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Re: Google Buzz+Reader+Twitter+Facebook = Noise

Just wanted to say that I love your approach to social media.
I'm not fundamentally opposed to the idea of "aggregation" of different streams, because I think there's value in being able "the whole" of someone's activity. Seeing someone's tweets, flickr images, blog posts, etc all in one timeline... more »

Terrier IR Platform

Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities, and provides an ideal platform for the rapid development and evaluation of... more »

Tags: opensource, searching, software

The Spread of Goodness : The Frontal Cortex

Christakis and Fowler demonstrate that, when one of the students gave money to help someone else - they were cooperating - the recipients of that cash then became more likely to give their own money away in the next round. (Every unit of money shared in round 1 led to an extra 0.19 units being... more »

Tags: lehrer, fowler, christakis, blogpost, 2010

The trouble with trusting complex science | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

sufficiently advanced expertise is indistinguishable from gobbledegook. Scientific specialisation is now so extreme that even people studying neighbouring subjects within the same discipline can no longer understand each other. The detail of modern science is incomprehensible to almost everyone... more »

Tags: climatechange, guardian, monbiot, psychology, denialism, denial, op-ed, 2010