Tag Archives: Research

More “found data”

By alex | Published: 9/16/2006
See, I said I would post soon! Add this to the AOL leak: Someone ran across a collection of MySpace passwords, badly hidden on a phishing server. Again, a really interesting dataset (and no, he isn’t making the data available!), but tinged by the absolutely unethical and illegal method of collection. Of course, you could […]
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Uses of Blogs

By alex | Published: 8/10/2006
The Uses of Blogs collection has just been released, which includes my chapter “Scholarly Blogging: Moving Toward the Visible College,” along with some really interesting work by a bunch of blog-minded folk. The introduction and a table of content’s can be found at Axel Bruns’ site. The publisher has asked that we not blog our […]
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What does the AOL search data say about me

By alex | Published: 8/10/2006
I promise this will be the last I have to say about the AOL stuff for a while… but where does my name show up in those millions of searches? Well, mostly as a result. People searching for the following things ended up going to my blog from AOL: * april adult star * buy […]
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AOL and the aftermath

By alex | Published: 8/8/2006
The AOL thing turns out to be big news, complete with EFF recriminations and a mea culpa from AOL execs. Eszter blogs about the research dilemma over on Crooked Timber. But the secondary effect is the more difficult one. It’s already hard to get most organizations to part with their data, even in the best […]
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