Are you a verbose social media enthusiast? Do you feel constrained and suffocated by Twitter's 140-character maximum? Do you ever start a tweet, only to be rejected by its imposing character maximum, shake your fists to the Twitter gods while shouting "Eff it! Who needs Twitter? I don't!"...
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Continue readingThose crazy folks at the MIT Media Lab have created a web application called Personas which maps out your online persona in the form of a stacked bar chart. WHAT IS PERSONAS?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...
Continue readingI read on That Wife today that the BBC believes most people have only read 6 books of the 100 in the list below. Although I had seen the meme on Facebook before, I was intrigued, because earlier today I had spent $100 on new books and was thinking that I need to get over this addiction called "reading." According to the instructions, you are supposed to put an 'X' after those you have read. Let's see how I stack up...
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