Making Whuffie

I know it’s unseemly to brag, but I’m very excited about the feedback I’ve gotten about the “Reconsidering Relevance” presentation,…

Daniel Tunkelang
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Using R and Excel Together

I put up a question to the R list on using VBA macros from within excel. It seems you can…

Editor SDC
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Researchers at MIT have made pure, dense, thin films of carbon…

Researchers at MIT have made pure, dense, thin films of carbon nanotubes that show promise as electrodes for higher-capacity batteries…

JackMason
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OFF=ON | More and more, the offline world (a.k.a. the real…

OFF=ON | More and more, the offline world (a.k.a. the real world, meatspace or atom-arena) is adjusting to and mirroring…

JackMason
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How geeks are opening up government on the Web (via iGov – The…

How geeks are opening up government on the Web (via iGov - The Atlantic)

JackMason
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“The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC): supports the development of standards for cloud computing and…”

“The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC): supports the development of standards for cloud computing and frameworks for interoperating between clouds; supports…

JackMason
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Announcing the Congress API – Open Blog)The initial release…

Announcing the Congress API - Open Blog) The initial release exposes four types of data: a list of members for…

JackMason
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The CODA is the outcome of the only Brown-RISD joint studio, Out…

The CODA is the outcome of the only Brown-RISD joint studio, Out of Gas! The objective of the studio, was…

JackMason
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1 Update, 1 Warrant

I stumbled across a unique December headline while cruising though the USA Today Technology section, Australia OKs Facebook for serving…

SundeepKapur1
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The Online Gods and Three Things I Value

Regardless of what religion you practice (or don’t), chances are you believe in a god or creator.  A being that…

JacobMorgan
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