August 2009
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Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters
“Has Twitter Handicapped Our Ability to Mourn?” asks Danny Macsai of Fast Company.
Web Ecology Project’s latest release and my project along with Sam Gilbert, “Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters,” is both the fruit of our hard labor and what Sasha Frere-Jones has lovingly called an ‘academic study that reads like a paraody’. We published on August 18th.
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“This morning, I woke up at 6:30, opened my eyes, and my first thought was…...”
– Fran, one of my six abs-fabs co-interns. This is our last day, and last Bagel Friday, of our internship at Digitas, and we will miss both dearly. Highlights of the internship include hoarding bagels on Bagel Friday, sneaking into Glen’s office to steal candy, running out the door every time we...
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Reimagining Internet Studies: A Web Ecology... →
“Web Ecology studies the relationship of the nature of data and the behavior of actors on the internet.
Our field poses two simple questions to researchers:
‘Where have studies about the web failed?’ and,
‘How can we do better?’ “
This manifesto declares the principles of our new academic approach to studying the web, and it makes me horny. It’s up...
Harvard launches high-end fashion line
williblog:
Times must be really tough. A Harvard source has also told me that the engineering and ESPP departments are in disucssions to form a high-end luxury hybrid car manufacturer, with the assembly lines to be manned by workstudy students.
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1 Profile of the day, 8/3
… Because sometimes you only have one really good profile to share.
So, check it. There was this guy, sitting on the subway. I was crunched in with about 10 bajillion other button-down shirted sweat machines, and he was sitting down. It may have been because his eyelids were closed and the corner of his lips were pointed down, but it seemed like the whole guy was just melting very slowly...
Public Service
“I have this fantasy where I’m with Barack Obama at my parent’s house. We’re both naked, and he’s giving me a full body massage. Suddenly my father appears and says, ‘How could you do that?’ And no kidding: In my dream, Obama replies, ‘I’m serving my constituents.’” - Nicki, 34
From May’s Glamour mag, found in a recycling...
