“Old school” journalists, journalists who blog, and bloggers

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

Major Bugs in Google Blog Search

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

Twitter intelligence?

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

Alcan & Alcoa in Iceland

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

Web 2.0: New technologies, Old Ideas

On my last trip to Paris I had lunch with Gilles Prigent, founder of Take Part Media and creator and administrator of Scitizen. Scitizen is a peer reviewed science news source: news edited and created directly by the scientists who make it, directed to well, everyone. The technology that allows Scitizen to work is brand new, but

We feel fine: blog emotional intelligence

My friend Tomek, a visual interface designer par excellence (http://www.pixelbox.com/), introduced me to this site a few weeks ago… it floored me with its insight and its visual display. It is similar in principal to our lexical text mapping tool here at Nexalogy. What WeFeelFine lacks in flexibility and depth (we check word correlations for all words

Red Bull at Webcom

Nexalogy unveiled its latest brand study at Webcom Montréal last week. Webcom was exciting to say the least, one could feel rise of the participative web in the conference halls. For a good summary of the Webcom conference check out Benoit Marcoux’s: blog. We (Nexalogy and K3) looked at a day in the life of

Tremblant Forum

Nexalogy attended the fourth annual Tremblant Forum on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability on the 19th and 20th of September. The Forum presented an ideal setting for communicating vital ideas about the future of corporate sustainability. Clearly the future must take a turn for the sustainable. The last session on Corporate sustainability and the media was

Nexalogy invited to NELS Nanotech symposium

On August 28 and 29th, Nexalogy was invited to the founding meeting of the NE3LS, a research network created by NanoQuébec, in collaboration with FQRNT, FQRSC, FRSQ and IRSST, focusing on ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social stakes linked to the development of nanotechnologies. Presented last August 27th-28th, this symposium follows the actions plan NE3LS