It’s Friday. I need to get my Cornell application in tomorrow. And currently I’m stuck. I’m trying to wrap it up and still feel like I don’t have everything together. This entire PhD chase is f’ing strange. It really seems like you need to prove exactly why you don’t need a PhD in order to get one.

I know that the research area of Citizen Journalism is a fruitful one. And I think it’s definitely worthy of anthropological study. I just am having a dickens of a time trying the articulate why. Or at least do so in a way that I think will get me into the program of my choice.

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Quickie — I’m currently blitzed with classes and applications to PhD programs (Cornell, NYU, and Columbia). I have a redesign for this site in the works, but that’s going to happen over my Christmas break.

I will say that its interesting to see the reaction to “social computing” as Time’s person of the year. I personally think it’s a bit of a ridiculous choice — I don’t think it’s had an effect that is yet socially significant enough. That said, let me present to you what will hopefully be the next viral YouTube video. Here’s the Assistant Dean of my College and a laser pointer:

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