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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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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I discovered an interesting pattern while playing around with Google Trends: if you compare ‘Yale University’ and ‘Harvard University’ with the tool, there is an eerie similarity in their trend lines. Even minor up and down ticks are mirrored across search terms. See for yourself: trends chart below, Harvard in red, Yale in blue.

The trend […]

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Yale doesn’t have publicly available admissions OR student blogs, but it does have student-written “Bulldog Blogs” accessible to admitted students. Last year, when I was an admitted student, I discovered that these were actually just ripped from the particular students’ personal blogs and reposted on the admitted students website. I thought about publishing all […]

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At the start of February I announced my desire to organize a scholarship through my site. A little more than a month later, things are really going strong. Here’s where things now stand–still working things out:
The Idea: A contest to propose the best new ideas for using new media, the internet, and technology to improve […]

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