Google+

Yesterday I was given an invite to Google+.

I have a few thoughts:

First, it's very easy to use. I like the circle idea, but I don't know how much I really need them. I generally keep personal thing personal and professional thing professional.
Certainly there's overlap, but these circles of people seems like it's going to require a lot of upkeep.

For instance, you have the family sphere. Okay, great! Family.
We can update on how 'ol Great Aunt Merna is doing, but half my family isn't going to care, they don't know Aunt Merna. Do I have one sphere for in-laws and one for my side?
Great!
That's not too hard.

Now for people who want to share links but don't want to get in a tiff going with Uncle Fred before the reunion about supporting or not supporting a political candidate, social cause, etc. Do we then make left leaning and right leaning circles to appease?



How many layers before this becomes too annoying or are we just going to maintain the "if I don't want everyone to see it, I won't post it" type practices?


On anther point, I have two other people who also have Google+. It's kind of boring.
I also didn't use Picasa before.
Actually until checking to make sure I spelled Picasa correctly, I didn't know pictures uploaded to Blogger went on the site. That's really quite creepy.



All in all, I won't have much use for the site for a while. Everyone's on Facebook and people are pretty loyal.

Paper Accepted!

I’m excited to announce the paper I was working on for ASIS&T has been accepted. Here is part of the e-mail that arrived in Lupita’s inbox on Thursday:

Dear Ms. Lupita S-O’Brien:

On behalf of the ASIST-2011 2011 Program Committee, I am delighted
to inform you that the following submission has been accepted
to appear at the conference:
    Understanding Privacy Behaviors of Millennials within
          Social Networking Sites

  

So, there it is.

The conference is in New Orleans, Oct 9-13.

Dr. Shah, who worked with us on the paper, said he’ll get funding for us to head down to New Orleans.

As third author I most likely won’t have much of a role in the presentation. This will be a new experience for me, so I’m now thankful I didn’t take the lead for the project.

Other than the Beyond Books (un)-Conference I haven’t been to a gathering like this. I don’t know if Beyond Books was really all that normal in terms of a conference. There were no presenters, no set classes, and no submissions (other than for the stipend). It was a wonderful experience, but I don’t know if it really compares to other information related events.

There’s a ton of work to be done on the paper. The reviewers gave us a nice long list of things to work on. I’m very happy I stayed up to work on the paper for submission.