Sotomayor Web Chatter Index - Week 6

New items and faded topics

Jarring but interesting to see that "racist" made the top 20 this week. Palin also vaulted to into the top 20 this week. Letterman made a come back to the top 20.

As noted last week, CNN indeed dropped off the list as suspected. Nightline probably did a program on this topic so it made the top 20, we will see if it stays next week. And, finally, instead of making a run for the top spot that Foxnews occupies, Gingrich lost ranking in all three results. It may be time for him to say a few new things.

More on the results

A reminder, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine used in this analysis, please let me know at yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com.

Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)

Google	Yahoo	Microsoft
sotomayorhtml www.foxnews.com justices sotomayorâ courts nominees facility concerns serving issued cityâ ended ricans served moved rican hearings filed krimstock sotomayor	www.foxnews.com sotomayor sotomayorâ sonia souter online.wsj.com scotus scotusblog gillibrand gingrich nominee judgeship schumer ginsburg supreme justices krimstock nomination hispanic racist	scotus palin gillibrand gingrich schumer obama scotusblog justices gop souter rulings politico republicans nominee cuomo blotter sotomayor nightline letterman unanimous

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Mobile, the next Cloud frontier?

Buzz Words

I have been following Cloud Computing. Buzz word or not, it is a good way to talk about a shift in how we think of computing services. And, like many computing services, it would eventually impact the life of everyday consumer.

Cloud Computing prediction

I did an internal analysis and presentation recently. It got me thinking about the implication of that shift and how it would manifest itself. At a high level, Cloud and mobile computing seem inevitable - I think the bigger question is which mobile platform (smartphone, netbook, etc.) will be the winner.



I suppose we will only know for sure in a few more years.

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Sotomayor Web Chatter Index - Week 5

New items and faded topics

"Gingrich" is mounting a come back. It has gone up a bit on the ranking in both Yahoo and Microsoft and is just one place shy of making it into the top 20 for the Google result. Interesting to see CNN popping up high in the Yahoo result; I wonder if it will fade next week. Even more interesting, Google show up in the top 20 for Yahoo results. Not sure what is the explanation on that one.

www.foxnews.com retained its #1 ranking in two of the three search engines. I don't suppose Gingrich would make a run for the #1 spot?

More on the results

A reminder, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine used in this analysis, please let me know at yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com.

Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)

Google	Yahoo	Microsoft
www.foxnews.com justices rulings defenses sotomayorâ questioning dissented nominees sotomayor circumstances schumer fourth krimstock souter cityâ ended activist judges efforts rican	www.foxnews.com sotomayor sotomayorâ www.cnn.com sonia souter www.newsday.com gingrich nominee schumer ginsburg judgeship nlj cuomo krimstock supreme justices www.google.com hispanic republicans	schumer gingrich justices obama gop souter defenses cuomo sotomayor republicans rulings democrats nominee politico leahy moynihan centrist reversals princetonian prosecutor

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T-shirt contests

Subject: Intern t-shirt design
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009
To: PARC

Design this year’s Intern t-shirt!

Clever, Silly, Colorful, Funny, Serious, Technical
Whatever your mood, design this year’s intern t-shirt.

Submit your design by 5:00 pm: Thursday, June 18.

Everyone welcome to submit designs, the interns will vote on their favorite.



My submission

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Subject: And the winner is...
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009
To: PARC

... the “PARC Grass” intern t-shirt design.

Congratulations to the design team.

Ordering.
Please send an email with your t-shirt size and if you’d like a women’s or men’s.

Thanks,


Winner: PARC grass

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Sotomayor Web Chatter Index - Week 4

New items and faded topics

Meteor rise of "Gingrich" had an equally hasty retreat on Google. #1 last week and #30 this week. The interesting new entrant for this week is Letterman of the TV talk show fame. Do you think that is the amount of time it takes for Letterman's writers to come up with a good line on this topic?

www.foxnews.com keeps coming back up. I suppose this confirms its position as the voice of the opposition to her nomination.

More on the results

A reminder, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine, please let me know at yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com.

Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)

Google	Yahoo	Microsoft
sotomayorhtml www.foxnews.com justices sotomayorâ courts nominees facility concerns serving issued cityâ ended ricans served moved rican hearings filed krimstock sotomayor	www.foxnews.com sotomayor sotomayorâ sonia souter online.wsj.com scotus scotusblog gillibrand gingrich nominee judgeship schumer ginsburg supreme justices krimstock nomination hispanic racist	scotus palin gillibrand gingrich schumer obama scotusblog justices gop souter rulings politico republicans nominee cuomo blotter sotomayor nightline letterman unanimous

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Unofficial Tour

Intern season

Summer intern season is upon us. New faces to know and interesting ideas to toss around. This is going to be fun.

Unofficial tour for interns

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From: Juan, Y.F.
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009
To: Interns
Subject: Unofficial tour: the PARC time machine

Hi folks,

As you know, PARC had a finger or two in starting many technology that we take for granted today. The better question is that now you are at PARC, have you seen or touched these original ideas in person?

Today at 3pm, if you are interested, come by...there will be a tour on Ethernet, Alto, etc.

Bring your camera!
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A piece of history in hand













T. Peck and a 4Mb disk for Alto
(Picture by Brian Lim)
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National Initiative for Social Participation

Where is social media taking us?

If you are reading this blog, you are a participant in social media. And, in a world of Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, social media is not just a technology phenomenon, it is an important part of the cultural and social fabric.

Given its prominence in the everyday life around the world, it is surprising that there has not been a systematic understanding of its many dimensions.

Some fundamental questions surrounding social media

Peter Pirolli at PARC is one of the organizers behind this whitepaper that tries point out the importance of social media and calls for a national level organization like NASA to tackle the following six challenges:

* A Nation of Neighbors
* A National Deliberative Process
* Encyclopedia of Life
* Climate Collaboratorium
* Energy Initiative: Socio-technical systems supporting reflective communities
* Enabling Healthy Living

You can find the full document and related information at http://iparticipate.wikispaces.com/

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Sotomayor Web Chatter Index - Week 3

New items and faded topics

It is interesting to see how the three search engines find relevant. The new item that caught my eye for this week was the word "Gingrich" which was not in the top 20 from the prior weeks. This week, it showed up as top 20 in all three.

On the other hand, "www.huffingtonpost.com" completely disappeared in the result; not just the top 20 but the top 1,000 entries. I wonder if this means that www.huffingtonpost.com's voice is being overwhelmed?

More on the results

A reminder, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine, please let me know at yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com.

Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)

Google	Yahoo	Microsoft
gingrich sotomayorhtml rulings judges questioning nominees malesko americans proceedings sotomayor sotomayorâ matters ricans helped upheld princetonian issued correctional criticized aspects	www.foxnews.com sonia sotomayorâ sotomayor souter online.wsj.com www.newsday.com scotusblog granholm gillibrand malesko gingrich nominee schumer ginsburg supreme judgeship justices krimstock upheld	schumer gillibrand granholm obama justices hispanics gingrich correctional scotusblog republicans gop souter rulings politico nominee judgeship racist centrist leahy reversals

Sotomayor Web Chatter Index - Week 2

Yahoo vs. Google

It is always interesting to compare the results. While I expect the results to converge on the topic over time, it seems that we are still in the early stage in this discussion.

What is particularly interesting is to see Yahoo seems to list more news outlet as a key term than Google. On the other hand, the ranking of the news outlet is different between the two.

Notes, Technical and Otherwise

I was having some technical difficult generating data from Microsoft's Live Search. Hope to get it fixed in time for next week's queries.

A reminder, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine, please let me know at yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com.

Update: 2009-06-03
Thanks to the technology team, Microsoft results were collected and added to this list.

Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)

Google	Yahoo	Microsoft
democrats www.huffingtonpost.com ruled sotomayor www.foxnews.com hispanics americans courts lawyers seeks granholm died upheld questioning doctor dissented nation souter helped sotomayorâ	sotomayorâ sotomayor www.foxnews.com sonia souter www.newsday.com nominee upheld malesko www.huffingtonpost.com justices granholm ginsburg supreme gillibrand krimstock hispanic nomination judgeship claret	schumer obama granholm hispanics justices correctional gillibrand republicans gop rulings souter centrist unanimous upheld nominee reversals leahy www.huffingtonpost.com reversed