Thematic Web Archives
The shortcoming of a Like button in face of the loss of a human
Montag, Juli 25th, 2011Nothing has improved in the last two years, Facebook – the McDonalds of Social- is making it even worse. Social networks have yet to find a respect-full way of addressing and supporting more aspects of human life. Source: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/google-engineer-steve-lacey-victim-car-wreck-kirkland Find more details of this tragedy here: http://www.king5.com/home/Road-rage-suspected-in-fatal-Kirkland-crash-126093229.html Worth reading: Robert Scobles thoughts about Steve “The [...]
Posted in Issues explained, Thematic Web Archives | No Comments »Current Apple iPad marketing approach not recommended by ex Apple evangelist
Mittwoch, Februar 3rd, 2010Guy Kawasaki (who worked in the past for Apple as evangelist) explains in Seth Godin´s free ebook “What matters now” that you: Never describe your cause by using bull shiitake terms like “revolutionary” and “paradigm shifting.” Instead, explain how it helps a person. Apple just launched this new product everybody was so excited about before [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Thematic Web Archives | No Comments »Explanations for Twitter trending topics getting a trend
Mittwoch, November 25th, 2009This is part 3 of our Twitter related mini-tutorial (part1, part2). Twitter.com is providing a short list of currently popular keywords from within the most current stream of tweets. This list is called “Trending Topics”. It provides a convenient way to connect to what is currently happening on that global message bus called Twitter: Recently some [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products, Thematic Web Archives | 1 Comment »How to show all tweets related to a web page with a single click
Sonntag, Oktober 11th, 2009Tweets link often to web pages. The reverse direction works too: with one click you can see tweets that are related to the current page your browser is showing. This is the second part of our mini Twitter tutorial (part 1 here). You could use a URL Twitter enabled search engine like http://backtweets.com/search?q= to find [...]
Posted in Recommended Products, Thematic Web Archives | 1 Comment »Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web
Samstag, September 12th, 2009“A thematic Web collection is an archive of Web objects identified and captured using a set of URLs believed to be relevant to a specific theme or topic” Source The outstanding, best documented and analysed case is obviously 9/11: http://september11.archive.org/ http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2002/One-year-later-September-11-and-the-Internet.aspx http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=schneider In this sense our article about Carl Backstrom´s death and his traces on [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Thematic Web Archives | No Comments »Death: when the life behind shared social streams ended
Donnerstag, Mai 14th, 2009The Internet is changing not only our life. It is also changing what is left after we are gone. Social life streams stop when the life behind ended. But those streams of activity continue to be accessible until the service provider will delete the account or close doors. We dont know Carl Backstrom, but we [...]
Posted in Thematic Web Archives | 2 Comments »