In this paper we describe Digg, a successful social news aggregator web site. Digg allows users to submit links to news stories, as well as vote and comment on other submitted stories. It also enables users to designate other users as friends and makes it easy to track their activities, thereby creating a social network within Digg. We perform a statistical analysis of a sample of 1000 popular ...

This text focuses on the narrations of Romani in Czech Republic with regard to conversational topics which are usually not communicated either conversations across group borders or media. The covered these range from everyday life issues and stories about success employment experiences during powerful moments state’s history that resonate for all its inhabitants. narratives analysed this includ...

Since the dawn of human civilization, stories have been a popular medium of communication, both synchronously and asynchronously. Technically, a story is a time-ordered coherent sequence of events. In many applications, heterogeneous data is collected and organized so appropriate stories could be told. In this paper, we present a system that helps in generation of stories using a large database...

The use of story cards for user stories in many Extreme Programming software development projects has been widespread. Several popular traditional methods for story cards (e.g., Cohen M, Kent B) have been used in successful fashion at some extent, but all lack of the powerful features for story cards guidelines, right sort of information on story cards and quality of user stories on story cards...

ferdowsi’s shāhnāma has a monotheistic context and its narrative deep structure has been demythologized throughout history at religious, ritual and mythic levels. however, an analytical approach can spot traces of the ancient beliefs reflected in the symbolic implications of the narratives as well as the language and imagery of the shāhnāma. the first line in the preface of the shāhnāma, “in th...

OBJECTIVE This work sought to inquire on the father's role on the decision making regarding home birth from the perspective of both partners. METHODOLOGY The design was ethnographic of qualitative nature, conducted in the province of Alicante, Spain. A total of 11 couples participated voluntarily in the study. To gather the data, the following techniques were used: two life stories, five narr...

All cultures, from ancient to contemporary, retell tales of heroes of the past, over and over again. Modern Japan seems especially inundated with this kind of popular history, as such stock characters as Yoshitsune, Hideyoshi, Musashi, and Ryōma are endlessly recycled in plays, films, TV specials, and historical novels. How did this pattern come to pass? Why have certain stories persisted and f...