zephoria

My colleagues argue that their problems are hard. Do mathematicians gain from perpetuating the belief that "math is hard"? Who loses?

Sometimes, Hollywood's OCD is self-defeating. Sitting here, credit card in hand, ready to pay, but not available. Thus, bittorrent. Groan.

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@gpetri Alas, I had to leave immediately after my talk to get on a plane for the next event. :(

@alexhanna We're talking rigorous data-driven qual (& quant) soc sci studies of blogging & social media. But data is definitely key.

FYI: I'm on the prog comm of ICWSM cuz they want more qual soc science pubs. If you're seeking a venue to publish... http://icwsm.org/2010...

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world's gonna be AOK.

It's great to be at #FOSI09 (although I fear that the A/V problems made my presentation less powerful. le sigh.)

Apparently, Lévi-Strauss died. I feel like a fool for not realizing he was alive... http://www.nytimes.com/2009... (via @anindita)

I wonder if those who filter/retweet are more valued/respected/followed in the Twitter ecosystem than new content creators (celebs aside).

I find that I talk fast and flittery (rather than slow and precise) to keep myself entertained. My talks have become rather impressionistic.

I made @zephoria/youthsafety to try to aggregate folks working on online safety issues. Who am I missing?

TweetedBrands - http://tweetedbrands.com/

I bet companies like Subway & Shell love this list which credits them w/ tweets about public transit & ocean objects: http://tweetedbrands.com/

RT @jkolko New issue of interactions magazine - http://interactions.acm.org/index... (content from me & many awesome others!)

Berkman is seeking academic fellows for 2010-2011 school year: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvo...

The New Exclusive: From the walled garden to the gated community—why social networks would benefit from keeping the riffraff out | Stuart Hogue | brandchannel.com - http://www.brandchannel.com/papers_...

Thinking about grad school? I decided I should write down some advice I've been giving out for public consumption: http://www.zephoria.org/thought...

Choosing the Right Grad School - http://www.zephoria.org/thought...

Commenters have added tremendous insight into my Facebook Status Updates vs. Twitter post: http://www.zephoria.org/thought... If that's you, THANK YOU!

The Digital Media and Learning Hub (run by @mizuko) now has a website and blog: http://dmlcentral.net/ (includes a blog post by moi)

In a community garden, people are kicked out if they don't tend to their plot. Don't our digital plots need some gardening too? #berkman

Flexknowlogy – Jared Stein » Defining “Creepy Treehouse” - http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008...

@Gunner Alas, nope. I just heard this told through one of his colleagues and it gave me such a fun image in my head that I had to share.

Henry Minsky didn't like the ephemeral-ness of Facebook so he hooked up an ancient teletype to print out his FB feed. How cool is that?

On one hand, I'm sad to see GeoCities leave us. It's the end of an era. On the other, http://xkcd.com makes me wanna die of laughter.

If you plagiarize as a scholar, beware: journals may publicize ur misdeeds. This aca-society is PISSED: http://www.siam.org/journal... (via henrycohn)

What do you envision when you think of a "walled garden" (landscape sense, NOT technology sense)? What does that concept mean to you?