last day of school for 2005!

Well today will be my last day of school for this year. I have remarking for CSC309 and I will be marking final exams today. So, I guess like everyone else does, what are my reflections for this year. It's been a crazy roller coaster year for me in terms of PhD and research. Things didn't go so well for me in the beginning as I was getting very frustrated with my previous research. Then I switched supervisors in May and things started to pick up with my new supervisor and my new research on blogging and community. So, here are my list of accomplishments:

1. I submitted my Masters thesis which is my research paper here at U of T to pass one PhD milestone.

2. I organized and presented at the CASCON Business of Blogging workshop, and presented at the CASCON Hands-on Workshop on the Latest Technologies where I talked about RSS, feeds, and podcasting.

3. I submitted a paper and got accepted to a conference early next year (details to be posted later).

4. I presented my research at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing over the summer.

5. I organized and created the CASCON blog, IML blog (the previous IML blog at Modblog is now retired), and helped out with the IML Planet blog and Melody's blog (her old blog was on MSN Spaces before our group moved it over)

See more of my academic, research accomplishments, and publications for this year.

Maybe I should do something like what Google did here with the 2005 Google Zeitgeist, a visual snapshot of the year that is about to pass by.

So what will 2006 bring for me? My plan is to complete my research seminar presentation, depth oral, publish some more papers, and complete my PhD thesis proposal.