Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Google’s indexing of the updatesphere is going quite well with the recent news that it will soon show all tweets going back to March 21, 2006. However, there seems to be a very basic flaw in its search design: it returns the platform name for a query! So if I search for Google it will… Read more Dear Google, please fix the updatesphere
Last summer during our DMI summerschool I worked with Vera Bekema, Liliana Bounegru, Andrea Fiore, Simon Marschall, Sabine Niederer, Bram Nijhof, Richard Rogers and Elena Tiis on a project titled ‘The Nationalities of Issues: Rights Types.’ We looked at the most significant rights types per country according to local Google results of the query for… Read more The Nationalities of Issues: Rights Types
A few hours ago the following tweet by @librarycongress appeared in my timeline “Library acquires ENTIRE Twitter archive. ALL tweets. More info here http://go.usa.gov/ik4” All your tweets are belong to us This is big. The ENTIRE archive containing ALL tweets? But if we read the official announcement on the Library of Congress blog it states… Read more Twitter acknowledged as a small piece of the mosaic of humanity
I’m currently in New Jersey, writing for my PhD and yesterday was an exceptionally sunny spring Sunday. We visited the Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton, NJ which was absolutely beautiful! Sun, spring, blossom, I loved it. I highly recommend a visit if you’re near Princeton or Trenton, NJ. More pictures on Flickr.
Inspired by Bender from Futurama. “Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.” (robotstxt.org)
In my 2008 thesis on ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations‘ in the chapter on the History of Blog Software and Blog Engines I wrote about Dave Winer’s role within the pre-blog BBS-scene and his DaveNet (1994) and Scripting News (1997). Back then I used the Internet Archive to track down… Read more History of Winer’s Blogging points to October 7, 1994