Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
15 Common Defense Mechanisms | Psych Central
15 Common Defense Mechanisms | Psych Central: "In some areas of psychology (especially in psychodynamic theory), psychologists talk about “defense mechanisms,” or manners in which we behave or think in certain ways to better protect or “defend” ourselves. Defense mechanisms are one way of looking at how people distance themselves from a full awareness of unpleasant thoughts, feelings and behaviors."
Do digital diaries mess up your brain? - CNN.com
Do digital diaries mess up your brain? - CNN.com: "If we rely on technology for documenting, sorting and storing information -- creating digital diaries, or 'lifestreaming' -- what will become of our minds?"
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Difference between News Feed and Live Feed on Facebook
The new Live Feed is the old News Feed. Live Feed includes all news from your friends, while
News Feed now uses an algorithm which lists news items from people you mostly interact with coupled
with scoring by number of likes and comments.
News Feed now uses an algorithm which lists news items from people you mostly interact with coupled
with scoring by number of likes and comments.
Startups 101: The Complete Mint Presentation
Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo.
You can also see the original TechCrunch article about this video.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Bill Romanos in the Palm Beach Post
This is a profile of Bill Romanos that was featured in the Palm Beach Post. It discusses his use of Twitter as well as other topics.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Toward Living Intelligence
The United States Intelligence Community's wiki, Intellipedia, has been a media darling. Its very existence in such a bureaucratic and secret world inspired many.
Friday, May 15, 2009
A conversation with Nandan Nilekani and Tom Friedman
A conversation with Tom Friedman of "The New York Times" and Nandan Nilekani, is the President, MD and CEO of Infosys Technologies Ltd. and author of "Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation"
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Mashable's Pete Cashmore
Mashable's founder Pete Cashmore in a video interview discussing details on Mashable's site redesign. It provides insight into blog design and optimization.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Twitter Accounts
Besides my main Twitter account @BILL_ROMANOS, I also have @billromanosfeed, which is a Twitter account that takes all of my FriendFeed activity and posts it to this Twitter account. So follow both accounts if you want to receive more of the content that I discover.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
GhostNet
A report on GhostNet. Click to expand to view it better.
Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network
Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network
If you Google my name "Bill Romanos" - you may also want to try "Bill_Romanos" as it picks up additional information. This is an artifact of Twitter / Blog Commenting material not being picked up without the "_". I am trying to rectify this by using Tumblr accounts to associate the two terms and other online bots/devices.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Predator X: The world's most fearsome sea monster found buried in the Arctic
Click here for the link to the news article.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
This periodic table of visualization methods is excellent. You can click on each "element" for an example. It is pretty comprehensive.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
John Conway Talks About the Game of Life Part 1
Professor John Conway here talks about the Game of Life which he invented in 1970. He is a mathematician at Princeton University.
If you enjoyed Part 1, here is a link to Part 2. It is also a short video.
If you enjoyed Part 1, here is a link to Part 2. It is also a short video.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Twitter's Growth
Want to know when the growth rate of Twitter transitioned from a linear to an exponential rate? This trend chart for Google searches clearly shows the transition in Twitter's growth rate.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Writers on Writing: A collection of interviews
A collection of writers appearing on the Charlie Rose show broken down by particular segments and topics. Excellent segments on the art of writing.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Los Alamos Researchers Create 'Map of Science'
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve information from online services. Here is a link to LANL's press release and here is a link to the research article.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Internet in 1969
Interesting look at a preconceived notion of the "Internet" or computer networking - from 1969.
Technology Demo of a Device Leading to a Profound Change in Human-Environment Interaction
This demonstration of a wearable device with a projector that will pave the way for augmented cognition and a step-change in the interaction with our environment. This is similar to the interfaces displayed in the film "Minority Report" - but goes beyond it. The demonstration was given at TED. The technology is from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry.
Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google
For information on Stephen Wolfram's Wolfram Alpha see this excellent description by Nova Spivack. Nova Spivack is the Founder and CEO of Twine.com and his Twitter profile can be found here.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Stephen Wolfram's Presentation of A New Kind of Science at MIT
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica. He also may just have revolutionized Internet search. His official website can be found here. Wolfram Alpha is the new search technology which will be released in May 2009. You can find more information on it here. The following video is a lecture / presentation he gave at MIT in 2003 on his A New Kind of Science (NKS). If you haven't seen this, it is excellent. It is about simple rule automata, but expanding automata to... well - I'll let him explain it.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Short Piece in the New York Times by Evan Williams
In this short piece, the founder of Blogger and Twitter tells New York Times readers his background.
About Bill Romanos
You can find more information about me by viewing my LinkedIn profile or the bookmarks I save on my Delicious profile. You can also subscribe to my FriendFeed account to see posts and content I share from across the internet and from there you can follow or friend me (or subscribe to) on some of the other services I use across the internet such as my Amazon.com profile. You can also friend me (if you provide a short message introducing yourself to me) on my Facebook profile.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
IBM's "brain" guy: Dharmendra Modha
Dharmendra S. Modha, manager of cognitive computing at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Excellent video on cognitive computing.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Microsoft's 2019 Vision / Data Visualization
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Seth Godin Explains Why You Need a Tribe
A conversation with Seth Godin around tribes and why we all need one, how we should be the best in the world at what we do. He also discusses why he is not on Twitter.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being interviewed at Web 2.0, talking about Facebook Connect, the newest developments in social networking, monetizing social networking and the future of Facebook.
World-Wide Web Pioneer Marc Andreessen
If you are at all interested in the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and also the current problems in the newspaper industry due to the Internet, I highly recommend you watch this Charlie Rose episode with Marc Andreessen.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
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