Technology

Bloggers Vs. Journalists In A Cultural Death Roll

But...but...you have to love journalists, according to journalists.  Only we hold government accountable and gotcha videos and bloggers rehashing what we come up with or they see in press releases can't be the same thing, they insist. Well, it can, ac ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 29 2011 - 4:00am

Reflections of the Realized Imagination

Imagine you are living within a bubble.  Your bubble stretches in any direction but you are always contained within it.  Your bubble is adrift in a sea that has no bottom, only a surface.  The surface surrounds your bubble, so the sea itself is only a bubb ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Aug 10 2011 - 11:08am

Surround Haptics- Kill People Virtually With Even More Realism

Greater virtual realism is always shown in television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as people who act out an alternate life as a farmer or solve mysteries in the 1800s, and that may happen, but long before that any technology like t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2011 - 10:08am

Mission Impossible, The Robot Version

    Object: a book           Location: high shelf, exact location unknown     Agent: Swarmanoid, robot swarm consisting out of three types of robot.    Mission: Impossible?        ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 14 2011 - 10:05am

Heello- TwitPic Creators Turn The Tables On Twitter

You may not know this, but Twitter is actually not that great.   The website itself is clunky. Add-ons are what made it successful.   Sometimes Twitter has acquired them, like with TweetDeck, and sometimes they have created their own once the market has sh ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2011 - 2:26pm

The Data: Social Media Stinks At Driving Traffic

Over time, a variety of people have asked me where they should get the word out that they are writing on Science 2.0 and I am happy to tell them- but they are surprised by the answer.   Social media darlings like Twitter and Facebook will accomplish very l ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2012 - 11:17pm

Seeking Shape and Cardinality in the 0-Dimensional Web

What is the shape of a Website?  How does one determine "shape" from a collection of links and electronic files?  Web designers, search engineers, and marketing consultants use geometric shapes like circles, rectangles, pyramids, and network diag ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Aug 16 2011 - 3:44pm

The End Of The Stakeout? Single Sensor Has Autonomous Multi-target, Multi-user Tracking Capability

In the modern world, even residents of London generate more i ntelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data than human operators can collate and that can severely limit the ability of an analyst to generate intelligence reports in operationally r ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2011 - 9:50am

Open Science In Science 2.0- Who Does It?

Five years into the Science 2.0 experiment I can tell you down to the eyeball how many people are involved in the communication pillar of it- but in the collaboration realm, it's not so easy. Science 2.0 fave Heather A. Piwowar from the Department of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2011 - 6:05pm

National Geographic Ends Anonymous Accounts At Scienceblogs.com

National Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs. Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy.  Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too exp ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 18 2011 - 6:29pm