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Somehow I missed this: MSNBC.com Launches Weblogs. What’s interesting about them (which include Eric Alterman, Michael Moran, Alan Boyle, Chris Matthews, and Jan Herman), is that they hold very true to the form and function of your standard weblog. Links, sidebar, blogroll, daily updates.. everything is there. And it’s fascinating to see what these “real”Continue reading “MSNBC lauches real weblogs”

A federal appeals court is currently working through a libel case involving two online newspapers that will probably become precedent for many online libel cases. There has yet to be a libel case against a weblogger, but it is an inevitable scenario given the general American legal mentality (sue first, think later). We can onlyContinue reading “Libel on the Web”

Check and.. uhh.. check.

My generals proposal just passed! Woo! Of course the downside to passing proposals is that you have to do the work. Here’s the deal: Three examiners (Judith, Keith, Walter) 91 sources (requires Acrobat) six months to complete I’m psyched. Bring it on!

The next generation of viral marketers is educated. What is facinating to me is that I remember hearing about a similar meme (“hi, we’re a 6th grade class from a flyover state, send this email as far as you can!”) happening a couple of years ago, and generating so much traffic to the school’s emailContinue reading “The Next Generation”

I’m currently in transition between the owner of a broken heart and the owner of a lonely heart, which is apparently much better.

My social networks professor Keith Hampton was qutoed today dissing the current lot of Internet studies. He thinks that studies showing that Internet use causes people to be lonely and disconnected (e.g. the Pew Internet Study, Nie et al. and Kraut et al.) are “all garbage.” I couldn’t agree more. Just look at their methodologies,Continue reading “They’re all garbage”

One time when I was drunk, and therefore vulnerable, a group of my friends made me eat a spoonful of vegemite for only $3. Okay, to tell the truth, I proposed the bet, and $3 was the most I could drum up (including a measly $1 from the only Australian contingent, who deserves to haveContinue reading “Conditioning Cameron”

Scientists are helping coaches, keepers and penalty takers minimize the randomness of penalty kicks, which are the key to success in tournaments. A penalty-taker will try to disguise where he is going to kick the ball. But it’s hard to hide one’s intentions completely. In the fraction of a second before they kick the ball,Continue reading “Science goes overtime into penalty kicks”

I feel like I’m the federation pilot on the verge of shooting my torpedo down the exhaust vent of the almost-completed Death Star… “Almost there . . . Almost there . . . 10 more pages to go . . .” Of course I’ll dud on this one, have to come back around as LukeContinue reading “Nearly there…”