The semantic web approaches! Powerlabs, which will launch in early September, utilizes Powerset, a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search and takes advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language, according to the company. At the moment, they’re accepting sign-ups for pre-release experimentation. Comments

Saludos! …to visitors from the UMN-FLACSO knowledge seminar! I hope that this blog will serve as good resource for exploring issues surrounding knowledge and innovation societies. There are three easy ways to navigate this site to find the information you’re interested in: Use the search box at the top of this page. Browse the list [...]

Sometimes pictures are worth more than a thousand words. Here’s a photo recap from the past week in China…   Shanghai at night Conference poster at Anqing Teachers College I present my stuff with translation help from Wu Jian (“Johnson”) At the Huang Mei Opera Meeting with Anqing Teachers College leaders Comments

A collaborative work by Kevin Boyack, Dick Klavans and W. Bradford Paley maps the relationships among scientific paradigms through an analysis of published works in 2003. Seed Magazine has a link to a much larger JPEG (5.3MB) as well as a description of how the image was constructed. Prints of the image are also being [...]

Since traffic to this site is typically down in August, while most visitors are on break, I used this opportunity to redesign the site. This new blog theme is based on the Leia Theme created by Kapikua. After a little tweaking, it is now translated in English and supports WordPress widgets. Other changes include: Google [...]