Back from Telematica
Excuse the rather long silence – as ends-of-the-month go, August was a busy one. I’m still in the process of finishing two papers and fighting a rather annoying cold, but with the great research input I got over the last two days I am certainly not complaining.
To recap: Lilia Efimova invited me to hold a talk on corporate blogging at the Telematica Instituut in Enschede, which is only about 2.5 hours from where I do my work. We got in touch through our blogs and given that we both research corporate blogging it felt totally natural to get together and pick each other’s brains. I keep finding again and again that few things really connect people quite the same way that nerdy research interests do.
Lilia introduced me to Anjo Anjewierden, who (among many other thing) works on ways of visualizing blog data and has developed the very nifty text analysis package tOKo. I also met bloggers Ton Zijlstra and Elmine Wijnia with whom I had the chance to chat after the talk. I’m always vastly impressed by people who have been blogging for several years. Me, I tend to feel proud that I’ve managed to post in more or less regular intervals for roughly a year now, but a year seems so little compared with all the writing that many of the “veterans” have under their belts.
Check out the slides for the talk:
Anjo made an excellent point after the presentation by asking what a flog is (I use the word in the title of the presentation). Note to self: it’s a good idea to occasionally explain the neologisms that you carelessly throw about.There’s quite a bit of trip-associated homework that I need to do today, but I promise to post more on some of the things I have been pondering lately very soon. Thanks once more to Lilia, Robert and Alexander for letting me stay at their place and for wining and dining me! I’m looking forward to hosting you (ideally all of you, but for that I need a bigger apartment) in the future. 
