Visual Summary of #jan25 Twitter Activity

  Last year, I covered a number of the so-called "Twitter protests" in China (#cn220), Iran (#25bahman), and Algeria (#fev12).  Since these protests began in January 2011, the Arab Spring has claimed many members of both ruling and revolting groups - Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya, Ben Ali in Tunisia, Saleh in Yemen, and

By |2012-01-29T07:54:12-05:00January 29th, 2012|Research, Society|4 Comments

21st Century Legal Informatics: Part 1, Introduction

   Dan and I have written and spoken on legal informatics many times.  Inevitably these conversations come to the same cut-and-paste list of informatics examples from legal search/retrieval and decision making.  It's struck me that these examples fall into two categories.  The first category sits firmly in the 20th century, while the second category belongs

By |2011-11-13T16:16:08-05:00November 13th, 2011|Finance, Law, Society, Technology|1 Comment

Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion

   I've been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets.  I thought I'd bring the story a little closer to home this time by archiving tweets from Wisconsin Union protesters on the #wiunion tag.  Grab the dataset of 165,593 tweets here, and check out the two figure

By |2011-02-21T20:58:22-05:00February 21st, 2011|Programming, Society|2 Comments

Dataset: Tweets from the Chinese Protests #cn220

  Earlier this week, I posted a ~100k tweet dataset on the #25bahman protests in Iran.  The corresponding figure of frequencies showed a strong presence on Twitter, with over 500 tweets per 5 minute period at peak.  You can download the dataset or check out the figure in that post.   I decided to take a quick

By |2011-02-20T14:03:44-05:00February 20th, 2011|Programming, Society|0 Comments

Dataset: 5 Days of #25bahman

What do 88,831 tweets about protest and revolution in Iran look like?  Following in the success of Egypt's #jan25 tag, protesters have piled onto the #25bahman tag to discuss Iran's own prospects for "revolution" (25 Bahman 1389 is the Hijri date for February 14, 2011).  Curious to analyze and compare these movements, I've started collecting

By |2011-02-15T14:14:17-05:00February 15th, 2011|Society, Technology|10 Comments

DNS-Based Internet Censorship and IPv6

 I've been watching the #feb12 tweets on the movements in Algeria and Yemen.  One of the most common types of tweets explains how to avoid the current censorship of Twitter, Facebook, and Google by directly entering IPs.  This got me thinking - while it may be fairly easy to memorize and disseminate IPv4 addresses, what

By |2011-02-14T14:08:27-05:00February 14th, 2011|Society, Technology|0 Comments

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