Monthly Archives: September 2011
Interesting talk about “Filter Bubbles”
A few days ago I stumbled over an interesting TED talk by Eli Pariser about the ever increasing personalization of the web, its search results, your facebook news feed, … Do you think that you still see the whole picture … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook, filter bubbles, google, information filtering, personalization, presentation, talk, ted talk, video
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Mac OS X Harddisk high Load Cycle Counts
Mac OS X’s default power management settings might wear your hard drive down unnecessarily. This post provides a lot of background information and how to change these settings. Continue reading
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Tagged 193, apm, clicking, hard disk, hard drive, hd, hdd, hdparm, hitachi, load cycle count, mac, mac book pro, mac os x, mbp, setup, smart, wear down
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Live mapping of tweets, facebook msgs, emails, sms…
Reading the Wikimedia blog I stumbled over this interesting post. They mention a framework called Ushahidi (Swahili word for “testimony’) with its subproject SwitfRiver which can be used to track and verify the reliability of news concerning current trending topics, … Continue reading
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Tagged analyzing, disaster, facebook, framework, live, management, mapping, maps, mashup, news, trends, tweets, twitter, visualization
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