March 19th, 2007
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“Law Students Feel Lasting Effects of Anonymous Attacks”
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a bit of background on how Ben & Jerry’s ice creams get named after famous personalities
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why an airline flies empty planes several times a week
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man imprisoned in China for maintaining mailing list, Yahoo gives up his identity to authorities
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Evolutionary biologists think female orgasms may pick the best sperm.
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If you’re gay in Kansas or Missouri (or many other states, it seems) “you can legally be denied service in restaurant. Landlords can refuse to rent you a place to live.”
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sad story
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March 18th, 2007
What do you get when you sort approximately 800,000 published papers into 776 scientific paradigms? If you have an interesting visualization expert working with you on the project then you get this map (or click here for an even larger version). Seed Magazine has more on the details and Brad Paley’s Information Esthetics Web site tells you how you can get your own copy just for paying shipping and handling charges.
This map is just one project of Katy Börner’s cool Places and Space: Mapping Science initiative at Indiana University. Check out that site for more goodies.
Brad also has some other intriguing projects, like this calendar (an alternative to what we usually use). One of my favorites, however, remains his TextArc work for alternative ways of visualizing text. For example, check out his representation of Alice in Wonderland.
UPDATE: I’ve been meaning to blog about Jim Moody’s related work as well so I should’ve remembered to include a link to his visualizations, too: co-citation of physical and bio sciences, dynamic visualization of sociology co-authorship network.
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March 17th, 2007
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March 14th, 2007
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March 13th, 2007
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March 12th, 2007
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March 11th, 2007
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this is fun, even if you don’t read the results; it’s just fun to see for yourself which of the images you pick in the various categories
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neat game; I won’t tell you how it works, you can figure it out in an attempt or two; once I did, I made it to “max attempts: 30” and only had two tiles of one color to rescue when I failed that level (meaning, I almost made it); enjoy! (don’t click if you don’t have time to play. UPDATE: I managed to get to level 26 (going down from 35)
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“to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides.”
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March 5th, 2007
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a game that made no sense at first, but then it grew on me; use the arrow keys to move the yellow ball up to the green one; at the next stage, your movements are mirrored to you to block you; I got to 17
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“List of Windows Proccesses and Descriptions” – Wondering whether that exe should be on your task manager list? Check here.
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a great blog
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a 107 year old blogger
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March 4th, 2007
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this is a really fun free tool, I tried it and it works really well
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a Greasemonkey script for a more sophisticated AllSizes+ button in Flickr
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allows for batch-editing upload date (the new version doesn’t)
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Greasemonkey script for Flickr to display the buddy icon of people to whom you are replying in comments. Sweet.
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yup, as random as it sounds; amusing, worth a look
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February 27th, 2007
.. is precisely what I don’t plan on being, but I liked my colleague‘s email subject line so I decided to use it here. Point being: I’ll be in Florence this weekend and am looking for suggestions for what not to miss. As a bit of background: 1. I’ve been already and have visited the relatively obvious touristy musts; 2. I have six guide books in my office with suggestions.
Of course, you could then say “so what do you need us for?”. Well, I’m looking for suggestions of that hole-in-the-wall place you found at the end of your trip having hoped in retrospect to have had more time to enjoy. Or that specific spot on a sidestreet from which the view to some place is especially magnificent. Or whatever. There are hidden gems in every city so I thought it was worth asking.
And if anyone around here happens to be in Florence this weekend, let me know.* This is a work trip, but the meeting doesn’t start until Monday so I have Fri-Sun for fun.
For anyone curious, I’m going there for an OECD meeting on “new millennium learners”. Thanks to INDIRE for sponsoring this. We’ll also have a public meeting next Wednesday on the topic.
* I have another post in the works about how to keep people posted of one’s whereabouts.
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February 27th, 2007
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February 24th, 2007
Jim got such great response to his academic haiku contest that he decided to categorize the submissions by field. You are requested to cast your vote in the following categories:
I’m surprised by some of the classifications, but I’m sure it wasn’t easy with some of those submissions. Why my paper that was published in Social Science Quartery was not classified as social science is beyond me, but perhaps Jim needed some excuse to create a fourth category to make things manageable and thus put some entries in the fourth interdisciplinary tech/computer/Internet-related, but otherwise unrelated group. Even in the realm of academic haikus my work lands in a heap of confusion, the story of my academic life.
In any case, this was a really fun exercise and I thank Jim for inspiring so many of us to think about our work in 17 syllables. If you haven’t done it yet, I recommend playing with the concept even if you are too late to enter this contest. Go read the submissions and vote to get inspired.
I’m quite happy with my “I am an expert” haiku. If you agree, don’t be shy and please check off the corresponding mark, #3 on the tech/computer/Internet list.:-)
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February 24th, 2007
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Univ Wisc site regarding support with health issues
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“Library leaders are putting a block on the popular social-networking Web site because, they say, some people have used it to access pornographic sites and children have accidentally seen what they found.” – sheesh
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this guy’s got some talent, amusing (even though I don’t know a whole bunch of the characters he covers)
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neat idea, pre-filled inf on stickies
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custom rubber stamps
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custom labels
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February 23rd, 2007
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I wonder how long someone worked on that title… Some USA Today/Gallup poll stats on willingness to vote for various types of presidential candidates in the US; toward the end of the page includes figures from previous years (1937, 1967)
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Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science
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“guide to research for undergraduates” (seems to mainly focus on the sciences)
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beautiful photographs
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“How the candidates are using the web, and how the web is using them.”
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Internet researcher (unfortunately, some of the links to papers don’t yield anything)
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data on US college retention and graduation by state (offers raw data, graphs and maps)
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February 22nd, 2007
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February 21st, 2007
Grad school pal Jim Gibbon launched an academic haiku contest a week ago. I only noticed it today (Wednesday),which happens to be the deadline for submissions. If you still have time, head on over and submit something. If it’s past Wednesday then feel free to add your creative output in the comments here.
The idea is that the haiku should represent some of your work (a paper, a book, a dissertation, etc.). Here are my two submissions:
I am an expert.
I am man, you are woman.
I exaggerate.
From: *Hargittai, E & S. Shafer. 2006. “Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills: The Role of Gender.†Social Science Quarterly. 87(2):432-448. June.
RSS, widgets,
Don’t know one from the other.
Average Web users.
From: Hargittai, E. 2007. “Wikis and Widgets: Differences in Young Adults’ Uses of the Internet†Paper to be presented at the 2007 ICA meetings.
[*] I have to add that it’s actually not possible to tell from the findings whether men overestimate or women underestimate their skills, but perhaps that amount of artistic freedom for the haiku is allowed.
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February 21st, 2007
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(thanks to Greg for pointing this out to me)
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careful, any data you upload will become public; cool tool for data visualization and seeing what others can make of your data
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A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.
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February 20th, 2007
For any regular reader, it’s probably been hard to miss that I haven’t had much time for blogging.. or even browsing the Web given how few links have appeared here via del.icio.us.
I was on the road, first at a MacArthur grantees’ meeting, then in Fort Lee, NJ for a couple of days, next in Chicago for some meetings and data collection, and finally at Northwestern for our graduate recruitment weekend. I’m delighted to be back in what was sunny California when I arrived yesterday, but what is now a cloudy rainy day (less delighted about the latter).
I’m still in catch-up mode so don’t expect too much in the near future. Maybe I’ll post some photos to keep things colorful.
In the meantime, check out how the “wisdom of crowds” principle completely failed me in this guessing game Scott put up. I decided to guess the contents of the coin jar by averaging the guesses of everyone else. It didn’t work at all.
I guess it’s just as well, choosing from among those intriguing prizes would’ve been difficult.
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February 20th, 2007
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Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
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some interesting thoughts on how to deal with people in situations where emotions run hight
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February 15th, 2007
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