i find it ironic that here i am, researching how people choose names for files and folders, and struggling with what to call the category of systems i am studying. i’ve tried out quite a few: online repository shared archive group information management system shared file repository shared repository shared information space (courtesy of “Let’s [...]
Posts under ‘writing’
paper deadline madness
i was in “must finish this paper by friday at 8pm” mode for most of last week, and part of the week before. the CSCW 2008 papers & notes deadline was the 18th at 5pm pacific time. for those of us in the eastern time zone, it actually feels like we get three extra hours. [...]
slow going
well, it was pretty slow going around here research-wise in the month of January. i am going to try very hard to get back into a routine of writing something every day, to keep the scholarly juices flowing. over the past three weeks i ended up working on a couple of writing projects, actually: a [...]
numbers to represent “the problem”
Finally! I spent a few hours in the business school library yesterday looking for citations that would allow me to put numbers to costs associated with time spent looking for (and not finding) information one needs. I think I’ve finally stumbled onto something I can use! I have had a really difficult time finding academic [...]
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 [...]
