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Roger Chen

2collab Survey Reveals that Scientists and Researchers are "All Business" with Social A... - 0 views

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academia social network web2.0

shared by Roger Chen on 27 Jun 08 - Cached
  • scientists are using blogs, wikis, and social networking and bookmarking applications primarily for professional reasons. Results show that these social media applications have provided scientists and researchers with additional resources to help them collaborate, connect, share and discover information.
  • Over 50% of respondents see web-based social applications playing a key role in shaping the future of research. The largest influence will be on critical analysis and evaluation of research data, professional networking and collaboration, dissemination of research output, career development, as well as grant application and funding.
  • Comments from survey respondents identified several issues need to be addressed before mass acceptance by the research community is possible – namely the need for specialist tools, higher security, and validation of users. However, these concerns were not seen as insurmountable obstacles, and many anticipated tremendous potential for social media.
  • Roger Chen on 27 Jun 08
     
    2collab, the research collaboration platform from Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science, technology and medical (STM) information, announced today the results of a survey, asking researchers about the role of social media in their professional lives. The survey, which yielded over 1,800 responses, revealed that scientists are using blogs, wikis, and social networking and bookmarking applications primarily for professional reasons. Results show that these social media applications have provided scientists and researchers with additional resources to help them collaborate, connect, share and discover information.
Roger Chen

Social Media Research Blog: Some things are just Semi-Social - 0 views

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social media

shared by Roger Chen on 21 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Social Media is a lot about sharing.
  • As we start to experiment with social software we realize that sharing is good and soon become open to sharing a lot more. There are some things though, that just seem semi-social. What I mean by Semi-Social is roughly "Thing I would not mind sharing with a small group of trusted friends and family members".
Roger Chen

Following Up On The Value of Noise - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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internetwatch reading social media

shared by Roger Chen on 18 Oct 08 - Cached
  • We don't want to argue that noise is always good, it's clearly important to spend some time without it every day.
  • Filtering isn't everything it's cracked up to be, though, and you wouldn't want to live in a fully filtered world all the time. Social media noise is an essential part of learning and living on the web.
  • It's one thing to find something you didn't know you needed right now, it's a whole other skill to be able to recall information that seemed marginally useful at best in the past at a time in the future when the need for it arises. Who can't remember doing that before? The ability to recall passively collected information that was gathered purposelessly in the past and put it to use in the future is a particularly powerful form of intelligence
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  • Some people call it "serendipity," others call it "passive and opportunistic information acquisition." (Erdelez, see below.) The less limited the boundaries of your scope of view are, the more likely you may be to find things you didn't even think to look for.
  • Some people worry that being exposed to too much information will lead to not remembering very much of it. Scientists say that's not necessarily the case, though.
  • Erdelez argues that when prompted about a particular incident of accidental discovery our memories are better than we might think.
  • Serendipitous search in the offline world is believed to be one of the ways our understanding of the world expands.
  • it's an interesting understanding of the way that swimming through noise helps us become who we are.
    • Roger Chen
      Roger Chen on 18 Oct 08
       
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  • Quiet time, time off-line, deep thoughts and long books are all beautiful things - essential to a healthy intellectual, psychological and social life. We argue, though, that the opposite of all those things - online social media noise, is also a great opportunity that deserves to have its worth recognized at a time in history when many of us are struggling to deal with it.
  • I think what makes noise unbearable is the guilty feeling we have to not read everything. But if we takes some times to dive in the noise, without feeling guilty of what we have missed, it is just a positive habit.
Roger Chen

QWERTY: When is it just too much? - 0 views

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internetwatch social media

shared by Roger Chen on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 22 Apr 08
     
    There seems to be several stages of social media:
Roger Chen

On diminishing network effects in web 2.0, social media and human limitations... - 0 views

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InternetWatch

shared by Roger Chen on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Technology allows us to be “always on”. To be part of a never ending conversation. Simply plug in, anywhere, and you can join in. Friends are spread out across every timezone, so there always are people available to interact with.
  • Any respectable  web 2.0 service is based upon the premise that we all want to share anything with the rest of the world.
  • I can’t predict the future, but I find it useful to think in extremes and see if it can help me get a better understanding of the present.
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  • We end up listening and engaging with a much smaller fraction of the group of followers.
  • We end up spending our online time more consciously.
  • I believe that there is a limit to the quality effects of the network.
  • Our human limitations force us to focus on value, on those things that really matter.
Roger Chen

SocialMedia to unveil 'friendship ranks' | Tech news blog - CNET News.com - 0 views

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internetwatch social media

shared by Roger Chen on 24 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Goldstein is expected to announce "social banners," or display ads that turn you or your friends into the hook of a marketing message. In tandem, SocialMedia will announce that it's developed a patent-pending algorithm called FriendRank to power those social banners. It's like Google's PageRank, but instead of ranking pages for their popularity, it ranks friendships.
Roger Chen

Our need for real-time information consumption is pointless « Alexander van E... - 0 views

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InternetWatch web2.0

shared by Roger Chen on 14 Jan 09 - Cached
  • We write blogs, create news, produce content, act as journalists, and there are plenty of platforms that allow us to spread our message
  • We are eager to share personal information, wishes, needs, thoughts, ideas, emotions, friends, locations. To find information we use Google, news sites, rss feeds, aggregators, aggregators that aggregate aggregators, news feeds, tweets, social networks.
  • There are no short cuts to knowledge, no matter how much processing power and storage capacity we throw at it.
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  • As transaction costs to produce, distribute and consume information drop to zero the question arises if the information value itself drops to zero too?
  • If I ask you to remember the last conversation you had that made you laugh or cry, chances are pretty high that this conversation was a real-life one, not an online one.
  • It is for that reason I tend to be rather skeptical of our current online efforts to get information to us via search, sites, aggregators, rss, social networks, soon all in in real-time.
Roger Chen

» 互联网媒体只会更精英化 ⊙ 一言谈| New Media Observe - 0 views

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internetwatch social media

shared by Roger Chen on 15 May 08 - Cached
  • Roger Chen on 15 May 08
     
    事实上，互联网媒体正在越来越精英化。从最早依靠转载起家，到过去的互联网媒体的初阶段原创化，紧接着的是现在，互联网媒体的细化竞争，也就是分领域专业化，结果是什么呢？
Roger Chen

Using Aardvark - Duke Listens! - 0 views

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recommender social media

shared by Roger Chen on 25 Apr 08 - Cached
  • For one thing, we are using content analysis, classification and autotagging to help identify relevant content. We use incoming links and attention to determine how much authority a particular entry has on a topic.
    • Roger Chen
      Roger Chen on 25 Apr 08
       
      Attention? How to find and measure the attention?
  • Roger Chen on 25 Apr 08
     
    Project Aura - a blog recommender.
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