Monthly Archives: September 2008

[the making of, pt. 5] Rat in a cage

[This is the fifth in a series of posts about a piece of research I am doing on Digg. If you like, you can start at the beginning. At this point, we have the data, and are manipulating it in various ways to try to show some relationships.] Extracting some variables One of the things we want [...]
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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, [...]
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[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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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[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 [...]
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Grace Jones

Still weird after all these years, and thank goodness for that.
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