I’m excited that I’ve had two papers accepted this week: “Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics of scholarly impact on the social Web,” with Brad Hemminger, and “How and why scholars cite on Twitter” (online soon) with Kaitlin Costello.
What’s special about these two papers is that they are the start of a research project that [...]
Scientometrics 2.0
July 10, 2010 – 10:21 pm
FeedVis: a deeper tagcloud for edublogs
November 25, 2008 – 3:53 am
Tagclouds have value, but, as I’ve written before, they’ve a number of shortfalls as well. I’ve just finished my attempt to remedy some of these problems: FeedVis. It’s an animated tagcloud that lets you compare word frequencies accross different time periods and authors, then check out the posts that used the words. The demo is [...]
PrezDebatr 2.0! Beta!
October 13, 2008 – 1:11 pm
Google is transforming the way we watch a political debate. This Google Blog post demonstrates how viewers of the VP debate earlier this month made Google searches like “clean coal” and “define:maverick” spike as candidates spoke. Without question, these viewers are experiencing something much richer than what would have been possible fifteen years ago.
But why [...]