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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
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: January 2005
The Count
Danah notices that you can now have your familiar or professional title included on your United Frequent Flier card. I took advantage of this as soon as it was offered. Nonetheless, I’ve yet to have an airline employee refer to me as “my lord.” I’m lucky if they refer to me at all.
Nerdy? I guess.
Unlike Tom, I came out way nerdier than I expected: Of course, as a high school dropout, I had to fudge a little on the favorite subject question.
Visual Settlements and Keywords That Make a Difference
Anjo Anjewierden, at the University of Amsterdam, has been doing some very cool processing of blog text to help provide a textured, understandable view of a given blog within the context of a set of weblogs. First check out his approach to visualizing blogs as “Visual Settlements” along a number of dimensions. Naturally, such a [...]
More on paid-blogging
I want to clarify a bit on the paid blogging front, and particularly on Marqui’s approach. Some (not Ms. Lawley) have privately suggested that I was being overly critical of mamamusings by labeling her decisions to take payment from Marqui as a “sell out.” I want to make clear that this was a bit tongue-in-cheek. [...]
Year of the blog Q&A
[Sue Wuetcher, from the campus Reporter asked me to participate in a Q&A about blogging and such. I suspect (hope) that she will end up cutting this down so that it is more concise and makes more sense, but here it is in the uncut version.] 1) 2004 has been called “The Year of the [...]

Ecstasy and Agony