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: