tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.comments2011-08-25T19:57:17.050-07:00Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-809395185546278212011-02-13T17:37:21.254-08:002011-02-13T17:37:21.254-08:00Interesting. Given the language of Karp&#39;s apology, I&#39;m puzzled by Palantir&#39;s involvement. It could be that they were duped by others, but either way, I&#39;m sure there&#39;s more to the story.<br /><br />As a practitioner, I&#39;m quite concerned about the use of such tools by the ethically impaired - even as I work to persuade both scholars and activists of their positive potential.Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-71036732155454415362011-02-12T18:51:40.436-08:002011-02-12T18:51:40.436-08:00[should probably clarify lest it be unclear: this isn&#39;t about whether the proposal is anything but evil; merely about whether Palantir should be considered to be tarred with its brush]eldanhttp://eldan.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-10986755614992922342011-02-12T18:50:44.065-08:002011-02-12T18:50:44.065-08:00It sounds like Palantir has pretty comprehensively disowned this proposal:<br />http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/11/campaigns<br /><br />I&#39;m not quite sure what to make of it, but Greenwald seems to be satisfied.eldanhttp://eldan.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-4401957614329200252007-09-23T13:29:00.000-07:002007-09-23T13:29:00.000-07:00Good point, Dave. And I suspect for most public "web" information, you're likely right that collective tagging is more than sufficient.<BR/><BR/>But in terms of the larger issue of information glut, there are still significant areas where content has not been made widely available, such as legal support and law enforcement (e.g., evidentiary corpora), or national intelligence. <BR/><BR/>The solution space for these areas is usually not called a "semantic web," but the underlying problem is the same - to develop (semi)automated tools capable of helping humans (experts and non-experts alike) filter "meaning" from an ocean of content.<BR/><BR/>There have been proposals to use "Web 2.0" tools within the intelligence community, but I suspect its relatively smaller size (relative to the vast data they monitor) will diminish the effectiveness of such tools.Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-66784507878014820522007-09-22T19:06:00.000-07:002007-09-22T19:06:00.000-07:00I take issue with the notion of the semantic web as a whole. Why turn to a solution of difficult, unreliable, automated high-level reasoning when we have the web community acting collectively to process this information?<BR/><BR/>Love it or hate it, "Web 2.0" is upon us, and there are enough people out there tagging pages and data in a *useful* way (del.icio.us, e.g.) that a move to some ridiculous metafile is simply too.. well.. meta!<BR/><BR/>Consider the motivating example FTA, where one would "ask a computer to find you a low budget vacation, keeping in mind that you have a 3 year old child." I may wish to taylor the results in ways I know ("I want a room with a balcony"), or -- and here's the difficult part -- in ways I don't yet know. Only after I start looking around, digging through a few pages (googling "traveling with children is sure a good start!) will I start to even see what my options are, or what sources of information I agree with. I do not see how a semantic web agent would help with this, and if I already knew these things, then I probably wouldn't have needed the semantic agent in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Long story short: isn't collective action enough??Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06129352366830833749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-26852434114425571802007-08-27T14:49:00.000-07:002007-08-27T14:49:00.000-07:00Fascinating - thanks, Mike. It might be worth throwing in a blurb about Ithaka itself; they seem to be "birds of a feather" with Augment.<BR/><BR/>By the by, it's another beautiful day in paradise.Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-8106757443866434872007-06-02T08:14:00.000-07:002007-06-02T08:14:00.000-07:00Thanks for the reminder, Steffen.<BR/><BR/>I don't know why, but I've never been able to get Automap to work more than once per install. Which is unfortunate, as I think network modeling of common text features has a lot of potential as a method.Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-10236076755884571392007-05-25T03:32:00.000-07:002007-05-25T03:32:00.000-07:00Ken, <BR/>I deeply enjoy reading your blog and the hints to new approaches, analyses, and tools. My question: Are you familiar with Automap from the CASOS/CMU community? It´s free, and I think it covers most of the questions related to content analysis. I don´t know QDA Miner yet, and I wonder if it be worth changing my routines...:)<BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>Steffen<BR/>www.titudo.netSteffenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10790173710467474653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-5886462656553395552007-05-12T11:37:00.000-07:002007-05-12T11:37:00.000-07:00Finally, someone trying to push the debate forward by bringing the discussion out of the box. . . thanks, this is great.eGinoeverythingisdesign.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-50324370921054904272007-04-14T09:08:00.000-07:002007-04-14T09:08:00.000-07:00Excellent!<BR/>Absolutely inspiring.Mario Bergés Gonzálezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720842403685893542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-5931129964897765832007-04-07T03:53:00.000-07:002007-04-07T03:53:00.000-07:00Quite right, and thanks for the reminder, Cornelius. It's been awhile since I've looked at PHPSurveyor, and clearly the time has been well-spent on their side. I'd consider it a very strong candidate for large-scale surveys, though I imagine its apparent complexity might give many social scientists pause. Most of us are still trying to figure out how to use our email.<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/>KKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-7356598759788522222007-04-07T01:10:00.000-07:002007-04-07T01:10:00.000-07:00Hey Ken,<BR/><BR/>The new version of PHPSurveyor looks very promising. It will allow multi-language surveys and has a lot of new features compared to the old one. If you are able to install your own survey software and are low on money this is the best choice I can see since it is for free with source code.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/><BR/>CorneliusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-58007642953364059982007-03-26T09:39:00.000-07:002007-03-26T09:39:00.000-07:00Diagram was by Ray Sims, not by me. http://blog.simslearningconnections.com/Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06562256531773245140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-66386078614234000782007-03-24T09:59:00.000-07:002007-03-24T09:59:00.000-07:00I can understand taking email campaigns with a grain of salt - anything easy to automate holds little weight. Indeed, I think we'd all prefer that someone in control of a botnet *not* be able to affect policy.<BR/><BR/>However, the Internet is so much more than email! (Well, it's mainly porn, but that's for another blog..) youtube, for instance, turned the tides in the midterm elections.<BR/><BR/>I think the key here is that, in part thanks to spam (who'd'a thunk?), users of the Internet have come to realize that pseudonyms (like email addresses) are cheap and are therefore given little weight, but persistent identity with some degree of history (like a blogger), or a youtube video, are truly noticed.<BR/><BR/>So let this be a call to arms to do what Ken and Mike are doing; make a net presense for yourself, give your electronic content more weight than a random spammer.. or just lip sync the Pokemon theme song on youtube.. yay Internet for making both choices equally influential!dmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-78934332528187287272007-03-23T01:14:00.000-07:002007-03-23T01:14:00.000-07:00Hello.<BR/>We are working in the same field and would like to suggest yet another text analysis tool called Textanz. Frequency calculations for words, phrases and wordforms, readability summary, export, reports, charts and more. If interested, welcome to product page : <BR/><A HREF="http://www.cro-code.com/textanz.jsp" REL="nofollow"><BR/>http://www.cro-code.com/textanz.jsp</A><BR/><BR/>Best regards, <BR/>Alexander PotyomkinCro-Codehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264043916891821233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-49820667068341794762007-03-14T10:32:00.000-07:002007-03-14T10:32:00.000-07:00Thanks for the mention! I'm glad that you found gCensus interesting. The direct link to gCensus is <A HREF="http://gecensus.stanford.edu/gcensus/index.html" REL="nofollow">http://gecensus.stanford.edu/gcensus/index.html</A> - some readers have gotten the site confused with gcensus.com, which is a similar but unrelated project (its author and I coincidentally picked the same name). Also, my last name is "Haque", not "Hague".<BR/><BR/>Imran Haque<BR/>http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ihaque<BR/>http://gecensus.stanford.eduImranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06414188316872911517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1158778628288607302006-09-20T11:57:00.000-07:002006-09-20T11:57:00.000-07:00Ah yes, the miraculous inter-operability of Mac OS.<BR/><BR/>I run XP/Bootcamp on a Macbook, mostly due to the limited availability of certain "boutique" applications for Mac OS. Still, I find myself switching to Mac OS whenever I need to do virtually anything involving media drivers. Brilliant technology.Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1158775754527725632006-09-20T11:09:00.000-07:002006-09-20T11:09:00.000-07:00On the mac any file that can be printed can be created as a pdf. This is a system-wide service; it works out of the box with no plug-ins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1149693581796856802006-06-07T08:19:00.000-07:002006-06-07T08:19:00.000-07:00The list of veterans is a fairly complete list of current intelligence professionals, with a some other veterans included.<BR/><BR/>The list of active duty personnel is a list of future intelligence professionals, with some other people included.<BR/><BR/>Either list is a very good starting point for a methodical search for past, present, and future agents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1145505024741039302006-04-19T20:50:00.000-07:002006-04-19T20:50:00.000-07:00Thank you for linking to my analysis blog. I have added another post analyzing the US senate voting patterns for 2001 (pre and post 9/11). Also, on the post I try to explain what the networks mean (ie. how they were made and some basic conclusions).Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15666867090317164849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1144605008727652222006-04-09T10:50:00.000-07:002006-04-09T10:50:00.000-07:00I've been using TAMS analyzer for a few years now, having stumbled upon it while searching for any free qualitative analysis software for the Mac. I've been pretty happy with it thus far. After taking a UMich short course on NVivo, I realized that I definitely like TAMS much better. The interface does have a learning curve (as to be expected), but once learned, it's fairly straightforward. I've found the link with GraphViz to be particularly useful in preparing graphics for reports.Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434556231608017196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1144514580662552522006-04-08T09:43:00.000-07:002006-04-08T09:43:00.000-07:00Thanks Mike!Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1141234446210654532006-03-01T09:34:00.000-08:002006-03-01T09:34:00.000-08:00New look... <BR/>Se ve diferente, mas comprensible.<BR/>Saludos,påt®iciåhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889430144175812390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1140894826510678702006-02-25T11:13:00.000-08:002006-02-25T11:13:00.000-08:00Ken,<BR/><BR/>We are working to make scholarships and/or other discounts available to anyone who would like to attend but can't (or their organization can't) afford the registration fee, if you or your readers would like to join us but can't afford to - please email me at shannon @ meshforum.org and I'll put you on the list as scholarships come in.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for blogging about us!<BR/><BR/>ShannonShannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03513293621622334875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10939512.post-1140890099699203892006-02-25T09:54:00.000-08:002006-02-25T09:54:00.000-08:00Thanks Dave. Of course, now I'm in here tweaking. But much less stressed, to be sure.Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319346878358165365noreply@blogger.com