Tag Archives: Research

Tagging

By alex | Published: 1/5/2005
While people tend to think that I am an early adopter, I am not. For one thing, I am too poor to be an early adopter. I am naturally pretty cautious — almost in spite of myself. So I am late to the folksonomy stuff. Sure, when they were launched I played with del.icio.us, and […]
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Pew on Blogs

By alex | Published: 1/3/2005
The blogosphere is alight with new numbers from the latest Pew Survey Report, which sought out information on how blogs are being used. Many are noting that they find the numbers depressingly low, but I am shocked (shocked!) that a quarter of American Internet users read blogs. That’s just amazing to me. Great work by […]
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We do it because we need to

By alex | Published: 12/30/2004
A brief article in Inside Higher Ed does a gloss on humanities bloggers: None of these bloggers earn any money off their sites, and they pay for any technology they need (although that’s usually less than $100 a year). Their commitment is evident when they laugh at the question of finances with regard to their […]
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EPIC 2014

By alex | Published: 12/19/2004
This has already been widely blogged, but I didn’t pick it up in my scan because I misread what it was. The tag is as follows: In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC? This is a […]
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