Category Research

Man, something’s up with Google…

So, I’m checking out the keyword searches that have brought people to this fine website (as an aside, I’m not sure why five people have googled “Oprah AND Tivo”)…anyhow, I’m looking at my server stats and find that a good 35 people found my site by googling “Joe Trippi.” (FYI, Joe Trippi is Howard Dean’s [...]

Amazon reviews as Performance Art

Alex’s post on Amazon wish-lists as performance art reminded me of a project I did a few years ago for a seminar taught by Cornell’s Geri Gay on Computer Mediated Communication. I’d been meaning to put this online for a while, so here it is… The project was an analysis of the ways that people [...]

Matrix ARG…

There seems to have been an ARG (alternate reality game) unfolding across the Internet for about 6 weeks now, centered around the release of Matrix:Revolutions. As best as I can tell from a cursory look around, the game seems to revolve around a company that creates immersive gaming software and their latest product, which may [...]

Blog journalism…

As if switching up to Movable Type wasn’t enough, Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall now has a modest proposal up on his site: I’ve been giving a lot of thought to going to New Hampshire in January to cover the primary – probably for the last ten days or so before the actual vote on [...]

Comment Spam…

I guess I’ve hit the big times, now – just got hit with my first five pieces of comment spam. Within minutes I had Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist plugin up and running, so that should take care of that. Anyone dealing with the same should check it out…

Metablogging…

Heh. Over at Neal Pollack’s blog, guest blogger Christopher Monks is performing a David Blaine-like feat, enduring a full day of Glenn Reynolds’ posts. The really scary thing? This is Instapunditathon II, which means he did this once before…

Buying vs. Tipping redux

It happened again. Atrios posted a plea for donations to cover the cost of a new laptop (apparently, something involving a cat and a glass of wine rendered his less than healthy), and within three hours, he not only has enough donations to cover the cost of the coputer, but somebody had also bought him [...]

Argh…

On a campus like Cornell’s, you’d like to think that it would be relatively easy to get a wireless internet connection up and running. Unfortunately, the campus wireless network is a patchwork of balkanized zones, with one overarching initiative linking some of them, but which doesn’t cover any of the buildings in which the Science [...]

Buying vs. Tipping…

Something interesting and a little bit amazing happened tonight. Around noon on Saturday, Jeralyn at Talk Left posted a plea for help (short version: her computer was dying, and she needed a new one to continue blogging from the road). Among others, Atrios linked to her request around 8 pm. Between then and the time [...]

Fog screen…

Vie Alex Pang… I so want one.