Monthly Archives: December 2008

statement of research interest (work-in-progress)

8 Dec 2008 – 19:38

My goal lately has been to construct coherent sentences about my research interests. Ha! Sounds so simple. With lots of ideas bouncing around in my head, it’s been hard to narrow my focus. I know my focus needs to become even more clear, but here are a few paragraphs of something that I am eliciting [...]

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Monthly word summaries

7 Dec 2008 – 18:48

Since I’ve been running the word-of-the-week poll on Mechanical Turk since the beginning of October (total of 10 weeks), I thought I’d combine the monthly words for October and November to see what we get! Combined words for October 2008: Combined words for November 2008:

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Word of the Week (Dec 7, 2008)

7 Dec 2008 – 18:33

Last week was Thanksgiving, which means Christmas is quickly approaching. Maybe people are busy shopping in this period? Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on December 7, 2008: accusatory action alleviate amazing anxious authority blessings bored break bureaucracy busy celebratory chaos chaotic cheerful choch continuity conundrum cool crap darn defenestration [...]

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links on ma.gnolia

7 Dec 2008 – 1:01

In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading… Social Computing in 2020: Bluesky Innovation Competition The Bluesky Innovation Competition on “Social Computing in 2020” seeks to promote new research directions for social-computing technologies of the future. We encourage participants to think broadly and freely about how society and technology will interact 10 to 20 years [...]

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Word of the Week (Nov 30, 2008)

1 Dec 2008 – 19:43

This past week we had Thanksgiving and some horrendous terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on November 30, 2008: absolutely abundance acrimony aggravating amazing androgyny annorexic apocalyptico average blessing bobaloo bubble busy clinodactyl cold complicated cookies creosote determination disappointing ditzy doublespeak dumbo egregious elections eleemosynary employment [...]

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