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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 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Does google make libel easier?
One of the elements of libel is that you have to clearly identify the person you are talking about. Traditionally, this meant naming them, or otherwise indicating who they were in a way that was identifiable by a large number of people. In the Style section of the New York Times today is an essay [...]
Ceci n’est pas un blogue?
Rubel points to a posting on the BuzzMetrics blog about whether blog readers know they are reading blogs. It turns out they may not, according to a survey by Neilsen/Netratings. As the entry notes, anyone that works with blogs already knew that, but it’s nice to see it backed up with data. I remember talking [...]
Cruising Wikipedia
I have just been re-reading some of the material Larry Sanger has posted as a critique of Wikipedia. The open source encyclopedia, including his essay on Kuro5hin (Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism) and a memoir posted on Slashdot. I am of two minds on this issue, and the reason for this is in part [...]
Editorial Policies
A lot of little policy issues have come up for the blog lately, and so I figured I would make an overarching policy statement: Unrelated Comments or Trackbacks I will delete comments that, in my opinion, have nothing to do with the posting or with previous postings, or with previous comments. I will be very [...]
Faculty Opening
The School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo will be making a couple (a few?) faculty hires in the coming year. The first of these to come down the pike is for and assistant or associate professor (tenure or tenure track) with both an IT background and a library background. The listing appears after [...]
Remaindered Links
Another installment of a bunch-a-links that would have made too-short blog entries: * Fascinating interview with the maker of Mad Hot Ballroom. Copyright clearances made up nearly half the cost of the film. * Enlisting the power of the interweb to find an apartment in Greenpoint. Need to do something, since NYC is the 13th [...]
Bloggers as Villagers