Social Life of Information

My MTOP thesis defense went well on Tuesday afternoon; I successfully defended my research and fulfilled my graduation requirement. There was a pretty decent sized audience, for that sort of thing, and they had smart questions. I think I did a reasonably decent job of answering them, and as expected, I have a few […]

Homeless Guy #1: “Damn! I just got kicked out of the library! Damn!”
Homeless Guy #2: “What did you do, man?”
#1: “I don’t know.”
#2: “Aren’t you drunk?”
#1: “Well, yeah. Also, I might have been looking at dirty pictures on the computer.”
#2: “Aw, that’s not so bad.”
#1: “And they said I was being disrespectful to the librarians.”
#2: […]

Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a microblogging social network site that allows users to make 140-character posts from the web, IM, text messaging, and third-party applications such as Twitterific. It provides the nifty little “badge” on my blog that shows “what I’m doing”, and has recently become quite popular, leading to service scaling issues […]

I graduate in two weeks.
It’s a horrifying thought when I count up the “to do” items in my thesis draft, and I haven’t even looked at committee edits yet! My defense is in 11 days, and I’m not yet decided on a title nor do I have an abstract prepared. However, nearly all […]

Another predictive post, this time about the things I expect to like about Syracuse. We went out there last weekend to look at some houses, learn about the neighborhoods, and start to find our way around. We found a house that we really like, but we have to wait on making an offer […]