In mid-April 2005, some colleagues and I got some media attention for our random CS paper generator, SCIgen. Basically, we got a fake paper accepted to a very low-quality conference. This page is a brief, narcissistic summary of the press coverage.

News/blogs

• In the beginning, there was Simson Garfinkel's post in the Tech Review blog.
• Metafilter, thread 1 and thread 2.
• Fark.com.
• Slashdot.
• BoingBoing.
• Boston Herald (with picture).
• CNN (front page).
• BBC (front page).
• Chicago Tribune.
• Washington Post.
• Yahoo (front page, most emailed).
• MIT news.
• The Guardian (UK).
• The Times Online (UK).
• The Register (UK).
• Boston Globe editorial.
• The Australian.
• ElementList (with awesome picture).
• Inside Higher Education.
• The Journal Times.
• Telegraph (UK) article, which somehow links SCIgen and Tony Blair.
• New Scientist.
• Nature.
• The Citizen Scientist (editorial).
• MIT's newspaper, The Tech (PDF), 4/22/05.
• UC Berkeley's newspaper, The Daily Cal, 4/25/05.
• The National Business Review.
• New York Times, Week in Review.
• The Scientist (Free registration required).
• Popular Science.

Radio

• BBC Five Live Weekend News interview, Saturday April 16, 2005. I'm not allowed to link to an mp3, but just email me if you want to hear it.
• 20 seconds new item on NPR.
• Interview on As It Happens, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Aired April 18th, 2005. Listen to Part 3, from about 15 minutes in.
• WBUR, Boston public radio.
• ABC radio, Australia.

International/Non-English

• Corriere (in Italian).
• El Imparcial (in Spanish).
• Reuters France (in French).
• sueddeutsche.de (in German). I'm told this article is excellent, despite some minor technical errors.
• Hebdo science (in French).
• ETtoday.com.tw (Taiwan).
• Slashdot Japan (in Japanese).

Interesting Blog Discussions

• Ernie's 3D Pancakes dissection of the Callaos letter.
• Duh Blog discussion on slanted journalism.
• Computational Complexity discussion of whether or not we were fraudulent.
• Blogcritics discussion.

Statistics

• Yahoo most emailed.
• Most bursty name in the blogs, according to BlogPulse.
• Most popular blog link, according to Daypop.
• SCIgen web statistics, for the three weeks after the first announcement of the site.