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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. MW: a command line interface to MediaWiki

   The MediaWiki experience can be as frustrating to a hacker as it is for a newbie. Editing on the Web page is annoying and the …

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7. Smoother recording on VirtualBox

   For a number of years now I’ve been using NaturallySpeaking speech recognition via a virtualized Windows environment on Ubuntu. Speech recognition gurus will recommend …

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8. Sentence Case in Bibliography

   As a PhD student, one of the first bibliographic annoyances I encountered was when I had to format a paper using the APA system, which …

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9. Indexing a Book

   One of the last significant steps for an author is to compile an index, unless they opt to have someone else do it. Publishers often …

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