I’ve blogged before about my thesis, which is a study of what I’m calling “user generated censorship.” I’m writing the case studies for my thesis right now. They include, among others: The Digg Patriots, a group of conservative Digg users who coordinated through a Yahoo!Group to downvote posts on Digg […]
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This past Sunday, like most Americans, I watched the Super Bowl. And, like most Americans who watched the Super Bowl, I saw a lot of ads. Some were good. Some were not. Some I have already forgotten. But one, in particular, I have not: Dodge’s “So God Made a Farmer”: […]
Today my guest post Opening the Black Box: Analytics and Admissions went live on for Chronicle of Higher Education’s Head Count blog. I’ve been working on this post with Chronicle editor Eric Hoover for a few months. It shares some of the surprising (and, for admissions officers, disturbing) effects that […]
When New York Magazine reported that the columnist David Brooks was to teach a course at Yale entitled “Humility,” someone may as well have lit a beacon, like a snark-signal hovering high over Internet City. Blogs blogged, tweets tweeted, and tumblrs tumbled. Matt Taibbi, channeling his characteristic clarified rage, called […]
As my Civic bio says, in a former life I directed web communications for MITAdmissions. A big part of my job was running the blogs. While many colleges now have student blogs, the MITAdmissions blogs, founded by Ben Jones, are famous for being honest, uncensored avenues of student expression. On […]