“Continuing the yearly tradition I started last January, here is my 2009 word cloud, made ...”

“I am dismayed by the way Google has rolled out Buzz, and I am not ...”

“I just read "Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility" by Chaoming Song, et al. (Science, ...”

“Alina Lungeanu and I started collecting data last week on our experiment! I don't want ...”

“I came across a really interesting paper recently after seeing it referred to in a ...”

“I've been thinking a lot lately about "social filtering", or the practice of discovering information ...”

“There was an interesting article the other day on nytimes.com titled "Getting the Most out ...”

“CNN posted an article on March 13 as part of their coverage of SXSW Interactive, titled, "Privacy ...”

“I've been taking Amtrak out of Union Station in Chicago lately. I ended up waiting ...”

“This is a post that I've had in my list of drafts since last year's ...”

“The Pew Internet & American Life Project recently published a report, Understanding the Participatory News ...”

“My sister's dogs were boarded recently at the SkyDance Pet Lodge in Dousman, WI -- ...”

“The topic of elevator speeches came up today. I have to admit, the first time ...”

“I really love reading about statistics. When I'm having one of those days where I ...”

“In my last post, I wrote about my reaction to statistical arguments presented in a ...”

“I've been revisiting the various scripts I wrote to analyze my thesis data, so I ...”

“This is a mini-rant about datasets. Specifically, other people's datasets that they've made available online. ...”

“I'm writing a script to parse links out of tweets on Twitter (for example, this ...”

“I am back from a hiatus that involved finding two apartments, two separate moves, vacation, ...”

“In the previous post, I described a traffic accident near-miss where a pedestrian was nearly ...”

“In the previous post, I wrote about how adapting to the invisible pattern of behavior ...”

“Facebook announced last week that they are introducing a new feature, called "Facebook Questions". From ...”

“With the CSCW 2011 deadline looming (by the time this post appears it will already ...”

“In a recent post, I mentioned Facebook's "Like" button for the web, and wrote about ...”

“I find myself once again this week reading stats papers that range from "slightly over ...”

“we're up north for a few days, and found ourselves without the Internets while the ...”

“if any of you haven't seen this yet, the NY Times published an article about ...”

“i've been thinking a lot about backups lately, and have been inspired to make sure ...”

“this post is inspired by libby's dissertation abstract post earlier this evening. i initially wrote ...”

“at our student lab group meeting today, we talked about writing. most of us are ...”

“i've been writing some code lately. well, scripting really, mostly to get data into a ...”

“i haven't blogged about it, but the academic job search has been on my mind ...”

“an article i read recently (via ghetto of our mind) has been on my ...”

“you really can make yourself feel happy simply by thinking happy thoughts. if you don't ...”

“well, we are about to leave for Boston, to visit friends and attend CHI 2009. ...”

“once again, i find myself thinking, "YAY for the INTERNETS!". i came across a story ...”

“i've been receiving a growing number of "wrong number"-type email messages. it started a couple ...”

“in my dissertation experiment, participants recruited from two different intellectual communities on campus organized a ...”

“i've spent the past few hours futzing (yes, futzing) with some more MDS plots of ...”

“after about a month of on-and-off panic about my dissertation experiment analysis (and too many ...”

“In my dissertation experiment, I asked ~60 people from two different graduate schools (or "communities") ...”

“well, the paper is submitted. but man, i NEVER want to do that again. and ...”

“I came across an interesting blog post on scienceblogs.com, about the difference (or lack thereof) ...”

“from the NY Times a couple days ago: "Taking Time for the Self on the ...”

“In working on the experiment chapter of my dissertation, I found that I was yet again ...”

“A lot has happened since my last post! I received funding for a 1-year postdoc ...”

“I've been making some changes to my website, and transferring project summaries from old, static ...”

“I have a long-standing interest in the implications of different communications media for how people ...”

“This post is the third in a series about past projects. Tagging provides a means for ...”

“This post is the fourth in a series of posts covering projects I worked on ...”

“I've been reading a book lately before bed, a little bit at a time: Beyond ...”

“I am happy to announce that my submission to CHI 2010, "The Effect of Audience ...”

“Finally! I spent a few hours in the business school library yesterday looking for citations ...”

“back in december, i posted about how i was looking for some software to help ...”

“well, it was pretty slow going around here research-wise in the month of January. i ...”

“i'm back from a much-needed vacation, and ready to get back to work. i didn't ...”

“i've wanted to create some visualizations of event log data from my ctools project for ...”

“here's another scatterplot i've been working on : scatterplots themselves aren't that exciting. each circle in ...”

“as seen on the freakonomics blog today: baby got stats too logit to quit i wish i knew ...”

“i have finished a few new visualizations for the ctools data. i've been working on ...”

“i was in "must finish this paper by friday at 8pm" mode for most of ...”

“I was reading an article in The New Yorker, titled The Science of Success by ...”

“in searching for a particular citation we wanted to use in the CSCW paper, i ...”

“i find it ironic that here i am, researching how people choose names for files ...”

“I'm putting the finishing touches on an IRB that is about ready to submit, and ...”

“if you've decided to switch over to doing stats in R because the graphs R ...”

“I've been sitting on a few links related to gender stereotypes, power and discrimination for ...”

“i was surfing the chicago tribune website, which i occasionally do while procrastinating, and i ...”

“we're back from vacation! not the best trip ever, with a bout of food poisoning, ...”

“this isn't a research-related post. i am writing about deep vein thrombosis (dvt) because this ...”

“the drugs are making me pretty tired; apparently fatigue is a potential side effect of ...”

“I looked up a few of the references cited in "The Cult of Statistical Significance" ...”

“Good news on the dvt front: I walked a little over 2 miles yesterday for ...”

“i've spent the past couple of weeks working on finalizing the plans for my experiment ...”

“i'll keep this brief. things are going well! my left leg is free of pain ...”

“... you're reading a research paper and you find yourself writing "hilarious!" in the margin ...”

“i had a venogram procedure on friday to assess the degree of blockage in my ...”

“yep. this is a post about a baseball player's blog. sortof. i came across this paper ...”

“i presented at a really interesting workshop this morning, at the ASIST 2008 conference. i ...”

“today i read a paper from ASIST 2008, on a question i've wanted to find ...”

“i did my presentation this morning! i feel like it went well, and the session ...”

“i started running my online experiment a week ago, and in 7 days i have ...”

“duration: 18 days. participants recruited: 124. experiment sessions completed: 80 (target is 100). things are ...”

“i got an early xmas present this year: my Note was accepted to CHI 2009! ...”

“it's official! i paid my 100th subject this evening. there were days when i seriously ...”

“when i first started graduate school (the second time around), i was woefully out of ...”

“...planning is everything. my big task for the weekend is to plan out my research ...”

“finally!! i searched the web for many hours over the weekend for a free project ...”

“i had many conversations about tagging and interuser agreement during the poster session at CSCW ...”

“i am working on submissions for two different doctoral consortia: CHI 2007 and INTERACT 2007. ...”

“so it seems like there might be a way to get del.icio.us to return random ...”

“just a few quick thoughts on a tagging experiment before i get to the real ...”

“working on our submission to ASIS&T is leaving me little time to write about other ...”

“Assuming for the moment that tagging and naming files is a kind of referential communication ...”

“I've been away from the blog for a while, mostly because I got sidetracked by ...”

“I've been reading a lot of papers lately about common ground, conversation, and conventions. I ...”

“When I was a vocal performance major, at the end of my second year in ...”

“I was reading Bromme et al. (2005) How to refer to 'Diabetes'? Language in Online ...”

“I need to take my own advice, and decide how I am going to scope ...”

“There's a call for papers out for a special issue of ACM Transactions on Information ...”

“Quote from Schober & Brennan (2003): Unlike people engaged in monologue or in reading or writing ...”

“It seems reasonable that the way people organize and name files in a shared file ...”

“In a previous post, I described my approach to studying social computing systems, and mentioned ...”

“here's one more quick thought about how we can analyze the data we scraped from ...”

“At my previous job, we had a corporate librarian. Part of her job description was ...”

“In a previous post, I arrived at three high-level research questions for my proposal (below; ...”

“I am finally finished transcribing my CTools interviews (from last year)! It is a bit ...”

“I've examined several dissertation proposals by students in our school to get a better idea ...”

“There are many different words that can be used to refer to or describe the ...”

“I am in the process of cleaning some data I collected in late 2002 as ...”

“I can't help it, I am having a ridiculous amount of fun cleaning this data. ...”

“at this week's meeting, we brainstormed a sequence of studies for my dissertation. there were ...”

“It seems like every time I begin analyzing a new set of interviews, I scour ...”

“i looked at the calendar this morning and realized i have about three weeks left ...”

“i should have been keeping track of all the hours i have spent in the ...”

“I have finally settled on an overall research question: How does social language use affect information ...”

“well, it's (almost) official. i heard from my advisor on friday that i have to ...”

“i hate to admit it, but i am quite relieved that GROUP decided to extend ...”

“I've spent the past couple of days reading up on nonparametric statistics. I wanted to ...”

“I'm still (yes, still) working on putting the pieces together for the GROUP paper. One ...”

“Here's one more graph I spent the morning trying to coax the R lattice package ...”

“The GROUP deadline is tomorrow. I'm not going to make it. I haven't been slacking. ...”

“The act of tagging a bookmark in del.icio.us associates user-generated, unstructured metadata with the bookmark. ...”

“i started this blog with the idea that it would help me get into the ...”

“With all of this event log data from CT and data downloaded from del.icio.us to ...”

“Back in April, I spent a little bit of time thinking about whether it might ...”

“I recently read a new paper (March 2007) by Shali Wu and Boaz Keysar from ...”

“Can somebody explain to me why I find forming a committee so intimidating? I'm not ...”

“Now that I'm starting to meet with committee members, I want to keep a record ...”

“here's another priceless gem from my Taboo data (if only all data analysis in my ...”

“I wrote the other day about how I was trying out TAMS Analyzer for coding ...”

“ we've just finished camping in the UP, with no working whatsoever. before that, i was ...”

“I can't remember the last time I took two weeks completely off. I don't think ...”

“If there's one thing I've learned this week, it's never leave home without your favorite ...”

“I found out yesterday that I'll be going to Florida in November for the GROUP ...”

“if you're reading this via RSS, you may not be aware that my blog has ...”

“I have finally found someone willing to be an "outside" member on my dissertation committee, ...”

“research has taken a bit of a back seat in the past week or so, ...”

“The other day, we met with a second statistics consultant to find out whether we ...”

“phew. the CHI note is submitted! thank you thank you thank you to everyone who ...”

“this post is only tangentially research-related. i'm frantically working on my poster for the phd ...”

“i've scheduled my pre-proposal meeting with my committee. the idea behind having a pre-proposal meeting ...”

“more wednesday in-class blogging! the pre-proposal meeting went well. i was very nervous, and stressed. ...”

“FYI, I'll be defending my proposal in a public session on Oct. 25, 9-11am. Location ...”

“I'm working on the second draft of my dissertation proposal. My committee asked me to ...”

“phew. just sent off the second draft of my dissertation proposal. all i really needed ...”

“My dissertation proposal defense took place on Thursday morning, and I passed! Yeah!! About 5 ...”

“you may be wondering where i've been for the last month or so. i've mostly ...”

“today i started working on a programming project. i'm using Ruby on Rails to create ...”

“i got a new book from Amazon today, called Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide ...”

“the semester is winding down, final exam grading will be finished by this time next ...”