Posts Tagged: conference

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4
Aug 07

BarCampRDU 2007 off to a great start

After a great party at Tyler’s Taproom last night, and a very early morning, BarCampRDU 2007 is off to a great start. We’ve got well over 150 folks here, the wall is full of interesting sessions, and things are running smoothly. People are loving the espresso catering, which is such a nice touch.

If you’d like to follow BarCampRDU, the tag for the event is “barcamprdu”.

Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcamprdu/
Technorati: http://technorati.com/posts/tag/barcamprdu/

Thanks to all the sponsors, donors, organizers, volunteers and especially Red Hat for hosting!

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27
Jul 07

OII SDP draws to a close

After a remarkably quick two weeks, the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program is drawing to a close. It has been a great two weeks here at Harvard, and I know we will all look back very fondly on the experience. While the life of the graduate student has its standard drawbacks, it is a great joy to be able to explore, research and learn as a career – something I won’t take for granted. It’s a very bittersweet moment to say goodbye, but it will be fascinating to watch the cohort progress as time passes. Thank you to everyone at OII and Berkman, especially Amar and Suzanne, for making it a wonderful experience.

In other news, Paul DiPerna informed me that the Blau Exchange website has relaunched. As part of the relaunch, Paul has posted a roundtable discussion on Ph.D. studies, research and online politics featuring Miia Akkinen, Paul K. Lawton, Sarita Yardi and myself. Thanks to Paul for putting this together, and I look forward to Blau’s new content.

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23
Jul 07

Help with BarCampRDU

Just under two weeks to go till BarCampRDU, and we’re very busy with preparations. We need your help with a few things:

1) Wireless routers: We need people to bring wireless routers to BarCampRDU. Without them, we won’t have internet. If you can bring your wireless router, please add your name to the wiki (we need about 10 more people to do this).

2) Projectors: We have two people bringing projectors (thank you), but we need a few more (3-4) of you to bring your projectors. If you can bring a projector, please add your name to the wiki.

3) Volunteers: We need 10 people to be BarCampRDU volunteers. Volunteers will help during registration, aid in setup, etc. If you’d like to volunteer, please add your name to the wiki.

4) PA System: If someone has a PA system they can bring, that would be great. Please contact me directly if you can help me out with this.

Finally, announcements. The BarCampRDU pre-party will be held August 3 at Tyler’s Taproom in Durham. The party will go from 7:30-9:30, and will feature free food, drinks and pool. Come out to mingle and enjoy.

Thank you to everyone who has signed up, to everyone who has helped out, and most importantly, our sponsors who make the day possible.

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17
Jul 07

At the Oxford Internet Institute

Last Sunday, I traveled to Boston to attend the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program. This year, the program is being held at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. To say it’s a excellent experience is an understatement – a sentiment I think every attendee echoes. I’m most impressed by my colleagues, a collection of brilliant researchers from all over the world. We’re engaging with new and challenging ideas all day, and talking across culture and distance, which makes this a tremendously valuable experience. (To my advisers, thank you!)

If you’re interested in following along with the program, the folk at Berkman have set up an aggregator of student/faculty blogs, which you can find here. A number of students are doing an amazing job of liveblogging, and there are also pictures and other goodies there. I must say that I departed for Boston with hopes that the SDP would inspire and challenge me as I progress towards a dissertation, and it has done that exactly. I hope to write and reflect a little more as the program progresses, though I think its more likely that dispatches will sort of slow down for the next two weeks.

Now, on a random tangent, somebody spammed my blog with all of the spoilers of the new Harry Potter book today. I haven’t tracked them down to see if they were actually true, but there’s a special place in hell for that spammer. That’s just wrong.

Noticed — 1 Comment
5
Jul 07

Sign up for BarCampRDU 2007

I’m happy to announce that signups for BarCampRDU 2007 are now open. To sign up, simply go over to the BarCampRDU wiki (http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU) and add your name and information under the Campers section (http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU#Campers).

BarCampRDU 2007 will take place August 4, 2007 at Red Hat Headquarters in Raleigh, NC – just like last year. We’re fully sponsored (thanks!) and looking forward to a great event.

At this point, I’d like all people who’d like to help with organization of the event to email me – I *really* need help this year, I’m looking for 6-8 fellow organizers to spread the work around.

As a final note, please note that the Wiki may be locked when you attempt to edit it. We ran into this problem last year – if you come back a little later, it will probably be unlocked. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thanks everyone! I’m looking forward to seeing you at BarCampRDU 2007.

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9
May 07

Symposium on Academic Productivity

I’m organizing an event for local students and faculty exploring academic productivity. Basically, academic productivity can be thought of as the tools and strategies you use to get your work done. Here are the details:

UNC Symposium on Academic Productivity
June 7, 2007, 1-4PM, Manning Hall 208
To attend: Add yourself to the wiki

Hosted by the School of Information and Library Science, the SILS Doctoral Students Association, and the SILS Research and Doctoral Committee.

About: The purpose of this symposium is to bring together students and faculty to share tips and strategies for academic productivity. What is academic productivity? It refers to the strategies, hacks or tools you use to get your academic work done. Perhaps you’ve got a good strategy for keeping abreast of new literature, or maybe you’ve got a strategy for backing up your files that you’d like to share. Simple or complex, come out and share what works for you.

Format: This is a three hour event, drop-ins are welcome. Each hour there will be four 10-minute presentations, followed by 20 minutes of discussion/hands on. If you’d like to present, you must be willing to document your hack and share it electronically so others can use it. The talks will generally be “walk throughs” of your strategies. A wide range of subjects are encouraged, and presentations should be casual.

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4
May 07

WWW Tagging Panels Archived

Yesterday, I was looking for copies of papers from the 2006 WWW Tagging workshop, only to find a bunch of bad hyperlinks. After getting approval from the workshop sponsors, I set up an archive of the proceedings on ibiblio.org, the public digital library.

The archive contains full proceedings from the 2006 and 2007 tagging workshops (and hopefully more workshops going forward). If you examine folksonomy, tagging, etc in your research, these papers are well worth your time.

Hope this proves useful to you.

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