I have been using my blog to capture ideas for later investigation. Sometimes this is the result of a news item or an interesting, timely blurb in someone else’s blog; other times it is a reflection of offline interests and experiences. I open up a new post, cut-and-paste some links, and then slap on a name for safe keeping. After a week of slowed-to-a-crawl posting, however, I realize where this is going — more drafts than posts (which would be saying something, since we date back to 2000).
While I don’t have time at the moment to polish any of these ideas into something cohesive, I do see some value (and a meta-post!) in listing for public consumption my blogging desktop and even providing some links to the in-progress crap that is up there now. Perhaps in doing so, I’ll find the time to prune this list drafts down to nothing:
- LaTeX — Chris made a surprise visit to the Ph.D. lab to address some printing needs and explained the benefit of this markup/formatting tool. I’ll be trying it out and probably messing with tools to allow wiki pages to export into this publication format.
- Hoops Network — My research rotation is an attempt to analyze basketball passes and dribbles for the IU women’s team as a network of ball movement. I have two games worth of data from last season (best and worst games) and have the data scrubbed for Pajek visualization. Not yet sure what to do with it, but I’m hoping some blogging time on it will help.
- The importance of being connected — It made it to draft status, so I’m pretty sure I had something on my mind. The draft is empty, though …
- TTC Ration & the Wired Wiki Article — This was the CHI notes paper I decided not to write last week. It still has a future, so I’ll wait until I have the time to get back to it to expand on this vast list of links.
- Wikipedia process — An interesting wiki page on process that I haven’t made sense of yet
- i-Name — Some kind of persistent individual identification that seemed worth looking into
- Cambrian House — A great community I want to explore, trying to apply open source ideals to turn ideas into for-profit businesses
- Community as Relationships — A blog post I wanted to spend some time reflecting on its relevance to me
- Wikipedia contributing community — Take a look at recent research done on who does what in Wikipedia
- WIF: Wiki Interchange Format — Related to the Creole wiki markup language, this is something that would allow wiki pages to become portable (I think, but don’t know … hence the draft mode status)
- Serious Games — Creating video games that eschew the first-person blow-’em-ups with game contexts that teach more valued skills
- Reputation management in wikis — It’s been so long, I don’t remember without looking it up. I hope the title turns out to be self-explanatory.
- Stats Hacks #8 — Resuming my late-summer goal to read all 75 statistics lessons in a book I got by my son’s 3rd birthday (on the 15th) is long gone, but at some point soon, I would like to pick up the pace on this self-improvement again.
Add to that a few personal insights on readings for Complexity and HCI seminars, some parenting anxieties, RootCamp, and lamenting about my fantasy sports teams, and it makes me want to make writing blogs my dissertation.
