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Monthly Archives: May 2006
We Feel Fine
Ouch and bravo. Some of you know I’ve been crawling and working toward an emotional mapping system for blogs. Someone beat me to it! Check out We Feel Fine. It scrapes text that starts “I feel” and counts up the feelings that follow. Good stuff.
Not enough to kill my work: I have a few more [...]
BookDrive DIY
Well, not quite DIY, I suppose, but a bit closer. The BookDrive DIY is a platform for scanning books. Unlike machines that are substantially more expensive, this one makes you turn the page. I wonder how much it costs to hire a page-turner. It seems like highly outsourceable work, but when you don’t DIY, it [...]
BestBlogForward?
Kevin is trying to get people to post about their most popular blog entries and tag it through Technorati with bestblogforward. He suggests three methods for determining your most popular entries: by comments, by hits, or by Google. Thing is, these lead to different posts. It’s an interesting question in itself: how do you decide [...]
Alex Halavais Quotes
A Google Alert pointed me to this page, which lists some of the saying that I am famous for. It seems like these have been assembled automatically from newspaper article quotes, because they, um, aren’t very profound. If they had pulled from people who quoted me on the web–like here–they might have ended up with [...]
Proud Alum
I am quite happy to find that the University of Washington (which I tricked into giving me a Ph.D.) is the epicenter of World of Warcraft. Right on.
My undergrad institution ranks a lowly 16th. Buffalo is 63rd, Quinnipiac is 385th. These need to be weighted by enrollment, obviously.
New job: Quinnipiac
This has been sitting around as a draft for months, and is probably the worst-kept secret ever. I’m excited to announce that I have accepted a position at Quinnipiac University, as Assistant Professor of Interactive Communication. I was lucky enough to interview with a few really great universities, but Quinnipiac offered, and I was happy [...]
Law, Order, & Our Building