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Facts and friction

Last weekend we all had a good chuckle when we saw that WolframAlpha knows — or anyway claims to know — the airspeed of an unladen swallow. But the more telling example, for me, was one that Stephen Wolfram showed in a post-demo discussion:Suppose you want to know the distance to Pluto. We don’t just look it up. We answer the question: “What is the... (317 天前)

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Competing for the creative class, revisited

In the current build of elmcity.cloudapp.net, the statistics page for each instance of the calendar aggregator reports a line like this one for Providence, RI:All events 910, population 48779, events/person 0.02I’m not exactly sure where this might lead, but I’m thinking that it could evolve into a population-independent metric of what Richard Flori... (317 天前)

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A conversation with Andrew Rasiej about activating s

My guest for this week’s Innovators show is Andrew Rasiej. The show is a perfect example of what I envisioned a few years ago when I began looking for ways to mash up ITConversations with Social Innovation Conversations. Andrew is a social entrepreneur whose projects all, in one way or another, adapt technology to social need.In this conversation we f... (317 天前)

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An assistive technology success story: The Humanware

As my mom wrestles with the difficult combination of hearing loss and vision loss, I’ve grown more aware of the strengths and weaknesses of various assistive technologies. Many are disappointing, but the Humanware magnifier is working well for her.It’s basically a digital camera that projects onto a flatscreen monitor. You position your book or magaz... (317 天前)

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A conversation with Phil Windley about contextualize

This week’s Innovators show has the lowdown on Phil Windley’s new company, Kynetx. The first application of the Kynetx technology is Azigo’s RemindMe service. It alters search-results pages to highlight cases where the user has — but would likely have forgotten about — a discount-qualifying membership.There are a number of moving parts in this sce... (317 天前)

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A new answer to an old question

Last week I started inviting calendar curators to join the elmcity+azure project. The age-old question immediately arose: How to communicate and collaborate? An email distribution list? A web forum? A blog? A wiki?Been there, done that. Times are changing, and it felt like there ought to be a new answer to that old question.Here’s the answer I came u... (317 天前)

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A conversation with Andrew Turner about data and des

I really chatting last week with Andrew Turner on my Innovators show. Andrew is the driving force behind GeoCommons, a new service that brings social curation and visualization to the realm of geographic information and cartography.A lot of our discussion wasn’t specific to geographic data. Issues of provenance, data tethering, syndication, and interp... (317 天前)

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