Tag Archives: Research

Why I’m not blogging

This sort of post has now become a staple, but here are some things I’m doing instead of blogging. I’ll try to post a little bit about these projects as they progress. * Finishing up my new book, Search Engine Society. I’m putting the finishing touches on the index. All of it was desperately out [...]
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Sidelines for street acrobats

We did not foresee that the men would have more problems with sexual performance (maintaining their erection) than the women in the scanner. All the women had a complete sexual response, but they described their orgasm as superficial. Only the first couple was able to perform coitus adequately without sildenafil (experiments 1 and 2). The [...]
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Art gallery frequenters

Sorting through some of my old papers from when I was a graduate student, I find an exercise one of our professors (John Bowes) had us do, sorting through some of the General Social Survey. The following sentence leaps out from my analysis: Those who visit art galleries, when compared to those who don’t, are: [...]
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Social Graph API

If you are like me, you probably think that XFN and FOAF are really cool ideas that just don’t seem to end up being very useful. Part of the reason for this is that it has been a little difficult for people to understand what the use of the links are, since there aren’t a [...]
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Online survey tools

People frequently post to AIR-L asking what host they should use for their online survey. I decided it would be worthwhile to compile these answers and put them somewhere (on the AIR Wiki) for future reference. Survey Monkey Survey Monkey is the most frequently mentioned web-based survey system on AIR-L, and many researchers have posted [...]
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Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere

Hey, speaking of things happening in the city I want to go to, Trebor just let me know about a panel at New School next Friday that looks really promising. The three panelists are each interesting and original thinkers in their own right, with enough convergence/divergence to provide for an interesting discussion, I think. Hope [...]
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Publication: Geographical Distribution of Blogs in the US

This will look familiar to regular readers of the blog, but the final version of the blog geocoding paper wound up in Webology. So even if you have read it before, you can now get on the NSA’s watch list by visiting an Iranian website. (Kidding. I hope?) Here’s the abstract: Blogging has diffused rapidly [...]
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  • Tweets

    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
    • This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
    • @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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