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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: August 2008
HTML as a network
No reason the structure of a web page couldn’t be visualized as a network graph. So, try it. This is what this page looked like before I made this entry. (I could try redoing it now that this entry is here–it’s only a one-level recursive process–but I think I should do something else instead.) (via [...]
The growing case for states’ rights
The idea of “states’ rights” is most often associated with ultra-right positions: those seeking states’ control of abortion and discrimination laws. During a period in which the federal government was an effective protector of human rights and liberties, this made sense. But what happens when it is the states who are protecting liberties, and the [...]
The true distribution of Wikipedia content
Given the work Derek & I did on the distribution of topics on Wikipedia, I thought this was pretty funny:
LOLBush
In case you haven’t seen it, the Guardian is running a set of photos of our fearless leader as a LOLPrez.
I’m on a Connecticut Radio (o, o, o, o)
This morning I was on WNPR’s “Where We Live,” hosted by John Dankosky, to talk about issues of social behavior and how new media affect it. You can listen from their site or download the MP3. The first 20 minutes are devoted to Dick Meyer discussing his new Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in [...]
Draft Unsyllabus for ICM/JRN 522
The following is the framework for a course without a syllabus. This document is up on Google Docs, and seminar participants will edit it together on the first night of class. Communication, Media, & Society ICM/JRN 522, Fall 2008 Tuesdays, 18:30-21:10 (GMT-5), Buckman Center 137 Instructor Alexander Halavais, 522@halavais.net Skype, Google, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed: halavais [...]
Student team-teaching