Impact Story: Know your impact on the Web

ImpactStory: Carl Boettiger

I just discovered Impact Story.

Impact Story is an open source metrics programme analysing any author’s and individuals impact profile on the web. It shows  what impacts from level of discussion to following  have articles, datasets, software and some other items.

It seems a way to quantify and map  the repercussion of our digital and virtual written or visual speech-acts  in the the cyberspace.

Now each person registered can mine data about themselves, finding out where their articles, tweets, jokes or any other works are cited, bookmarked, downloaded, tweeted and so on.

Below is a the case example from the developer’s Web site

ImpactStory: Carl Boettiger.

For more information on this programme, its URL is http://www.impactstory.org

Resources on philosophy of language, speech-act theory, and Web communication:

• Korta, Kepa and Perry, John, “Pragmatics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/pragmatics/

• Sadock, Jerrold, “Speech Acts” http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/f07/pragmatics/sadock.pdf

• Smith, Barry, John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality,  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,2003, pp. 1-33. Cambridge Books Online http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511613999&cid=CBO9780511613999A006&tabName=Chapter http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SearleIntro.pdf

• Sovinsky, Stephen John, Speech act theory and internet culture: computer-mediated communication in the era of Web 2.0. (Thesis) University of Utah, 2009. http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/etd2/id/2041

• Kissine, Mikhail, “Sentences, utterances, and speech acts” in Kissine, Mikhail, The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.  pp. 169-190.  Cambridge Books Online http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139022453.010

• Lee, Tien, “Publishing Software as a Speech Act” . Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 15, http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol15/tien/tien.html

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