i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEt0kkv6eM

100MB was a big deal in 1998.  

For a better look, visit: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009/05/11/hierarchy-of-beards/beardarchy...

I came across the following video: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/64111786/

This is 40-minute video exploring the history of Google and the company's current endeavors.  The video follows the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, from their first meeting at Stanford to the new media-company that collides with old media businesses of newspaper, books, movies and television.

According to a recent interview, Aphex Twin revealed he has 6 albums completed. To quote the man himself:

I've got six completed. Two are very non-commercial, abstract, modular-synthesis, field recordings-- those I finished four years ago. Another one isMelodies From Mars, which I redid about three years ago. There's one of stuff I won't go into, a comp of old tracks which is never really finished and always changing, and then one I'm working on now. There are also loads of tracks which don't belong anywhere.

This is an interesting example of how people value and commoditize identifiers on the Internet in response to changes in the political and cultural landscape: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/us/28pot.html?ref=technology.

 In Search Of India's Red-Tape Factory  (It's worth listening to the audio of this story for the ambient sound alone. )

Today when Bob was talking about PIM and the game of catch metaphor, I was reminded of FutureMe.org.  You can write yourself an e-mail on the site, and it will be delivered to 'future you' at some future date. You can choose a year up until 2060. I wonder if it is less likely that I'll be alive in 2060 or that FurtureMe.org will still exist. Maybe we won't even have e-mail anymore. 

London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) is renovating its technology infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of digital storage. 

This morning I was doing research for a friend.  Found a useful piece of info embedded in the webpage.

I copied from the webpage and then pasted into the chat window in gmail.

What got pasted is shown below.  Notice the "Read more,"  somewhere along the chain the browser and gmail working in nice harmony decided I wanted to share data about my data.  Which frankly though I did not ask for explicitly with my keyboard commands, in the end I am glad they enhanced by data in such a way.

Did this only work because I was running gmail within chrome? 

any hackers want to write a program that takes the corpus of student notes and crafts narrative responses to the question prompts.  the program can be run on the day of the test locally without any need to access internet (per regulations) perhaps employing some of the data mining techniques in from "knowledge to babel" comments encouraged.

Those of you who're interested in dashboards and how visualize complex information, might want to check out a source called Perceptual Edge. One of the partners of the company, Stephen Few, has done a lot of work studying the best ways to communicate complex business information in limited space. He was a guest lecturer in the InfoViz class last semester and provided a lot of good examples of well-designed dashboards. I believe he is also a lecturer at Haas, so he cares both about the business value of those dashboards and about their usability.

I'd like to take natural languages as an example for an interesting question I'm thinking about and use this to analyze implications for Controlled Vocabularies.

This post partially refers to a previous blog post (courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i202/f10/blog/cultural-categorization) where the topic of cultural categorization using Russian imagery expressions as an example has been analyzed.