Wikipedia – TimBatchelder

Building meta data, semantic web and a wiki for relevancy

December 1, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy
Jim Benedetto, gigaom.com

Everyone is always asking me how big our ontology is. How many nodes are in your ontology? How many edges do you have? Or the most common — how many terabytes of data do you have in your ontology?

We live in a world where over a decade of…

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Furthering the Semantic Web with a Wikipedia of Relevancy (semanticweb.com)
100 most popular Computer Science talks in 2013 (videolectures.net)
Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Dandlion’s New Bloom: A Family Of Semantic Text Analysis APIs (semanticweb.com)

Google knowledge graph on drugs

December 13, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs
by Casey Newton, cnet.com

Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine.

Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search…

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Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)
LoveFlutter Finds Your Match Using Google’s Knowledge Graph (mashable.com)
Google Harnesses Knowledge Graph, Facial Recognition to Give Movie Insight (mashable.com)
Your Brand Needs a Google Knowledge Graph. Here’s How to Get It. (lorirtaylor.com)

Quotes from Steve Jobs

November 12, 2012April 7, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day
Zoe B, lifehack.org

Steve Jobs was not just a visionary genius, but a man with an incredible passion for innovation, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his reflection in the mirror each mornin…

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Trailer for iSteve Starring Justin Long as Steve Jobs (shoppingblog.com)
A New And Incredibly Fitting Memorial For Steve Jobs (macgasm.net)
Steve Jobs Created Next Two iPhones Before Passing Away (newsy.com)

Ultraviolet photography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

November 12, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Systems Science

UV Designer Rolf Bender (Photo credit: Beo Beyond)

Ultraviolet photography – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sebastian Junger: people’s hunger for simplicity and experience

May 15, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Regenerative Economy

English: Tim Hetherington at a Hudson Union So... — English: Tim Hetherington at a Hudson Union Society event with Sebastian Junger, co-director of the Oscar-nominated, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary, Restrepo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sebastian Junger – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Very interesting author who is trained as an anthropologist and has a theory that people’s lives are too complex and thus they crave the simplicity of natural disasters and tragic events such as war which creats bonds and a sense of grounding.

Sebastian Junger launches medical training program for freelance journalists in war zones (nextlevelofnews.com)
On the front line: a documentary tribute to Tim Hetherington (guardian.co.uk)
‘Restrepo’ director has sorrowful Sundance return (miamiherald.com)
The life and death of Tim Hetherington (bbc.co.uk)
‘Restrepo’ director has sorrowful Sundance return (denverpost.com)
Sale of Sebastian Junger’s Hell’s Kitchen Condo Stirs Up The Perfect Storm (observer.com)
Honda: “No Currency Advantage” On Weak Yen, Responds to Domestic Lobby (rumors.automobilemag.com)

Mac OSX Spotlight as a file management tool

March 23, 2011August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Apple OS X Mountain Lion (Photo credit: Kansir)

Spotlight (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

a great search tool. The new emphasis on text mining of unstructured files means you can just put all your files into one large folder and then with good tagging and search find them more quickly than if they are meticulously categorized

Text Analysis and Text Mining Are Powerful Tools (arnoldit.com)
SemanticWeb.com “Innovation Spotlight” Interview with Elliot Turner, CEO of AlchemyAPI. (semanticweb.com)
Introducing SemanticWeb.com “Innovation Spotlight” Series with Pingar (semanticweb.com)
Editors’ Choice: Where to start with text mining (digitalhumanitiesnow.org)
Cloud Based Angle for Clinical Trial Text Mining (arnoldit.com)
Mountain Lion’s New File System (informationarchitects.net)
Mac 101: Use Spotlight for quick review of Calendar events (tuaw.com)
Mac OS 10.8.1 Mountain Lion released, fixes issues in Thunderbolt, Exchange, Migration assistant, iMessages and more (9to5mac.com)

Semiotics: the relevance of the social science of signs to modern business

August 23, 2010August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Sustainable Design

Semiotics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

What Do Novelists Know Of Economics? (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com)
Can You Guess Which Neuroses These “Mental Spa Treatments” Cure? (bellasugar.com)
7 Tricks for a Great First Impression (inc.com)
There’s no better master class on the semiotics of getting… (putthison.com)
Structuralism (prmarketingcommunication.com)
What is a ‘code’, and how might it be significant in the analysis of media? (thinkingbookworm.typepad.com)
Semiotics and Formalism (prmarketingcommunication.com)
Semiotics of offensive advertising (adreamerofdreams.wordpress.com)

Trimpin: sound artist, kinetic sculptor and composer

May 9, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Metadata Masterdata

Trimpin Dorkbot tour (Photo credit: ekai)

Trimpin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Trimpin is a Seattle, Washington-based^[1] kinetic sculptor,^[2] sound artist,^[1] musician, and composer. Check him out.

Trimpin’s high-tech whimsy takes over Seattle’s Winston Wächter (seattletimes.com)
Currently Hanging: Trimpin’s Thomas Kinkade Peep Show (slog.thestranger.com)
Kinetic toothpick sculpture of San Francisco (boingboing.net)
My Positive Perspective Hosts Broadcast to Define Goals of Partnership with Kinetic Hifi Radio Station (prweb.com)

Tapping into the Invisible Web

May 9, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Linguistic Search

A majority of the web is a closed network. Good definition:

Invisible Web – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Invisible Web (farisyakob.typepad.com)
Gary Flake Demos Pivot at TED (billives.typepad.com)
Want to Grow Your Business? Get Out and Network! (Part 2) (grasshopper.com)
My Child’s Imaginary Friend – Readers dish on their kids’ invisible playmates (babble.com)
How To Make Your Apps Invisible Without A Jailbreak (appadvice.com)
Latest Human Trial on Zeolite Provides the Answer to the “Invisible Killer” (prweb.com)

Iowa State U: Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

September 7, 2009September 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

HCI Research Poster (Photo credit: Sabrina.Mach)

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) : Home.

Comparison of Internet forum software

August 24, 2009August 24, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Image representing Get Satisfaction as depicte... — Image via CrunchBase

Comparison of Internet forum software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Want Good Feedback? Ask Good Survey Questions (blogs.constantcontact.com)
Zendesk Makes Great Customer Support Easy (rackspace.com)
Salesforce.com announces private customer communities, aims for Social Business leadership (customerthink.com)
The Cloud Is Here With Plenty of Growth Coming [Slides] (blogs.sap.com)
HootSuite, Get Satisfaction Tighten Integration (informationweek.com)
Yammer Seeks to Simplify Enterprise Social Network Usage With Upgrade (pcworld.com)
How do you Get Satisfaction? By joining the TypePad forum! (everything.typepad.com)
Get Satisfaction gets it right (1000flowersbloom.typepad.com)
Human Engineering and Emotional Intelligence for Startups (vccafe.com)

Information theory

August 22, 2009August 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security Privacy

English: ASCII to Binary encoding of the word ... — English: ASCII to Binary encoding of the word “Wikipedia” in SVG Text ;; metadata included in source of svg file. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Information theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

“Information Theory after Shannon” by Neil Savage (abhishekatwp.wordpress.com)
Difference between “information” and “useful information” in algorithmic information theory (cs.stackexchange.com)
Entropy and randomness in communications, a quick introduction (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com)
Information Theory (i-programmer.info)
Source entropy and other questions related to information theory (cs.stackexchange.com)

The Wikipanion Experience

November 12, 2008November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

iPhone Home Screen ca. January 11, 2010 (Photo credit: scottjacksonx)

The Wikipanion Experience.

A time magazine top 10 iphone app

8 Apps Every Writer and Blogger Should Know (mashable.com)
Wikipanion – Robert Chin (itunes.apple.com)
11 Apps Optimized for Your iPhone 5 (iphone.appstorm.net)
7 Awesome Wikipedia Apps for iPad (educatorstechnology.com)
The best apps, communities & tools for writers and journalists (thenextweb.com)

BarCamp: hands on workshops on tech startups

August 28, 2008August 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

English: Logo of BarCamp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

BarCamp – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This is a cool idea: intense workshops on tech topics such as startups, mobile. hands on.

Barcamp and Startup Weekend invades Vietnam this September (e27.sg)
No alcohol at barcamps… (ask.metafilter.com)
Help organize BarCamp Nashville 2012 (davemadethat.com)
Pre BarCamp Scotland. (digitalagency.typepad.com)
Barcamp Omaha 2012 (business.financialpost.com)
BarCamp Charleston: Geoff’s video (xark.typepad.com)
Jumpstart announces BarCamp Zimbabwe 2012 & ZOL Jumpstart Challenge (techzim.co.zw)
Four Takeaways from BarCamp Seattle 2010 (heidi-miller.com)
My Inner Geek: BarCampLA-6 (the17thman.typepad.com)
BarCamp Fairy Tales – Debunking Common Real Estate Marketing Myths (unionstreetmedia.com)

Dunning–Kruger effect: survival of the loudest in corporate America

August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Emile Durkheim (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dunning–Kruger effect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This hilarious piece of social research suggests what I have observed in my own job repeatedly: the most loud, confident people who stand at your desk proclaiming things are often the least knowledgeable but in many cases the ones most likely to be promoted.

Word of the Week: Dunning-Kruger Effect (nancyfriedman.typepad.com)
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Multiplayer Games (psychologytoday.com)
Ignorance Begets Confidence – the Dunning-Kruger Effect (new.exchristian.net)
CRITICAL THINKING: “Ignorance Begets Confidence: The Dunning-Kruger Effect” (alwaysquestionauthority.com)
Dunning-Kruger in Popular Culture (drx.typepad.com)
Why don’t stupid people realize they’re stupid? (businessinsider.com)
Romanian profanity – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (incaunipocrit.wordpress.com)
An Explanation about Science (dalehusband.wordpress.com)
Alan Greenspan on the Dunning – Kruger Effect (ritholtz.com)
Are You Mental? Of Course You Are (smbirdbrain.blogspot.com)

Free Worldwide Travel Guides – Wikitravel

August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design, Systems Science

Wikitravel newlogo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Free Worldwide Travel Guides – Wikitravel.

We’ve seen a ton of travel sites, but for the sheer amount of information, not one touches the user-generated content of Wikitravel. Need to find out how much to tip in Costa Rica, the driving etiquette in Quebec?

Wikipedia Founder to launch travel guide with Wikitravel rebels (telecoupdates.wordpress.com)
Requests for comment/Travel Guide (meta.wikimedia.org)
Wikipedia Travel Site Anticipated (arnoldit.com)
Wikimedia may be launching its own online travel guide (theverge.com)
Wikitravel XML Tree Structure (stackoverflow.com)
Challenges of Merging Communities: The Case of WikiTravel and WikiVoyage (governancexborders.com)
How Can You Find Cheap Summer Vacations Using Social Media? (turbotax.intuit.com)
Wikipedia to debut revolutionary travel site? (news.cnet.com)

Guerrilla News Network

August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy, Sustainable Design

Current GNN logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Guerrilla News Network – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Combine CNN and Wikipedia and you’ve got Guerrilla News Network. It’s an independent news organization that strives to bring global issues to the masses through articles, headlines, videos, and blogs. Articles are completely original, written by GNN users

100 Guerilla Marketing Ideas: Grow Sales With Zero Budget (tweakyourbiz.com)
8 of the Biggest Marketing Faux Pas of All Time (hubspot.com)
Guerilla Gardening: Small West Yorkshire town aims to be first town with food self-sufficiency by growing all its own vegetables (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)

Systems theory: foundations of business analysis

August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

NASA Watching Atlantic Tropics: Katia, Tropica... — NASA Watching Atlantic Tropics: Katia, Tropical Storm Lee and System 94L [detail view] (Photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video)

Systems theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos, along with Information Theory

System Theory (2nd Reference) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com)
System Theory (Referred Article) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com)
Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting” (gilkalai.wordpress.com)
Complexity:: understanding living systems (fitforrandomness.wordpress.com)
Projects are systems (herdingcats.typepad.com)
Entropy and randomness in communications, a quick introduction (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com)
Bertrand Duperrin: Keep IT Simple … (isismjpucher.wordpress.com)
Multiple factors, including climate change, led to collapse and depopulation of ancient Maya (esciencenews.com)
Total Quality Management Strategy (thinkingbookworm.typepad.com)

Cybernetics: foundations of business analysis

August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Cybernetics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

a core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos

Russian media mogul vows to make humans immortal by 2045 (cbc.ca)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (travelsinvirtuality.typepad.com)
American Cyborg Offers Graphic Look at DIY Body Hacking (wired.com)
Psi-punk Cyberware (psi-punk.blogspot.com)
Using Blogs to Create Cybernetic Space (learningwithtechs.wordpress.com)
Using Blogs to Create Cybernetic Space (learningwithtechs.wordpress.com)
How Soon Until We Are All Cyborgs? (bigthink.com)
American Society for Cybernetics 2012 Joint Conference with the Bateson Idea Group in Asilomar, CA (prweb.com)
Human immortality could be possible by 2045, say Russian scientists (refreshingnews99.blogspot.com)
DIY Cybernetics & The Doctor of the Future (thebiopsy.wordpress.com)

Wikidot – Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

August 23, 2007August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Image representing Wikidot as depicted in Crun... — Image via CrunchBase

Wikidot – Free and Pro Wiki Hosting.

Best hosted wiki collaboration tool in rule the web

World Building with a Wiki (thezombiechimp.com)
New Wiki for API Suggestions, Ideas, etc. | Blog (rackspace.com)
Accelerating Individual and Organizational Learning – Case Study from a Rock Band: Part 1 of 2 (vaughanmerlyn.com)
Collaborative Learning in Wikis (researchreportsedu.wordpress.com)
Federated Wiki (mjtsai.com)

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