Epistemographer

So, the heat finally broke, and I spent the late morning/early afternoon yesterday playing soccer in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. It all started with an e-mail from a friend:
From: Josiah R Madar
Subject: Soccer?
I know I have floated this idea by some of you, but it might actually happen now: this Saturday morning 11:00 am, Prospect Park [...]

Arianna Huffington reviewing Legally Blonde 2, and comparing it favorably to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington…

Shout out to my college friend Kevin, who says he always remembers our conversations (which don’t happen nearly often enough for me) for a long time afterward. Ditto.
And he may be exaggerating about our conversations, but not by much.
Also, speaking of conversations, I tend to have massive, Homeric Epic chats with my friend Dave, [...]

About six months ago, I put up a website to collect oral histories from people who remember the early days of home video. You can read more about the rationale here, or just go and tell your own story…

You might be saying to yourself, “Exactly what is an epistemographer, anyways?” To give credit where credit is due, I picked up the term from Peter Dear, a historian of science in my department at Cornell and a damned fine person in his own right. He argued that “Science & Technology Studies” is a misleading [...]

After lurking around the blog-world for far too long, I figure it’s finally time for me to get one started of my own. Seems like a trend for me – in 1992 when I first logged on to CapAccess (the original Washington, DC-area freenet) I spent a few months just reading other people’s posts before [...]