It was a butt-kickin’ kind of week for me. After working fairly hard on the final two weeks of “vacation,” I knew there was a lot to do this first week of the new semester. The only thing I didn’t get completely done on my to-do list was to hand my PhD application materials to Linda in the Informatics Tower on campus (some people call it Eigenmann). The last item, though — a Work-In-Progress submission to CHI 2006 — got a checkmark for the letter not the spirit.
I’m in the process of flip-flopping my capstone back to a wiki experiement I started over the summer as my initial thesis. The big complex-design-of-online-communities thing is now relegated to pet project status, and I’m going to sink my teeth into the design problems of writing political position papers. This WIP paper was the requisite six pages (I could have filled twice that, badly) and won’t be getting any recognition unless it’s because the judges say, “Hey, look … wikis.” But it does have the big kudo perk of being completed, if not yet finished.
