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Welcome English Grad Students!

I’ve been told recently that my URL has been given to another of Dr. Sexson’s classes as an example of a blog or online journal, so I’ll take this opportunity to officially welcome you all to the blogosphere. I’ve already linked to all of your blogs (the ones I could find at least) and look [...]

Posted on January 29, 2007 – Filed under site news – Comments

E-mail After Death

A conversation yesterday got me thinking about what happens to our online presence after we die. I thought it might make a good article for the newspaper, or perhaps for something larger; but in researching the idea, I found that someone else already had that idea.
The Baltimore City Paper published “Ghosts in the Machines” in [...]

Posted on January 29, 2007 – Filed under digital media – Comments

WikiCourt

According to the New York Times, more than 100 court rulings in the past two years have relied on the Wikipedia, including 13 from the tier of courts just below the Supreme Court. Though most in the legal profession are not yet willing to rely on the site, some judges cite the encyclopedia in footnotes, [...]

Posted on January 28, 2007 – Filed under digital media – Comments

State of the Union

The New York Times has published a little flash tool that lets you analyze the current president’s State of the Union addresses, which so far amount to more than 30,000 words. You can search the text of the speeches to see how often certain words have appeared. Kind of a neat tool that might be [...]

Posted on January 25, 2007 – Filed under misc. musings – Comments

HUMINT

According to my spy novels, the title of this post is short for “human intelligence.” Fitting, because I learned today that the Central Intelligence Agency has a Facebook page, the National Clandestine Service.
Now, an article on Ars Technica discusses the ways a social networking site like Facebook could be used by spy agencies to study [...]

Posted on January 25, 2007 – Filed under social networking – Comments

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