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The servants’ table

By alex | Published: 5/23/2005
I remain wary of those eager to label blogging a revolution and skeptical when people claim that the mainstream media “doesn’t get it.” But then there is something like this: I think we would be poorly served as a nation were the primary news-gatherers to fall on such hard times that we had to count […]
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World Wide Web When?

By alex | Published: 5/3/2005
Boyhowdy Links to The Time Traveler Convention being held next week at MIT. I’m too busy to make it next week — maybe later. They have published a call for participation and are asking that it be distributed forward in time as completely as possible. We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that […]
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Leaving the nest, sorta

By alex | Published: 4/25/2005
Congratulations go to Kara Kerwin, who this afternoon successfully defended her masters thesis, Hyperlink Use on Personal Weblogs. I’m sure she will post her thesis once it is submitted and official. She conducted IM focus groups and looked at the motivations for creating hyperlinks on personal weblogs. We will (once she gets through the red […]
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Grads Blogging

By alex | Published: 4/18/2005
Derek Mueller has a podcast up of a recent conference presentation on weblogs and emergence, in which he explains why graduate students should blog. And while we are on the subject, Kevin Lim has been blogging for a while now, but lately he has really kicked into overdrive, and with good effect. His is now […]
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