On being cited

A couple of months ago I received email from Angelique Dimitracopoulou asking to use a couple of images from an article of mine from the CSCL 2007 proceedings in a forthcoming journal article of hers. Of course it's possible to use citation indices to see who's citing your stuff, but it's somehow more rewarding to hear from the author herself. Of course I make no pretense about the fact that I was contacted only for high-res versions of the images, but it's still pretty cool.

From Tork to Vis in 4 Steps

Via an RSS feed from Nathan Torkington's blog:

http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/2008/10/12/cybernetics-quotes/

to

http://www.well.com/user/abs/curriculum.html

then by URL shortening to

http://www.well.com/user/abs

to

http://aero.mindtel.com/~mindtel/Alan1/2004_NetworkViz/Experiments.html

Plurk: microblogging meets visualization

At a recent meeting of the Brett/Hewitt research group, Joan Touzet mentioned Plurk. I'm starting to get the notion that when Joan mentions a new technology it's best to perk up and take note. I like Plurk because it offers a new twist on microblogging: adding a timeline as an organizational or visualization tool.

Find me on Plurk here.