Articles Posted in the " research " Category

  • Your life, as Venn (Diagrams)

    Your life, as Venn (Diagrams)

    One of the challenges I face is figuring out how to share my various [work interests/hobbies] in a way that shows the relationship between them.  Especially as an academic, trying to show how my various apparently dissimilar research efforts were related posed...


  • Twitter Lists Revisited… Good Idea or waste of time? Research opportunities?

    Twitter Lists Revisited… Good Idea or waste of time? Research opportunities?

    Yesterday my brother posted a tweet, acknowledging that he is on 35 lists on Twitter.1  This got me thinking about how these lists are created, and actually made public…. and thinking once again about the notions of “Crowdsourcing” and the...


  • How do YOU watch TV?

    How do YOU watch TV?

    My brother and I had a discussion recently about how people watch TV, and to some extent, where.  It was, as is often the case, a conversation where one of us was driving and the other was in the office...


  • Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    In a recent blog post, Stevie Rocco wrote that “Professor X is a scribe.”  She wrote that as part of a larger conversation which grew from a critique of Cole Camplese’s presentation at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Forum...


  • Presentation: Collaborative Tools for Research

    Presentation:  Collaborative Tools for Research

    On Tuesday, I gave a presentation on using collaborative tools as an integrated part of our research processes.  I recorded that presentation, and have it available here as the 22nd podcast in my series here. I broke the presentation into...