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A short drive up north and a couple of benjamins will secure you entrance to the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media on Sunday, March 30th through Wednesday, April 2. The schedule looks really good. I would especially like to see “BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles.” BLEWS deserves its own post. Conference topics include:

• Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of blogs
• Competing to Share Expertise: the Taskcn Knowledge Sharing Community
• Finding Influencers and Consumer Insights in the Blogosphere
• What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict Target-Rater Agreement in Personality?
• Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles
• The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in Spanish
• Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes, Kristin Stecher, Scott Counts
• Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation
• Polling the Blogosphere: a Rule-Based Approach to Belief Classification
• International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
• Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens
• A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications for Online Social Networks
• Space Planning for Online Community
• Recovering Implicit Thread Structure in Newsgroup Style Conversations
• A Social Network Based Approach to Personalized Recommendation of Participatory Media Content
• Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents
• On TREC Blog Track
• BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles
• Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television
• The Politics of Sourcing: A Study of Journalistic Practices in the Blogosphere

One aspect of my new job is that I no longer have the luxury of spending most of my computing life in Linux. This was a major concern about the new job. All things considered, Windows XP hasn’t been that bad but it hasn’t been all that great either.

I do have to plug Windows Live Writer. The interface is easy and it talks Wordpress. Also it is free as in beer. Anyone not using an offline editor to blog from a Windows platform should check it out.

I recently accepted a position as Senior Consultant for one of the world’s largest strategy consulting firms. In theory I am a client/server developer (Java & .Net) but in practice I am a jack of all trades. I will be focusing a good portion of my time working to refine my team’s software QA processes.

My team is amazing and the organization has exceeded all of my expectations. This position is completely different from my former position as a Risk and Credit Analyst for a large Visa/MasterCard acquiring institution. I really couldn’t be happier about work right now.