With the CSCW 2011 deadline looming (by the time this post appears it will already have passed), I’ve been thinking about how it wasn’t until I had experienced a bunch of rejections in the first couple years of graduate school that I started having any successes at all. There weren’t a lot of opportunities for [...]
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about elevator speeches
The topic of elevator speeches came up today. I have to admit, the first time I tried to put together an elevator speech (in my first term as a graduate student) I found the experience to be pretty intimidating. It was difficult for me to imagine back then what I might say about myself that [...]
web applications
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 [...]
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): [...]
