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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Let’s do the time warp
Google has a search engine warped back to 2001. Even though they don’t have page caches of these sites, a little ego-searching sends me back pretty quickly.
Sedaris on undecideds
David Sedaris in the Shouts & Murmurs column of the New Yorker, entitled Undecided. On undecideds:
I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. [...]
Gaming the (Twitter) election
Last night, we did a hyper-short meeting of my large Intro Interactive grad seminar, so that we were able to go to a panel discussion on race, gender, and age in the coverage of the election. One of the objectives of the day was to get folks Twittering, and so, in about 4 minutes, I [...]
[ir9] First session (and my paper)
Yesterday, the Internet Research 9.0 conference got going at IT University in Copenhagen with a set of workshops. I participated as a mentat mentor, and I’m not sure how much the doctoral students got out of it, but I learned a great deal. It’s an interesting way of meeting academically, since we tend to deliver [...]
Quinnipiac “making a name for itself”