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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Pete Warden has managed to gather a lot of data from public Facebook profiles and this has been making the rounds of the blogosphere, especially since he is generously going to make the data available to researchers.
Sarah and I had a lengthy discussion about his data collection methods because we were trying to figure out […]
Farmville and diabetes
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Quite recently, André was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This has had a major impact on our lives. André spends his time reading food labels in search of information on total carbohydrates and he is much more careful about what he eats and drinks (I’ve never seen him eat so much salad). Meanwhile, I spend […]
Disability and iPhone apps
Friday, December 11th, 2009I really hate it when we go into a restaurant and, after we’ve gotten settled in, I discover that I am going to need to negotiate stairs if I want to go to the restroom. Stairs are my nemesis at the moment and I would really like to know, before we go somewhere, that I […]
ResearchScoreCard
Thursday, December 10th, 2009I was looking for research papers on expertise and I just stumbled upon this interesting-looking website: ResearchScoreCard: Welcome to the Collaboratorium. It says on the main page: “ResearchScorecard is a tool for finding and evaluating biomedical scientists. Our goal: helping you find collaborators the way science is done — rationally.” I like […]
Visualization showing social websites and their popularity
Monday, December 7th, 2009Over at Focus, they’ve got a visualization of various social networking websites, when they came into being, and how popular they are. At first, I was a bit confused by the way they displayed the data until I realized that they were showing how popular the sites are at the present moment combined with when […]
Online Fandom
Monday, October 26th, 2009One of the people I follow in Twitter (I can’t find who at the moment so they shall remain anonymous for now) pointed to an interesting article at Online Fandom about a recent addition to Facebook which now tries to suggest we interact more often with our Facebook friends. Nancy Baym explains that Facebook has […]
A veritable treasure trove of papers
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009This is useful: danah boyd has a page full of references on research concerning social network sites and another page full of references on research concerning Twitter and micro-blogging. The social network sites list is based on her and Ellison’s 2007 paper on SNSes.
I will have to go through those and see if there’s anything […]
