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A collection of ideas, experiments, and observations that don’t fit neatly into a defined category… maybe i’ll sort them one day.

Understanding Your Digital Identity with Personas


PERSONAS – How does the internet see you? (click)

What is Persons

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

How does it work

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

Philosophy

In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer’s uncanny insights and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

credits: Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath.

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Discover Tumblr’s New Tag Channels Feature

staff:

We’re rolling out a big new development today:

Introducing Tag Channels.

Similar to Flickr’s tag pages or Twitter’s hashtags, Tumblr’s Tag Channels aggregate tagged posts from everyone on Tumblr in real time with a few special twists:

  • To deal with the overwhelming volume of content that makes most real-time search incredibly unwieldy, we’ve developed a clustering engine that lets you quickly filter the 650,000 new Tumblr posts created every day, based on likes and reblogs.  You can see a few of the best posts or more unfiltered posts.
  • Our post-filtering is automatically calibrating to apply more or less filtering (by default) based on the level of activity in a channel.
  • Built-in throttling (still being tweaked) prevents monopolization by individual blogs.
  • Tags are normalized, so “Barack Obama” = “barackobama”.
  • We’ve made it super-easy to track tags on your Dashboard.

We’re still right in the middle of development.  A few things might be acting funny, and we’re not done with the central tag directory yet.  So please bear with us!

Now start tagging your posts. 🙂

For your inspiration: Tech, Politics, NYC, District 9, Healthcare, NFL, FAIL, Pizza, Baby Animals.

Good ideas glow in the dark Adris Group annual report // July 2009

Despite the crisis, Adris Group has had a successful business year-2008, so they wanted to show it off with their annual report.

During difficult times, only good ideas can light up the path out of the crisis. Ideas are energy! They emerge in a moment and spread at the speed of thoughts and people channel them. Ideas are passed on from person to person until their radiance becomes powerful enough to light up the future.

Creative team:
Creative Directors: Bruketa&ŽinićOM / Davor Bruketa, Nikola Žinić
Copywriter: Daniel Vuković, Ivan Čadež
Art Director:Tomislav Jurica Kaćunić
Designer: Igor Miletić
DTP: Radovan Radičević
Account Director: Ivanka Mabić

publisher/ Adris Group d.d.
editor/ Predrag D. Grubić
executive editor/ Kristina Damijanić
text / Hrvoje Patajac
printed by /Cerovski Print-Boutique

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ScanDock: Capture Documents with iPhone

devincastro:

Check out this ScanDock for iPhone (cardboard), designed by kyleakoch. A contraption that would ensure clean and consistent pictures of documents taken with the iPhone.

“I’d frequently snap photos of class assignments printed on copy paper so I wouldn’t have to worry about losing them. The documents normally came out pretty clear, but it’s tough to keep still while taking the pictures. I set out to make something.”

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