Inaugural Rhetoric

Political rhetoric is one of the oldest kinds around, and presidential rhetoric has received plenty of attention itself, but semantic analysis tools are adding some new possibilities for how we study and visualize this material.  Within minutes of President Obama’s…

Ethereal what?

You may well ask.  I argue in a number of places that things, like archives and communities, can be ethereal, that is existing only or mainly in the connections between people and groups.  Social connections and also links or data…