I read and excellent article in the NYT technology section today and came across a term that hits home: sentiment mining. A long time ago we posted about “We feel fine” and since then, it seems that sentiment mining has gone from an interesting art project to a money-making technology.
In the article, the founders of
Sentiment mining: new term, new field. A new web?
August 24, 2009 – 2:29 pm
Social Network Analysis: from disillusionment to enlightenment
August 12, 2009 – 2:21 pm
While reading Claude Malaison’s blog, I came across Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle graph. While Claude’s analysis mainly concentrated on the peak position of cloud computing and the eminent decline of the microblogging (sorry for those of you who can’t read in French) hype, my eye was drawn to the more mature technologies.
I was encouraged to
Newspapers and democracy and Iran
June 17, 2009 – 2:15 pm
John Ibbitson wrote an interesting article today titled ‘How does U.S. democracy survive without its newspapers? ‘. Funny really, because most people in my social network today are posting and tweeting about almost the very opposite question: how blogs are an essential tool for democracy in Iran.
Well, not that funny, because after painting a dismal
Place Magazine’s Montreal Music Scene Network Graph
April 9, 2009 – 1:59 pm
Last Friday I attended a monthly concert/party hosted at a luthier’s atelier in the garment district side of Mile End with my buddy and band mate Al Kohl of Loaded Films. We had the good fortune to meet Amy Vickberg and Jen Hamilton of Place magazine.
As luck would have it, Place magazine’s headquarters are in the same building
An astrophysicist, blogs and strategy at the HEC
March 13, 2009 – 1:50 pm
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of giving my first academic seminar since my days as an astrophysicist, to the GéPS group at HEC. So what is an astrophysicist doing giving a talk to the management and strategy group at a business school?
Well, talking about how blogs are changing the nature of strategic information of course!
Over the two
“Old school” journalists, journalists who blog, and bloggers
February 3, 2009 – 1:18 pm
I ran across this cartoon in the Tobias Escher’s excellent blog at the Oxford Internet Institute:
Besides the fact that it is funny and kinda true, does anything strike you? The date maybe? 2005!
That’s right 2005!
Maybe somebody should send this to Christie Blatchford the next time she decides to belittle bloggers and journalists who blog (aren’t
Major Bugs in Google Blog Search
August 14, 2008 – 10:51 am
Last month I was working with Zach Devereaux (you can read some of his academic work with the team at Ryerson’s Infoscape Media Lab on the blogosphere surounding the liberal leadership race), who pointed out an excellent blog post from the Oxford Internet Institute that characterises some of the problems we here at Exvisu have come across
BareMinerals at Webcom
July 10, 2008 – 10:49 am
It has been nearly a month and a half since the latest installment of Webcom in Montreal; however, the study we did and passed around at K3 Media’s conference booth was just too interesting to let lie…
Working with Aleece Germano, we produced a report and found many insights into how people use and perceive BareMinerals makeup, a top-selling
Twitter intelligence?
May 8, 2008 – 10:32 am
Last week, Chris Scott, a friend and an excellent Drupal and Ruby on Rails developer, (http://www.extonrails.com/) sent me this link. I have been constantly using it ever since.
Summize Labs has come up with a real-time twitter sentiment mapper and overall evaluator. It is pretty simple: you type in a word or a person, and it
Alcan & Alcoa in Iceland
March 7, 2008 – 10:07 am
Alcan and Alcoa in Iceland is our blog based network intelligence mini-study of the sustainability debate surrounding the aluminum industry’s role in that small country. This study has been featured in the latest online issue of Corporate Knights magazine. I especially like Prof. David Wheeler’s ANT-like approach to corporate structure:
Think of the modern corporation less as a