Monthly Archives: November 2009

Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on November 12, 2009, as a guest author.

With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter, and with Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot—it’s clear that social search has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if it [...]

Parallel Lives: A comic about academic publishing [Comic]

In light of the CHI 2010 paper reviews that were due last week, I created a comic strip about the academic research, review, and publishing process. I previously noted that this was one of my tips for “dealing with the rebuttal process!”
This comic has elements of truth and exaggeration, but is meant to bring awareness [...]

Papel makes it to Australia

After drawing the comic of Papel the Paper Cup, I received a phone call from a woman in Australia (Jennifer Deaves) who had caught wind of the betacup initiative and my comic, Papel. She’s writing a book about society’s relationship with the cup of coffee, and has subsequently written two posts on her blog: one [...]

Tips for dealing with CHI rebuttals

I just finished a rebuttal to reviewers’ comments about a paper I submitted to CHI 2010. I had a grand time — I laughed, I cried. I drafted replies, then slept on it. Etc etc.
If you’ve written a rebuttal before, you may be familiar with some of these techniques. I used these strategies for writing [...]

Overlap SF: Don’t overthink it!

Our last Overlap SF meetup was held at Adaptive Path last Wednesday. This short video recaps our session:

Overlap SF from Brynn Evans on Vimeo.
This is what we do: we have fun, we create stuff, and we live by the cardinal rule of DON’T OVER THINK IT!!
Come join us!
groups.google.com/group/overlapsf