Cameron Marlow

Deutschland!

I like to bunch up all of my stressful events into short periods of time. In the past few weeks I have moved to a new apartment in Hayes Valley, rented my old place to a subletter, walked into the cloistered halls of academia and am currently sitting in my friend Jussi’s apartment in Berlin:Continue reading “Deutschland!”

Yahoo! Korea: Webzari

Yahoo! Korea presented to Yahoo! Research Berkeley yesterday and showed us some of their work. I was completely blown away, and the meeting left a strange taste in my mouth, something akin to “I wish I lived in Korea.” Yahoo! provides a service called Site Explorer that allows webmasters to do research on how theirContinue reading “Yahoo! Korea: Webzari”

Earthquake RSS

In the second installment of neurotic, phobia-inducing, end-of-May posts, I’ll be addressing the concerns of an impending earthquake disaster in the San Francisco area. Not that I’m really scared every time I drive across the eastern span of the bay bridge. I mean, it held up pretty well during the Loma-Prieta Earthquake in 1989, andContinue reading “Earthquake RSS”

Bedbug status quo

I’ve been hearing a lot of rumor and fact thrown around in conversations about bedbugs. They seem to be entering the popular consciousness in a big way, probably because most people are starting to have real personal interaction with the pests. Until now, they’ve been somewhat of an anachronism, something your grandmother would talk about.Continue reading “Bedbug status quo”

MIT Weblog Survey Update

There have been a few requests lately for the results of the MIT Weblog Survey that I conducted last summer, so I figure I should respond publicly. I’m sorry for the delay, and I admit I was hopeful in my assessment of the time it would take me to release the results. In the pastContinue reading “MIT Weblog Survey Update”

Kitchen quiz

While cooking Thanksgiving dinner with my mom over the weekend, I had the privilege of reorganizing her entire kitchen from the bottom up. Buried deep amidst the cherry pitters, pre-microplane zesters, and other seldom-used implements I found two items that are completely outside of my culinary vocabulary: Tool 1 Tool 1 (alternate framed view) ToolContinue reading “Kitchen quiz”

Media Lab reunion

After only a few weeks in my new job I have the opportunity to head back to my alma mater. As it would turn out, the Media Laboratory is having its 20th anniversary, and that, of course, is time for celebration! I’m sure that in the past month they have invented 2.5 new ways ofContinue reading “Media Lab reunion”

Upcoming superstar

Once upon a time I had a friend who had a small website. We were such good friends that I became a poster child for said website, and everyone was happy. The sun was shining that day. Then a BIG CORPORATION acquired the website, and corporate policy ensued. Privacies were policied, and policies were privatized.Continue reading “Upcoming superstar”

Teenage Wasteland

Now that I have forsaken the academy (just kidding!) and have copious amounts of commute time, I’ve been trying to read all of the books I punted on over the past 6 years. I just finished Donna Gaines’ Teenage Wasteland, an ethnography of the youth culture in the late 80’s that coincided with a numberContinue reading “Teenage Wasteland”

Yahoo! Blogs/News mashup

The first few weeks I have spent at Yahoo! have been extremely exciting. In the course of a week Yahoo! has announced the Berkeley Research Lab (where I work), a new podcasting service, the acquisition of Upcoming and tonight Yahoo! Blog Search the integration of weblogs into Yahoo! News Search results. I am extremely happyContinue reading “Yahoo! Blogs/News mashup”