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1. Python tools for Reddit queries, analysis, and messaging

   For the past two years I’ve been working on Reddit related questions such as:

   1. Do researchers’ ethical disguise of Redditors’ posts work?
   2. How many …

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2. Locating research sources on Reddit

   This past year I’ve been working on how to treat online sources in research reports. When researchers disguise their sources, is it effective or …

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3. Improving PDF Annotations from GoodReader

   For many years now, I’ve printed out PDFs and scribbled annotations on them. I then dictate my annotations (i.e., excerpts and comments) into …

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4. Thunderdell screencast

   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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5. Proto-twitter meets Twitter

   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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6. Guessing the gender of bibliographic subjects

   Max Klein’s recent posting on Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF as well as work by Nathan Matias prompted me to check if …

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7. BusySponge and AlchemyAPI

   When doing Web ethnography I capture many Web pages (blogs, conversations, etc.) for inclusion in my mindmap and bibliography. BusySponge’s custom heuristics for scraping …

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8. Hello Pelican

   I made good use of pyblosxom for many years but its time to move on. Pyblosxom development is no longer very active. Also, its reliance …

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9. DOI metadata and change_case

   With Zotero and Mendeley providing excellent web-centric bibliographic tools, I don’t imagine I’ll ever get converts to Thunderdell. Still, it and BusySponge are …

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