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Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults
The coMscore press release on Facebook’s massive growth in use among non-college age users.
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Faceted Folksonomy | davidsturtz.com
via johnfudrow — Post on Faceted Folksonomy. This is one of my favorite topics as of late. Expect to hear a lot about this in the near future. Basically it is a concept for collecting richer user contributed metadata.
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InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Social Tagging
More on faceted tagging.
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From the ASIST Bulletin, this article appears to describe the need for faceted tagging and how FaceTag is attacking the problem.
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FaceTag: Integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system
“FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of user-generated tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classi
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via John Furdrow — Seems more general than the same author’s works on faceted tagging, but seems like it would be a helpful into to his line of thinking.
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citation-formats – Microformats
“This page will display several different types of citation format types.” In depth comparison of Dublin Core, MODS, bibTeX and Z39.80
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tiara.org » Online Identity Bibliography
“A collection of academic papers and books about identity online and online identity.”
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tiara.org » status in social media
“I finally got a glimmer of a dissertation idea today: status in social media.” – Includes a nice discussion of status in Web 2.0 geek culture.
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The Real Paul Jones » Blog Archive » OCLC NextSpace virtual roundtable – Q1
Paul is blogging his answers to the questions being given to panel participants. The topic of the virtual roundtable is online communities. Other panel members include Fred Stutzman, Lori Bell, and Ed Castronova.
Tag: psychology
The power of images
I originally created the Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model for a presentation because I was having trouble expressing the idea verbally. I hadn’t completely understood the explanatory power of diagrams until the great response I received both from my class and now here on the web. I am glad I took Systems Analysis. I got a solid background in how to display ideas through diagrams. They are definitely a great way to translate concepts between groups. I just noticed another post focusing on how the model can be used for explaining the concept.
I have found that the visual image of Web 2.0 – the extended mindcloud – has been a great visual starter at sessions I have run. ‘Participation’ and ‘Remix’ provide two good concepts to open up the discussion with people, before actually going into showing and discussing social software. I am also adding Michael’s Academic 2.0 concept model to my discussion pool.
A study on the effect of provoking images on information processing
I found this interesting when I first noticed it. It is similar to many of the studies I am reading for the psychology of HCI seminar I am taking this semester.
“Violent or erotic images cause momentary periods of emotion-induced blindness”
By Melanie Moran
Published: August 11, 2005If your partner seems to be ignoring you after a flash of nudity on the television screen, it might not be his or her fault: A new psychological study finds that when people are shown violent or erotic images they frequently fail to process what they see immediately afterwards.