A story in today’s IDS talks about a study done by Indiana professor Julia Fox (Telecom) indicates that “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” was as politically substantive as the major news networks in covering the 2004 Presidential election. The study, which involved coding hours of video for various news sources, analyzed how much real [...]
Hoops Network
As with all interesting ideas, the notion to view a basketball game as a network of passes is not new. Even as I was thinking several months ago about attempting it as a project, Alan Reifman of Texas Tech was iterating through a second attempt to do the same. His extended abstract, “Network Analysis of [...]
Caught in the Draft (Mode)
I have been using my blog to capture ideas for later investigation. Sometimes this is the result of a news item or an interesting, timely blurb in someone else’s blog; other times it is a reflection of offline interests and experiences. I open up a new post, cut-and-paste some links, and then slap on a [...]
Stone of Destiny
In 1996, I took about 5 weeks off from intense freelance web design to write a screenplay. My Syquest drive apparently thought that was a mistake.