I quite enjoyed the Wired cover story this month, which begins by arguing that a surfeit of data is rendering the notion of scientific modeling basically obsolete, and continues by walking through several ways in which this phenomenon has manifested itself out in the world. I especially enjoyed this mini-essay about the Europe Media Monitor, which looks like a useful potential news source to scan to see what the world is talking about. You can see, for example, that it identified the pre-election violence in Zimbabwe as the biggest story of the day yesterday, and pulls together reports from all over the global press on the subject.
The murmur of the snarkmatrix…
August § The Common Test /
Robin § Unforgotten /
MsFitNZ § Towards A Theory of Secondary Literacy /
Jon Schultz § Bless the toolmakers /
Jon Schultz § Bless the toolmakers /
Matt § A leaky rocketship /
Greg Linch § A leaky rocketship /
Robin § A leaky rocketship /
P. Renaud § A leaky rocketship /
Bob Stepno § The structure of journalism today /
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I thought it was interesting too, but it doesn’t quite live up to the hype of obviating the need for psychology,poly sci, biology, and drinking 8 glasses of water a day. Isn’t it just a Google Alert?
Ha hahahaha — that just became my favorite retort ever! Next time I see one of those crazy meta-aggro-meme-tracker sites, I’m going to say, “Isn’t that just a Google Alert?”
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