Grow Your Own Web News Filters

Who knows you better than your LinkedIn and Facebook contacts? Lots of people, actually. But when it comes to news about the industries you work in, intriguing and rapidly spreading links, and updates on the topics you care about, the people in your social networks are constantly finding and linking relevant material for you. Services like Trove, Paper.li, and LinkedIn Today offer to round up the links floating through your personal web for you–but which tipsheet should you invest your time in? [...]

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3ones Uses MindTouch TCS …

It’s true. Read more about it at MindTouch, Inc Blog.

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iMarketers Analytics Event: Insight-based Customer… – Eventbrite

We’d love to se you at this iMarketers event at Anthology. We’re talking RealTime Customer Insights and seeing how Cisco does it. Should learn a lot and you can’t argue with the venue.

iMarketers Analytics Event: Insight-based Customer… – Eventbrite.

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Weekend rollup

Recent posts from 3ones. Enjoy.

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Random, Beautiful, Useful

From the FAQ:        

Anyone who wants to express feedback to any third party submits a claim. Claims can take the form of praise, suggestions or criticism. We process the most compelling claims by turning them into postcards and then figure out the best person to send them to. We post images of what we sent along with the original claim in the gallery.

Here’s the latest “claim” (link) which resulted in a post card to Samsung regarding a faulty flip-phone. Mostly what you’d expect, but a distinguished way to do it.

Claim No.: 040220090130

To:
Samsung

Claim:
I have one of your cellular phones. It’s a flippy model. It does most of what I want it to, I guess. I occasionally send text messages, and there’s one thing that bothers me. I like to use t-9 predictive text. And every time I type the numerical combination 8-6, I obviously mean “to.” Your telephone’s prediction, however, is invariably “um.”

I do not mean “um!” Even if my speech is infected by such verbal effluvia, I have no intention of either wasting two of my precious 160 characters on it or making people notice it.

On the off chance that I did want to convey some sort of indecision and actually write, “um,” I’d much rather click through to it on those occasions than have to click through to “to” every single time.

And I refuse to write “2″ (which takes more keystrokes even than getting to “to”) unless I absolutely need to save a character.

Mailed: 2009-02-27

What was the name of that site back in the day that would prank call someone with a chimp scream? Do you remember that?

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EDU 2.0

Students who only listened to podcasts of lectures achieved substantially higher exam results than those who attended class in person.

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It’s importing to follow this statement with a condition: preliminary findings. It should come as no surprise that kids learn better with computer technology today. I myself find it easier to grok if I’m not bored to tears by a presenter. We can’t all be good presenters of information. And since the university style of education does not emphasis “teaching” over “publishing” it’s clear that kids are the ones to lose in the lecture hall.

It should also come as no surprise that students in Michael Demers’ geography classes at NMSU (my parents’ alma mater – go Aggies!) meet in Second Life for lectures. These are exciting times for education. Experiential learning should notbe  limited to physical education, music, art classes and classes with labs. While geography seems like a no-brainer for getting out of the classroom, simulations could prove academically compelling. Whether or not Second Life is actually being used in that manner on campus yet is unlikely. I think the idea is just to meet students where they like to be met at this point. But nevertheless, I am hopeful for the future. I know I learn better when I process information with all my senses. It only makes sense that pedagogy evolve in this direction. 

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Sterling on Web 2.0

Link: Why Bruce Sterling Hates Web 2.0

Bruce Sterling is always thought-provoking and critical of group-think. And rightly so. While I don’t agree completely with Sterling’s recent laments about Web 2.0, nor do I side with the critics. Regardless, it’s worth some time watching his keynote and being challenged whatever camp you come from. By the very nature of our business, we tend to get stuck thinking and preaching the same old things to the same old people. It’s nice to have an iconoclast out there showing us life through the lens of contrition.

I love this gem:

I imagine myself as a completely senile old man wandering around saying, “Do I need to water this plant? Uhh, where are my keys?” And my plant tells me when to water it, and the house tells me where my keys are and I think, “Gee this isn’t so bad! I’m really happy.”

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The Gort Cloud

A Piece of the Gort Cloud

A Piece of the Gort Cloud

This is brilliant.

Marian found this gem for us last week. The Gort cloud is a play on Oort cloud (the mass of matter at the end of our solar system that affects us gravitationally even though we cannot see it).

Or in Seventh Generation’s words:        

While huge consumer products companies rely on advertising (whatSeth Godin calls “shouting at strangers”), start-up green companies reach out directly to the Gort Cloud, using one-on-one relationships with green academics, NGOs, certifying organizations, news outlets, trendspotters, distributors, and eco-conscious consumers to build their brands. Because everyone is connected by the common goal of sustainability and powered by the currency of transparency, start-up green companies can gain an edge over the titans whose advertising strategies are less effective every year.

I think an oort cloud application needs to be built. Something that maps the literal connections between people and media cross-referenced by industry. Surely such a product would be welcome both for mavens (those we seek out) and the people trying to get their attention.        

For now, here is the link to the book. Greenies unite!

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Technology Commentary of the Illuminatingly Hilarious Kind

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Radio on the TV

Watch this space. Internet-Enabled TV Widgets made a big splash at CES this year. Launches are officially coming this April. It remains to be seen if the Internet-enabled TV-tops will be a viable platform play for developers to invest time into. Unlike the iPhone App marketplace, there’s no clear way to monetize the download or use of your TV-widgets. The big money is on advertising, but it would be nice if the consoritum of those involved would give developers a way of tapping into an inventory of ads waiting for widget-user eyeballs.

The title refers to my desire to have a Last.fm widget on my TV. That way I’m not limited to the lame radio stations that come standard on cable these days. That’s just one way TV Widgets are actually a good idea and justify their own marketplace. I would pay for such a widget. But I would hate for such a widget to have advertising on it.

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