Author Archives: David Collin

MSM meets the bloggers

Here’s a question: How can traditional media–TV, newspapers, ad agencies–interface with bloggers? Well, evidently KRON in the Bay Area held a Meetup and 100 bloggers came. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The personal media revolution came to the KRON 4 studios Saturday when more than 100 members of the Bay Area blogger community accepted our invitation for a meet-up. KRON 4 ...

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This is your brain…on silicon

IBM’s Blue Brain project is a two-year venture for scientists from Big Blue and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne to create a detailed model of the human brain. This effort represents the greatest investigation yet into how the human brain works, achieved by creating a detailed model of the neocortex using the Blue Gene supercomputer. The model, which aims ...

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An article about advances in RSS

A better, more consistent way of notifiying about blog site updates? Depends on if collaboration beats competition.  RSS Updates Moving Beyond Pings

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A little quick sociology

Here’s a link to an interesting NYTimes article about changing lifestyles in the US.

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