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Internet as Playground & Factory

Feel bad I haven’t had time to do a decompress on the Internet as Playground & Factory conference recently put on at the New School. I didn’t feel much up for live blogging, for some reason, or even Tweeting, despite enticements to do so. As a theme, it was intriguing. I was a bit concerned […]
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Will free with purchase

Had a strange dream last night. I was at a job interview, and rather than asking normal sorts of interview questions (even for an academic job) they were going right for the “deep” questions. I know why I had this dream–I took the “what philosopher are you?” quiz on Facebook before bed AND had pizza. […]
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Shifted Pace

Got an IM from someone checking in a few weeks back. He had gathered that my work had “changed pace.” I wondered what that meant, and he suggested that I had slowed down. Now, I am naturally lazy–a trait I am trying to more actively cultivate, but I gather he had figured that because I […]
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What Iceberg?

I’m really disappointed, but I’m giving up on any possibility of getting a paper in for the very interesting looking YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle workshop. I had a small seminar last semester, and we collected and coded a sample of YouTube videos that appeared in mainstream broadcast news, and then looked through the […]
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