This article describes the use of a simple AJAX-powered webpage to display a real-time feed from Twitter. It suggests use cases and reasons to pair it with an IRC webapp to provide a back channel to noisy hashtags.
Note: code uses Twitter REST API v1. This post has not been updated.
Aaaaarg.org is a human-generated index of pirated academic works popular among graduate students. This document is an introduction to using the system. The site software changes often, breaking links, but the social process largely remains the same.
BBS Servers The BBS Corner’s Telnet BBS Guide is an online directory of dial-up and telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems, … More BBS Servers & Clients
In a open letter to anti-vaccinationists, immunology researcher Thomas Tu sought to open dialogue by telling his personal story. Following Tu’s premise, this post uses high school statistics to investigate relationships between vaccination rates and disease-related death rates.
The choice to opt-in vs opt-out was well considered and the backlash was anticipated. The notice of the changes does … More Opt-in vs Opt-out: the cardinal rule
Teaching Assistantsfrequently trade tips for discovering plagiarism in the papers they grade. While google has made it easy to catch the lazy copy-paste form, we recognize that cheaters with financial resources can buy term papers. The following chat occurred with an essay mill which as “among the premier essay writing companies in the world”.
How to opt-out of Facebook ‘Instant Personalization’ and why you might want to. This is a death watch for the anonymous Internet, unless we seize back our relationships and decentralize social networking. \o.O/
American birthright citizenship does not derive from a “misinterpretation” of the 14th amendment. It is, instead, an American legal principle with a nearly unbroken tradition dating to the earliest days of republic.
A qualitative study using Social Network Analysis to investigate the social relations and the political economy of Network Neutrality.
Drawing inspiration from General Inquirer (1966) and KWIC, this post proposes an iterative hybrid of available methods in a quest for a more flexible and robust machine-assisted content analysis system.
A short bibliography of the famous wf.sh from 1986:
“Given a text file and an integer K, you are to print the K most common words in the file (and the number of their occurrences) in decreasing frequency.”
A longitudinal study of keyword frequencies in New York Times between 2001 and 2008 supported the hypothesized typologies of catastrophic myths. Patterns of occurrence are consistent between natural and man-made disasters.
Capitalism, Communications, and Control in a Historical (and Western-Centric) Perspective Elen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View … More Jan 12 2009 Readings (Pre-19th Century)
Communication and the Making and Remaking of Capitalism in the 19th and Early 20th Century Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & REDS: … More Jan 19 2009 Readings (19th-early 20th Century)
Slashdot | Is a ‘Katrina-Like’ Space Storm Brewin g? Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 12, @10:19AM from the or-maybe-thats-just-a-nice-cup-of-tea dept. pilsner.urquell writes “A newly released NASA report warns that the world has forgotten the power of the sun, creating a technological […]
Twingly Screensaver (Beta) is visualizing the global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you see only what … More Twingly Screensaver: visualizing activity