It’s the end of the semester and my hands are still pretty full. I have one last class to wrap up by writing a theory construction paper, and some final papers to grade to finish up my graduate assistantship for the year. This Saturday I’ll be volunteering to help out with the iOpening, in which […]
Finishing, Continuing, Starting
Catching Up a Little
The semester caught up to me for awhile there and I’ve been trying to catch up since. CHI in Florence was great; in addition to another fine conference, we really enjoyed the food, art, and sights. I miss the coffee. There’s too much to say about Florence to try to capture it in a short […]
More Writing, Writing More
I haven’t been writing as much here as perhaps I ought. One of my goals for the year is to improve my facility with writing, and it would stand to reason that blogging would be a means to that end. Lately, I’ve been writing more for my classes and the occasional conference abstract. Much […]
iConference 2008 in LA
I just got back from my second trip to California in one month. This time I was presenting a paper at the iConference in Los Angeles; the paper is a leaner, cleaner version of my thesis research on hiring in the iSchools. To my delight, I got my first citation during the first paper in […]
Dynamic Social Network Analysis with Taverna
This semester’s research practicum has been focusing extending some prior work on dynamic social network analysis of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams. In practical terms, this means that we’re analyzing the patterns of communication in email lists for a selection of FLOSS projects. The long-term goal is to scale it up to […]