Make it Stop!
Here’s a useful site: 37 Dramatic Situations, or “Plot Devices for the Weary.” No, none of them is “Defeated Vice-Presidential Candidate Interviewed on Every Cable Channel All Day Every Day.” Perhaps the list should be updated.
Archive of entries posted on 12th November 2008
Google-flu
Remember that one of Google’s precepts is “Do no evil?” The NYT tells a tale of the common good extrapolated from Google search terms. Flu trends. We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches …