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...This is not just a matter of people finding a new use for a tool designed to do something else. In Twitter's case, the users have been redesigning the tool itself. The convention of grouping a topic or event by the "hashtag" - #hackedu or #inauguration - was spontaneously invented by the Twitter user base (as was the convention of replying to another user with the @ symbol). The ability to search a live stream of tweets was developed by another start-up altogether, Summize, which Twitter purchased last year. (Full disclosure: I am an adviser to one of the minority investors...
...past month, Twitter has added a search box that gives you a real-time view onto the chatter of just about any topic imaginable. You can see conversations people are having about a presidential debate or the American Idol finale or Tiger Woods - or a conference in New York City on education reform. For as long as we've had the Internet in our homes, critics have bemoaned the demise of shared national experiences, like moon landings and "Who Shot J.R." cliff hangers - the folkloric American living room, all of us signing off in unison with Walter Cronkite, shattered into...
...Whenever the topic of the radical faction is broached to union leaders, they typically emphasize the group’s small representation within a sprawling community. “It’s pretty clear that the vast majority of members of the union believe in a thoughtful, constructive approach,” Jaeger says carefully when asked about Reform HUCTW...
...always willing to listen. “She is so committed to every student that she has,” Coles said. “She wants to see you succeed in everything that you do.” Carpio also possesses a gift for navigating difficult topics in the classroom, said Christina A. Knight, a graduate student who served as a teaching fellow for Carpio’s class African and African American Studies 112: “Black Humor.” “She manages to keep the richness of humor as a topic of study...
...tool that others can easily work with.”In this sense, running more sophisticated regressions on a dataset may appeal more to young economists than searching for the most appropriate use of models or optimizing the balance of qualitative and quantitative insight. The uncertainty surrounding such topics can deter students by their sheer difficulty, even if they may yield more interesting or informative answers.“The ‘arty’ part of it—how can you mix data and judgment—that’s a hard topic...