“So, you can take the girl out of academia, but you can’t take the academia out of the girl, eh?” Those were the words of a friend of mine after I announced the news. Well, guess who can has PhD scholarship? Last year I applied for Oxford PhD scholarships for …
Category: academia
Follow Friday: Twitter’s display of relations affection?
I got in the previous weeks the feedback by known or unknown Twitterers who are “Follow Friday”-ing me by displaying, recommending to the others my Twitter ID for various reasons, mostly because they think people they recommend are cool or worthwhile following. Since this communication practice repeated last Friday, I’ve …
Attention and distractions: reasons I don’t fancy iBT TOEFL
Last weekend I spent most of the day (read: five hours) musing myself (I am a bit ironic but this is my rant and rave) through procedure I call the performance of being capable to go through iBT TOEFL test. What kind of test iBT TOEFL is? It is test …
My text on Semantic Web and eResources
I was browsing these days academic online databases and realized that some of my old papers gone missing. Actually I was looking for a specific one that I wrote in the beginning of 2002 after Semantic Web conference in Rome, being inspired and I gave a talk at the annual …
Inside Social Media
Something you may find interesting: the International Glocal conference “Inside Social Media” invites researchers and industry practitioners interested in creating and analyzing social media for a continuous discussion that was started, very successfully, at the last year’s conference “Glocal 2.0: Blogging: Evolution Treated as Revolution”, organizers say in their call …
Some random thoughts on Social web tools and Science 2.0
Recently I was asked by a colleague who is working on the launching of the new information management, knowledge management (KM) system about evaluating social networking tools (read: social software, web 2.0 tools) as potential implementation in the “old” web 1.0 models for web repositories (during past times we had …
Modernity 2.0 -sociocybernetics
Speaking of Italy, there is an interesting conference about emerging social media technologies and their impacts this summer in Urbino, Italy, from 29th June to 5th July 2009. The 9th International Conference of Sociocybernetics will take place at the Faculty of Sociology of University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. More about …