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“An increasing amount of our social interaction with other people (and people-like agents) will be occurring online. Visualizations of these interactions can have a huge impact on how legible these social environments are, what behaviors they encourage, and how appealing they are.� Judith Donath, a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, makes this [...]

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< ?php amm_getMediaID('amm_default_output',13);?> To my mind the creation of the Doctoral Dissertation has always had certain abstract qualities. So, for those that are comforted by more concrete representations, consider the following: Dissertation by the Numbers Median page length: 225 pages Mean page length: 240 pages (ranging from under 100 to over 600 pages) 80% of [...]

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What is intriguing about this story is the way that Wal-mart, the largest company in the history of the world, according to Charles Fishman in his recent book The Wal-Mart Effect, is fundamentally changing the topology of the marketplace. The story of the gallon jar of Vlasic pickles is a case in point. < ?php [...]

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The items on Beloit College’s yearly “Mindset List” can be seen as humorous as well as a profoundly interesting time capsule. Either way, the social and cultural ramifications of the technological advances implied on their 2010 list are a testament to changes that are affecting all aspects of our daily existence. The following list suggests [...]

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I have been fighting some sort of allergy/flu/cold/upper-respiratory-whatever for the last few days and, when I woke up this morning, I knew one thing for certain. That little green gobule guy with the suitcase had moved his entire family into my chest.

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