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Democracy & Independence conference

By alex | Published: 4/13/2006
This June 29-July 1, there is a “conference and roundtable summit” at UMass entitled Democracy & Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World. It looks to be a great conference, and is right up my alley, in terms of interests. Unfortunately, it’s a bit spendy for me ($350), especially considering I’m a bit […]
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Chinese Bloggers

By alex | Published: 4/11/2006
Regarding the increase in Chinese bloggers, I coincidentally ran into the translation of a survey reported as Why Blog? in the Dongfang Morning News (via Zona Europa): Here are some results of a survey of 2,020 Chinese bloggers; the sampling methodology is unspecified, so please hold that grain of salt. * 26.2% started between 6 […]
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Sampling from Weblogs.com

By alex | Published: 4/10/2006
Obtaining a sample of blogs is–as with sampling on the web in general–not as easy as it should be. One way I’ve done this in the past is to sample from a “ping server.” Most weblog systems and services send pings out to updating services to let them know that new content has been posted. […]
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Blackboard Blogging

By alex | Published: 4/5/2006
Just flew into town and boy does my back hurt. Wait, I don’t know if I got that right. The Washington Post is running a few short articles on edublogging: an overview titled Blackboard Blogging, an article about the illustrious Will Richardson, a sidebar from Jessica, who is helping me out this semester, and an […]
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