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Tweets
- RT @kjhealy: The scary things that can happen when you attempt to film Swedish police officers: http://bit.ly/b8Kus7 3 hours ago
- NYS to get wireless--believe it when I see the bars: http://is.gd/dTiwi 5 hours ago
- Daft Punk's Tron Legacy sountrack leaked: http://is.gd/dTf3m 5 hours ago
- I need to either learn more languages or trim my twitter feeds. Guess which one will win? 1 day ago
- No net yesterday *should* mean I got lots of work done, if we agree that the net is a distraction. Nope. 1 day ago
- Twitter peer review? http://needle.csail.mit.edu/wgat/ 2 days ago
- RT @eszter: trust in SEs paper http://webuse.org/p/a30 has gotten some press: http://bit.ly/drFMPx http://bit.ly/cyg1k8 http://bit.ly/bhjNnD 2 days ago
- RT @PublicAgenda: The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers http://nyti.ms/ar1xL9 Teaching For A Living http://bit.ly/6ZMoTS 2 days ago
- Interesting column (and comments) on the virtues and dangers of anonymity in comments (and Buff News experiment): http://is.gd/dOJz6 2 days ago
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Tag Archives: Travel & Places
Get outa town: Internet Research 8.0
Next week is conference time. No, not CMJ–that’s right here in the Big Apple. And not 4S either–are all the conferences in Montreal these days? No, I’m making my regular trip out to the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, appropriately entitled Internet Research out in Vancouver. I had initially intended to make [...]
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Not-so accidental tourist
I may be too old to be a cool traveler. While waiting for a flight, I was chatting with a retired diplomat who had been in Brisbane for a school reunion. During his career, he had served in diplomatic missions all over the world, including as a Fijian representative at the UN in New York [...]
Off to Brissie
I’ll be in Brisbane all next week (Monday to Sunday) for the Internet Research conference. I should have a bit of free time, especially before and after the conference, so if you are in that part of the world, and would like to get together, drop me an email, or comment below.
What not to bring
I was a little bit freaked out about not being able to bring my computer on the trip to Australia next month. It’s a lot of time to spend in the air with very little to do, so I had planned on finishing off a couple of books and still doing some writing.
Luckily, according to [...]
Neighborhood video
What a cool idea! Turn Here hosts short films of neighborhood tours by neighborhood denizens. Here’s one (of several) for my neighborhood.









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