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It’s quite possible that you’re looking at the high water mark for social media in sports. It may also be the beginning of geek peanut butter getting all up in your jock chocolate that you won’t be able to escape by this time next year. (via jamiemottram & Dr. Saturday)

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smarterplanet: Using Twitter Improves Students’ Grades, And Other Surprising Tech Usage Facts OnlineEducation.net made an infographic based on results from a student/technology study. Full Story: Business Insider via emergentfutures:

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arainert: minusmanhattan: Great Twitter account or greatest Twitter account? Speechless. Where’s the internet’s ‘standing ovation’ button?

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If social media can democratize a country, you had better believe it can democratize your company.

Vijay Gurbaxani, a professor at the University of California, Irvine
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Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language. It bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks). (via Pattern […]

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