psychology

“TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets.”

It appears as if there is an invisible lasso around their necks pulling them in to make a bouquet of smiling heads. Their bodies dangle aimlessly as they get ready to flash their pearly whites.

Human speech is directly responsible for almost every thought and emotion we have throughout life's journey. The complexity of language and the complex messages we use it to communicate leave the possibilities wide open for just about anything. Among other more...

I managed to stop at about 5, but I play soccer and have seen this kind of stuff before.

"In traditional media, content is first filtered and then published. On the Internet, things are often the other way around. The result is a complex and confusing plurality with a coherence that frays at the edges. Such a media reality more...

Testers playing and responding to spore

A talk about a pattern I've seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy."

It all started a week before, when the CTO of Damon's midsize warehousing and transportation company in Northern California announced an innovative program to motivate employees and boost the quality of their logistics software. For every bug found by a more...

The real value now lies in non-commodifiable virtues like deep reporting, strong narrative, distinct point of view, and sharp analysis, which even in the blogger era (or especially in the blogger era) is available only piecemeal.

10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a “mixed number,” while 5/2 is an “improper fraction.” They’re equal for crying out loud. They are the same exact numbers, and have the same exact more...