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Sunday, May 29, 2005 |
Roland's Sunday Smart Trends #60.
Before starting my weekly selection of articles, here are two items which have been sent me by their authors.
In "Backpackers and homeland security," W. David Stephenson comments a recent article written by Howard Rheingold for the Feature, "Backpackers and MoSoSo Design."
And Noah Shachtman, a journalist who often writes for Wired, has published an introduction to his last article about drones and flying bots on his Defense Tech blog ("Unmanned Culture Clash"). You can read two full versions of thi story on Wired ("Attack of the Drones") and Wired News ("Drone School, a Ground's-Eye View").
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Tag Team: Tracking the Patterns of Supermarket Shoppers
In a new paper called "An Exploratory Look at Supermarket Shopping Paths," Fader, Wharton marketing professor Eric T. Bradlow and doctoral candidate Jeffrey S. Larson analyze this RFID-captured grocery store data, focusing exclusively on travel patterns without regard to purchase behavior or merchandising tactics.
Source: Knowledge at Wharton, May 18-31, 2005
The World Wide Work Space
UGS software lets thousands of people cooperate on a single project.
Source: Spencer E. Ante, BusinessWeek Magazine, June 6, 2005 issue
Who's your daddy? China turns to DNA testing
DNA testing is becoming popular because more can afford it and extramarital affairs are rising in China's rapidly developing society, said Wang Shayan, the director at the DNA clinic at Shenzhen People's Hospital, where Zhang got his results.
Source: Helen Luk, Sapa-AP, via The Independent Online, South Africa, May 28, 2005
[Smart Mobs]
[As usual, edited to select just a few of Roland's . . .]
10:37:48 PM 
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The high-speed Internet.
"South Korea continues its convincing lead in the global high-speed Internet penetration comparison,according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD).The Paris-based organization said yesterday that Korea was a distant frontrunner in the 2004 broadband penetration figure as 24.9 people out of 100 were connected to the always-on Internet",the Korea Times reports."However,European nations substantially narrowed the broadband penetration gap with Korea last year,led by the Netherlands and Denmark.The Netherlands raised its penetration rate from 11.8 per 100 people in 2003 to 19 last year and Denmark grew from 13 to 18.8 during the same period".
South Korea Remains King of High-Speed Internet Penetration [Smart Mobs]
10:35:57 PM
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Extremely Cool Collection of 78s At Internet Archive.
I don't know why I haven't mentioned this cool collection of 78s at the Internet Archive before. They're available at http://www.archive.org/audio/audiolisting-browseartists.php?collection=78rpm . The page I'm pointing to leads to a list of musicians. You may recognize here Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and Woodrow Wilson.
Click on an artist name and you'll get a list of recordings from that artist (most of the ones I saw had only one or two.) Click on the name of the recording and you'll get a list of songs you can download in MP3 format (in some cases only one). There's also a place for audio reviews but I didn't see any for the recordings I looked at. Another great spot for old music.
[ResearchBuzz]
6:45:35 PM
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Fifteen minutes of fame?.
Nature reports that "a team of scientists from Hungary and the United States has found that the majority of online news items have a lifetime of just 36 hours.As reporters have always suspected, yesterday's news is stale,and the day before's news is invisible".From the papers abstract."our results document the fleeting quality of news and events:while fifteen minutes of fame is still an exaggeration in the online media, we find that access to most news items significantly decays after 36 hours of posting".
Life is short in online news
Fifteen Minutes of Fame:The Dynamics of Information Access on the Web [Smart Mobs]
6:43:40 PM
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