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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-08</title>
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Violated my rule of not flying @usairways, and now they are repaying me by holding my bag hostage. #
@beka2410 Yeah you too! Good luck on your trips &#8211; see you later this month. in reply to beka2410 #
HT2010 Modeling Social Media Workshop &#8211; 6/13, Toronto w Ed Chi, Barry Wellman, Marti Hearst (http://ping.fm/GZpxk) /via @edchi, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01</title>
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Hooray for t-shirt skiing day! (@ squaw valley ski resort) http://4sq.com/cOEH9m #
BTW, I hope to incorporate a slide this great into a talk in the future: http://twitpic.com/15hc0u #
&#34;Be found on Twitter&#34;: http://twitpic.com/15hayt » One thing I don&#39;t see is a place to turn this off if I want to&#8230; #
If Sketch2Photo works as advertised, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01</title>
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Hooray for t-shirt skiing day! (@ squaw valley ski resort) http://4sq.com/cOEH9m #
BTW, I hope to incorporate a slide this great into a talk in the future: http://twitpic.com/15hc0u #
&#34;Be found on Twitter&#34;: http://twitpic.com/15hayt » One thing I don&#39;t see is a place to turn this off if I want to&#8230; #
If Sketch2Photo works as advertised, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22</title>
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Furnace broken in the cabin. Might be a tad chilly tonight.  http://yfrog.com/3nicpqj #
Another article on Content-Centric Networking from @PARCinc: http://bit.ly/9pSQ0w #CCN #
Wow! Class-Action suit against Google over Buzz already &#8211; http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2360046,00.asp #
Salesforce.com launches &#34;Chatter&#34;, a FB-like enterprise soc. ntwk » http://bit.ly/dkzs53 /via @carechiang, @jswartz652, @usatodaytech #
RT @gabor: reMail acquired by Google! http://bit.ly/afolzb » Wow, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/02/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-22/</link>
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		<title>The Madness of Crowds: From &#8220;Tulipomania&#8221; to the &#8220;Anti-Vax Movement&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been interested a bit in looking at how to help people find high-quality information on the web - recently, I have been exploring how to help people make better credibility judgments about the information they find. One paper I was reading, "Statement Map: Assisting Information Credibility Analysis by Visualizing Arguments" by Koji Murakami and others at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, uses as a motivating example the recent movement against vaccinations for children, specifically the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella), as the result of fears that these vaccines could cause autism.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/02/the-madness-of-crowds-from-tulipomania-to-the-anti-vax-movement/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-15</title>
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Mmm&#8230;devil cheese.  http://yfrog.com/1evepwj #
Think @sunshineamonra and I are in the process of getting Cougarized. She might be barking (roaring?) up the wrong tree. #
@sunshineamonra, @schauertime, &#38; I have The Stud all to ourselves! #
Yeahhhh&#8230;that&#39;s awkward. Oh Canada&#8230; #van2010 #
The difference b/w Canada &#38; US is that you can do a performanc like that in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/02/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-15/</link>
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		<title>The Rise of GoogVark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, in a seemingly inevitable, but nonetheless surprising move, Google has purchased Aardvark for $50 million. My last blog post was about Aardvark's recent paper describing their social search engine, which included allusions to the research paper which was responsible for the creation of Google, so the announcement seems timely.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/02/the-rise-of-googvark/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-08</title>
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@sunshineamonra: &#34;I see why people like football &#8211; the anticipation every time they hike the ball is like watching a figure skater jump!&#34; #
@EvanMPeck The New Yorker in me wants to offer the suggestion &#34;New Jersey&#34; #
RT @Madrox: @skairam there&#39;s been a lot of fud about this. They ban LB ads in non-LB apps. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Paper about a Large-Scale Social Search Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the team at Aardvark unveiled a new paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine" which will be presented in April at WWW 2010. Inspired by and patterned after "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", which describes the PageRank algorithm which drives Google's search ranking system (which as Aardvark's blog points out, was also presented at WWW 12 years ago). The paper, by Aardvark's Damon Horowitz and Stanford's Sep Kamvar, focuses mostly on the architecture of the Aardvark system, from the external representations with which users interact to the internal ranking algorithms on which the system runs. Below, I present a short summary of what they report, focusing on the elements I found most interesting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/02/anatomy-of-a-paper-about-a-large-scale-social-search-engine/</link>
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		<title>Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an email message announcing the creation of a new journal, entitled The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR), which focuses on reporting research efforts that differ from "what is traditionally thought of as a publishable result."  They are looking for papers in both Computer Science and Life Science.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sanjaykairam.com/blog/2010/02/journal-of-serendipitous-and-unexpected-results/</link>
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