Language is a virus from outer space

Lonelygirl15: a vlog with a different approach (DLD07)

Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:46 AM EST

So how was this sudden success coming for lonelygirl15? Or rather for Miles Beckett (a surgeon turned vlog-director, a remark in brackets no journalist would forget to add, neither blogger) and his handful team? Miles talked about it at Digital Life Design conference in Munich - …

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technology, conference, social-networking, new-media, vlogging, youtube, lonelygirl15, dld07, digital-life-design, miles-beckett

Disruptive New Media: meet-up and face challenge

Seeded on Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:05 AM EST (pulverblog.pulver.com)

If you are a videoblogger, someone into new media, in film or entertainment, or a traditional mainstream media person interested in meeting the disruptive stars of new media, you'll want to come to this event. Join us in LA and San Francisco on Feb 7th and 8th.

technology, film, video, vlog, new-media, vlogging, old-media, jeff-pulver

Google Interview: some of Googles steps and challenges in emerging markets like Hungary

Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:26 AM EDT

Search activities as well as search engine marketing is gaining impetus day by day in Hungary in line with the international trends. It is rocketing in the US, and we seem to be before a major boom again.

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google, business, search, internet, hungary, poland, interview, marketing, seo, sem

Newsvine Traffic down in April up in May

Wed May 17, 2006 2:50 PM EDT

Alexa.com shows intriguing stats on Newsvine. Which blogs are the most visited? Which periods get the most traffic? How many stars does the site get? Can diggs.com be compared with newsvine.com, why/not?

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technology, stats, journalism, top, newsvine, citizen-journalism, alexa

Google Trends Breeds Legends

Wed May 17, 2006 5:59 AM EDT

Google Trends has recently been released and given boost to several experimental statistics and misinterpretations , to put it mildly. Such tests hope to solve age old questions like briefs vs.

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google, ireland, search, sex, world-news, statistics, yellow-journalism, stereotypes, lonely, google-trends

Google Health Maybe Next Week

Seeded on Thu May 4, 2006 12:50 PM EDT (USA Today)

Marissa then said, "Health is an interesting one -- keep your eye out for that next week."

google, technology, rumor, vertical, google-health

The Maths of Cloaking

Seeded on Thu May 4, 2006 7:40 AM EDT (BBC News)

The cloaking effect would exploit a resonance with light waves rather than sound waves. The authors of the paper argue that the cloak needn't just work with a speck of dust, but could also apply to larger objects.

physics, science, stealth, star-trek, light, maths, cloaking, superlens

Racist killings in Russia

Seeded on Thu May 4, 2006 7:26 AM EDT (BBC News)

"We are just being killed openly," he told me. "I mean, it's just no more under control." The skinheads are a lost generation whose childhood disappeared in the chaos of Russia in the 1990s

russia, violence, racism, cold-war, st-petersburg, enemy, world-news, ussr, scapegoat, lost-generation

Individual (Newsvine) Blogs Doomed To Failure?

Mon May 1, 2006 4:06 PM EDT

Team up, find a niche, be alert with good content. "Great content is out there, but it's often drowned in a sea of garbage," but Sphere "offers good results uncluttered by the blogorrhea," says Chris Sherman, the executive editor of Search Engine Watch.

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business, search, blogs, blogging, newsvine, blog, competition, guild, citizen-journalism, new-media

The Shape of Authority

Seeded on Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:40 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The squares of Beijing and Lhasa: art historian Wu Hung deconstructs Tiananmen Square's many images of authority, from the Martyrs' Memorial where Mao laid the foundation stone to the clock that counted down to the handover of Hong Kong.

china, arts, tiananmen, square, tibet, circle

Searchonomics

Seeded on Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:06 PM EDT (Search Engine Watch)

Recent trends that strengthen search: ad skepticism and consumer control, demand for relevance and proof for efficient advertising, media fragmentation, online search preceding offline purchase, local, video, mobile and versatile search on the increase

business, search, marketing, seo, sem, geoff-ramsey, searchonomics

Awake Brain Operation to Keep Language Function

Seeded on Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:45 AM EDT (Doctor's Guide)

The patient is awake during operation, brain language sites are being mapped to identify which portions of the tumor are safe to resect.

surgery, mapping, science, brain, language, tumor, neurology, glioma, intraoperative

Adoptive Parents Get Depressed

Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:19 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Many adoptive parents feel delirious with happiness when bringing home their child.

child, health, baby, adoption, stress, depression, infertility

Plagiarism or Copyright Infringement- case study

Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:48 AM EDT (Daily India)

Lawrence Lessig says plagiarism and copyright infringement are different concepts. Here's an example: 19-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan, who has been accused of plagiarism in her debut novel, has acknowledged that she did borrow language from two books by Megan F. McCafferty.

art, literature, book, indian, theft, law, odd-news, copyright, harvard, copy

Green Mini: Crossing Motorbikes and Cars

Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:33 AM EDT (BBC News)

A tiny, three-wheeled (60mph top speed ) car that could help solve city congestion has been demonstrated at the University of Bath. The prototype is one metre wide, less polluting than normal vehicles, and uses a novel tilting chassis to make it safe and manoeuvrable.

technology, car, pollution, bath, clever, congestion, motorbike, two-seater

Cool 2.0

Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:50 AM EDT

New generations need new words for 'cool.' Is awesome cool, and cool oldschool?

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slang, odd-news, trends, language, cool, lexicon, lingusitics, word-nerd

Vintage E-mail Stamps, Online Collectibles

Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:46 AM EDT

Future collectibles: Will gaining attention by opinionating/ reporting on an item be more important than the item itself (attention vs. physical possession, or productivity vs.

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technology, art, stamps, collection, social-networking, collectibles, attention-economics

Figuring out First Words: What Propels Early Language Development?

Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:23 PM EDT

10-month-old babies learn new words of interesting objects – interesting for them, not for us. Why is it interesting at all?

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child, baby, odd-news, language, psychology, memory, linguistics, vocabulary, child-development, language-acquisition

PC Cursing

Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:15 AM EDT (The Japan Times)

Tiger Woods' casual use of the word "spaz" triggered disability groups to demand an apology. "You can attribute symptoms of blindness to a referee. You can attribute symptoms of stupidity to a politician. You can attribute symptoms of deafness to a spouse.

slang, odd-news, blindness, pc, tiger-woods, language, apology, disability, cursing

You don't have to speak Spanish to feel Hispanic

Seeded on Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:22 AM EDT (emarketer)

"Many Hispanic youth live in two worlds: one dominated by the culture and traditions of their family history, and the other awash in the iPods, MySpaces, mobile phones and hip-hop music of the general youth culture." Young people 24 and under represent 35% of all Hispanic online

business, youth, spanish, internet, stats, web, language, hispanic, espanol, online-behaviour

English with 1 Million Words

Seeded on Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:08 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

According to the Global Language Monitor, a San Diego-based linguistic consultancy, there will be one-million words in the English language this summer, keeping the current rate of progress in mind.

english, odd-news, language, linguistics, vocabulary, glm

Citizen Journalism Verbally?

Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:15 AM EDT

Imagine a two-way cell-phone-sized radio that is able to record (one button-push), store and promote listeners' feedback. The voice recordings are transmitted to the radio station where feedbacks are gathered, processed and incorporated into the programs.

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women, tech, farmers, radio, microsoft, world-news, rural, citizen-journalism, developing-countries, community-radio

Addicted to Newsvine

Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:42 PM EDT

A Newsvine Poll??? Not again. Yes, here is another one. The aim is to get a better picture of how our valuable time is spent on Newsvine. Also, who we are, what we do, how we do it and why.

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technology, poll, newsvine, addiction, habits, addictive, viners

Caps and Underwears Cannot Read

Seeded on Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:07 AM EDT (ananova.com)

Librarians in a Swedish school ban students with caps and flashing underwears to borrow books.

sweden, odd-news, democracy, library, discipline

Citizen Journalism in the Win-Win Game

Fri Apr 7, 2006 11:52 AM EDT

On 6 April, 2006 the BBC news featured an article entitled "Why we are all reporters now" by Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media, focusing on the changing patterns in journalism.

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bbc, journalism, world-news, citizen-journalism, professional-journalism

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