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Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views

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  • "Managing the Exaflood"
  • researchers presented ideas for getting a handle on all this data -- an exabyte is one billion billion bytes -- and using it productively.
  • visualization is one way to work with them.
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  • Google, a major source of information overload, can also help manage it,
  • These strategies present challenges for accurately tagging data and archiving it, the presenters warned.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 25 Feb 10
     
    navigating chaos ~ Chronicle article in Wired Campus
Vanessa Vaile

For All Its Flaws, Wikipedia is the Way Information Works Now - 0 views

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  • Wikipedia, which turns 10 years old this weekend, has taken a lot of heat over the years.
  • But as a Pew Research report released today confirms, Wikipedia has become a crucial aspect of our online lives, and in many ways it has shown us — for better or worse — what all information online is in the process of becoming: social, distributed, interactive and (at times) chaotic.
  • 53 percent of American Internet users said they regularly look for information on Wikipedia, up from 36 percent of the same group the first time the research center asked the question in February of 2007
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  • more popular than sending instant messages
  • only a little less popular than using social networking services
  • powerhouse of “crowdsourcing,” before most people had even heard that word
  • With Twitter, we are starting to see how a Wikipedia-like approach to information scales even further.
  • Along the way, there are errors and all kinds of other noise — but over time, it produces a very real and human view of the news.
Vanessa Vaile

Too Busy to Read This? Save it for Later with ReadItLater's Newest Service - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 26 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Unfortunately, the ability to quickly tap a button to add something to your reading list was so easy - perhaps too easy - that users ended up with long, unwieldy lists of saved content. Now ReadItLater is introducing a new Digest feature which helps you get caught up by automatically sorting and organizing articles for you.
  • Digest: Imposing Order on the Chaos of Unread Items
  • "Read It Later with a brain."
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  • filtering and organization is performed automatically
  • Articles you saved about the latest gadgets would end up in one section, for example, and those about politics would end up in another
  • Vanessa Vaile on 26 Feb 10
     
    This one's for Nina
  • Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on 26 Feb 10
     
    I could do with sth like this too!
Vanessa Vaile

All too much | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 16 Jan 11 - Cached
  • QUANTIFYING the amount of information that exists in the world is hard. What is clear is that there is an awful lot of it, and it is growing at a terrific rate (a compound annual 60%) that is speeding up all the time.
  • data from sensors, computers, research labs, cameras, phones and the like surpassed the capacity of storage technologies in 2007. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, generate 40 terabytes every second—orders of magnitude more than can be stored or analysed.
  • scientists collect what they can and let the rest dissipate into the ether.
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  • What about the information that is actually consumed?
  • households were bombarded with 3.6 zettabytes of information (or 34 gigabytes per person per day)
  • In terms of bytes, written words are insignificant
  • half of all bytes are received interactively
  • “information created by machines and used by other machines will probably grow faster than anything else,”
  • ‘database to database’ information
  • “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information,” quipped Oscar Wilde in 1894.
  • Only 5% of the information that is created is “structured”, meaning it comes in a standard format of words or numbers that can be read by computers.
  • changing as content on the web is increasingly “tagged”, and facial-recognition and voice-recognition software can identify people and words in digital files.
Vanessa Vaile

4 principles of using digital tools in humanities research | nicomachus.net - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 01 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • what is needed is something more closely approximating fluency in another language: the language of digital environments.
  • ess useful to know one program very well and more useful to achieve a level of comfort navigating digital tools for oneself.
  • 1. Think of your computer less as the place where all your data lives and more as the thing that gives you access to your data.
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  • one program: Evernote
  • Off-site storage is more secure in the long run,
  • you need a backup routine
  • online access to your backed-up files means you have nearly universal access to your work.
  • 2. Let your computer (do some of the) work for you; metadata is your friend.
  • Tag everything.
  • hink of tags less as categories or folders and more as the code words in your own personal index.
  • Documents, images, pdfs, articles, notes can all have as many tags as you want. And items in separate folders can be tagged with the same word or phrase.
  • Use tags to describe an article in a way the author might not.
  • Clip articles to read later using Evernote;
  • install the Evernote clip tools {Chrome and Firefox extensions}
  • Use EndNote or Zotero to quickly grab citation information
  • 3. Learn to search, not just organize.
  • Evernote and Google Docs perform OCR by default
  • , which yields searchable text from what was just an image file. 
  • at some point, you forget what you have written or what notes you have taken
  • Evernote is essentially an easy-to-use personal database,
  • 4. Let these techniques and habits help you find patterns that you would not otherwise see.
Vanessa Vaile

Too Many Social Networks … Too Little Time | Thoughtpick Blog - 0 views

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  • There are just way too many networks to keep up with and just not enough time to follow all those conversations that are going on all of them.
  • Gizapage: Social Media Hub
  • simplifies the way people can keep up with each othe
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  • . It provides you with a one-stop shop for all your social networking profile
  • FriendFeed
  • Power.com: all your friends in just one place
  • Power.com tries to do for social media what Meebo has done to IM’s; basically blurring the boundaries that separate one network from the other and allowing to use them all from one interface and exchange information and images from any of them and to all of them.
  • ultimate interoperability
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Artifacts of sensemaking | Learning and Knowledge Analytics - 2 views

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  • sensemaking attempts include: blog posts, summary Moodle forum posts, images, analysis of discussion forum activity, social network analysis, etc.
  • Creating and sharing artifacts of sensemaking is an important activity in open online courses.
  • filtering (or forming sub-networks/groups/discussion clusters) happens once the course is underway
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  • learners are a diverse group
  • uniformity of university program tracks masks the differences of learners.
  • In an open course, participants aren’t filtered in the same way.
  • Higher education generally homogenizes learners through pre-requisites or subject streams (programs).
  • we begin to connect with those who respond favorably, we gravitate toward those who we find interesting (but not so interesting that we feel no connection),
  • One of the primary ways of connecting with others in an open course is through creating and sharing artifacts of sensemaking.
  • When our learning is transparent, we become teachers.
  • Essentially, we form small sub-networks that connect (lattice-like) to other sub-networks
  • fluidity of interaction across novice-intermediate-expert networks is one of the main points of value in open courses.
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