Kieran Healy’s Weblog Sociology and other distractions

Posts Tagged Internet

Harrison White on Blog on Blogs

A video interview with Harrison White, conducted by a German blogger at the December 2007 Luhmann conference in Lucerne. Reptating goo, social networks, Niklas Luhmann, and your mother-in-law as reality point.


The Performativity of Networks

Paging Bearman, Moody & Stovel.


Awesome

1. Go to Google.

2. Type “find chuck norris” into the search box.

3. Hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button.


Kill App

Radioshift from Rogue Amoeba. Because I am addicted to listening to BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7 on my iPod before I go to sleep, I already use their Audio Hijack Pro application to do effectively what this does, except more cumbersomely. This way you can subscribe to live radio broadcasts and treat them as […]


The End of MaxSpeak

I missed this earlier this week. No more MaxSpeak as of September 3rd. Boo. Max’s posts felt like a very pure form of blogging: his prose style had a way of temporarily wiring you in to his thought process as it was happening. Not many people can convey that feeling well, either because there’s too […]


Simpsonize Me

Simpsonize yourself by uploading a headshot, providing a few variables, and (allegedly) having it automatically converted. You can tweak the image afterwards. JamesJoyner thinks it’s lame. Here I am—I’ll leave the veridicality of the representation for others to judge. The site is a bit finicky, perhaps because it’s overloaded with users. If you get […]


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