Tag Archives: Research

Scholarster

By alex | Published: 9/5/2003
Nick, who needs an “about” page, passes on an anecdote regarding his brother finding a valuable social link while writing his dissertation by posting to his blog. Seb Paquet hooked me up with Liz Lawley, and we collaborated on writing a (sadly unsuccessful) grant proposal. I wonder if there are similar anecdotes. It seems to […]
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Wayback where?

By alex | Published: 9/3/2003
The Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” now has a search function called “recall” in beta. It really needed this.
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Isogashii?

By alex | Published: 9/2/2003
Are you busy? In the US, the standard answer is “no” even when this is untrue. In Japan, the standard answer is “yes” even when this is untrue. It seems that I am always busy, but September is already shaping up to be especially busy. Right now, my priorities are: 1. Finish fixing some problems […]
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Stars and Friends (pt. 2.5)

By alex | Published: 8/22/2003
Jeremy Hunsinger proposes a paper: In this paper, i will argue why what many people argue are power law models of social networks on the internet are usually not really that at all… I think Jeremy has something here. I have been a bit dubious about the overhyping of power laws in the blogosphere, and […]
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