Tag Archives: Research

Peer reviewing the encyclopedias

By alex | Published: 12/14/2005
I had the idea that it would be worthwhile to assemble a panel to peer review sections of Wikipedia, within particular academic disciplines, and “freeze” a chunk of the site and certify it through peer review. That would have a duel purpose. First, it would provide an opportunity to measure the wiki, and second, it […]
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Alexa Web Search Platform

By alex | Published: 12/14/2005
Alexa is opening their engine to API access. This should provide a great opportunity to web researchers who otherwise have to deal with crawling. Of course Alexa & the Internet Archive are linked in some ways, and the IA have been nice about providing research access to their data, so it may be that the […]
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Blogs and the City

By alex | Published: 12/12/2005
A bit of a late notice, but: Jia Lin will be defending her doctoral dissertation “Blogs and the City: Weblogs as Indicators of Urban Culture in America” tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13, at 2 pm in Baldy 553 on the north campus of the University at Buffalo. I am her committee chair, and other members include […]
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Amazon Mechanical Turk

By alex | Published: 11/4/2005
A few times this week, I have chatted with folks about the use of humans by computers. To what degree does the introduction of a new user interface or, for that matter, any technology change the nature of individual thought or social interaction? There are plenty of specific and general examples of this that are […]
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