Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
“A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the searching …
data mining
Facebook planet
This image has been on my computer desktop and on my mind since I saw it in December. High time I shared it here, really. …
Mining the where: CIA-funded start-up says 80% of online content contains location information
Last week at Local Social Summit I talked about some of the issues around location and privacy. Especially problematic is people’s inadvertent tagging of their …
Mining the now: Real time sense making
Here’s an emerging idea about how we can and will make sense of the vast amounts of data becoming available about what is happening right …
Web shadows: Looking after ourselves online
I’ve been reading and therefore thinking a fair bit about privacy and personal online reputation. It’s something I’ve touched on in the past and the …