I’m writing a script to parse links out of tweets on Twitter (for example, this tweet contains a link), and then look up the URLs in other social media applications like delicious.com and digg.com. One challenge I’m facing is the plethora of URL shorteners available to people who post to Twitter. A URL shortener is [...]
Posts under ‘methods’
beyond significance testing
I’ve been reading a book lately before bed, a little bit at a time: Beyond Significance Testing, by Rex B. Kline. It isn’t exactly a suspenseful page-turner; maybe if I tried reading it some other time of day than when I am already sleepy I might be able to get through it faster. The purpose [...]
hmmm….
when i saw the title of this paper, “An experimental study of simulated web-based threats and their impact on knowledge communication effectiveness”, i figured it must be about computer security and phishing or viruses or something. then i read the abstract: It is evolutionarily adaptive for humans to have enhanced memories of events surrounding surprise [...]
curt schilling’s blog
yep. this is a post about a baseball player’s blog. sortof. i came across this paper earlier today when i was surfing recent issues of various journals: The Blog is Serving Its Purpose: Self-Presentation Strategies on 38pitches.com. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 13 Issue 4, Pages 912 – 936 This research explored Boston Red Sox [...]
stuck
i’ve spent the past couple of weeks working on finalizing the plans for my experiment this fall. the software is ready for beta testing, and all that is left is for me to write instructions and questionnaires and pilot it. but, i have misgivings about my original experiment design. i don’t want to say too [...]
