Two weeks ago, On The Media (my very favorite NPR show, which is saying something as it has stiff competition) interviewed NPR economics correspondent Adam… Read More »Too complex to report: Magnetar, Goldman Sachs and burning down the financial house
This evening, Google News tells me that I have my choice of 5,053 articles on conflicts between Congressional Republicans and Democrats over healthcare reform. (Oh… Read More »Jonathan Stray on original reporting: imaginary abundance
Professor Karrie Karahalios is a current Berkman fellow, joining us from UIUC where she teaches computer science. Her talk at Berkman today is titled “Text… Read More »Karrie Karahalios – Text and Tie Strength
ChatRoulette: An Initial Survey The fine folks at the Web Ecology Project pride themselves on researching web trends that are just starting to catch the… Read More »ChatRoulette survey (long bookmark)
I got stuck on a train between New York and Albany last night as a storm pounded the Hudson Valley. Fortunately, Amtrak’s warnings about service… Read More »Snowy journey, with journalism
Jure Leskovec, professor of computer science at Stanford, is interested in what sorts of novel questions we can ask about media now that (much of… Read More »Jure Leskovec on Memetracker, quantitative media analysis