Project Glass
Google has offered a taste of its augmented reality project: Here’s the Google Plus page for Project Glass. For those of you who don’t like glasses, from the NYT’s Bits blog:
Wed, April 4 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Coming soon from Google: Smart glasses
Google plans to bring augmented-reality glasses to market, eyewear that will function as a smartphone.
Thu, February 23 2012 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
Social media tools for journalists
Saw this tweet from Mark Hamilton: Great (exhaustive) list of social media tools for journalists, by@macloo Here’s the post: Best social media tools for journalists
Sat, February 18 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Ngramed yet?
If you’re a data visualization geek, you unquestionably have. Google Labs has released its Ngram Viewer. Succinctly put, it maps word or phrase use in books over time and plots it on graph (Read Google’s About Ngram page for details). In a way, it’s a more sophisticated version of Google Fight. :) An example from [...]
Mon, December 20 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The tyranny of algorithms – Is news next?
CBC contributor Ira Basen had a major feature published in the Nov. 27 Globe and Mail about the growing power of algorithms in the human decision-making process. I pull out an excerpt that’s journalism-related:
Mon, November 29 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments
Disappeared
Once upon a time, I followed someone on Twitter. This wasn’t someone I knew in real life, just a fellow Torontonian. We had conversed a few times around the Twitter water cooler, but that was about it. I struck me late Sunday that I hadn’t seen any tweets from this person for some time. I [...]
Mon, November 1 2010 » Main Page, Media, Minutiae » 3 Comments
Google and the Italian ruling
From the NYT: Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company’s executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its system.
Thu, February 25 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The news consumer of tomorrow, as envisioned by Google CEO Eric Schmidt
From a posting at the Nieman Lab blog: (seen first on Twitter)