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World Cup 2026 as a media event: A critical review

To me and to many people around the world, World Cup is mostly a media event. Despite how the media has changed, most people watched the games one way or another still on TV. 1 Nonetheless, the media nature has changed. Inevitably, there are secon...

On academic presentation (2026)

Academic presentation is like a recurring theme of this blog. I shared also my love and hate (mostly hate) relationship with academic conferences. So here is like an update to this theme in 2025/2026.

Emacs Writing Machine

OKR #14

Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13.

OKR #13

Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12.

On academic writing

I have read three books on academic writing back to back. Learn to write badly by Michael Billig, Writing for Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker, and Stylist Academic Writing by Helen Sword. You might ask: Isn’t writing dead? We have “AI”, right?

On the oligarchy of the Big Five academic publishers

I write research articles for my living. I did my research projects and then I need to publish the outcomes of them somewhere. Recently, I even feel that I enjoy the writing of the paper more than the research project itself. But this is beyond th...

I don't want to play in your Kazoo Fighters band

I quoted Rich Hickey (the author of Clojure) in my research paper. 1 Perhaps his most quoted quote: Chan, C. H., Schatto-Eckrodt, T., & Gruber, J. (2024). What makes computational communication science (ir) reproducible?. Compu...

Why I bought an unknown Polish e-reader

After Microsoft and Google, this is my love letter to Amazon.

A pathetic tale of searching for an R function on Google

Last time, I sent my love letter to Microsoft. Now, this is my love letter to Google.

Death of a Salesman (not by Arthur Miller)

In my home town, being a salesman is the easy way to get rich and gain respect. 1 But this was exactly the job that I wanted to run away from when I was young. Not because I don’t like money, but because I don’t like convincing people. You might h...

On 20th Anniversary of ODF, `readODS`, and digital sovereignty

On 1 May 2005, Open Document Format (ODF) was recognized as the open standard for office applications. The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of ODF. Before ODF, there was de facto on...

On terrorism reporting and focusing on victims

I love to watch documentaries, on Netflix, on ARD Mediathek etc.

Fixing a sore point of ESS: `ess-indent-with-fancy-comments`

In a previous post, I mentioned a bug-ish thing of Emacs Speaks statistics (ESS) of flymake integration.

Little Eichmanns of ChatGPT

You see a stream of ChatGPT-generated Ghibli-style images. I see a bunch of Little Eichmanns.

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