BBC News: Baby's bottom censored by store

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7474968.stm

BBC News: Adults 'scared to go near kids'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7474692.stm

Guardian: Regenerate! Fans revive 60s Doctor Who

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/26/bbc.doctorwho

Computational Approaches to Measuring the Similarity of Short Contexts : A Review of Applications and Methods

A paper by Ted Pederson (arXiv:0806.3787v1 [cs.CL]):

http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3787

The Subtle Knife

This morning at 6am I was mostly reading ... chapter 12 of The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman.

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

A history of treemaps: (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/) by Ben Shneiderman (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/)

BBC News: 'Oldest' computer music unveiled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458479.stm

plus how the BBC reported the birth of "Baby" in 1948

Leadership and Diffusion in Online Communities

David Huffaker's using text analysis methods such as LIWC and Wmatrix to analyse "leadership and diffusion in online communities by exploring the relationship between communication processes, social structure and language use".

http://www.davehuffaker.com/blog/?page_id=3

How text search has evolved over the past 15 years

http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/06/15/how-text-search-has-evolved-over-the-past-15-years/

on the text technologies blog ...

TwitArcs and Wordle

http://www.neoformix.com/2008/TwitArcs.html
http://wordle.net/

with thanks to Adam.

BBC News: Man jailed over indecent images

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7453034.stm

Chinese translations

Today, I've been mostly reading and correcting glosses and translations of examples for the forthcoming Chinese Frequency Dictionary.

Dispelling the green myths

http://kate-craigwood.livejournal.com/4615.html
As seen on the BCS website.

THE article: Google generation

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402225
Thanks to John H for pointing this out to me.

Guardian article: Breakin' open the asylum

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/04/mentalhealth

Hello World!

This week I've been mostly reading ... exam scripts!