as part of a series on the great innovators of the past 75 years.
“… [I]t was a 1936 paper by Cambridge University mathematician Alan M. Turing that laid the foundation for the electronic wonders now crowding into every corner of modern life. In a short and eventful life, Turing also played a vital role [...]
for you news librarians and those of you interested in the profession on Orkut. Please join. I’m getting lonely.
Hey Thursday nighters, did you know there are communities for Cambridge and Boston bloggers, as well as one for the Berkman Center?
(The links may only work for those who have signed into Orkut.)
Addendum 5/13: Now there are [...]
Today’s Wall Street Journal features Thomas P.M. Barnett on their front page. The article mentions his Web site, but oddly enough, it doesn’t mention his blog.
Thanks for elbowing me in the ribs about this, CJ.
(The link to the article may be restricted to subscribers.)
Addendum: Thomas’ thoughts
is some way to visualize my social network and the social networks of my “friends.” I have a feeling I probably know more people on Orkut than I can find. The search mechanisms facilitate known-item searching (searching for a specific person by name is an example of known-item searching), but it isn’t very serendipity friendly. [...]
I could have sworn Orkut claimed to own whatever information we provided to the service. I found this statement when I was digging around their FAQs this afternoon:
“orkut.com does not claim any ownership right in the profile or other information that you submit. When you submit content to orkut.com, we use it to display the content [...]
Please pardon this digression:
For all you people with extra Gmail invites out there looking for something good to do with them, the site linked above facilitates Gmail invite donations for members of the military stationed overseas. You can even opt to have a service member for a penpal.
I think I donated an invite, but [...]
(Yes, I am being a little sarcastic.)