Professor & Eminent Scholar, Old Dominion University
Web Science & Digital Libraries Group (WS-DL)
Dept of Computer Science
School of Data Science
Virginia Modeling, Simulation & Analysis Center (VMASC)
Michael L. Nelson
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Recently, Sawood (ibnesayeed.bsky.social) & I uncovered a tricky web archiving replay problem. An API call several layers of JS deep had superfluous browser size args that would intermittently load the wrong JSON for the archived HTML
ws-dl.blogspot.com/2026/05/2026...
(all images/links are SFW)
Our research team is ramping up for coming midterms. Looks like we'll be busy. If you're interested, here's an interactive graph (thanks to Stephen Prochaska) showing how X influencers re-ran the "rigged election" narrative during/following the CA primaries.
faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Cumu...
Excited to share that I passed my PhD proposal defense on April 24, 2026 -- another step closer to finishing my PhD 🎓
Special thanks to my dissertation committee: @weiglemc.bsky.social, @phonedudemln.bsky.social, @acnwala.bsky.social, & Erika Frydenlund for their guidance & support.
Updated with additional examples from niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp, again courtesy of Martin Klein.
I want to take a moment, here, to highlight the very short yet utterly to-the-point blog post by my long time hero, David Rosenthal, in which he explains to his old boss, Eric Schmidt, why he and his ilk are getting booed at college commencements, and why laws […]
[Original post on w3c.social]
The #Library #Innovation Lab #Harvard has just launched #WARCbench, which they describe as a "Swiss Army Knife for #WARC Processing". This is a high benchmark because I frickin' love Swiss Army knives! 😀But, on a serious note, this WARCbench looks seriously useful. As someone who has recently […]
