http://bill.journee.org Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:39:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't updated my blog for a while partially because I've been very busy (if you're here via Twitter, you'll probably be laughing about now) and because I've actually not had much to say about my thesis. After having a quiet nervous breakdown about the quality of the data as ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/07/06/thesis-change-of-game-plan/ Well, here I am, literally one day into my work on my thesis and I've hit my first hurdle: The data. On the positive side of the equation, I don't have to jump through the hoops of ethics clearance to get access to my data: It's all been collected and is ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/06/09/first-hurdle-data-archiving/ A bit of a departure from my normal blog format for a book review here, but since I'm in on this one early I thought I'd give it a shot. (That and a few people on Twitter wanted to know what I thought when I was done!) Dying Words: Endangered Languages ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/06/08/book-review-nicholas-evans-dying-words/ What do you love about Twitter? Is it conversations? The stream of consciousness flying past at a million miles a minute? The ridiculously fast reporting of global events? The amazing resources of all your followers at your fingertips all the time? There's a lot to love about Twitter, and most of ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/05/29/twitter-the-decline-of-hashtags/ Well, here I am, just 3 days after Future Summit 2009 ended in Melbourne. Only now have I got around the posting a blog post about it, but better late than never I say. So I'm not going to talk about the discussions or outcomes of the Future Summit, but rather ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/05/21/future-summit-2009-twitter/ UPDATE: The creators of TwitDoc (surprisingly, I must say, given the readership of this blog!) took the time to read my little review and respond to most of the problems I've raised here. From the outset I'd like to thank them for listening to my ramblings about the site, it's ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/05/12/twitdoc/ Ok, welcome to my first linguistics-related post for a little while now - @ParisianChic (AKA Eunice Moore) asked on Twitter: @mr_billiam How does one stop an endangered language like Yanyuwa from becoming extinct? What made u become interested in this particularly? SInce 140 characters is never going to be enough to answer ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/05/10/endangered-languages-a-very-brief-introduction/ Well, since university is already steaming on past the middle of semester one (what the hell??) I thought now would be a good time to do a general update of what's going on, and why I haven't been posting all these insightful posts about linguistics I mentioned earlier in the ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/05/06/progress-report/ Like many people have of late, I've decided to weigh into the debate about Twitter. Anybody looking for a general description of what Twitter is and how you use it, this probably isn't for you, this is more my observations of what Twitter is about rather than what Twitter is. ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/04/27/what-is-it-about-twitter/ Today I went for lunch in Narbethong, one of the towns which was affected by the Black Saturday bushfires last month. It is beyond words to drive through the Black Spur, known for being one of the most beautiful areas in the state, much of it now blackened from the ... http://bill.journee.org/2009/03/21/after-the-fires/