I Can Haz Prime Directive?
Fascinating, ironic, timely (wrt Future of News and Personal Democracy Forum) post on William's blog.
Noah Smith and I are co-supervising Tae Yano on a project involving analysis of political blogs, and Tae left a pile of results and code on her CMU web site as a way of communicating with us...world-readable. Surprisingly someone at one of the blogs she spidered, Little Green Footballs, actually noticed, leading to a lot of investigative work in this fascinating thread:
Anyone know what this page at Carnegie Mellon means? It’s some kind of experiment that involves comments posted at LGF, and I have a feeling it’s not friendly.
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comment #5: Maybe it's post-modern poetry, academia-style? Using LGF comments as gibberish to transcend interpretation?
Has it been told enough times that the "snap" plug-in is a very bad usability "feature"? Yes, I know that it is an "opt-out" thing...
Posted by: Mike | May 18, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Strangely, Peter Turney just posted on making (post-modern, academia-style) poetry out of the search terms that lead people to their blogs:
http://apperceptual.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/brownian-motion-%E2%80%94-why-it-is-important
Posted by: William Cohen | May 18, 2008 at 10:02 AM