Why do we learn? In his book Human Motivation Robert E. Franken, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, defines motivation as “the arousal, direction and persistence of behaviour.” Consider Franken’s definition – we get aroused, we work with a sense of direction, and we persist – we keep doing things, as we learn them. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Semantic Web’
Google Goes Semantic… Finally!
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: a Web of relations, Alison Gopnik, Baader Szabolcs, Curiosity, David Deutsch, David G. Myers, Douglas Rushkoff, Edge Foundation, Eric Schmidt, explanatory truth, Google 3.0, John Birtchnell, John Markoff, Linkedin Digital Media Technologies Group, machine readable information, motivation, questioning process, rich machine readable information, Robert E. Franken, semantic relationships, Semantic search, Semantic Web, Steven Pinker, third culture
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My 2008 carryover keywords
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Android, Arthur C. Clarke, Chrome, David Foster Wallace, digeracy, Digital Literacy, Eartha Kitt, Guitar Hero, Harold Pinter, iPhone, iSuppli, Jeffery Hudson, Local Search, Mark lives, michael crichton, Miriam ‘Mama Africa’ Makeba, MUFC, NaNoWriMo, Odetta, Paul Newman, ReadWriteWeb, Russell Shorto, Semantic Technologies, Semantic Web, subjective well-being, SuperGizmo, SWB, Symbian, The Geography of Bliss, the World Database of Happiness, Ubuntu, Uska Dara
My brand new notepad is waiting for 2009: pristine enticingly empty. Before the old notepad is deposited on the shelf, I’ve selected a few of the more important notes, the ones I wish to carry over to 2009.
Webs, clouds and tags of meaning
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in NarrativesTags: bots, Charlie Brooker, cloud of meaning, Content Managemant Systems, Grokker, information enablers, information repositories, Kartoo, Pixsy, Private Eye online, Quintura, Search Engine Optimisation, search engine robots, semantic cloud, Semantic Web, semantics, SEO, SEO visibility, The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee, visual search engines
Some time ago, The Guardian‘s Charlie Brooker wrote an article knocking the idea that 9/11 was some sort of demonic conspiracy by sinister industrial-military stakeholders in the US government. No ways, argued Charlie, for conspirators to bypass the gigantic pile of bureaucratic dust that is likely to be required in order to commission a governmental [...]