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Applying advanced language technologies to EU democracy

April 27, 2015

An array of sophisticated language technologies could help ideas flow across EU borders, link national conversations together and support the EU Online Public Sphere – the demos the EU needs. But BloggingPortal is unlikely to feature them. [update (17/5/15): I finally decided to kick Medium’s tyres by reposting this there, with less history. Medium’s editor… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

EU Priorities and Opinion, Online Public Space

, bloggingportal2, curation, media, multilingualism, public space, semanticweb

BloggingPortal, meet conTEXT

May 13, 2014

Recent conversations on how Apache Stanbol, an EC research project, could both support the BloggingPortal reboot and use it to expand its language coverage led me to conTEXT, which “… allows to semantically analyze text corpora (such as blogs, RSS/Atom feeds, Facebook, G+, Twitter or SlideWiki.org decks) and provides novel ways for browsing and visualizing… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Online Public Space

, bloggingportal2, public space, semanticweb

BloggingPortal, meet Apache Stanbol

February 28, 2014

Well, plus ca change – absolutely none of the things some BloggingPortal editors said we’d do after our meeting in January have been done, apart from our own posts and what Stefan did, which is ironic given that he told us he had no time to do anything. But maybe there wasn’t much point: we… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

crowdsourcing, EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, multilingualism, Online Public Space, Science & Research, socialmedia

, apache, bloggingportal2, semanticweb, stanbol

FactCheck EU or Grilling Kippers?

February 13, 2014

Tonight I’ll be toddling along to Grilling Kippers, a UKIP-focused anti-Eurosceptic campaign from deep within the Brussels Bubble. When I first heard about this, my initial reaction was to worry about the backfire, that the sight of a bunch of elite Brussels Bubble types goading UKIP supporters will reinforce their EU persecution complex. Of course,… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

crowdsourcing, EU Priorities and Opinion, eurosceptics, InfoSociety, Online Public Space, socialmedia

, crowdsourcing, EU, eurosceptics, factchecking, media, multilingualism, public space

BloggingPortal + PressEurop = ?

January 26, 2014

[Happy Birthday, BloggingPortal! For the birthday present, scroll down] Last Thursday I finally caught up with Eric Maurice of PressEurop, which recently had its plug pulled by the EC following their decision to cancel its renewal tender some weeks after publishing it (sign the change.org petition, check out the team’s volunteer blog). For those who… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

EU Priorities and Opinion, multilingualism, Online Public Space

, bloggingportal2, media, presseurop, public space

EU public sphere blogtour: half full, or half empty?

January 14, 2014

Kübler-Ross You can go for months without a good post on the EU public sphere, and then a whole bunch come along at once. As I prepare for this Saturday’s meeting of those BloggingPortal Editors who can be bothered to attend a discussion on rebooting it, I thought I’d do a quick blogtour of those… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Online Public Space, socialmedia

, bloggingportal2, blogtour, public space

Network anatomy of the EU online public sphere

December 30, 2013

[update, 31/12/2013: literally hours after this post came Tony Lockett’s Mapping the EU digital public sphere(s)] The above image is from Drake Baer‘s FastCompany article “Why Successful People Have So Many Groups Of Friends”, which is all about networking for career success, something I’ve never done and am very unlikely to start. Nevertheless I recommend… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Online Public Space, Public Affairs, socialmedia

, bloggingportal2, network, public space

Hashtag Europe: the Developers’ Cut (Updated)

December 2, 2013

[Update 11/1/14: some FAQAOs added below.] This video is aimed at developers interested in combining machine translation, automatic semantic analysis, human curation, faceted and federated search, and social media to create a machine-assisted multilingual longform content curation engine. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4EQK8kp9YZQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] The above 15 min. video summarises the current 40 page spec,… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

EU Priorities and Opinion, multilingualism, Online Public Space, socialmedia, web2.0

, bloggingportal2, curation, multilingualism, prezi, screencast

Competition: rebrand bloggingportal (updated)

October 31, 2013

It’s not strictly necessary to rebrand bloggingportal, but everyone I’ve spoken to thinks it’s a good idea, so why not have a little competition? This is more about coming up with a neat idea than holding a design competition yet. For example, here’s an idea sketched out on the metro using my trusty Note2: Got… » read more

Posted by Mathew Lowry

crowdsourcing, EU Priorities and Opinion, Online Public Space, Uncategorized

, bloggingportal, bloggingportal2, design

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