I’m rather, how do you say, “out of it”, so I just noticed yesterday the Daily article about blogging.
As well as being a major boost and reference for our groupsATstanford project, this article also contained unique tips related to how we can focus blogs and web services for academic use.
Whereas Alfano said she is happy […]

I’ve been reading a lot about corporate blogging lately, and think that many of the issues raised there are very applicable to student groups. An increasing number of students is starting to question, what exactly groups are doing with their money. The recent special fees crisis just further illustrates this point. Getting members of student […]

This came up in the meeting. Someone asked “how do we get news.google as an RSS feed?” Here’s a possible answer (-phil)

Google cache of a talk by Paul DePodesta, assistant GM of the Oakland As. Really cool for his talk on revolutinzing a process.

We’ve created a new category at the meeting tonight for great books that ISIS team members are reading… Below are the books that were mentioned/recommended tonight:
_Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference_, Malcolm Gladwell
_Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else, and What it Means_, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
_Sync: The Emerging Science of […]

The hypersonic EmergingTech wrapup at RX Gallery last night was largely political Dean-for-President rants, but a couple of interesting things emerged:
1) Social networks shouldn’t do public searches over private data–things like considering a user’s last name to be private (ala Friendster), but allowing searches on last names to return profiles. It turns out that […]

This is an image of scientific collaborations across different disciplines. Notice how just one connector means that an entire field has access to the knowledge and collaborative power of all the others.
The Blender is designed to make that first connection, and nurture it as more reinforce it.
from the Gallery of network images

Just stumbled upon this site where design/webcode genius Joshua Davis creates Edward Tufte’s Google commissioned for an upcoming Wired magazine. Joshua Davis, Tufte, Google, Wired all in one link?! That definitely deserves a link from me. Can’t wait to see it in print.

So it’s a long weekend and it’s time to procrastinate by checking out some cool stuff on the web. group94 has way cool content management tools, which they show off in the “beyind the scenes” section of their site. Groups should be this easy.

I was down in SF Friday at 4 Embarcadero Center and found these screens in the elevators… They were split half-and-half with ads on the left, and information on the right, including weather, news, and events. Cool!

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