Tag Archives: Research

Conferences and weblogs

By alex | Published: 6/6/2004
Academic conferences play an important role in the life of the academic, and in the life of the academy. For a graduate student (and in some cases, an undergraduate), it is often the first experience of the wider world of academia beyond their own schools. Despite a general understanding among scholars that there exists this […]
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NotCon

By alex | Published: 6/6/2004
Tom Coates is blogging from NotCon. Already I wish I could be there. Mentions a presentation on biomapping, combining biometric data (e.g., galvanic skin response) with GPS data to create a collective map of physical reactions. Damn, that’s cool.
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Scholarati

By alex | Published: 6/5/2004
So, a while back, I put up a a wiki page listing Scholars Who Blog, drawing from a bunch of similar lists on the web. Since then, a handful of new sites have been added or taken from the list, and there are about 550 blogs listed. At the time, Seb Paquet agreed that a […]
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Blogads survey

By alex | Published: 5/24/2004
Henry Copeland of Blogads has posted the results of his survey. Unfortunately, given that it isn’t a sample, the results have to be taken with a huge chunk of salt. If there is any question of this, some of the demographic items indicate a US-centric skew, among others. Other items strike me as intuitively pretty […]
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