Epistemographer

So, I find it interesting that I’ve felt like I’ve had almost nothing to write about here for the past few weeks (give or take a sporadic post or two here and there).
When I used to keep a journal, I found that I could chart how generally content I was as an inverse relationship [...]

Today, I went to an Information Law Institute lunch at NYU. The lunches, coordinated by Helen Nissenbaum, bring together an interdisciplinary crowd of people from NYU and elsewhere in the greater New York City area, including one or two of us from Cornell when we can be in town.
The speakers were Anil Dash, of Six [...]

The abstract for a session I’m putting together with Jofish Kaye for the 2004 Society for Social Studies of Science meeting (in Paris):
Hackers and Tinkerers: Amateur ways of doing technology
From computer hackers to ham radio operators, from audio and videophiles to hot rodders, enthusiast cultures have often proved integral to the lives of technologies. Such [...]

I’m about to go home for the night. I arrived on campus a little more than 12 hours ago, and with the exception of a productive and positive meeting with my committee chair and a brief excursion to pick up Chinese food for dinner, I’ve been sitting in this same damned chair the whole time. [...]