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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 2 days ago
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Archives
Monthly Archives: August 2003
Toward the Lifelog
Thomas Burg picked up on my recent quote from Eco and links to another model for lifelogging of sorts, Buckminster Fuller’s Chronofile. Coincidentally, I have been wrestling with managing my citations and my calendar, when I read Phil Wolff’s very intriguing post on semantic weblogging, complete with a link to HP’s page for research on [...]
Bet Mickey’s pierced, too
Michael Feldman notes that this Sunday is Bats Day at Disneyland, a day for all of the sunny Southern Californian goths to descend upon the Magic Kingdom and… wait… The last time I tried to get into Disneyland in eye makeup–and admittedly this was in 1991 or so–they gave me nothing but trouble. I was [...]
Geocom
Cool class at UT Austin on Geography of the Information Society. Would to teach a course like this–be even better if I could team teach it with a geographer. Heck, would be better still if I could team teach it with a geographer at another campus.
Public diaries
“I believe that an intellectual should use newspapers the way private diaries and personal letters were once used. At white heat, in the rush of an emotion, stimulated by an event, you write your reflections, hoping that someone will read them and then forget them. I don’t believe there is any gap between what I [...]
Ranking Schools
Now that the (silly) US News school survey is out, there is some attention to school rankings. The doctoral program survey results for communication is an interesting read. SUNY Buffalo isn’t ranked–we don’t actively recommend the students take the survey, and I think I see why. Those schools that I would expect to have a [...]
Blackout in Space
During Blackout! 2003 I remarked to Jamie how cool it would be to see a satellite image of a good chunk of the eastern seaboard without electricity. I thought it would look something like this. The reality is a bit less striking.
Good for something