Alina Lungeanu and I started collecting data last week on our experiment! I don’t want to say too much about the hypotheses, etc. in case potential participants google me and find this blog post, so instead today I’m writing about why I’m glad I’m not a web application developer.
For the experiment we are using the [...]
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google buzz
I am dismayed by the way Google has rolled out Buzz, and I am not alone. Many bloggers and news organizations have raised issues with Google’s misguided assumption that email contacts form the same kind of social network as users of Facebook and Twitter (etc.) have built up over time. For example, a NY Times [...]
just fake it
you really can make yourself feel happy simply by thinking happy thoughts. if you don’t believe me, here are just a couple of references from the psychology literature:
Sheldon & Lyubomirsky (2006). How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(2): 73–82
Murray, [...]
move your mittens
at our student lab group meeting today, we talked about writing. most of us are at the point where we’re working on writing either proposals or theses, and we got together to commiserate and give each other advice. when we planned the meeting, i felt a bit like it was a case of the blind [...]
new book about writing
i got a new book from Amazon today, called Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing by Robert Boice. he’s also the author of Advice for New Faculty Members, which was recommended by a new faculty member in our school at one of the doctoral development seminars earlier this fall.
normally i would not [...]
