We're trying to start another Graduate Student Organization here at UAlbany. It's called the Community of Practice, and the idea is to create a social networking association for Information Science (and related) grad students. Matt and I have a couple of different angles on the issue, his more interpersonal, mine more about social computing as the foundation for this exchange of ideas. Unfortunately, there's not yet a culture for this sort of thing here, and creating one among so few people seems like a long shot. We'll find out this year.
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Thought this might be interesting. Looks like some kind of linear algebra problem, but can't quite place it right now. But it creates a matrix of "votes" for one band against all the others in the database, then arranges them on screen to measure relative proximity vs popularity to determine how "similar" one band is from another. This would be really cool for any web site, expecially a wiki or collection of blogs...
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It's kind of funny that I went back to school to do public transit research, but I'm turning into the "wiki" guy.
. But I'm looking more at the idea of user-contributed ideas for transportation and location information, overlayed on "official" transit maps and schedules. I'm going to take real GIS courses in the fall, in addition to stuff on RDF and Semantic web. I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that there's a good fit between these topics...
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I have a huge backlog of blogs from my old website that're no longer available online. Should they be posted? Ditto for a lot of handwritten notes and stuff from my school Wiki. The latter is mostly just links with some notes, so that might have to wait for some online bookmark host.
