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This is amazing. They have created an online expert AI platform so that anyone can build an expert system and market it. I haven't tried it, yet, but plan to when I get some down time, next month.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Fake online reviews draw NY suit - DMNews
Fake online reviews draw NY suit - DMNews
I was wondering when something like this would happen. Combine this with the controversy at Wikipedia about how to handle the Church of Scientology entries and earlier accounts of corporate PR people massaging any user-editable content about their companies, and I think we will see a whole new level of deceptiveness develop in social network advertising, as PR and ad agencies try to work around the basic problem of telling the truth.
I was wondering when something like this would happen. Combine this with the controversy at Wikipedia about how to handle the Church of Scientology entries and earlier accounts of corporate PR people massaging any user-editable content about their companies, and I think we will see a whole new level of deceptiveness develop in social network advertising, as PR and ad agencies try to work around the basic problem of telling the truth.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
A Message in Spanish, and Now I Can Read It
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Subject: Joachim de Posada fue seleccionado entre los 25 mejores oradores profesionales
Estimadas Amigas y Amigos,
Nos da mucho gusto en informarles que Joachim de Posada autor de nuestros audiolibros “Sobrevivir entre Pirañas” y “No te comas el marshmallow…¡Todavía! Fue seleccionado entre los 25 mejores oradores profesionales por la revista de Julio y agosto de SPEAKER “The Art and Business Speaking” (Orador – El Arte y negocio de Hablar) publicación oficial de la Asociación Nacional de Oradores Profesionales (http://www.facebook.com/l/;
La portada de la revista lo dice todo “Who is Hot? 25 men & women who are shaping our profession” (¿Quién está Caliente? 25 hombres y mujeres quienes están dando forma a nuestra profesión). Esta asociación creó un comité donde evaluó a más de los mejores 100 oradores profesionales que habían sido pre-seleccionados bajo varios criterios y encuestas y obtuvieron a los 25 mejores oradores profesionales.
Estamos orgullosos de contar con Joachim como autor y lo felicitamos en FonoLibro por seguir cosechando éxitos. Sus audiolibros “Sobrevivir entre Pirañas” narrado completamente por Joachim, y “No te comas el marshmallow…¡Todavía!” el que cuenta una parábola al mejor estilo que ¿Quién se llevo mi queso? Están disponibles en nuestra página Web http://www.facebook.com/l/;
No dejen de escucharlos ya que Joachim en uno de ellos dice la fórmula para hacer millones de dólares en sus vidas.
Saludos,
Ed
That was the message that came in as an email. I use Gmail, and had recently turned on the Google Labs translation feature. I clicked the View Translated Message link, and this is what came up:
Edmundo Dantes sent a message to the members of Fonolibro - Books in Spanish.
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Subject: Joachim de Posada was selected among the top 25 professional speakers
Dear friends,
We're very pleased to announce that author Joachim de Posada of our audiobooks "Surviving between Piranhas" and "Do not eat the Marshmallow ... Yet! Was selected among the 25 best speakers by the professional magazine of July and August SPEAKER "The Art and Business Speaking" (Speaker - The Art and Business Talk) official publication of the National Association of Professional Speakers http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.nsaspeaker.org
The cover of the magazine says it all "Who is Hot? 25 men & women who are shaping our profession "(Who's Hot? 25 men and women who are shaping our profession). This association created a committee which evaluated over 100 of the best professional speakers who had been pre-selected under various criteria and surveys, and obtained the top 25 professional speakers.
We are proud to have Joachim as the author and congratulate him on Fonolibro for continuing success. His audiobooks "Surviving between Piranhas" narrated entirely by Joachim, and "Do not eat the Marshmallow ... Yet!" Which tells a parable to the best style Who took my cheese? Are available on our website http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.fonolibro.com in digital versions for download on http://www.facebook.com/l/;http://www.audible.com/fonolibro
Do not forget to listen and to Joachim on one of them said the formula to make millions of dollars in their lives.
Greetings,
Ed
Of course, I don't know how accurate the translation is, but it reads well. I'm impressed! This marks a major step toward machine translation, a technology that could go a long way toward reducing the conflict and increasing the harmony among different peoples in our world.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: newyorker.com
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: newyorker.com
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I haven't had a chance to read Anderson's new book, so I will just pass along Gladwell's review with a general statement that Gladwell's points seem accurate. Free can be a good price if a business is making money elsewhere, but most of the time Free is an illusion, as in free open source software. It's free because the people who create it donae their time or work for organizations that pay them to donate their time. I would be curious how an ecologist would react to Anderson, since if anyone knows that there's no free lunch, it's the people who study biological systems.
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I haven't had a chance to read Anderson's new book, so I will just pass along Gladwell's review with a general statement that Gladwell's points seem accurate. Free can be a good price if a business is making money elsewhere, but most of the time Free is an illusion, as in free open source software. It's free because the people who create it donae their time or work for organizations that pay them to donate their time. I would be curious how an ecologist would react to Anderson, since if anyone knows that there's no free lunch, it's the people who study biological systems.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Ohio Governor Proposes Halving State Support; Many Libraries Could Close - 6/22/2009 - Library Journal
Ohio Governor Proposes Halving State Support; Many Libraries Could Close - 6/22/2009 - Library Journal
Ohio has, in the past, provided excellent state support to its public libraries. Now, as we stumble into the information age, the state is considering halving its support of them. This would force many to close. If you know anyone who works for the State of Ohio, especially in the Governor's Office, please talk to them. This must not happen!
Ohio has, in the past, provided excellent state support to its public libraries. Now, as we stumble into the information age, the state is considering halving its support of them. This would force many to close. If you know anyone who works for the State of Ohio, especially in the Governor's Office, please talk to them. This must not happen!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks - Chronicle.com
6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks - Chronicle.com
This is a very interesting article by an administrator at a university that committed to using e-textbooks. The found out several interesting things that would not be surprising to someone deeply involved in e-publishing but could be surprising to most educators:
1. The reader really matters. E-readers can be much harder to use than conventional textbooks, except for reading straight text. Since textbooks usually include many charts, graphs and illustrations, this is a big issue. So is note-taking an annotating. It's easy to scribble notes in the margins of a printed book, but e-readers make this more difficult. The university did not try DAISY books, so this was a big issue for them.
2. Learning curves can be steep. If you work in IT, you can expect that, but if you don't then you probably think that you and your students will just pick up your e-book reader and figure it out as you go. Lots of luck.
3. Professors are as eager or even more eager than the students. This shouldn't surprise anyone.
4. Battery life issues. After essentially giving up on the Sony Reader, the university switched to a format that worked on laptops, but then the students began running out of juice. Practically speaking, battery life is always an issue (and anyone who travels on business should know this), buy buying and carrying a spare battery would be a new experience for most students.
5. Graphical matter affects some subjects more than others. Per number one above, it is much easier to read a literature e-book than a chemistry one because of the relative lack of illustrations.
6. Environmental impact. Obviously, e-books are easier on the environment. So this is a big plus.
Read the entire article for more details.
This is a very interesting article by an administrator at a university that committed to using e-textbooks. The found out several interesting things that would not be surprising to someone deeply involved in e-publishing but could be surprising to most educators:
1. The reader really matters. E-readers can be much harder to use than conventional textbooks, except for reading straight text. Since textbooks usually include many charts, graphs and illustrations, this is a big issue. So is note-taking an annotating. It's easy to scribble notes in the margins of a printed book, but e-readers make this more difficult. The university did not try DAISY books, so this was a big issue for them.
2. Learning curves can be steep. If you work in IT, you can expect that, but if you don't then you probably think that you and your students will just pick up your e-book reader and figure it out as you go. Lots of luck.
3. Professors are as eager or even more eager than the students. This shouldn't surprise anyone.
4. Battery life issues. After essentially giving up on the Sony Reader, the university switched to a format that worked on laptops, but then the students began running out of juice. Practically speaking, battery life is always an issue (and anyone who travels on business should know this), buy buying and carrying a spare battery would be a new experience for most students.
5. Graphical matter affects some subjects more than others. Per number one above, it is much easier to read a literature e-book than a chemistry one because of the relative lack of illustrations.
6. Environmental impact. Obviously, e-books are easier on the environment. So this is a big plus.
Read the entire article for more details.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Science Daily: High Population Density Triggers Cultural Explosions
High Population Density Triggers Cultural Explosions
This goes totally against my favorite idea, which is that I (and some presently unknown cohort) are inherently superior -- perhaps because of a huge dose of alien genes) but Prof. Adam Powell makes more sense than my previous ideas did. Well worth 2.5 minutes of your attention to read.
This goes totally against my favorite idea, which is that I (and some presently unknown cohort) are inherently superior -- perhaps because of a huge dose of alien genes) but Prof. Adam Powell makes more sense than my previous ideas did. Well worth 2.5 minutes of your attention to read.
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