People often expect a media to engender community: “I’m blogging but not getting enough comments!”, or “if I put up a Wiki, they will …

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In the continuing theme of socialization in graduate education, I recently read Processes of Socialization in American Graduate Schools, Making Elite Lawyers, and Scientific Elite …

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I’ve been playing with Aaron Swarz’s XML Tramp as an intuitive/pythonic way of processing XML. The model/syntax isn’t explicitly documented …

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In The Development of Identification with an Occupation and The Elements of Identification with An Occupation, Becker and Carper identify how graduate students (“young males …

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If we do live in a small world (6-degress of seperation), and the government is watching everything we do (Total Information Awareness), they might note …

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The way I think of Shannon’s information theoretic concept of entropy is as “uncertainty.” Or, in another approach, Shannon’s entropy — and there are …

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In my socialization class we’ve been considering the role of class, race, and gender in reproducing social structures, including those that aren’t as …

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I’ve been eagerly waiting for the next release of Quanta and its WYSIWYG mode (called “Kafka”). I’m hoping it’ll be in KDE …

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One of the things I learned at the W3C, particularly when working on the various XML Canonicalization specifications, was that dealing with characters isn’t …

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I’m realizing that if I’m going to be a media wonk, I’m going to have to learn to navigate a new set …

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