I finally got around to doing a screen cast of Thunderdell and BusySponge. I’m presently in the process of moving to support YAML/CSL …

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I thought I would share a draft of a new paper; it’s still rough and I welcome any and all feedback!

Fake geek girls …

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Last week I had an interesting conversation with Noam Cohen from the NYT about Wikipedia vs. The Small Screen.

Some Internet specialists argue that Wikipedia …

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As I continue to think about geekdom, especially in the context of the boundary policing of “fake geek girls,” I return to Pierre Bourdieu’s …

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The well-regarded photo-blogger David Hobby (the “Strobist”) got fed up with moderating blog comments and invented a way to use Twitter in their stead. Each …

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Nick Bilton’s Hatching Twitter tells of four friends who became rivals in the claim for having “founded” Twitter. (A recurring narrative well captured in …

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Later this week I’ll be participating on a panel of the New Media in American Literary History Interdisciplinary Symposium. I plan to talk about …

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While catching up on podcasts this weekend I was surprised that news of Popular Science “Shutting Off Our Comments” had traveled so far. On September …

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Draft: Revenge rating and tweak critique at photo.net

In today’s world, most anything can be rated, ranked, and liked. flickr (founded in 2004 …

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It is easy to find arguments that social media are wonderful and that they are horrid: that they will enable new heights of connectivity and …

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