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Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality “Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately.” Yuck. Doesn’t make you want to eat this stuff… (tags: fastfood photos health)
I wrote this post two years ago, on April 17, 2005, when I was still a very new head of department and we were worried our department would be closed down. I never posted it because everything felt too raw and as […]
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How Google Blogsearch ranks your Posts Alister Cameron goes through Google’s patent application for BlogSearch and teases out how they’ll be ranking blogs in the search – scanning links but also Google Reader stats and emails and chats. (tags: blogs search google) […]
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Facebook is now the 9th most popular website in Norway, and the group “Vi st¯tter Kadra” has 12,436 members, and there are more members every time I reload my browser. Kadra Yusef is a young Norwegian-Somalian woman who helped expose the way […]
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We finished it! Last Friday, two days before the deadline, Hilde and I sent the whole World of Warcraft anthology off to MIT Press! And look, Hilde’s photo shows it was a really big wad of paper (oh, they got it electronically […]
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Fizzy’s Second Life Screencasts by first year law students studying property law in Second Life. (tags: secondlife property law) Exmocare: For Family Care Goodness. A wristwatch that monitors “your loved one” and sends you an email or an SMS if there are […]
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On Tuesday, April 24, at 14:15, Barbara Ganley is giving a guest lecture here at the University of Bergen. Barbara is the author of bgblogging, and has used blogs in her teaching of writing for several years with great success. She has […]
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Of course there’s been a lot of blogging about the Virginia Tech shootings (terrifying, heartbreaking), and about the use of social media and citizen reporting around them. Tama Leaver has an excellent post discussing intended versus unintended citizen journalism, and the ethics […]
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Websites as graphs – an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet I’ve seen this site before, but was reminded of it while looking at and for visualisations of blog networks. This one generates really pretty pictures – though with no information about which URL […]
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Will the JFK of the Net be French ? – Le Blog de Netpolitique Interesting article about the creative and extensive use of the web in the current French election campaigns, with links to sources both in French and in English. (tags: […]