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Very interesting threads on friendfeed, Twitter (follow the thread here), and YouTube give some indication of how quickly conversations over social media can come swell into the power of a mob. There’s a lot of debate over how lasting the impact might be on Motrin (or on Social Media like Twitter for that matter) One interesting starting piece is via LouisGay.com – it will be interesting to see what Motrin’s response will be to the whole affair when they get into the office Monday!”
Tags: filters, management, social software
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.”
Tags: filters, flow, philosophy, TED
40+ years ago the cyberneticist Stafford Beer forecast that computerization would be a disaster if this “new” prescription of Shirky’s was not followed [Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure delivered at the Web 2.0 Expo last week].
In a later radio broadcast summarizing some of his concepts (CBC Radio 1973; later published as “Designing Freedom” Anansi) Beer summarized the need this way:
Tags: CBC, Clay Shirky, cybernetics, design, filters, freedom, ignorance, Stafford Beer, systems
learns what you care about and alerts you when there’s new information on those subjects…
I’ve been using Particls in Beta for about 2 months now and am completely sold on it! They reached a new milestone today … Public Beta… Congratulations to Chris and all the gang …
What makes Particls different?
From News
Readers – Particls is not a newsreader, it is an alerts platform.
This means that information is displayed ‘while you work on other things’ in a heads-up-display presentation style. In this way users can keep working while staying informed.
Tags: design, filters, learning, presentations
Esper is a 100% Java component for CEP and ESP applications.
Esper enables rapid development of applications that process large volumes of incoming messages or events. Esper filters and analyzes events in various ways, and responds to conditions of int
Tags: CEP, cybernetics, filters
from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?
A team
testing the “visual working memory” of a group of subjects by getting them to look at red and blue bricks in a picture found, much their suprise, that people with the largest capacity VWM weren't actually retaining lots of additional information, but infact were simply selective in what they retained….or possibly the real genius comes in stripping out inessential information (filtering) and holding only in mind the red bricks that the researchers asked them to pay attention to.
STEAM: Scalable Timed Events and Mobility (department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin)
“Middleware supporting even-based communication is widely recognized
as being well suited to mobile applications since it naturally
accomodates a dynamically changing population of interacting entities
and the dynamic reconfiguration of the connections between them.”
“With the increased research in mobile ad hoc networks new
application domains, for example mobile robotics and traffic management
have emerged.”
Tags: CEP, design, filters, predictions, systems
Siena: Scalable Internet Event Notification Architectures (Software Engineering Research Laboratory – University of Colorado)
“Siena is a research project aimed at designing and constructing a
generic scalable publish/subscribe event-notification service.”
“The technical basis of Siena is an innovatiove type of network service called content-based networking.”
“The asynchrony, heterogeneity, and inherent loose coupling that
characterize applications in a wide-area network promote event
interaction as a natural design abstraction for a growing class of
software systems. An emerging building block for such systems is an
infrastruvture called publish/subscribe event notification service.”
Tags: CEP, design, filters, predictions, systems
Stanford CEP Research
“Complex event processing (CEP) is a new technology. It can be
applied to extracting and analyzing information from any kind of
distributed message-based system.”
“It is developed from the Rapide concepts of
“Complex event processing can be applied to a wide variety of
Enterprise monitoring and management problems, from low level network
management to high level enterprise and intelligence gathering.”- goto
originally Posted to cep.weblogger.com by David Soul on 1/15/05; 10:32:38 PM
in the CEP section.
Tags: CEP, design, filters, predictions, systems
The Stanford Rapide ™ Project
“The Rapide ™ Language effort focuses on developing a new technology for building large-scale, distributed multi-language systems. ”
“This technology is based upon a new generation of computer languages, called Executable Architecture Definition Languages (EADLs), and an innovative toolset supporting the use of EADLs in evolutionary development and rigorous analysis of large-scale systems.”
“Rapide ™ adopts a new event-based execution model of distributed, time-sensitive systems — the ‘timed poset model.’ Posets provide the most detailed formal basis to date for constructing early life cycle protyping tools, and later life cycle tools for correctness and perfomance analysis of distributed time-sensitive systems.”- goto
Tags: CEP, design, filters, predictions, systems
