admin updates

just a quick update to say that (basically) all of the administrative hurdles are out of the way now. one of the lecturers has agreed to be the second reader for my paper (finally) and i already have my supervising lecturer's signature. i'll figure out in the coming week what my exact topic should be - right now i'm leaning towards looking at the influence of blogs in the US prez elections of 2004 and skipping the whole comparison through time part, as that would appear to be a bit too much for a thesis. but i'll decide next week.