TED embraces social translation
My friends at TED have launched an exciting new project today, the TED Open Translation Project. It’s a powerful system to allow the “social translation”… Read More »TED embraces social translation
Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
Hans Rosling, the brilliant Swedish statistician and doctor, has been on a tear lately, publishing a lovely series of short videos on Gapminder.org. The videos… Read More »Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
Twitter and social graph analysis
One of the best things about being an academic (or even, like me, a psuedo-academic) is how easy it’s become to collaborate with people you… Read More »Twitter and social graph analysis
Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine
Monday night, Rachel and I went to our local movie theatre to watch “Slingshot Hip-Hop“, a documentary on Palestinian hiphop by Palestinian/Syrian/American filmmaker Jackie Reem… Read More »Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine
Twitter – trends and incidence
This past weekend, I wrote a quick tool that estimates the incidence of certain words within the twitter stream using just a single search, not… Read More »Twitter – trends and incidence
Flu infects Twitter
Two weekends ago, I wrote a couple of scripts designed to let me (and anyone else who was interested) study the emergence of memes on… Read More »Flu infects Twitter