The Desert of My Dreams

I managed to get an invite to the uber exclusive Vox. You might think I’m talking about a trendy hot spot but Vox is a new blogging service created by SixApart, the same company that brought you MovableType, TypePad, and acquired LiveJournal. I’ve only spent a few minutes playing with it but I […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to speak at a private two-day conference (entitled the Conference on Blogs and Democracy) sponsored by the U.S. State Department. I am honored to have been selected and am very grateful for getting the opportunity to hear some of the most influential people in this area […]

I was looking at the people subscribed to the RSS feed of this blog on Bloglines and came across someone whose username I did not recognize. I wouldn’t have put too much thought into it except that this person has me filed under “Friends.”
Any ideas?

For anyone who might be interested, I have posted a condensed online version of my master’s thesis, which was a study of relationship formation in three blog communities (Kuwait Blogs, UAE Blogs, and DFW Blogs).
Comments and questions (whether about the results, the experience of doing a master’s thesis at SI, or the online presentation) are […]

SAA has created a centralized aggregator of all decentralized bottom-up things created by SIers - blog posts, del.icio.us bookmarks, and Flickr photos. The aggregator is the closest thing that SI has to a formal knowledge base/Intranet (the lack of which has been a huge pet peeve of mine). Nonetheless, as exciting as a […]

MC Hammer has a blog.
He ends his blog posts with “hammertime.”
I don’t know why but I’m finding the whole thing way too amusing.