Slideshare metrics

Slideshare sends me an email that my slides are gtting lots of hits.
I see my OSWC poster is at 10,000, but not comments. Can this be mere spamming or web crawlers or something? I don’t know enough about web metrics and analytics to tell.

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Research ideas for Six Degrees Students

Research Ideas for My Students
Hello folks. This is by no means a comprehensive set of resources. It more reflects sources that seemed to be of interest to two or more of you AND that I thought might not jump out at you as pertinent. It is a mix of search terms, blogs, alternative media, as [...]

Civics, Politics in SecondLife

I wa slooking for a project for my undergraduate research studnet to work on.
The SL researchers listserv had a good suggestion.
Request:

He is interested in politics or civic discourse in virtual worlds.
Ideally, it would be a sim, island, community with either robust internal debate, or an explicit goal of being a forum, an agora of [...]

This is Cool- An Innovation Center

Random surfing led to this find: The U MD Innovation center.
Their purpose:
With these imperatives in mind, the Center for Innovation is consulting with and doing research on science and technology in research organizations with the objective of [...]

Indirect Social Influence

SOCIOLOGY: Indirect Social Influence — Denrell 321 (5885): 47 — Science
To learn more about these mechanisms, we need to broaden studies of social influence and belief formation to include the phases of learning and information collection that precede decision-making and judgment.
The above quotation from Science summarizes a brief yet interesting overview of how indirect influence [...]

Micro census data

Not sure how I got on this mailing list, but it seems like fascinating data.  I wonder if it could be used for network research?
IPUMSI-Project Description
The data series includes information on a broad range of population characteristics, including fertility, nuptiality, life-course transitions, migration, labor-force participation, occupational structure, education, ethnicity, and household composition. The information available [...]

Applied SNA-ASNA 2007 // Call for Papers

ASNA 2007 // Call for Papers
ASNA 2008 will primarily provide an interdisciplinary venue with focus on applications of social network analysis; however, submissions on theoretical and methodological issues regarding SNA are also welcome.
I don’t know how many times I can bounce over to the EU in the Fall, but this looked interesting.  I have been [...]

Conference leads for Ted

Possible conference venues for SL paper… Some may be for next year assuming they repeat.
Social Aaspects of Web
Computer Human Interaction fro Managing IT:
Economics and Finance modeling- see mostly the idea of emergence in complex systems.  Thats our emergent layer.
Tools for participation. This one is more about VW as place for collaboration or new forms [...]

Organizing Christmas- A Festive Symposium

OTists with a sense of humor!
Organizing Christmas- A Festive Symposium
Organizing Christmas – A Festive Symposium
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Warwick Business School 15th-16th December 2008
Organizing Christmas is a one day symposium taking place at the University of Warwick between the 15th and 16th of December 2008. A truly international, and indeed trans-hemispheric event, it is being jointly organized by [...]

My first try at a wiki…

The need to better sort and aggregate a raft of free writing between me and a collaborator (Ted over in Singapore) led us to try wikis.  This is after collating 19 pages in a word file of emails back and forth.
On the surface, I see the big advantage being the ability for each wikipage to [...]