Month: March 2010

  • Worlds Colliding

    During a press conference at last week’s SxSW conference, product manager of Google’s gmail team, Todd Jackson, revealed an interesting bit of information about the company’s problem-ridden new service Google Buzz: Jackson told the crowd, as he’s previously said to reporters, that too much was assumed about how Buzz would work best and be received…

  • High Throughput Humanities

    Note: This post was originally posted on the Complexity and Social Networks Blog. Along with Riley Crane (of Darpa Challenge and Colbert Report fame), physicist Gourab Ghoshal, and quantitatively minded art historian Max Schich, I’m putting together a workshop on High Throughput Humanities as a satellite meeting at this years European Conference on Complex Systems…