When I was in college, a friend of mine interviewed with Delta. At her third interview, she was told she wouldn’t be a good match for the company. Why? She gained weight in between interviews, and they were having her weigh in before their meetings. I was only thinking of Delta because Emily Gillette wanted [...]
Chris has been Wikipediafied
It was only a matter of time. Chris Soghoian has become a Wikipedia article. As I noted earlier (“Send Chris Money”), Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass) had his own article edited to include a blurb on his initial call for Chris’s arrest. On Sunday, someone handled “Manc ill kid” started a page on Christopher Soghoian. It [...]
So, is it JootSpoot now?
In my email in-box this afteroon: “We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users.” So Google has a wiki tool now (or soon will, as far as users are concerned). While there is something very disturbing about one giant gorilla consuming all of [...]
I’ll hug him and squeeze him and call him George
My friend John IM-ed me a week ago to ask if I had told his dad that I was coming to visit. I said no, but said I could. We made quick and tentative plans for a winter trip to Illinois, and I signed off on my way to meetings on campus. A few days [...]
Visual bias in the media?
Betsi Grabe, a professor in Telecom at Indiana University, gave a talk Friday assessing the degree of visual bias in network news coverage of U.S. presidential candidates from 1992-2004. Her study, part of a larger series of studies examining the so-called “liberal bias” in the media, focused exclusively on visual images rather than other forms [...]
So sayeth the Colbert
Thursday’s The Colbert Report began with a congratulatory anniversary card containing a couple small bills. At the close of the segment, Stephen Colbert mentioned that the dollars had some writing on it: “The Colbert Show. Mon – Thurs 11:30p. Comedy Central.” Unlike his Wikiality stunt a few months back — in which he instructed listeners [...]
News, by any means necessary
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 [...]