Monthly Archives: January 2005

Ecstasy and Agony

Nice to find your Ph.D. alma 20th in a list of the top universities in the world — just about half the score of Harvard, at far less than half the price. Not as nice is finding the institution you work for listed in the 200-300 group.
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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.
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Dinner Menu

Had some friends over for dinner, and then moved to another house for board games. Menu: Appetizer: Assorted cheeses and crackers. Fresh guacamole and tortilla chips (by request). Stag’s Leap Chardonnay (1997). Main course: Beef tenderloin with garlic-bread stuffing and wrapped in bacon. Cappellini and broccoli in herbed (Italian parsley and basil) butter. Escarole salad [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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