Monthly Archives: January 2007

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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