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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The Godfather, part II
My nephew Connor was baptized on 26 Oct 2008. Meredith and I are his new Godparents. Here is a picture of me with the child.
(See photo on Flickr)
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
결혼해주세요?
http://cameronandjinha.com/ (아저씨 says http://결혼해주시오.com)
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
CSCW 2008 Workshop (W12): Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web
Call for Participation
CSCW 2008 Workshop (W12): Tinkering, Tailoring, & Mashing: The Social and Collaborative Practices of the Read-Write Web
November 9, 2008 - San Diego, California, USA
Workshop Website: http://mashworks.net/
Overview:
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in CSCW interested in discussing the human-centered, collaborative and creative aspects of web 2.0 and the current internet-based [...]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Update to Library Bookmarklet
Ingbert pointed out that the easy request bookmarklet is broken for I-Share requests through other CARLI libraries. Here is an updated bookmarklet which should get you working again.
Last Name:
Library ID:
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
HCIed 2008 - Rome
Just gave my presentation on “Teaching Design with Personas”. I’ve uploaded slides in [ PPT ]. I’ll upload pdf or pptx when I get home and manage to fix my laptop. As is typical, I went a bit long which means that I had to rush the last slides, and the session chair eventually cut [...]
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Loose the spam bots on the phishing sites
My sister just forwarded me an email she got, supposedly from her bank, which she suspected (correctly) of being a phishing scam. I checked it out and it is pretty convincing. I haven’t seen a phishing scam in a while since I’ve adopted the practice of never clicking on any link I receive from anything [...]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
SIG-CAM 2007
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 [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
A shout-out to Kowabunga Kal Lwanga
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. [...]
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Presentations — Fall 2007 Update
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 [...]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Yahoo!
I am visiting Yahoo! Research on Thursday, June 28, 2007. The slides for my talk are available here in both ppt and pptx format.
In this talk I cover some recent research I’ve been doing on the role of copying in the production of web mashups. I talk about the Yahoo! Pipes system and it’s “cloning” [...]
