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Abair Leat! Irish Speakers have their say on Social Media
When I first heard of Abair Leat! a few weeks back, my initial reaction was a cynical one. “Not another attempt to create a niche Facebook," I thought. However, after only a few moments speaking with...
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NewsWhip: A Democratic Way of Tracking News
For Paul Quigley, news has always been his, “first love”. When he left a career as a lawyer in New York, he revisited his days of college journalism and started a satirical news site called...
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A Cut Out And Keep Social Media Plan for a Non-Profit
A daughter of a good friend of mine attends the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) — A public school that has a particularly fine educational track record.However, due to the difficult...
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Dealing with Information Overload
Image source: commons.wikimedia.org"...and he now took the fancy that he would like to have the telelectroscope and divert his mind with it. He had his wish. The connection was made with the...
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twitris: Social Media Analysis with Semantic Web Technology
The Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University is host to one of the largest Semantic Web working groups in the United States. Its most important task, according to Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent...
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Via.Me: Multiple Media Services in One Platform
At the beginning of last year we ran a number of articles highlighting some of the fundamental challenges that face a tech startup and some ideas on how to approach and handle them. Two of these posts...
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Speeksy: Social Discovery Through Facebook
Social discovery is an online space that has been emerging over the last couple of years. It is a throwback to some of the original ideas that the first social networks were built around. Friendster...
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Yay! My Twitter account is like a megaphone... Argh. So is everyone else's :-(
Bernardo Huberman heads up the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard. The emphasis of his work, according to the man himself, is to understand things by answering important questions. One of the main...
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Web Behaving Badly: Is the Internet Having a Negative Effect on Our...
Visit the comments section of any online publication or scroll down to the activity beneath a popular YouTube video and you’ll see the full spectrum of human emotion, often expressions of anger,...
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Social Media: A New Frontier for Researchers
Following a presentation I gave at the European Intersectoral Summit on Research and Innovation last month entitled ‘Engaging Citizens in Research and Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges Afforded...
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Zachary Quinto Talks About His Return to Galway, Social Media and the Big...
Some photos I took in 2009 at Java's and their window display about a famous former waiter.A favourite café of mine and many others in Galway City is Java's on Abbeygate Street. In the late nineties,...
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An Interview with Andy Carvin - Twitter as an Open Source Newsroom
Last September Fergal Gallagher was able to interview Andy Carvin just before he gave his talk at the Truth in News Symposium held at Dublin City University. We have transcribed the audio from his...
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I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to Facebook anymore!
Image inspired by Peter Finch in Network.There have been a number of things about Facebook's treatment of its users that have irked me over the years, from its cavalier attitude towards privacy to its...
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Reinforcing Ideological Walls with Facebook's News Feed Algorithm
In a recent academic paper from Facebook, researchers described how their news feed algorithm is presenting users with content that is related to their ideological standpoint, and removes some...
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