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Animation of the Tsunami Across the Pacific After the Chilean Earthquake

24 August 2010
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The earthquake in Chili on February 27th, 2010, caused massive damage within the country, but also generated a massive tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Tsunami Research created the animation below of the tsunami as it traveled across the Pacific.
With regards to the saying that a [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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Is the Internet Remaking Us? Part II

29 June 2010
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Does the Internet make us smarter or dumber?
@smalljones dug up the following news articles in response to a discussion on this topic that will be held in our department this Friday afternoon. It is pure coincidence that the topic of the discussion is whether or not the Internet is remaking us — a topic [...]

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Is the Internet Remaking Us?

29 June 2010
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“We wonder, as the sum of all our knowledge and memories is uploaded, converted into bits, tagged and indexed, are we sacrificing what makes us human? Or evolving what it means to be human?” Jordan Clarke asks in his animation below, entitled Internet. The tagline for the animation is that it is “a visual metaphor [...]

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The Multiple Aspects of Data Science

21 June 2010
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Earlier this month, Nathan Yau at FlowingData posted Mike Loukides‘ analysis of data science from O’Reilly Radar. I finally found some time to read it.
I really enjoyed the post. The author entitled it, “What is data science?“, and covered the various aspects of the newbie field, primarily from a commercial point of view. He examined: [...]

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Multitaskers Still Unable to Multitask Well

21 June 2010
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Matt Richtel at The New York Times wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago called, “Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price“. He profiled the Campbell family, who live outside of San Francisco, to demonstrate the toll the constant barrage of data via smartphones, computers, and the iPad, takes on both individuals and [...]

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The State of the Internet

2 March 2010
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The creative agency Jess3 created this video on “The State of the Internet” for AIGA Baltimore. It reminds me of the video, “Is Information Management Hype?“, in that the authors of the video throw a lot of facts and figures at the viewer.
I found it interesting that there are 247 billion emails sent every [...]

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Is “Information Management” Hype?

29 January 2010
Is Information Management Hype?

I enjoyed watching this video from 2008. It begins with a variety of quotes and mis-quotes by technology experts beginning in 1899, using an early 1900s moving pictures style of graphics. The author then uses images of streams of data and a catchy Elvis song to throw (unsourced) facts and figures out about data use, [...]

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Is Web 3.0 About Taming the Deluge of Data?

26 January 2010
Is Web 3.0 About Taming the Data Deluge, or About Gimmicks?

The Social Path has an interesting post about how Web 3.0 is about “taming the deluge of data”. The author(s) wrote the post based on a presentation the author(s) had seen recently by Andrew Keen.
The author(s) write that three trends are defining “3.0″:

Aggregators: one point of entry to multiple social network sites;
Simple Sharing: easy [...]

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The Digital Dilemma

25 January 2010
The Digital Dilemma | Science and Technology Council | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

In the fall of 2007, the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) released a report entitled, “The Digital Dilemma“. In a nutshell, the Council tackled the topic of archiving digital movies. They examined how this could be done, what the costs would be, and how these methods [...]

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