How to Aaaarg.org – finding pirated academic works
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.
Posted on August 5th, 2011
BBS Servers & Clients
BBS Servers The BBS Corner’s Telnet BBS Guide is an online directory of dial-up and telnet accessible Bulletin Board Systems, updated and published monthly (the map below is generated from the September 2010 list. The Synchronet BBS List is published by one of the last remaining BBS-software vendors, and only […]
Posted on September 17th, 2010
Everyman's statistics about vaccination & disease
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.
Posted on September 7th, 2010
Opt-in vs Opt-out: the cardinal rule
The choice to opt-in vs opt-out was well considered and the backlash was anticipated. The notice of the changes does not really inform how to opt-out, and the opt-out check box provided on the privacy settings will not be enough to stop the sharing of your information with Facebook partners. […]
Posted on May 19th, 2010
Buy a term paper online… or troll
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”.
Posted on April 25th, 2010
Opt out of Facebook Instant Personalization
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/
Posted on April 22nd, 2010
"citizenship is not a birthright"
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.
Posted on April 11th, 2010
Social Network Structure of Network Neutrality
A qualitative study using Social Network Analysis to investigate the social relations and the political economy of Network Neutrality.
Posted on May 6th, 2009
An Iterative Process for Dictionary Construction
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.
Posted on April 22nd, 2009
Classic Shell Scripting: the history of wf.sh
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.”
Posted on January 30th, 2009
Catastrophic Frequencies
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.
Posted on January 28th, 2009
Jan 12 2009 Readings (Pre-19th Century)
Capitalism, Communications, and Control in a Historical (and Western-Centric) Perspective Elen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (Verso, 2002). URL: URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2505955~S1a (Book) URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1979062~S1a (Book) URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2606486 (Book) URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2240614 (Book) Peter Linbaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History […]
Posted on January 16th, 2009
Jan 19 2009 Readings (19th-early 20th Century)
Communication and the Making and Remaking of Capitalism in the 19th and Early 20th Century Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & REDS: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (San Francisco: City Lights, 1997), Chapter 1, “Rational Fascism,” pp. 1-22. URL: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2127120 (BOOK) URL: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b1862035~S1a (BOOK) Armand Mattelart, Networking the world, 1794-2000 […]
Posted on January 16th, 2009
"Is a ‘Katrina-Like’ Space Storm Brewing?"
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 […]
Posted on January 13th, 2009
Twingly Screensaver: visualizing activity
Twingly Screensaver (Beta) is visualizing the global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you see only what you’re interested in. With Twingly screensaver you get a 24/7 stream of all (viewer discretion advised) blog activity, straight to your screen. To use the screensaver you need a PC […]
Posted on January 13th, 2009
linkfluence.com
linkfluence is a rese arch institute specializing in the conversations of the social web. It is a fully-owned subsidiary of French-based rtgi, a cutting-edge social spaces and new media analytics and monitoring vendor. linkfluence studies and solutions offer to map, monitor and analyze the social web, its media (blogs, mass […]
Posted on January 13th, 2009