Monthly Archives: October 2008

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In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

This an well-written article by the editors of the New Yorker in full support of Barack Obama for Presidency!
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The Sidewalk to Nowhere

This is unbelievable. I am speechless. Who are these people? I cannot relate to a single one of them! Are these the Christians with upstanding moral values that I’ve heard our great country is based on? Or are they purely and truly ignorant? Or just plain stupid? I haven’t been this worked up in a [...]

Word of the Week (Oct 5, 2008)

I’m starting a new game (let’s see if I can keep this up)!
Every week I will use Mechanical Turk to ask 100 people for their “word of the week”—whatever seems to capture their experiences for the week—and then create a tag cloud. It would be interesting if themes emerged from week to week that distinguish [...]

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In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on “Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search”

A teaser for our paper on social search (written by Ed Chi).
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