Tweets- halavais: RT @brainpicker: Trailer for Last Call, the first interactive horror movie where audience can interact with protagonist http://ow.ly/1gzPm
- halavais: Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year.
- halavais: These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1
- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
- halavais: RT @mattthomas: Every time I’m confronted by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s paywall I am reminded of why I switched to reading Insi ...
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Three QU students arrested. Chronicle?
Three undergrads have been arrested with a drug stash in their dorm. Given the trouble our campus has had with drinking, you think they might actually encourage something a bit less corrosive. (I’m only half kidding–security turned a fairly blind eye to marijuana use by students at some of the west coast universities I know.)
So, [...]
[the making of, pt. 4] Basic descriptions of the sample
This is the fourth in a series of posts about a paper I am writing, breaking down the process old-school. It started here. So, in part 3, I talked about how I got the sample of the users (and waived my hands a bit about the sample of the comments). Now, I want to tell [...]
Twittering the debates
It looks as though Current will be broadcasting the debates live with a Twitter overlay tonight, assuming there is a debate. Seems like an interesting (if distracting) way to watch.
Does (American-style) Democracy Work?
“If they lie about us, then we will correct the record,” Obama said. “But this election is too important, too serious, to be playing silly games.”
The media has been all about the campaign lies this year. Factcheck.org, a site with an august history, is probably getting more hits this month than it ever has. Heard [...]
[the making of, pt. 3] Creating a sample
(This is the third in a series of posts on the making of a research article. If you haven’t already, go back and check it out from the start.)
Having put together the bones of a literature review in part 2, I now need to collect some data. My initial aim was a round number: 2,000 [...]
Grace Jones
Still weird after all these years, and thank goodness for that.
[the making of, pt. 5] Rat in a cage