The Organization System of the new Feedly
Tue, 2012-09-11 00:14 — kohtaI've tried many news feed applications in the past years, but I usually stick with Google Reader for the convenience and consistency, since I use Google everything. But I heard some whispers about the app Feedly, and I saw this Lifehacker post about its recent upgrade, so I decided to check it out and analyze the way it organizes its news articles.
Personal Information on Spokeo
Mon, 2012-09-10 22:07 — syh
As people become more active on social networking sites, social aggregator services which collect information become more powerful. Spread across different sites, a user can and may feel safe sharing certain parts of her life, such as a phone number, email address, or current location, but when collected into one central spot, the level of detail and amount of information available is almost frightening.
Bringing big data to climate research
Mon, 2012-09-10 22:04 — shaohanEconomics as an organizing system: The rise and fall of Bitcoin
Mon, 2012-09-10 18:09 — krushtonThe majority of the organizing systems we’ve seen so far have focused on organizing “things”, whether they are physical objects (a book), digital surrogates for those objects (an item in a library catalog), or digital resources that do not have any parallel in the physical world (an eBook).
American Radio Archives and Museum
Sun, 2012-09-09 15:51 — jlzychAs explained in this article from my hometown newspaper, the American Radio Archives and Museum is a "a still-growing collection [of radio broadcasts] that began in 1984 and now boasts some 30,000 audio recordings, 40,000 scripts and 150,000 photographs." It's especially focused on the "Golden Age" of radio from the 30s and 40s, before television became dominant, and is "one of the largest radio broadcasting collections in the world."
Select Restaurants Are Now Archiving Your Dining Habits (Yes, Really.)
Wed, 2012-09-05 18:13 — capetrozThere's lots of organization principles implemented in restaurants. From the table layout to the menu to the staff, a restaurant can be viewed as an organizing system with many different resources depending on the perspective. But organizing patrons' tastes, tics, habits and foibles? There's that, too. (Didn't you know?)
Chemists Outrun Laws in War on Synthetic Drugs
Tue, 2012-09-04 18:06 — fchasenTo combat new drugs, such as “Bath Salts”, specific new laws are being passed that contain catalogs of molecular compounds that are now banned in the US. As soon as a new law is passed, chemist are able to change the compounds to be a different on a molecular level, but still have the same psychopharmaceutical role. The assumption is that this new compound will eventually get added to the banned list, however the scope of these derivative compounds are huge, from the hundreds to the thousands depending on the compound.
Learning from Data
Tue, 2012-09-04 07:42 — sisi.the.shan
