≡ Category: Literature, MIT, Media, Weblogs | ≅ 2 Comments
For a graduate student in an English Ph.D. program, one of the big milestones on the road to the dissertation is the Oral Exam. In my case this involves five professors, a list of 60-80 books, and two hours in a (rhetorically) smoke-filled room. Since I’m working on contemporary literature and new media, one of [...]
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Blogs are abounding these days, and what’s unfortunately missing is an effective way to organize this new world of information and to make it accessible to others. Until a good, large-scale solution comes along (I don’t count Technorati or Google Blog Search as the real answer), some of this will get done the old fashioned [...]
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Steven Berlin Johnson, of Everything Bad Is Good For You fame, has been at work recently crunching numbers to come up with America’s most blog-tastic locales. The results may surprise you–based on “placeblogs,” Boston leads the cities chart and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn tops neighborhoods.
One aspect of Web 2.0 that seems to be just taking off [...]
