The talk of iPhone has dominated (technical) news media for some time. I was always fascinated by it because of my interest in folk computing (this is what I wrote more than 4 years ago) and my belief that folk…
Conference Non-Proceedings
Conference proccedings have changed in the last few years. Two major changes are their size and media. Now for most major conferences there are so many papers that 2-3 volumes are needed. The weight of the proceedings usually doubles the…
Events: Unaware of events
Google released Hot Trends. In an interview, the developer of the software, Mr Amit Patel, said something interesting related to eventweb that I found interesting: “There are events going on all the time that most of us are not aware…
EventWeb and saving lives
The Virginia tech incidence is raising many questions. One of them — a very important one — is why can we not have an infra structure to propagate information more rapidly in such situation and warn people about the potential…
On efficacy and distraction of tags
During my trip to ICASSP for participating on a panel related to the future directions of Internet, I had discussions with panelists (from Yahoo, Google, and Micrsoft) and also had a chance to discuss with some other researchers abot the…