This is an art installation from 1980 of a large video chat between people in LA and New York. It deals with time and space. It is really interesting to see peoples reactions to this new form of communication.

Overview web application, visual document mining

This is the best voice recognition software out there. You can train it to recognize your voice and it is incredibly accurate. I have written papers using it. The student version is around $100. The challenge with it is it is only going to be really accurate with your voice so you would have to listen and restate what you are hearing for the program to really recognize it well.

It works fine for accents. You practice reading a set script to tune the program to your voice.

Interesting piece on the significance of different social apps.

Definitely a must view. It is an amazing piece of work."Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country's genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus."

An interesting look at Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn considering where these each will be 5 years from now and 10 years from now.

"The computer science research community is going full speed ahead developing exciting new algorithms, but it seems a bit disconnected from what it takes to get their work used."

I thought this article is interesting, basically you need to understand more than just computer science to develop a program that is usable to a particular group.