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It’s that time of year again!

The 28th Annual Symposium of the Special Interest Group on Cameron Jones (SIG-CAM) will take place this Friday, October 26, 2007 at the Grotto (aka. Mert Bay’s apartment) located at 212 W. Healey, Apt. 303. Champaign, IL. SIG-CAM is the premier annual symposium devoted to research and scholarship related to Cameron Jones. The symposium will focus on current trends and challenges in beverage markup, digital drunkenness, drink recommender systems, and the impact of new media on society.

We invite interested parties and experts from academia, industry, and government to attend SIG-CAM 2007. The opening Plenary will start at 7:00 PM at the Grotto, with a reception will follow the plenary at the Blind Pig bar in downtown Champaign sometime later Friday evening. If you can’t make the plenary, try to meet up with us later at the reception!

You can find a map of locations for SIG-CAM 2007 on Google Maps by searching “SIG-CAM” on maps.google.com.

i.e., Cameron’s Birthday Party this Friday, October 26, 2007 @ 7:00 PM

Sometimes I feel like I neglect my friends. I thought for a while that I was becoming antisocial, but I realized that this is not the case, and that really I am just lazy. Keeping in touch with so many people can be stressful, and I don’t “do stress”… so I tend to just shutdown. However, I do Google-stalk my friends as a way to keep up with what they are up to and try to feel like I know what is going on in their lives — Facebook has made some of this easier. Today, I Googled my old friend Kal and saw he has revived the wonderful Kal’s Gift Shop. I used to host the archives of KGS on my website, but now Kal has chosen Big Brother to host it for him. I can’t complain though, they have more reliable hosting than I do.

Anyway, this one goes out to all those people I’ve neglected to call recently — especially you Kal!

PS – no birthday party this year, just drinks next Friday somewhere in Champaign if you’re around.

–update!–
It looks like Kal has left the Gift Shop to stagnate for about a year — almost to the day. Which had me confused, because I thought that posting was from today (no year in the date). So, maybe this will motivate Kal to start posting again (again).

So, I’ve just returned from 2 conferences and thought I’d upload my slides.

4S 2007 – Montreal, QC, Canada
I was on a great panel organized by Tolu Odumosu from RPI on Technological Appropriation. Other panelists included: Tolu Odumosu, Ron Eglash, Min Suh Son, Shib Shankar Dasgupta, and Tarleton Gillespie was our Discussant. Here are the slides from my talk:
Web Mashups: Technological Appropriation in Web 2.0 [ PPTX | PPT ]

ISMIR 2007 – Vienna, Austria
I presented 2 posters and 1 paper at this year’s ISMIR. We had the MIREX DIY Service Poster, Jin Ha Lee’s dissertation research poster, and my paper on Human Judgments of Music Similarity from MIREX 2006. Here are the slides for that presentation:
Human Similarity Judgments: Implications for the Design of Formal Evaluations [ PPTX | PPT ]