Monthly Archives: January 2004

Independent Western America

For a long time, I’ve wondered what a West Coast Revolution would look like: you know, secession by California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii, and–for continuity’s sake if nothing else, British Columbia and Baja. If the latter two seem especially strange, remember that BC was a relative latecomer to Canada (joining in the 1870s) and [...]
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The B files

And for those consipiracy nuts out there (I know who you are) who are worried about posting because “the government” might be watching, here were the .govs and .mils from this last month. I warn you: pretty tame stuff… * Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque * Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago * Army Information Systems Engineering Command * Army [...]
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University visitors

Since I was already looking at the logs (see below), just out of curiousity, I decided to look at where my hits were coming from in terms of college campuses (and some HS with .edu addresses). I looked at the logs for the last month. I was pretty surprised by the number and the variety. [...]
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Favorite search strings

I don’t spend much time looking at the logs for this site, but this morning I looked over some of the search strings that bring people here. Note that some of these are for other blogs, etc., that I host on this site as well. Nonetheless, is there any better example of how hard it [...]
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Web analysis intro

Over the semester, I’ll be assembling some material for my Web-Analysis class. For what its worth, since these will be short, easily digestible pieces, I figured I would copy them as I write them to my blog. Comments are, as always welcome, either here on the blog. If you have corrections, additions, etc., I encourage [...]
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Remaindered links

Gallery of Data Visualization – Many of the familiar Tufte examples, and a whole lot more. Girls eating sandwiches – Exploring the boundaries of kinkiness (?) – Via Boing) Blogging at Harvard – an article reviewing the blogs at Harvard. The blogs here at the School of Informatics have not taken off the way I had hoped, [...]
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Biting blogs

Ms. Trammel asks if blogs can come back to bite you, and provides a number of examples of cases in which they have. This might be of particular interest to an academic in the job market, given that search committees inevitably google their best candidates. But this seems like a small nibble given the upside. I [...]
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