Silicon Valley is seeing a surge in new companies that focus on mobile photo sharing applications. Unlike many established competitors in the field, the new companies are developing mobile apps as a first priority and focusing less on the traditional web incarnation of their products. The photo apps vary in the features they offer, but often mimic the structure of existing social media applications.

Apparently, this is an individual classification system in a fun way. (Taken from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mootaz/ftp/html/research.html.)

This is a view of computer science research. Sarcasm abounds. This is supposed to be funny, but it can offend people. Don't read if you are easily offended, and don't get angry if your most favorite research topic is not presented appropriately. If your most favorite pet is not here, please let me know.

A nice list of the longest German words. However, it is important to note that German is not as awkward as it seems to be. This is clearly an artifact of German bureaucracy.

http://german.about.com/library/blwort_long.htm

Btw: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz means "beef labeling regulation & delegation of supervision law"