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 [...]
Posts under ‘reflection’
Q&A
Facebook announced last week that they are introducing a new feature, called “Facebook Questions”. From the description on the Facebook blog, it seems like this new feature is intended to be similar to Yahoo! Answers. I have to admit, I don’t really “get” Q&A sites. Who are these people that ask questions like, “what is [...]
incentives in everyday life
My sister’s dogs were boarded recently at the SkyDance Pet Lodge in Dousman, WI — and one of her dogs was lost. By the kennel. And they didn’t notify my family for three days. My parents were on vacation when they finally got the call, and my sister was on an 11-day trip for work. The [...]
expert and newbie passengers
I’ve been taking Amtrak out of Union Station in Chicago lately. I ended up waiting for a train on the same Saturday as the St. Patrick’s day parade, which also happened to be the end of Spring Break for university students at my destination. The train station was standing room only, and to my experienced [...]
happy new year!
Continuing the yearly tradition I started last January, here is my 2009 word cloud, made using wordle.net from the text of the blog posts I wrote in 2009. The most common words don’t look too different from the 2008 wordle! It’s an SVG image, so if you’re having problems viewing it try using a more [...]
