Just submitted paper!

I've just finally submitted my paper to a conference! Time to relax this long weekend! Those that are in Ontario, Canada, we now have a new holiday this coming Monday, February 18, called Family Day that the Ontario government put into law last year. Family Day is celebrated every year on the third Monday of February. So, spend the time with your families. We seem to be busy with work and we don't spend enough time with family. Family is very important, so take the time this Monday to cherish the moments with your family. I know I will.

Finished my CASCON short paper talk

I just finished my CASCON short paper talk on "Identifying Active Subgroups in Online Communities" about an hour ago. It went well, I had some great feedback. I'll post the talk which I recorded and slides soon. Now, I can concentrate on the rest of my PhD work. No rest for a PhD student! But I enjoy giving talks and meeting with people and discussing about my research, it's exciting and engaging. If you have any comments or feedback from my paper or talk, write some comments on this blog back to me!

Communities and Technologies conference starts today

Today is the Communities and Technologies conference which is being held at Michigan State University.



There are some invited great speakers at the conference which I've come across in my literature review for my research. Marc Smith from Microsoft Research's Community Technologies Group is speaking about Illustrating Digital Traces: Visualizations of patterns generated by computer-mediated collective action systems. Marc's done a lot of work with visualizing communities and interaction in newsgroups with their NetScan project. Another speaker is Rob Malda and Jeff Bates from Slashdot who are talking about The Life, Times and Tribulations of Slashdot. Finally, the last speaker is Judith Donath from the Social Media Group at MIT, and she will be talking about Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals.

There are many workshops at the conference, one that really piques my interest is the Online Interaction Workshop being organized by Thomas Lento, Howard Welser, Eric Gleave and Marc Smith that deals with Studying Interaction in Online Communities: From Data Sources to Research Results. I'd be interested in the presentations and any workshop report that comes out of this.

There are also many papers as well which start tomorrow. Looking forward to the proceedings which I hope will be available on ACM or IEEE.

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Paper accepted to Hypertext 2007 conference

I just got notified that my paper called "Structural Analysis of Virtual Community in Social Hypertext Networks" has been accepted at the Hypertext 2007 conference which is in Manchester, UK this year from September 10 to 12. I had a paper last year at Hypertext 2006 called "A Social Hypertext Model for Finding Community in Blogs" which was in Odense, Denmark.

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