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Tweets
- Someone has been kind enough to point out that this is *exactly* the luck of the Irish, BTW. (I am irony-blind!) 1 day ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 1 day ago
- I do not have the luck of the Irish. Got 2 flat tires on my way back from school Weds night. Replacements won't arrive for a week. 1 day ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 5 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 6 days ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 1 week ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 1 week ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 1 week ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: April 2004
Home, blog, home
Where have all the bloggers gone? Well, basically the places you would expect. Lots in Boston, lots in Austin, lots on the coast, and a surprising dispersal in Florida (?). This is, of course, a work in progress. I had hoped to get something together for the weblog ecosystem workshop next month at WWW, but [...]
Ethics of weblog research
Lilia asks about the ethics of protecting your “subjects” when studying blogs. I’ve thought a bit about this. In my opinion, when we study blogs, we are largely studying a publication, and not a person, at least for aggregated data or quotations that are not personally identifiable. But it does raise an interesting ethical dilemma.
I [...]
Blogiomancy Update
I reran the blogiomancy script I
Blogging Platforms
Sometime over the next month or two I’m going to be rebuilding two blogging sites: this one and the Informatics Blogs server. My natural tendency is to stick with Moveable Type. v3.0 looks to be a fairly minor upgrade, and there are some other options out there. If I were going to switch, now would [...]
My US
I’m a bit embarrassed about how little world travel I have done, but I’ve done a pretty decent job of the USA. Most of these are really driven through (on several cross-country moves, for example.) I couldn’t tell you much about Idaho or Tennessee. I could do another map that was something like “spent more [...]
Free Cooperation 1
Spent the day at the Free Cooperation conference here at Buffalo. Definitely well worth the time. I’ll comment a bit on two sessions: one in the morning on issues of open content, the other I moderated in the afternoon, on social networking architectures.
Open Content Initiatives
The presentations were relatively informal. The focus generally revolved around two [...]
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