For those in Copenhagen (all 400+ of you!) I thought a reminder about the workshop might entice a few of you to set the alarm and join us for the session. A few salient facts: + The software applications I am teaching are free to use on the web + The session is hands-on in a very nice computer lab + You will learn how to create archives of blog posts + You will learn how to code that data using a mix of automation and keystrokes + You will learn how easy it is to measure inter-rater reliability + You will learn about a "validity" measurement technique http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm (About the Coding Analysis Toolkit) http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/bat-tutorial.htm (How to use the Blog Analysis Toolkit) Perhaps most important, you can join a growing group of CAT and BAT users and help to shape the future development of the software. So, I hope we will have a nice a group. ~Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/