Monthly Archives: October 2008

Quinnipiac “making a name for itself”

By alex | Published: 10/31/2008
No, I’m not talking about the arrest of three of our students for making racist threats against African-American students on campus. Rather, I’m quoting from a recent New York Times editorial, which begins People who follow politics know Quinnipiac University as the home of the polling institute that bears its name. But lately it has [...]
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Let’s do the time warp

By alex | Published: 10/31/2008
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.
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Daisy, 2008

By alex | Published: 10/31/2008
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Sedaris on undecideds

By alex | Published: 10/28/2008
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 [...]
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Yarrrr.

By alex | Published: 10/23/2008
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Gaming the (Twitter) election

By alex | Published: 10/23/2008
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 [...]
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[ir9] First session (and my paper)

By alex | Published: 10/16/2008
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 [...]
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