In this paper, i will argue why what many people argue are power law models of social networks on the internet are usually not really that at all. By critiquing the assumptions built into the data gathering and measurement, combined with the theoretical modeled used, it is easy to see that through considering time in […]

The Day Email Died?. Between 10:45pm last night and 6am this morning, I received 1,470 pieces of spam (a run rate of nearly 5,000 per day). Most of them were from the SoBig worm, which seems to be the worst yet. And as far as I can tell, it's still getting worse. I wonder if […]

College Degrees Lose Their Magic in China: Graduates Flood the Job Market. By Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post. [A blog doesn't need a clever name] this sounds remarkably like a getting a ph.d. and that job market.

Blogging and the Job Market…. I've been thinking about writing something on this for a while (I'm finding that I'm mentally writing blog posts to work out ideas, but once I write it in my head I don't bother to write it out when I'm… [Epistemographer] as i understand it, with a surplus of qualified […]

dötournement. In a conversation today, i learned a new word/concept that intrigues me, but i still don't fully grasp…. dötournement. It… [zephoria]

According to Simon Byers, computer researcher at AT&T's research laboratory, documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive information that could be used for corporate espionage or identity theft. Mr. Byers found that, using an ordinary search engine, the free software tools 'antiword' and 'catdoc', and a simple home-made script, he was able to collect 100,000 […]

Monica Ali for Brick Lane Martin Amis for Yellow Dog Margaret Atwood for Oryx and Crake Carol Birch for Turn Again Home Melvyn Bragg for Crossing the Lines JM Coetzee for Elizabeth Costello Julia Darling for The Taxi Driver's Daughter Gerard Donovan for Schopenhauer's Telescope Damon Galgut for The Good Doctor Barbara Gowdy for The […]

there is a new updated version of RAP – RDF API for PHP. The new version includes: 1. relational database backend 2. RDQL query engine 3. N3 parser and serializer –+– ok, so its nearly magic, well not really, but this is a nice implementation, i might use it on one of my ultra secret […]

DIGITAL ENTERPRISE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DERI) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY GALWAY IRELAND PH. D., POST-DOC, RESEARCHER and RESEACH FELLOW POSITIONS The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) (www.deri.ie), located at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, received significant funding from the Science Foundation Ireland. Accordingly, DERI has positions available on all levels, including Ph.D., Post-Doc, […]

submit your horror stories of the 'i own your ideas' privateers, if you've been wronged by the current system of intellectual property rights or if retaining your ip rights has been made 'not worth the cost' for whatever reason. If in anyway you were forced to choose, you should share. kindly do not resort to […]