A Zen-inspired aesthetic of haiku is sabi: an insightful appreciation of the “suchness” of ordinary objects and daily events. Hass (1994:xiv) writes of this …

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Now that my proposal is done, I’m looking forward to the actual dissertation. (I really enjoyed writing my Master’s thesis.) However, that doesn …

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As a student this time around – more so than my experiences in computer science and policy – I find that the process of getting feedback includes …

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My dissertation proposal: In good faith: the collaborative culture of Wikipedia has been accepted and I’m now officially ABD (all but dissertation)! The proposal …

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A while ago I noted that Wikipedia was including “permalinks” to their articles: a way to refer to the specific version one was reading. The …

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Exams are done, course work is done, the task now is to get my dissertation proposal completed and defended. Last semester I took on two …

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FirstMonday’s special issue on Internet banking, e-money and the Internet gift economy includes a “reprint” of my paper Trust in Electronic Markets, published almost …

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To confirm the power law in Wikipedia edits (many doing a little, a few doing much) this regular expression and Python code parses a Wikipedia …

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My understanding is that Zimmerman thinks that good history makes a compelling argument about humans in time. It might be compelling in that it is …

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What is the difference between (sociological) ethnography and history? In taking a methodological course in each of these disciplines this semester I’ve been attempting …

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