About a month ago, I wrote about patterns I found comparing Yale and Harvard in Google searches through Google Trends. Well, just today, Facebook released a simply fascinating tool called “Lexicon” which is the same thing, but for wall posts. Computers (not humans!) track the content of every wallpost for words and phrases, and [...]

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I decided it might be instructive to take a moment to talk about the courses that I am taking. Soon, I will write another post explaining how these courses affect my free time / life / happiness in more detail, but for now I thought it would be good just to describe what I have [...]

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Last Saturday, I had a wonderful day in New York with some students from my residential college, our dean, master, and some Trumbull fellows. We went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which in addition to its always wonderful permanent collection had a nice Gustave Courbet exhibition. The real star of the art-afternoon was the [...]

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Finding a good student blog is harder than it sounds. Finding a good blog in general is very much a needle-in-a-haystack affair, of course–finding good student blogs can be especially tricky because the same queries and topics which bring up the best-written, most thoughtfully enunciated expositions also drag out the most inane and unhelpful of [...]

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is spearheading an internet security task force, working with companies like MySpace, Google, Microsoft, and fifty attorney generals to help identify effective online safety tools and technologies. danah boyd, social media researcher and general awesome person extraordinaire, is soliciting people for a research intern position working with her [...]

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