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New to the Collaborative

Posted on March 6th by paulkreiter.
Greetings all, I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Originally from outside Chicago, I came to the east coast first to work at Brown University, and then to pursue Graduate Studies ...
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Audio is sticky

Posted on March 3rd by Matthew Hockenberry.
Leo introduces AudioSticker, it is admittedly a pretty hacky project (a complex process to get a seamless playback of audio on flickr) that could have been handled in other ways. Still, ...
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Annoucement: GraphGear 1.2 Available

Posted on February 8th by Matthew Hockenberry.
How does the work move forward? Sometimes this is a strange question. Working on a lot of things, however, inevitably implies that some things get left behind in the wayside. Graph Gear ...
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Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.

Posted on August 19th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
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Being Green

Posted on July 4th by Forrest Diamond.
Make Me Sustainable is a new site that allows users to find out their "carbon fingerprint," advises them on how to reduce that footprint and charts their progress as they go. ...

[release] Personal Zeitgeist

Posted on April 25th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The personal zeitgeist is a small project that builds on top of SimplePie to offer a personal rss aggregator to the distributed individual. We might be doing a little more with this ...
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Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)

Posted on April 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...
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What is the school of tomorrow?

Posted on March 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If past lessons teach us anything, it probably is pretty hard to imagine. Still, there are reasonable efforts to create a dialogue about what it might look like. From School 2.0. School ...

Deep Diving with IBM

Posted on March 9th by Matthew Hockenberry.
On wednesday I went down to New York City to participate in part of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook 3.0 for a deep diving brainstorm and discussion session on media and content. ...
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[graph-watch] Digg on the thin blue line

Posted on February 28th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Stamen design has some fascinating graph visualizations of Digg but one in particular stands out: Stripping out every story except that one, we can start to focus in on some interesting ...
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Many eyes on Swivel

Posted on February 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
We've mentioned Swivel and Many eyes in passing on this blog, but both of them deserve some further scrutiny. Sharing has become a big part of the web experience. When ...
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Yahoo’s Pipe-dream.

Posted on February 22nd by Matthew Hockenberry.
Pipes are fascinating. It's no coincidence that our favorite video game legend is a plumber or that the internet is actually a collection of tubes. Pipes are all about connections. Taking something ...