Mathew Lowry

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A Buyer Challenge for Language Technology Innovate 2016

March 16, 2016

I’ve been invited to prepare a “Technology Buyer Challenge” on Hashtag Platform for the Language Technology Industry Summit this May. (Update, 31/3/16: this project was covered, among many other things, in an interview with professional EU interpreter Alexander Drechsel in his podcast Demos ex machina? Multilingual communication with Mathew Lowry). So I dug out some… » read more

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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

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EU Priorities and Opinion, Online Public Space

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First tests of ConTEXT on BloggingPortal reboot (updated)

October 13, 2014

After months plagued by unresponsive servers (and their administrators) and crashing hard drives, results from the first tests of applying the ConTEXT semantic engine to the BloggingPortal reboot are in, just in time for EuropCom 2014 this Wednesday. Ron Patz (@ronpatz) will present our findings – and the reboot project in general – at a… » read more

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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

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EU Priorities and Opinion, InfoSociety, Online Public Space

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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

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

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A brief history – and future – of the tag in Europe (updated)

November 27, 2013

<update date = 29/11/13> It went pretty well, given that it took 15 minutes to get a working wifi and the projector died at least 4 times… For what it’s worth, here’s the Prezi I gave. Gratifyingly, the preview of the Hashtag Europe wireframes seemed to do the job, and allow people to understand just… » read more

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InfoSociety, multilingualism, Online Public Space, Semantic Web, web2.0

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Sketches on the Metro: rebooting Bloggingportal?

September 30, 2013

Update (13/10/2013): This post has generated a few questions & objections, which I’ve answered in a constantly updated FAQAO post. All posts on the Bloggingportal Reboot are tagged bloggingportal2. — As I’ve mentioned now and then (e.g., BloggingPortal’s 3rd birthday, 2012), a desultory conversation amongst Bloggingportal editors dragged on for several years, before dying after… » read more

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Intro video: EU’s Future Internet projects

July 2, 2009

I’ve posted before on the importance of the semantic web to EU policies and programmes. Here’s a quite well-executed video about the EU’s cluster of projects in the area of Future Internet, which encompasses semantic research, a pervasive internet of things, etc. It’s not on YouTube so, like the video of Tim Berners-Lee I posted… » read more

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Mathew Lowry

BlogActiv launch director, I blogged here for exactly 10 years, then shuttered it & turned comments off, since BA doesn't even manage to handle spam properly anymore.

As BlogActiv's Launch Director, I shepherded the blog platform you're looking at now through its launch phase (August 2007-February 2008). When I left in March 2008, I was asked to keep an eye on Blogactiv from its Board, and so launched this blog to experiment and explore the European online public sphere, and the role that Blogactiv could play in it.

While I left the Blogactiv board in March 2010, the subject continues to fascinate, so I kept blogging. Summaries of the early years can be found in the Annual Reviews of 2010, 2011 and 2012, when I temporarily closed this blog to ponder where I wanted to take it.

The answer was to experiment with Tumblr and Google+, followed by LinkedIn after they invited me to join their pilot programme. Google+ & LinkedIn disappointed, so I returned here, kept experimenting with Medium, and started curating Stuff I Like, Think & Do every day on a Content Hub I built on Tumblr, which also hosts my fortnightly "best of" newsletter (subscribe).

Why? Check out my Personal Content Strategy.

Finally, in mid-October 2017, ten years to the day from my first post, I shuttered this blog.

 

Contact me for work via LinkedIn or my company's boring brochureware website.

- Mathew, March 2016


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