the Sam Jackson College Experience

The New York Times paywall has gone up, and quite a few resources abound online to explain how you can easily circumvent it. One developer, David Hayes, made a really easy to use bookmarklet originally called 'NYTClean' - now 'NYClean.' This is fine, but having to click a bookmarklet every time I access a new [...]

Just a quick summer update. I'm in San Francisco this summer, working in Mountain View at Google. Aside from fog and free food, I am looking forward to making new connections, so if you're reading this and want to grab a cup of tea, do write / call me and we'll try to sort things [...]

My name is Sam Jackson, and I am currently a rising senior political science major at Yale University (Class of 2011). In the fall of 2009, I was a participant of the Yale-PKU Joint Program, based in Beijing. There I had the opportunity to live and study with Chinese students. I found the unique ways [...]

Hey everyone, as is readily apparent, I haven't made very many updates this summer. I've been having a pretty good time in San Francisco with Google, and will try to share some photos of non-confidential fun. In the meanwhile, in the interests of testing out my employer's neat products, here is a Google Voice call [...]

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 you [...]