On the Evolution of Methods: Banditry and the Volatility of Methods

I was honored to be invited by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the University of St. Gallen to participate in the expert-workshop “Research Methods in the Digitally Networked Information Age” in Brunnen, Switzerland from 10 to 12 May 2010. On Tuesday Christian Sandvig and I moderated the “Evolution of Methods” panel in… Read more On the Evolution of Methods: Banditry and the Volatility of Methods

Photos The Next Web Conference 2010

All pictures from the Next Web Conference 2010 on Flickr. All photos licensed under a CC license: Non-commercial use allowed with a name credit: Photo by Anne Helmond Please contact me at anne.helmond(at)gmail.com if you would like to use a picture for commercial use.

The Next Web: Joe Stump on “Combining Location and real time, that’s hot!”

Joe Stump is the CTO of SimpleGeo, a company that could be described as a S3 for location services. A few stats: Lat-long timestamp per user id: every 30 seconds users update their location which amounts to 1,6 petabytes per year. Location-based services amount to about 128.000 dollar a month in S3 costs: No wonder… Read more The Next Web: Joe Stump on “Combining Location and real time, that’s hot!”

DMI Wiki Analytics Workshop report

In anticipation of the CPOV Amsterdam conference, in particular the Wiki Analytics session on Saturday March 27, the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) organized a workshop for Wikipedia researchers in town to present and discuss methods, tools and data among fellow Wikipedia researchers. What types of research can we do with Wikipedia with which tools and methods?… Read more DMI Wiki Analytics Workshop report