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Monthly Archives: February 2003
Media Law Test
I had a setback in Media Law yesterday. I tried to do mini-mock trials: twelve of them simultaneously. It was not a pretty sight. I may write more on this on Tuesday.
I also decided to talk politics on the class site. How can we be going to war and expect to ignore it? It seems [...]
Big time word freq!
Anyone who knows what I’ve been working on lately, knows that it has to do with changes in word frequency over time. I’m using this to analyze differences in newspaper coverage, to identify salient changes in hate speech sites, as well as to look at the “social weather” of blogs. It looks as though I [...]
Digital Privacy Lecture
Sonia Arrison, from the Pacific Research Institute came to speak on the campus last week. There was a good turnout, driven in part by Gary Ozanich and I encouraging our undergraduate students to attend, and a good showing of students from the Masters in Informatics program. (Some comments on the lecture from students in my [...]
Drafty AIR Panel
Enough people have expressed an interest in doing a panel on blogging for the Association of Internet Researchers conference this autumn, that I’m going to try to throw it together at the last minute. The proposal is due March 1, so there is some coordination effort required. I have a list of folks I need [...]
San Diego Article
I think the article in the Union Tribune last week (A penny for your blogs) is fairly nicely put together. It manages to de-hype while still getting at some of the promise of the medium. I recently talked to a journalist and predicted that we would know that blogging had hit the turning point when [...]
Granted
Due to the tireless efforts of Liz Lawley the Microcontent Research Center proposal was submitted to NSF. I am very much the not-counting-chickens sort of pessimist, so I won’t talk about our chances. What I will say is that it was a great opportunity to look at some of the research challenges that exist. Everyone [...]
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