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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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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Week eight: what accounts for the recent spate of scandal surrounding “facts, fictions, and fraud” in American historical scholarship? How might knowledge of these episodes …

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The Professional-Lurker mentions Tales of the field: on writing ethnography (Van Maanen 1998), which I highly recommend for “practicum” reading. I’m presently reading another …

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Yesterday I read a chapter from Gabriella Coleman’s dissertation on the Debian community. (She co-authored a piece with Mako in the M/C Journal …

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In BibTex, how does one represent the paragraph number for a citation in online – non-paginated – articles? Some journals request that citations indicate the paragraph number …

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As someone who is interested in studying and citing email conversations, the opacity of the mailman interface – or the lack of my understanding – is a …

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