In my Information Organization and Retrieval class we have until recently been talking about the web. After being exposed to
dag29580863's research the past few years, much of it is familiar - especially the technical aspects, but also some of the motivations of search - though I still found that I didn't have much to contribute to the discussion.Tomorrow I give my first research talk to GUIR, practicing for the Grace Hopper conference next week. If you're in Berkeley around 11:30 and want to come, it'll be in the BID lab, 346 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. I'm also almost finished with my "Talent Card" poster which will also go up at Grace Hopper. Finally, since I occasionally get requests for them, I added some of my scripts to my webpage so I have somewhere to point people when they ask in the future.
I recently heard of an interesting website, Living Room Candidate, which gives presidential campaign commercials from 1952 on. Those are great fun to analyze in terms of Goffman's social norms theories. Also, Bill Gates is coming for a "conversation" with the Dean of Engineering and (hopefully) Berkeley students at 9 a.m. this Friday at Zellerbach. I'm involved in some scheming, but I'll divulge more information about that after it happens.
